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The problem with anecdotes around the flu shot is there's a clear bias involved. If you get the shot and end up getting the flu its because the shot didn't work. If you get the shot and don't end up getting the flu it might be because the flu shot was effective, or it could also be because you just didn't come in contact with the virus. You always get a reminder of when it doesn't work and you (almost) never get a reminder of when it does work.

Just to throw my anecdote in there, I'll always get the flu shot if its convenient, but won't usually go out of my way to get it. This year I didn't get it, but my pregnant wife and daughter did as part of their regular visits. I ended up getting the flu and was violently sick, and my wife and daughter who almost certainly came in contact with the virus from me had no symptoms at all.

Not to downplay things, but celebrities may also be more likely to get it because they travel a lot and are in close contact with a lot of other people who also travel a lot.

The feedback was more than just "Please be on time". It was proceeded by multiple statements on the impact of being late. The fact that you should be on time is obvious, but the impact of not being on time isn't always obvious.

Everyone responds to feedback differently. I'm personally a very direct person, and asking whats preventing me from being on time is just going to make me feel like you're talking down to me. Understanding why it's important is enough, let me be a big boy and figure out my own time management. Others hate being told what to do, and would prefer to work through a solution collaboratively.

They’re trick questions, so I think it’s fair to be pedantic. It’s asking for fastest method not the one with least complexity. I would argue the fastest method would be to pick a random location in memory and get lucky.

I rarely need same day flights or even short notice flights unless they're for work (in which case they would book the flight for me using their travel agent). As a result I'm flexible with the airline and travel dates and usually have months in advance to shop. Typically I'll set up alerts on Hopper as soon as I know I'll be traveling, and that will tell me the right time to buy. I'll often also look at the budget airlines sites themselves as well because I know a lot of them don't allow aggregators.

From a pragmatic point of view I would actually expect it to be pretty common for games to sacrifice code quality. You build a game with a set end date, and do a small amount of maintenance on it moving forward. As opposed to an engine where it's a product you're building on and you want to grow over a much larger timeframe, and those unfamiliar with a piece of code are likely to maintain it down the road.

Worth at least noting that this article is about distributed teams more broadly and not remote work specifically. You can be on a distributed team and not work remotely. You can even be on a distributed team and all share the same building. The advice in this article applies to all sufficiently large teams.

They made the look polarizing and a bit extreme for free PR. For the first few years after launch, every time it's seen on the road, people will talk about whether they love it or hate it. If they made it look like the F-150, most people wouldn't even notice.

So, like a set of traditional database migrations?

> It's a bit like saying that because Kodak was a photography giant they should have been able to win digital photography when, in fact, other than brand it's not clear what real assets and expertise they had to bring.

This isn't exactly the best example seeing as how Kodak is the poster child for ignoring technology shifts and going bankrupt as a result. Their executives largely ignored digital for the longest time and put minimal resources into R&D even after it was clear digital was taking over. It's sad really, because Kodak was positioned to be a pioneer in digital but they failed to embrace change and that costed them immensely in the end.

Whats preventing doctors from prescribing off label?

I only have a data point of 1 on this so it may be different than other companies, but by the time I'm implementing a PIP, I've already made up my mind that I want the employee out. I've already worked on coaching them and identified that it isn't a temporary issue or something personal they're going through outside of work. HR is my last resort and a PIP is merely a formality I'm forced to deal with. There is a world in which they kick things into high gear and turn things around, but I've usually given up hope and the onus is on them to prove that they are capable.

I was just looking up individual insurance rates the other day. You can probably find health insurance for $321/mo, and really don't cover all that much outside of catastrophic problems. If you want decent coverage you're looking at $600-$1000+/mo.

I'm not sure I buy your explanation at all. Social media may make distant friends feel closer, but I don't think this explains the lack of close friends. I understand that this is a data point of 1, but this article and the HN comments all ring true to me, and I hardly ever use social media.

Most of my not very close friends also don't use social media. A friend of mine tried creating a group on facebook to help coordinate social events for a group of dads and almost universally the wives ended up RSVPing for their respective husband.

When we ended up getting together we ended up talking about work and our houses and all the different things we're doing. Men have a tendency to communicate differently (IMO society has trained us to do so) than women. When my wife gets together with her friends they talk about how they're feeling about things and their relationships. This leads to men having a tendency to have more superficial relationships.

If you're ignoring all other influences then there is no such thing as interstellar objects. By definition, every object in a two body system are gravationally bound to each other.

Captured into a stable orbit, sure, but it will never have an eccentricity of 0 (circular). The limit can approach zero, but will never be equal to it. Even the planets don’t have a circular orbit FWIW.

WSL 2 itself uses a hypervisor though, so this is sort of a moot point.

Notion is nice if your team is small enough, but it becomes extremely cumbersome to manage once you have a decent enough sized team.

If you're willing to put some time into configuration, check out chunkwm (which is apparently being replaced by yabai, which I haven't tried). Its the closest I've gotten to a true tiling window manager on OSX, not without its quirks, and requires some work to get the way you want it, but it's at least something.

