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If they have a workforce in China, there are 100% spies working there. Putting it another way, China would be foolish not to have spies working at Zoom, just like it would be foolish to not have spies working at Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. You should assume all of those companies have been infiltrated by the major countries of the world, or they are working with them. To believe otherwise would be extremely naive.

Whatever happened to the finding 10+ years ago, where scientists found jellified T-Rex bone marrow? It made a huge splash, and they claimed to be able to see structures in the blood, etc, but I haven't heard anything since, and I can't find any follow up research, or I don't know what to google for.

Has anyone seen any followups to this?

My son is profoundly gifted, although he's not in the same league as some of those children described in the study. I absolutely consider him a special-needs child. He's been kicked out of two schools (including a "gifted" school) at this point for his behavior, but it turns out his behavior was because he was profoundly bored. His current school accelerated him by 2 grades and now he's more manageable. He's still bored, but at least he feels like his classmates are more his level, even though he probably needs to skip 1 or 2 more grades to match his academic abilities. I'm loathe to accelerate him further because I worry about emotional well-being, being the youngest kid in the class, but this study has given me food for thought. Thank you OP for posting this.

How can a captured planet ever maintain a stable, almost perfectly circular orbit around the Sun, at a plane that almost exactly matches the rest of the planets? It's impossible. The only way this can be explained is if all the planets were created together at the same time.

I've been playing Hack/Nethack since 1982-ish. My friend got it for his IBM PC, and we were both addicted. The only reason why I kept asking for a computer for my parents was so that I could play Hack. I was the one who figured out that the Amulet of Yendor was underneath a boulder on level 26. My friend, however, one-upped me. At some point, his version of Hack was corrupted, so every time he read a scroll of identify, the game would crash. So he had to go through the entire game without reading a scroll or using rings. He was able to make it through the entire game and finish it, which I admit is an impressive feat.

I've been playing Nethack since, although I haven't played it in the last few years because of work and kids. There was a time in Nethack where it wasn't as complicated, but once they added all the deeper features, I've never completed the game and ascended. The game is now so deep and so complicated that I couldn't solve it without reading the cheats, and even following those, and even saving my games and redoing them, I've never gotten to the point where I could ascend. I'm really good at surviving the lower levels and stealing from shops, but I've never been able to figure out how to ascend. At some point, I should reattempt this now that I'm locked down for 2 months.

The worst is the Tesla interface. It's great to look at and if you're sitting in the car parked, but if you're trying to drive it is terrible. To be honest, stuff like this should be legislated away, it's too dangerous.

Even something as mundane as turning on the fan requires several seconds of concentration because it's al. It's not like a regular car with buttons and knobs that you don't have to think about. You have to actively look for it as you drive which makes it very dangerous to use.

As for Apple Carplay, I have as well, and it feels like the designers don't actually use it for driving. Some decisions are absurd. For example, a lot of the buttons you need to press are on the opposite side of the display (at least for cars with drivers on the left side). It's totally dumb that they are on the opposite side that needs to be hunted for.

In terms of safety, big knobs and buttons are best.

I thought the PCR tests in Asia had a specificity of around 70% which is why they needed two positive tests in a row (or two negative tests in a row to confirm the patient had recovered).

You probably don't know much about IB then. There's no vetting at all, by IB or any other brokerage, except making sure that the money is in their account. They have margin calls for a reason.

This looks like a terrible source. I would wait until they issue a statement.

The biggest question is whether or not their systems were able to execute margin calls. If they were down this long, that to me suggests data got corrupt and they've been restoring from backups, etc, which means maybe all their services were inactive. If that's the case then could the margin system be active, or are people (and potentially RH) sitting on oversized losses if they were short today? What happens tomorrow if their margins kick in and sell at the open, and then the market drops? Lots of very interesting questions that need to be answered.

The playbook for Equity compensation has changed dramatically in the last 20 years in drastic favor of the founders.

During the dotcom days, the number of shares that were given out was very generous. I know secretaries that made enough from IPOs in the late 90s that they could retire and buy a vineyard. Meanwhile I was a relatively early employee at a YC startup that had a successful exit. The founders made 8 figures and I made about 80k over 4 years. I would have made 10x more at a FANG with a regular comp package.

I got an MRI within a day and CT scan within a day as well. I got an endoscopy within 5 days. My friend waited 4 months for her MRI to diagnose gallbladder stones. The same friend has to wait 2 years for autism therapy for their children. The waiting times for specialists in Canada are in the months. When I lived in Canada, it was practically impossible to find a GP in downtown Toronto that was taking new patients.

