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Not ever seeing these emails, it depends on where you stand. I can see how it would benefit the organization to have people know what is being shipped in other areas of the org, and also provide valuable feedback loops from differing perspectives.

However if all the threads are just “great job on X!” I can see how that could be low-value self promotion.

Is there a way to figure out where the 737Max is still being flown? I ask selfishly as I have a flight on Norwegian Air Argentina coming up and according to their seat map I appear to be on a 737 Max8, but there is no indication about the actual metal being flown for their flights, as far as I can tell.

Norwegian suspended its use of the 737 Max8 for their main airline, but I haven’t seen anything about their use on their subsidiary airlines.

Don't know why they included two figures when two numbers would do (it appears the first graph in each is showing the definition of median and quartile).

If the top quartile of performers were consistently the top quartile, then the plots in Fig. 2B would be the same because their performance is persistent over two three-year periods. Same thing can be said of Fig. 2A but with the median.

The simpler and more intuitive way to show this would be a some way to display "skill performance", "chance performance", and "observed performance".

| -------------- | Skilled | Chance | Observed |

|---------------+------+-----+-------|

| Median------ | 50% | 25% | 25% |

| Top quartile | 25% | 6.25% | 7% |

And the management team is...all MBAs :)

I also found the writing to be engaging and informative. Not many product websites have posts that make me go back through their archive.

I like Quang's for pho and Vietnamese food, Guavas is a new Cuban/Caribbean place that is quite good.

The fancier places would be something like Spoon and Stable and Bellecour, who have the same chef. Their quality would probably be on par with a mention in the Michelin guide but no star. I have a tendency to go with cheaper food at home and splurge when I'm traveling, so I do not have a good sample of the fine dining restaurants in MPLS.

There's a pretty good kaiseki restaurant in the north loop, but I can't remember the name. They have a very good Japanese whisky bar above, if you are willing to pay through the nose for Japanese whisky.

I think it's fairly widespread. I got rejected from Amazon with a "reach out in 6-12 months," but without a reason for the rejection.

You would sacrifice the largest source of freshwater on earth for the climate?

EDIT: The Great Lakes are not land-locked either. They flow out to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence River.

Do you speak Russian, or do you target those that went to top colleges, e.g., Moscow State Univ. that are more likely to speak fluent English?

Every Russian I've worked with that went to MSU or MIPT had excellent English, but they also all went to the US for grad school so I don't know how representative they are.

I have no experience with data centers, but a little bit of experience with ecological impacts of pass-through nuclear cooling, i.e., water is pumped in from a body of water as cooling for a nuclear power plant, then pumped back to the body of water.

My guess would be that the heat diffusion system for the data center could be designed in such a way that you could have a very large installation without a large ecological impact, as long as a modular footprint like the one pictured is used (think of reef systems that spring up around shipwrecks). However, this will very much depend on the ocean currents at installation to quickly transport heat out of the area. Most species can handle a couple degrees (Celsius) variation in water temperature, and given the pure huge heat sink that is available by being completely surrounded in water. Species that prefer slightly warmer temperatures would probably establish a new foothold in the areas around the datacenters.

As for the "why it is important" bit. My conservation stance comes down to the precautionary principle. We still know so little about the ecosystem of the ocean that has been working pretty well for millions of years. We should endeavor to change as little as possible because we don't want to disrupt the complex feedback system that exists. Despite all the environmental impact studies that would be performed, we don't know what the possible cascading effects could be, if any.

Yes, good catch. Thanks!

I applied with the low character requirements; I assumed you were encouraging brevity for the sake of the reviewers. Should I reapply or will it not have a large impact on admission decisions?

I just wish data were more availabile. Given that football/soccer is a continuous game (as opposed to the discreet stop/start of American football or baseball), gathering data requires a bit of labor so most of the data products are expensive.

Seconded. I'm at WeWork now, and had to upgrade offices just so I could be somewhere that was quieter. Once my contract is up I'll be looking for a more out-of-the-way office where I don't need to put on headphones several times a day.

Wait. They don't have an option for automatic dividend reinvestment? That would probably be in the top five most-obvious features to have.

Of course, it's hard to make money on dividend reinvestment.

I was approached by a Tesla contractor in Home Depot on a few days ago. It was honestly not a good experience.

For one, I was approached cold. I too had no idea that they had this agreement, so I was looking at something when someone came up and asked me something like "what type of project are you working on?" So I naturally just described what I was doing and before realizing this was not a HD employee.

He asks me if I thought about solar and whatever, but it wasn't relevant to my situation (roof slope orients E/W at the 45th latitude, so not great for solar). He goes on his way.

It was just a weird experience. I wasn't in a department related to electricity or solar, and they had no displays indicating a partnership with Tesla or that you may be cold-approached by a Tesla employee.