Absolutely none for me. Newer employees have to sign something, I think it has more to do with building businesses using company resources.

Plenty of people are pretty open about moonlighting and side businesses and no one seems to have a problem with it. A number of people have left on good terms to work full time on their side businesses. It rubs people the wrong way when some of those side businesses started poaching employees, but doesn't seem like any legal action has ever been taken.

> - How will identification work?

In my mind this is the hardest problem to solve.

> - What is the proof-of-work scheme?

It doesn't necessarily need to be proof-of-work and I'd think it makes sense to piggyback off a different trusted network of some kind.

> - How can you be sure that every vote ends up in the ledger? Transactions usually get lost and sometimes takes few tries to reach to miner.

Do transactions actually get lost all that often? In my experience, transactions propagate the network pretty reliably and quickly. You can then look at the number of confirmed blocks to reliably check if its in the ledger.

> - Most important property is that not a single vote should be traced back to its caster. Blockchain is all public, how are you going to anonymize everything? IP addresses of transaction owners are already open.

IP addresses aren't stored, and the actual transaction could be layered on something like Tor to prevent tracing. You could also have physical voting centers. The important thing is that individual voters can verify their own vote.

One big concern I'd have that you didn't really touch on is around management of keys. In addition to identity verification, how do you handle theft of keys? If a key is stolen, how do you handle disputes to whats in the ledger? I would trust tech savvy people to keep their keys safe, but what about people who don't understand technology?

you're actually certifying that you will have credit monitoring for the next 6 months. i.e. you can sign up immediately before filling out the form and keep it for 6 months after.

For me, I have to listen to audio books during the right activities. Mindless things that don't take the thinking part of my brain like doing dishes, driving a car, riding a bike, walking. It absolutely can't be background noise or the only thing I'm doing because I'll either zone out or fall asleep.

The article only mentions software engineering courses, so I’m not sure it’s a result of this being hacker news as much as what the article states.

No, but this anecdote of one is infinitely more data points than the original claim.

Not a lawyer, but to me this sounds like libel to me. There's an implication that the people are committing a crime despite not being convicted. Doesn't sound like a clear cut case because it doesn't outright say they're a criminal. That said, I could be missing some of the nuances with these laws.

That sounds almost exactly like the hospital we were at (Rainbow Babies, for the record). Hope your daughter is doing good, my daughter is also a heart baby -- coarctation and bicuspid valve.

We ran into this with my daughter who needed multiple surgeries. Two different experiences in two different hospitals.

First hospital was world renowned, ranked #1 in the world for the category of care she needed. This hospital seemed to spend all their money on what I would call “celebrity surgeons”. World renowned, only the best. I suspect the side effect is that they spent much less money on nursing care. There was only one or two nurses to a single floor overnight, and they utilized nursing assistants for everything. I got lots of attitude from the nurses, I suspect it was part of the culture. Their schedules were also much more rigid since they had a lot more patients to cover with limited resources. They also seemed to focus a lot more on the raw numbers and not the individuals. We fought tooth and nail to get a schedule that worked, and got a small amount of wiggle room, but it took a lot of work.

Second hospital was a completely different experience. They had a good surgeon, who had good outcomes, but didn’t have as many surgeries under his belt, so less data. I suspect this meant he took up less of the budget. This hospital had zero nursing assistants, and each nurse only had one or two patients at any given time. This resulted in the nurses advocating for us, and actually working their schedule around us.

I don't get the feeling from their site that their mission is to eliminate government or create a truly "free" society as much as it is to experiment with ideas around governance.

> TransferWise handles everything (0.85% or less).

TransferWise doesn't do settlement. You still have to pay a merchant with a card who then needs to settle. No actual money is being settled through TransferWise.

> EFT transfer to Interactive Brokers, FOREX exchange ($20 per million), withdraw via SEPA to Croatian account. They allow you to link both AU and Croatian accounts.

EFT transfer to IB isn't instant. SEPA requires you to be using Euro. SEPA does handle settlement, but you still need to do settlement with both the EFT transfer as well as within your IB account. IB does have programs to allow early withdrawal before your account is settled if you quality, but again that isn't settlement.

> Open an HSBC account in both places and use the online instant account-to-account global transfer tool (rates vary, ~2%) and send a SEPA payment.

Again, SEPA requires you to be using Euro. Additionally, you would need to do settlement on the initial transfer to HSBC.

> Wire money (pricey).

The company you're using to wire money needs to handle cross border remittance and settlement, so how do they do it?

Just to reiterate... you've done a fine job explaining how a consumer can send money across the globe. You're not wrong to say that as a consumer there are perfectly acceptable solutions that can accomplish what they need. What you've completely failed to do is explain how to accomplish "cross border remittance and settlement" using Fiat in a way that is fast, doesn't require vostro account (i.e. illiquid reserves), and is scalable with the number of possible banks you'd need to transfer money to/from.