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I don't get the pairing of a healthy life and liquor. I know someone that will go out of her way to exercise, eat healthy, organic everything and watch her weight but on weekends she will drink like a fish. She's not the only one by far. When did booze become a health drink? Ya, I know it's not. It's just addictive. I wish we had an alternative that doesn't do as much damage.

I'm dealing with something similar. I used to sit with my mother to talk but almost immediately she would start talking about how unfair life had been to her and about all the people that had done her wrong. It was negative that led to negative. It was hard to take.

Eventually I got tired of it and started to negatively reinforce it. Instead of consoling her, I started to tell her how hard it was to hear what she was saying and that I didn't want to hear it anymore. I asked her to focus on the positive parts of life and gave her samples of what real tragedy was like by pointing out samples in the news that she watches every night. I know it was harsh but I don't think it was harsher that her recounting the same stuff everyday to me. The negativity has slowed not stopped but at least we can have a conversation now.

This is what I did but I can't recommend it to you since your situation can be so much different. Also, her short term memory is still functioning to a point. She mostly does her daily care and she requires very little help.

My issue is that there are only so many times you can go thru the process of learning a new language. It's monotonous. You have to learn a new way to create code without really advancing your knowledge. You can learn to create a loop in 10 different languages and still not advance your programming abilities. You just know 10 different ways to do the same thing. Not only that, your time is finite. The time you take to recreate the wheel could have been better used somewhere else. Learning a new language is like spinning your wheels rather than moving forward.

"A luxury afforded to billionaires is that they don’t have to fade away no matter how spectacularly they fail, and Adam Neumann, who both co-founded and was exiled from running WeWork, is a prime example."

This is phrased as a put down but the way I see it we should all be as lucky and fail like Neumann. I wish I were a failed billionaire like him. Instead I'm a "successful" web developer that works for someone else to make sure I can pay my bills.

Ok, I'm ready to fail. Where do I go? :)

First design what the website will look like and function. This part is relatively easy for non-techs. You can do an outline of the site on paper. Things like number of pages, content for each page, layout, colors, desired function. Create as much as you can on paper. You should be able to show it to someone and that person should be able to understand how the site will work from looking at the pages you put together.

Get your ideas from existing pages in the web. Don't try to create your own. Copy as much as possible from the web for your design.

Once you have done as much as possible on paper. Sign up on to one of the page builder sites such as square space or wix. Set up your design there. They also have the ability to create interactive pages so go thru the tutorial until you can create the interaction you want.

A big advantage of having a project you want to create is that you can hunt for the different tutorials on the web that will show you how to get what you need done. There are tons of tutorials on the web. Take advantage of the situation and use them.

There's going to be a steep learning curb for you but it's very doable.

Once done decide if you want to continue learning. At that point turn your site into html files and look for a place to host the site. Once you have a working html web site look into creating the interactive pages in javascript or php.

You can't be an expert overnight but if you do it a bit at a time you can achieve a lot. Make it a hobby where you learn a little bit at a time.

The last 10 years or so have been very good for startup financing. It's been relatively easy to get funding. That's changing. Investors are going to be more selective about what they fund so you'll see lots of companies slowing their hiring. But that does not mean it will all fall apart. There are still plenty of startups that are doing good work. My advice is to keep trying and don't give up. Be flexible about what you accept and after you have a job keep an eye out for a better one. I would focus on the bigger companies that have a steady profit margin. They will be more likely to weather the coming slowdown. These things happen. You just have to make the best of it.

No, but it's troubling to know that some of these non profits will live forever. I can setup a foundation whose goal is to fund an ugly aspect of society. If I give it enough money the foundation can live forever thru wise investments of its endowment. There would be nothing to stop it from doing its work forever. The foundation can even influence political causes by funding research that support the foundation's cause. The tax except foundation can't directly lobby but it can fund research that will have a political impact.

Charitable foundations should have a finite number of years to do their work.