I hope to move someday close to a river or stream so I can pick the hobby back up. Used to tie my own as well, I highly recommend Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference [1]. Full color, step-by-step instructions, so enjoyable to flip through I still pick it up sometimes even though I don't fish anymore.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Trout-Flies-Reference-Dave-Hughes/dp/...

On points 2/3, have you found a community of like-minded people (likely expats)? It pales in comparison, but I moved from somewhere where I had a tight-knit community to one where I was a hermit and found it very demotivating. Talking to other people about our work and interests helped me get out of my slump. This is not a substitute for seeking professional help, but a complement that worked for me. It sounds like the HN Tokyo meetup (if you live in Tokyo) or reaching out to many of the replies here from people living in Japan would be a good place to start.

Great idea! This is something hat seems so obvious after the fact, but I would have never thought of it.

I would suggest that you enable a more responsive preview. Viewing it on a 1440p monitor, the map preview could be about double in size.

I write things down and then transfer what is useful to digital with org-mode.

Depending on the "officialness," I write things down on either a legal pad or in a lab notebook dedicated to a project. Then the most important bits of this gets put into an org-mode "notebook."

I prefer writing things down first, I find that it sharpens my thinking around whatever I'm recording.

Though there are some other interesting ideas in here that I may try and steal.

In regards to UBI, I was disturbed by a comment that Jaron Lanier made in the latest Ezra Klein Show [1] (starting at minute 55).

He said that some "known" Silicon Valley folks have expressed that the recent opioid epidemic is a positive because these addicts aren't needed will fall out of the workforce, thereby making the transition to the "world without jobs" easier.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/1/16/16897738/jaron-lanier-intervie...

I responded to another comment along this line of thought. I took a relatively common "STEM" view until I joined a fellowship cohort with some students in humanities. Their teaching loads were completely ridiculous as grad students and they seemed to have a nearly abusive relationships with their departments because of it.

I am at a university (Michigan) where the union is primarily for graduate students that teach. I could not tell from the writeup, but it sounds like this is for _all_ graduate students at UChicago.

Being in an engineering department, I never had an issue with having to teach a heavy load of classes. But, some of my friends in humanities departments had a teaching load of - 6+ hours of classroom time + discussions + grading long papers - for classes of 50+ students. Being part of the union allowed them to put pressure on their departments that they needed to hire other TAs so that they could focus on their research and not spend additional years writing their dissertation.

I don't think being part of a union is going to stop any motivated student from doing their own research. And part of joining the union is to ensure that their members do receive a good stipend and have their health insurance paid for while maintaining a reasonable teaching load.

True, but it's very hard to "get away" with card counting at a casin, after Ed Thorp popularized it. Taleb knows this too; he wrote the foreword for Dr. Thorp's memoir.

Also true in sports betting, but you aren't gaining an edge on the house so much as the other bettors. Assuming the house is intelligent they will make the market well enough to cover their risk.

My favorite example of them failing to do this is when Leicester City were Premier League champions two seasons ago [1].

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/02/leicester-city-wi...

There is hydropower boom in the Amazon, and Brazil is the world's second largest producer of hydropower behind China. The environmental impacts of dams are mentioned about 2/3 of the way into [1].

[1] http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-a-dam-building-boom-is-tra...

> American Football and baseball are generally different seasons. Does participation in one have any direct effect on the other?

I would expect only for those families who choose to have their kid participate in only one sport; football and baseball can both be pretty expensive, equipment and training wise.

Yep, I always wanted a Nokona glove when I played, but couldn't justify the cost. They were somewhat of a status symbol in my high school playing days.

A really good baseball glove is one of those "buy it for life" purchases. My dad played college ball in the late 50's and had a Nokona glove. When we played catch and he was teaching me baseball in the 90's, he used the same glove as in college.

But, I would bet that the biggest threat to Nokona is not cheaper gloves produced overseas, but the decline in youth baseball participation compared to other sports. Though perhaps a rapid decline in the number of kids participating in football could mean some of them playing baseball instead. I suspect that my kids would end up playing soccer since it's the only sport I watch these days.

> we have one at my local university that says all PhD defense committees must include one woman.

Wow, that would be really hard to do in some engineering disciplines where I am, and also make the women in those departments take on unnecessary committee obligations compared to their male colleagues.

I recognize discriminatory hiring practices play a large role in M:F ratios in academic departments, but I do get tired of diversity being distilled into what you can tell about someone from a picture rather than their life experiences. My committee is all white guys, but their backgrounds are very different and all but one have had very unlikely paths to academia compared to someone growing up in the US.

If you have a lot of people you follow on Twitter, Nuzzel [1] can be useful. Basically, if people you follow are sharing the same article, it will get highlighted by the app.

[1] http://nuzzel.com/