Yes, I didn't have to pay much for health care (I remember having a health care tax in Ontario) but it wasn't a bed of roses either. I'm a lot happier with Kaiser in California than any treatment I received in Canada.

I was in the hospital over Christmas because of a very severe infection. I was there for 2 weeks, and am lucky to be alive. The costs were over $150k, but I ended up paying $1500 in various deductibles to Kaiser, etc. I was happy to pay $1500 and am alive because of the care that I got. I pay about $6000 a year in medical insurance per year through my employer and it ended up being totally worth it. Not a few weeks previous, one of my children was rushed via ambulance to the same hospital because of an anaphylactic reaction.

So yes, much of your costs are for possible emergencies and especially as you get older, your costs increase.

Can I use Let's Encrypt to sign my own personal CA so that I can issue certs for my domain that are in that chain?

Sorry but using cruise control in heavy rain is just simply a bad idea. It's supposed to be used when conditions are ideal, not when they as bad as can be. That is human error, in my opinion.

To be fair to Google, I once got some decent feedback from one of the recruiters. I did fairly well, and made it through to the hiring committee. The recruiter told me that although I did well, my scores weren't home runs and that he's seen people with my scores have about a 50/50 chance of getting in. If I had other offers on the table, he suggested I take those instead and maybe reconsider Google in the future. I took that to heart and took the other job.

Of course, the next time I interviewed at Google a few years later, I absolutely bombed it so badly, I talked to the recruiter midway and told them I wanted to end things early and left after 3 interviews.

20% YoY for a company this size is ridiculous. If anything it shows the power of their market share and position.

It's illegal to ask further about medical, or any personal information like marriage status, etc. Medical is a good enough answer.

I certainly hope everyone lands safely. I know it's obvious that missing a wheel is bad, but as a non-pilot, how survivable is this? Is this marginally dangerous or extremely dangerous?

I saw first hand how the "truth" was manipulated by tech jounralists to create a narrative that they wanted. They included certain things, and omitted others, to make sure that the overarching story they wanted to tell was consistent with their world view. They were searching for the truth, they were trying to make a name for themselves, and then leveraging that for a book deal.

The WSJ article is really weirdly written. It definitely seems very biased.

They state things as facts like "Mr. McCormick, 54, had discussed jobs with the Trump administration. He also chatted with BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Laurence Fink about the possibility of leaving Bridgewater, according to this person and another close to the situation."

And yet, further on, it's completely refuted by both McCormick and Blackrock. "Mr. McCormick said the attempt to reduce his stake “did not happen and I did not make that comment.” He said he has a “terrific working and personal relationship” with Mr. Dalio. He also said “I never discussed a job at BlackRock.” A company spokesman added that Mr. McCormick “never discussed with Larry about leaving Bridgewater.” Mr. Fink said in a statement that “while I think highly of David, and we’re close friends, we have not discussed the prospect of him working for BlackRock since he left Treasury a decade ago.” "

The article makes a bunch of assertions, making them sound real, and then they get massive denials from the actual parties involved, but bias the article towards the rumors.

I hope you have recovered fully from this.

I'm not sure where you live, but at least in the SF Bay Area, we have the option to set a "delivery day" and the shipments all arrive on that day. I've never used it though but it sounds like it could be very useful for you in situations like this.

Waze is by far the best routing. It's better than Tesla routing, which I thought used Google Maps, and it's better than Apple Maps. There's no point in experimenting with anything else because Waze is just so much better, it's effectively a waste of time to try anything else.

In Silicon Valley, until maybe 5 years ago, I would say that 2 years per job was about the average. My average is about 2.5 years, and I've had many jobs. I've found that recently, many people, especially young people early in their careers, have been switching jobs after 1-1.5 years.

When I compare with my non-tech friends in other parts of the country, I have one friend who has been at the same job for 13 years, and one who has been at his job for 10 years. I have never held a job for longer than 4.5 years, and my shortest was 1 year.

Except usually paths are made because they're the shortest path. Taking the shortest path is not random, even if you have a curved pavement path, people will cut it and walk through grass to get the shortest path. So it's basically a pre-programmed algorithm in our brains saying we want to spend the least amount of time.

By 6 months the incidence of SIDS is almost nil. This is what we learned with our kids, so it helped us tremendously because our son also sleeps on his belly.

WeWork buidings are filled with clients that are brought in by other SoftBank money. It's human-centipede equivalent of VC-funds circling back around to each other, in hopes that suckers will invest in it and then they pull out.

CO not CO2

Negative finance headlines is a great positive indicator that nothing will happen. Almost no one can successfully predict a recession or downturn, and the more people believe it, the less likely it will be.