This is millionaire BS. I've been hearing this for years yet we are still in the situation that we were 20+ years ago. Where every time a tax bill is presented we hear the never ending roar of millionaires yelling at congress not to pass any tax bill. Even the estate tax, a tax for money that a dead person will never need, gets gutted every few years.

If they are truly willing to change their ways then start lobbing congress along with their fellow millionaires and act on it rather than talk about it.

I'm one that welcomes their reasoning. I don't consider myself a social justice kind of guy but I'm not keen on the idea that a tool that is suppose to make life better for everyone has a bias towards one segment of society. This is an important issue(bug?) that needs to be resolved. Specially since there is absolutely no burning reason to release it before it's ready for general use.

Some people need to justify a very difficult situation as normal. It helps reduce the anxiety and mental pain of the alternative. It's a defense mechanism. We see it regularly in society.

Unfortunately it makes it that much harder to fix the problem. Now we have to fix the problem and convince the deniers that it's a problem . Which is close to impossible since the more evidence they see the more they will try to normalize it.

Average world wide temperature.

Hit shows are hard to make. Seinfeld was considered a dud at the start. The same situation with MASH. Had they been judged by the public initially they would have never been green lighted. A show needs to find it's audience and the writers and actors need to find their groove. It's very hard to do it from the start. Also what seems like a great show from the pilot might be a one time hit and go downhill from there.

Also, generally speaking people don't know what they(we) want. It's hard to like something you've never seen. New shows are full of new stuff so how can the public make a good evaluation after a 1/2 hour or even a full hour.

Apple has capitalized on the liberal arts aspects of tech. They were able to figure out how to make computers useful and desirable to the every-man thanks to it. Without it, computers would have mostly been relegated to the work environment.

I agree computer science needs to change. There needs to be a way to incorporate some of those aspects into a CS degree. If we want the full advantages of tech in our lives.

Why? The collapse was a major F-up but he broke no law. He disclosed what he was doing so no one should come after him. Crypto is mostly unregulated so people should be ready to lose all their money. Even if it's lost thru unethical means. Unethical in crypto does not equal illegal.

The government might come after him for not paying taxes but that's not related to the collapse of the cryptocurrency.

I suspect this happens a lot. A place I worked at would post a job and interview candidates for a job that had already been promised to someone. They did it so that they would followed a company policy that required such actions before a job position could be filled. The policy was there so that the best candidate was always hired but humans being humans sometimes the best candidate for a position was a friend irrigarless of skills.

I suspect many people here have seen or been part of the same situation.

Apple has a building full of attorneys just to deal with its legal issues. I'm surprised Tesla has not built a legal division already. Having a legal department is not out of the ordinary. How long it's taken probably is.

If they are going thru trails then they have probably found a way to attack a mutating virus that others had not. I wonder if they are targeting multiple areas on the virus at one time. One of the advantages of mRNA vaccines is that they can be very precise as to where they attack the virus by getting the body to create the needed antibodies and the vaccine can be created very quickly. Moderna talked about creating the covid-19 vaccine in days once they got the virus' DNA sequence. That seems like an advantage for combating the HIV virus. Can you imagine being able to create a custom vaccine per individuals after the virus mutates? Sounds like science fiction but it seems like a possibility given the technology.

Does anyone have any idea what their new approach is?

A guy I knew decided he would take a mini computer his employer was throwing out. He ran it for a while in his home and played with it but he couldn't do much more than batches of data processing. It sucked up a lot of energy and he got bored with it. He was enamored with the idea that he was running a machined that once cost about $500k but it was mostly a waste of time, energy and space. Last I heard he wanted to get rid of it. I bet he had to finally pay someone to take it away.

This is probably a good time to move on if you find your job less than ideal.Companies are still looking for employees and are quick to hire. But you'll need to choose wisely. A lot of companies will start to fail if they aren't able to survive without additional investments. Startup investments will slow as investment money begins to tighten. Also, you'll need to make sure that the company is in solid ground since companies might start to do layoffs as companies and people decide to spend less and profits begin to drop.

