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It seems somewhat simple to just stand firm with the finance person and refuse all the add-ons, but how does one figure out what services are actually needed when the service adviser comes to you with a list of issues?

To be more general, RSUs are preferable if the stock goes up higher relative to other investments that the grantee could have picked, and cash is preferable if the stock performs worse than other investments that the grantee could have picked. For example, if the stock rises but performs worse than an index fund, then the grantee would have been better served to have gotten cash and put it into a no-effort index fund. If the grantee has an aptitude for stock picking, the balance sways even more towards cash being preferable.

Or add a backlight to a transparent QR code which turns on when you press a button. This way a simple sticker over the QR code wouldn't work.

> Meat is nauseating if you aren't raised on it to eat it every day. Vegetables don't do that to you.

Let me tell you about Koreans and cilantro...

Yes, this highlights several points:

1. Different companies have different focus and strategies. I would say Google likes to experiment, but sometimes has poor follow-through. Apple often waits a few generations before committing to new technology, so they often are not innovation leaders, but they execute well.

2. Roll-outs often do not occur all at once. There might be blockers which are not immediately visible, such as regulational, financial, cultural. A regulational example would be how Apple Watch's ECG was not rolled out world-wide at first, and was spread slowly as various countries gave approval for this feature.

FYI car crash detection had been available since Pixel 5.

> 35mm is great up to an 8x10 print. It'll do 11x14 if you don't stand too close. It's 30mp+ of optical resolution.

Sure, if you are taking photos of technical drawings or scientific specimens. For artistic purposes, the composition and subject matter much more than resolution. We were regularly blowing up 35mm to 16x20 in photo class, and I've been to photo exhibitions where images such as Steve McCurry's Afghan girl was blown up to five-foot-tall prints.

This reminds me of the tiny mechanical camera that I had as a kid for the 110 film format. It was my first camera and I loved that little thing. It looked something like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/juan-antonio-capo/6981339701/i...

Interesting. Where does one go to buy usernames for social networks?

I am guessing that the $2M is from selling the usernames? Are the buyers individuals who want a good username, or bot farms who just need a large number of accounts?

Regarding printing it in 0.5 font, I don't think this kind of passive-aggressive rebellious act accomplishes anything, and actually highlights how powerless he is. It caused extra work and frustration for the poor guy who got handed the job of transferring the private key from paper, but nobody else was bothered. His shutting down the service was much more of a stance.

Is that what being punk means nowadays? Being sexy, and avoiding helmets / seat belts / health insurance / vaccinations because it's security over freedom?

No implication to promote the commitment of fraud, simply stating a fact to correct the previous comment.

You can shorten the time you need to be a resident to 3 years by marrying a US citizen: https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/ci...

Children may be one of the cause of the breakage. It's not always been possible to keep my phone out of their hands, and for young children, they don't have fully developed motor skills yet, and drop things often. Even with a case, they managed to find the exact angle to drop the phone to crack the screen. I'm considering whether to get a full coverage case including screen cover to protect the phone from every possible drop angle, just so I don't have to worry about this anymore.

That reminds of the sign "Buy one, get one". Does that mean you pay for an item and you get that item, or you pay for an item and you get another item for free? I expect the meaning to the be the second one, but my brain parses it to be the first one.

For acetaldehyde, you can take L-cysteine to combat its effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysteine#Reducing_toxic_effect...

Although the slippery slope is a fallacy, down the road you speak is monkhood and the productivity optimization cult of recent times.

The reason is momentum. Switching to measuring flour by weight will require households to have both measuring cups and scales, require recipes to be rewritten, require cooks with an intuition based on volume to relearn the intuition based on weight. None of this is insurmountable, just like none of the reasons for switching from imperial to metric are insurmountable, but for people getting things done, it's not enough of an issue to worth making the switch, so this kind of switch would require an institution or coalition with enough clout to make the switch and pull everyone else along. For cooking, I don't believe such an institution or coalition exists.

By Japanese style fridge, do you mean a fridge with the freezer on the bottom? How does a Japanese style fridge reduce spoilage?

Other ways to say this: Baby boomers have 86% less purchasing power than the greatest generation had in their seventies. Gen-X have 86% less purchasing power than the silent generation had in their fifties.

Listening in on meetings is one level of fatigue, but hosting/leading meetings is a whole other level for me. Having to multi-process in order to:

1. Keep discussions on track

2. Give everyone a chance to participate

3. Watch the time and make sure that all topics are covered

4. Take notes

5. Think about what is being discussed and participate

is incredibly exhausting. After leading 2-3 meetings, I feel like I've used up all my mental energy for the day. And as I a writing this, I realized that after leading a meeting, I typically hop out to the kitchen and grab a bite to eat. Maybe that's an instinctual need to refill the calories I expended thinking? Or maybe it's just a reward am seeking after the tiring task...

Perhaps so, but humans are reproducing later and having fewer offspring, so there are more variables than just energy.

A soft pair of slippers can give a similar effect as soft flooring.

For babies to crawl on, there are mats you can lay on the floor such as these: http://en.alzipmat.com/

The mats are easy to clean, and thus may be healthier than carpets which are difficult to deeply clean thoroughly or frequently.

Carpets also trap food particles and drink spills, so there's likely a hard-to-remove layer of decaying food particles in the carpet, especially if there are kids in the house. With hardwood floors, a robot can run around and pick all that up.

This is language dependent. For learning Chinese, recognizing radicals (like waht represents water, and what represents tree) can go a long way in helping recall of both meaning and pronunciation. Then moving on to learning Korean, where Chinese characters make up ~25% of Korean words, recognizing the Chinese character, then recognizing the typical phonetic alterations to Chinese pronunciations, can go a long way in helping recall of both meaning and pronunciation.

There are other ideological reasons, such as inefficiencies of meat production through grain, water shortage issues, meat factory working conditions, boycotting the importing of low quality foreign meat, possibly others.

SOHCAHTOA (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SOHCAHTOA.html) is how I learned about the trig functions back in school. It's stuck with me all these years, along with the quadratic formula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_formula) from algebra class.

Not all sunscreen have benzene, but there have been some recalls because benzene had been found:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/banana-boat-s...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sunscreen-coppertone-benzene-re...

Obsession with keeping skin white has been a major trend in Korea for a long time, have you seen all the weird hats and face masks that ajummas wear in order to reduce sun exposure?