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How many CDs can you stack on top each other before the one at the bottom fails?

I don’t see the article specifically mention slow steaming...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_steaming

Using sails to increase fuel economy seems like a no brainer, but now I’m wondering if cargo ships were ever using sails to increase their maximum safe cruising speed. Does anyone know?

I see Pinterest appearing disproportionately in image search.

I hope the cancellation was a marketing gimmick. I love it so much!

The OA, season 2.

My first coding job was as a test automation engineer. It was very code intensive and literally no one wanted to talk to me about unit tests I was adding to a virtually untested Java application. If your son has an aptitude for writing tests, maybe he’d excel at that. I also used to be a technical recruiter. Feel free to contact me. I’d be happy to have a no bullshit talk to you about your son’s situation. The tl;dr are is that your son’s level of success will depend on how much he can operate on his own (e.g. could your son have asked this question on HN without your help?)

Joined a company in 2000, got 14_000 shares at $4.75/share. Company went public that same year, and stock climbed to over $50/share. I was a black box QA Engineer w/ barely any work experience and I was sitting on ~$750_000 USD of paper money. By the time I started vesting & could sell, the stock price was down to about $12/share, and I started selling everything I had vested. I ended up w/ maybe $25K in cash. A few months later the stock was at $2/share & it never back above my stock price.

A few years later I joined a company that gave me about 15_000 options at $7/share. Less than a later, the stock was over $55/share. I made pretty good money on that one.

Yeah, the average speed of traffic in Pakistan, at least in the areas I visited, was much lower that I'd expect to see in the USA.

> the vast majority of cars today simply don't work for a family of five

I recently visited Pakistan for the first time, and was amazed to see a family of five riding around on a small Honda motorbike. The father was driving, a small child sat in front of the father, the was mother hanging on behind the father, and the oldest daughter sitting on the far back with both legs hanging off to the left while holding an infant. None of them were wearing helmets. It was both terrifying & impressive.

I wonder how COVID-19 inspired mask wearing has impacted the identifying of drivers.

If you can fund them.

Doing what you want works until the money runs out.

A large person will burn way more calories from simply going for a walk than a small person. I'm 6'5', 270 lbs, went for a 3 mile walk this morning, and burned maybe 460 calories. A person weighing 135 going for the same walk would burn 230 calories. In either case, me and 50%-me would have burned off a 230 calories candy bar.

I think you’re echoing OP’s point. Some people come to California for opportunity, and when they find enough success, they leave. They’re not CA natives, they’re expats from places with less opportunity and crappier weather. People who want to live in California view the taxes as a cost of enjoying California.

I mean if your code is open source, and you get an order to insert a backdoor of some kind, how can you put the backdoor in the open source code without violating a nondisclosure clause in the government’s order?

I wonder how a company that uses 100% open source software would comply with an order like this.

    def decrypt_email?(email) do
      email in surveilance_order_emails()
    end

Every team I've been on since 2015 has been distributed, even when my job is "onsite". Sometimes we're in multiple offices, or we have people in the office & people working from home, but the net effect is almost no one can count on going to an office and only working w/ people in the same physical office. We're all largely working remotely anyway, but we're just not being honest about it.

Development would be so much faster without JS. It could be done in a Flash.

I miss episodic TV shows.

Sad event. Cool footage.

True dat

Maybe a case can be made to eliminate the 24 hour minimum by focusing on reducing carbon emissions Why force someone to rent for a day when they need it for an hour?

“This 23 hours of global warming is proudly sponsored by the Appleverse.”

I’m trying to communicate they’d rather make more per unit sold, and lowering costs while maintaining quality increases is good for making more money. Maybe upscale would be better than premium.

My impression of Apple is that they have no interest in competing on price. They are a premium brand. In the same way Louis Vuitton could sell cheaper handbags compete on price because they bought & optimized the costs of making leather, but they’re not going to.

TL;DR -- people won't give a shit about your company, but they might give a shit about you.

Step 1. Create jobs that enable people to have a quality life.

Step 2. Ensure people feel like they're building a career they can take beyond your company.

Step 3. Give them reasons to stay, so they feel like working for you is the best option available to them.

Most ideas can be deconstructed into smaller ideas. When I started my recruiting business, I wanted to become so good that I eliminated unemployment. That was a bit lofty, so I paid attention to things smaller in scope. One thing holding back my recruiting business was was index finger hurt too much. I could review a few hundred resumes in an hour, and processing each resume took about 10 clicks of the mouse. My finger started to hate me, so I designed a recruiting application that got the number of clicks down to 1 per resume.

So maybe try to start big, and zoom in to focus in on one piece of the puzzle. There's a good chance that whatever you choose can be used in other ways if the primary idea doesn't work out.

That’s why I prefer MacOS to Linux. I like the polished UI and kick butt trackpad.

That would explain how to create the next generation.

I wonder if there will be one for 2019 MacBook Pros. The repair shop said the replacement display was also faulty, so they had to order a replacement replacement.

We can disagree without sworn enemies.