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I know this sounds trivial, but there's data that suggests common immune-systems boosters such as zinc and vitamin C do help with covid-19.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

It's funny in my career I've observed similar development styles. But I always just thought of this as great/good developers verses average/mediocre developers. the A+ coders would always make their code very easy to access, deploy from a user standpoint, debug, read etc. The mediocre guys would wait for someone else to hit a landmine beefore fixing something that was obviously wrong.

There's also some innate complications with the nature of a company adopting an open source tool. it's classic 'build vs buy', so if a company is investing in engineers building their own in-house solutions on top of open source tools, the additional cost of licensing support/additional tools doesn't really make sense. so there's immediate friction to monetize open source users.

on the other hand, SaaS products are optimized to sell to business groups who want the hard parts taken care of for them and they perceive value in saving time/money thanks to the SaaS product. I've seen both situations (monetizing open source versus monetizing a SaaS product) first hand, and it's clear that open source companies can be at a bit of a disadvantage. If they DO monetize their users, it's usually via their own SaaS offering to augment the open source tool.

Yeah I have a similar feeling...but I am willing to try it. Just aware that there are probably corner cases it can't handle and generally curious about what the behavior is.

For instance, I was driving on autopilot on a section of 101 where they repainted the lanes. I let autopilot do its thing...but I closely observed and kept my hand on the wheel and foot on the brakes. Lo and behold...the car positioned itself right in the shoulder and was driving towards no-man's land. If someone wasn't paying attention in this situation, it would have been catastrophic.

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I hope we can finally see some improvements at SFO. The fact that the slightest impact on visibility can cause 4-5 hour long delays is ridiculous. the SF government has tirelessly blocked all attempts to fix the runways so that planes can land in visibility conditions (fog/rain) with the promise that technology would solve the problem.

Exactly. Personally I don't like drinking. I see the fun of getting drunk with friends and all..experienced it in my college years...but I don't like the unspoken pressure/expectation that you have to be on something to have a good time.

am I ridiculing having a good time? If I'm not drinking at a bar every night I'm boring? Sounds like a Budweiser ad to me...

I'm simply saying there's a real opportunity cost which is directly in context with the comment I'm replying to. Sorry you interpreted it differently.

Simply put, if you're out drinking, you're not in the gym or doing another activity that has more health benefits. Don't let that stop you from 'having a good time', but it's something to keep in mind when we talk about the health effects of having a couple drinks everyday.

Also have to factor in the opportunity cost of drinking...going for a drink after work instead of the gym? What comes next? Bar food with your beer and maybe a pizza?

I'd rather have the work out, good meal, hydrate, and get good sleep. It's obvious that good habits snowball into more good habits, while bad habits snowball into more bad habits.

Remember when the airpods first came out? SNL, Conan O'Brian, all of twitter were basically dragging it through the mud and making a mockery of them. 3 years later you can't walk around a major city or airport without seeing a significant amount of people using them.

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We're a well-funded, post-Series B company.

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how do you teach a teenager to 'not take things at face value' without inserting your own opinion about news that's fake?

'look at this fake news asserting A...this story is misleading because B is actually true'.

we're all going to have arthritis in our thumbs from typing on our phones so much. I got a hand MRI for a separate injury, but my doctor noticed I had early signs of arthritis at a relatively young age. it's a lot more common because of heavy smart phone usage.

We're the 'training data'

the worst argument I've heard from skeptics associated with the NCAA is "THE COLLEGE PLAYERS ARE ALREADY PAID!". As if forcing young student athletes who are often from very low income families to resort to illegal bribes is a better solution than regulated endorsements for something they're absolutely entitled to.

big companies are also notorious for reaping whatever they can take from smaller companies...and when its time for the smaller company to monetize..."whoops we don't have budget for that."

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At Striim, we believe in making data valuable the instant that it is born. We are a comprehensive streaming analytics and ETL company enabling next-gen analytics applications at some of the world's largest companies.