But keep in mind there is no ideal work solution. Every place you choose will have its pluses and minuses. You can't choose your co-worker so you need to learn how to work in environments you find less than great.

Caffeine can affect your heart. Some people are more sensitive to it than others. My suggestion is to slowly stop drinking anything with caffeine. A friend of mine had heart problems but would not stop drinking drinks with caffeine and ended up dead due to an erratic heart rhythm. He would drink a pot of coffee in the morning and a six pack of coke in the afternoon. He would call his six pack a way to come down from the morning's coffee. Was it the caffeine? We will never know but I'm sure it did not help?

https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20211115/coffee-can...

Lastly, ALWAYS consult your doctor before you change anything. They understand your situation and will be able to give you the best advice vs random people on the internet (me included).

Einstein competed against all the other scientist that were trying to come up with a theory to explain the different aspects of physics. Academia is one of the most competitive areas in our society. Da vinci was competing to be the best in his field. He operated in a broad range of areas but his focus was in the Arts. His goal was to be the best relative to his peers. Again competition with his peers moved his efforts forward. High level talent does not exists in a vacuum. It's only the best relative to the others which is a competition to be the best.

In a perfect world collaboration would be ideal but we have seen that people just stop trying after awhile and become free riders with only a few doing the majority of work. So in affect collaboration wastes a lot of potential effort by letting people ride it out.

Long term competition is the best way to move forward but it can't be the all out version where resources are wasted rather than used wisely where we try to win at what ever cost.

This is BS "could" does not mean "will". We get these types of articles every so often but I've yet to see any of it come to anything. My suspicion is that this research gets amplified by PR firms that service the plastic industry with the idea that the public will feel better about all the plastic that is being thrown into the environment and landfills.

Right now the only solution is to minimize plastic use as much as possible. Please keep this in mind.

Competition at the extreme does not work since you burn through lots of resources without advancing. One way to look at it is to see the result of small countries that are at constant war. They move forward slowly if at all since they focus all their resources on winning. At the other end no competition slows progress since there is no incentive to move forward.

The key is to find a balance where there is progress but you aren't burning your resources to the point of impeding it. It's a fine line.

We should learn from ranchers. The fastest way to fatten livestock is to feed them carbs. So you see ranchers feeding cattle sugar bi-products that can't be sold to humans. Carbs will fatten you(us) up.

This is nuts. Is Tether failing too? This crap is way too complicated for a mere mortal.

I don't understand. The overall purchase was less than 100 mil. Yes, a large amount but for a country that should be very manageable and in theory it still has a possibility of gaining.

I agree it's too early to make it a country's currency since it's too easy to manipulate and he has no control over it but it's a work in progress. He has years to make it work for the country.

Just a note, I've lost significant weight by having just one meal a day and snacking thru the day. The key is to plan your day's food and snacks and not to have extra food ready to eat. Why one meal? I found that every time I sat down to eat it would be a struggle not to over eat. So to reduce the possibility of over eating I only do it once a day.

Counting on willpower to help you lose weight is a lost cause for most people. The key is to put yourself in situations where you can't over eat and/or you have to follow what your past self thought was good for you.

Your weight loss should be gradual but consistent. People want to lose all the weight in a short time but they never reflect that it took years to gain the weight. It should take a while to lose it.

I've been told that the reason carbs are such a problem is that once metabolized into glucose the body has to produce insulin to balance the blood sugar. Eventually this process makes us hungry especially if we eat too many carbs.

One way to reduce the affect of excess carbs is to follow a low glycemic diet similar to what people with diabetes follow. You might want to look into it.

Long term we need to do something about the consolation of industries but price limits will only cause producers to limit their production and cause shortages. Producers will manufacturer at the profit margin they want or stop. Price control might help for a short time but mid to long term it causes shortages.

No, there are books and there's the knowledge people have in their heads. The bigger danger is the declining of society over a few hundred years. If there is no preparations for it. We could see a loss of knowledge. We could have a situation where knowledge is locked in machines and books without humanity being able to access it.