Our core technology is based on database change data capture, in-memory stream processing, and real-time data visualization in react. You can work out of our Palo Alto Headquarters, our San Francisco shared workplace, with flexible WFH days as well.

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STRIIM | Forward Deployed Engineer, Senior UI Engineer | Palo Alto or San Francisco | Onsite | FULL TIME |

https://striim.com

At Striim, we believe in making data valuable the instant that it is born. We are a comprehensive streaming analytics and ETL company enabling next-gen analytics applications at some of the world's largest companies.

Our core technology is based on database change data capture, in-memory stream processing, and real-time data visualization in react. Our HQ is in Palo Alto but we also offer a shared workspace in SF.

Striim was voted one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley by several publications[0].

Open roles:

FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER:

https://www.striim.com/careers/?p=job%2FoIxZ9fw7

Senior UI Engineer (React/NodeJs/Marionette):

https://www.striim.com/careers/?p=job%2Fo6WT9fwO

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Yeah as an investor I still really like Apple. They have a TON of cash, billions of highly qualified users that they can easily roll new products/services to (iphone owners), and all the while they're frugal and meticulous about how they use it.

I think the stock will pop once news breaks of another breakthrough product...whether its a car or something else.

And amazon has 125,000 employees running their supply chain. I wouldn't call that 'easy to scale' either.

AAPL is still undervalued compared to stocks like AMZN. Apple's P/E of 17 is amazing compared to Amazons 78. I'm not really sure why their stock isn't traded with the same enthusiasm that other tech companies see.

tl;dr lawyers/actors are in charge of projects for which they have no domain expertise. just using their temporary appointment on a 'transportation committee' as a stepping stone to some other job in public office.

the actual planning and execution are either completely neglected over politicized that its almost impossible to build something efficiently. not to mention building such projects in large cities is extremely complicated and requires tons of focus and experience. doing it the way our government structures projects is almost impossible.

I mean why use any metrics at all of you're going to try to correlate them with something seemingly unrelated with no context like # of suicides?

This might sound strange but I wish I learned how to be more assertive and less apologetic/yielding.

When I was in a 50/50 debate/discussions, in many cases I leaned towards myself being wrong and the other being right automatically...and later would feel discontent with everyone when I turned out I was right and should have pushed harder. But I guess dont know how to be assertive without being offensive or overly brazen about my frustration.

Yeah the best ones are 11 to 7. No one wants to network at 8 am before a bunch of keynotes and presentations. Lunch and after event mixers are the best.

7 am to 7 pm was terrible. everyone was sleepy in the morning (pre caffeine) and completely worn out by the happy hour/closing time.

I mean they practically can become that if you include the networking events and dinners but the listed hours in the exhibition hall usually are closer to 8 hours.

Slightly unrelated but there is something weirdly consistent about how Amazon treats their workers and people who have to work with them. I remember just exhibiting an AWS conference was the most time-intensive grueling event I've ever worked in the tech industry.

Obviously not as hard as a factory-working job, but they hold the only event in the industry that has you working from 7 am to 7 pm w/ no break if you want to exhibit.

At first i wanted to say of course insects count against being vegetarian. But then I thought about it...vegetarians don't want to eat living things, but technically plants are alive too.

Is mass farming vegetables as inhumane as mass-farming cows, pigs, chickens etc? probably not.

But mass farming insects may not be anymore inhumane than the life wild insects are already accustomed to (living in tight, dark spaces).

From a sustainability standpoint, there's no question that getting your protein from insects is better for the environment than cows/pigs/chickens.

But some people are vegetarian just because they're generally grossed out by eating bloody flesh...so just from that angle i'd say insects are not vegetarian.

Yeah I remember sitting next to a VA pilot on a flight once and he was gushing about the new AirBus 321s. And he was right. Their take offs feel like magic carpet rides compared to boeing 737s.