john_yaya

Bytedance/TikTok are ignoring US law, as we saw in the news last week.

The CCP at a minimum abets the shipment of fentanyl to the US. It aggressively collects personal information on every US citizen and resident. It relentlessly steals private and corporate intellectual property from the West and provides it to its own state-owned enterprises.

If you’re a citizen of the US or Europe, the Chinese government is most definitely your enemy.

Huh? The EU’s GDP and population are significantly greater than the US.

I really wanted to like FreeCAD, but I’d say out of the five or so times I’ve attempted to use it, it crashed and lost my design four times. I picked up Fusion360 instead, then OnShape, and never looked back.

“companies like Amazon and Tesla that have a net positive effect on society”

Citation needed.

My severance don’t jiggle-jiggle, it folds.

Converted it to fiat, you really oughtta see it.

The same Larry Summers who famously ruled for Zuckerberg against the Winklevoss twins.

Same here. I was never sure if it was a man or woman, I don't think they ever specified (I could be wrong). But they were always fairly upfront about their problems with alcohol. For a while I wondered if it was an alter ego of Scott Alexander.

I never read "Lean In," but one of my favorite blog posts of all time[1] did a truly epic takedown of it, exposing it as a thinly-veiled manifesto for white-collar women to become miserable underpaid status-chasing workaholics.

[1] https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/03/dont_hate_her_becaus...

Excuse me, but there's an enormous difference between working with erroneous source material, and making factual errors when the correct data are already and widely available.

And, I reject your repeated assertions that because you have historian friends, you are somehow more qualified to speak on the topic than one who does not. That type of clubby gatekeeping is frankly toxic to society and you should abandon that sort of thinking immediately.

Facts are the foundation that such writing is built upon. If a piece of historical analysis contains a number of basic factual errors, that foundation is shaky at best. How can you or anyone go on to claim that the conclusion of the piece has any value at all, given that?

Please be kinder to yourself. You need to be your own strongest advocate, and that's not incompatible with being humble. You have plenty to contribute to this world, and the vast majority of us appreciate what you have to offer.

This is true, and I'd add that the more fluid and dynamic those meetings are, the better. To me, it seems like video meetings are anything but. Lots of people either interrupting each other or trying too hard not to. Obnoxious repetition. Whiteboarding is a sad joke.

Another technique is to print in ABS and then give it an acetone vapor bath - you preserve details much better, but setting all that up is a pain and a little dangerous.

Senior homes and assisted living centers are a national disgrace. They are entirely about profit maximization (what business isn’t?), and as such hire people at the exact minimum and have well over 100% yearly turnover. The staff commonly steal from residents, and the management do not care. They’d rather retain a larcenous pig who barely executes her duties than have to go back and scrape the barrel for a replacement.

The residents are often lonely, in awful health, overlooked by their families, and spend all day watching television. Many of them are verbally abusive towards the staff.

Elderly people should live with their families. The ones with no families to care for them should be in nonprofit, closely regulated facilities with well-paid staff. And it’s time to stop spending $500K on medical care just so an 88 year old can make it to 89. Whoever spread that “death panels” meme should be forced to write America a check for five hundred billion dollars.

> I have no idea how christmas is going to work.

As a cultural Christian, I’d love to see Christmas work as a holiday where people spend time with their families and contemplate the gift of everlasting life. And, also, eat simply and not buy anything.

I worked on the Freestyle Libre, I’m thrilled to hear it’s at least a workable solution for you. When I was working at Abbott, I often volunteered for testing finger-stick devices, which made me appreciate a small part of what people with diabetes have to endure.

The problem is that companies with less-experienced upper management think that they can save money by handing out awesome new titles instead of more money. In the short term, they’re right, it’s an old trick that will always work… on certain people. But the people that works on are the kind of people you probably don’t want to retain. Often this happens at companies that have a small software team, but are not primarily software or even technology companies.

I’ve interviewed “Principal Software Engineers” whose understanding of software engineering and computer science were minimal, and it’s because of this phenomenon. Just last week I talked to one who couldn’t explain what what makes an interface RESTful. They had no idea how Git works beyond commit and push. They wrote a unit test that did the exact same stateless thing twice, and asserted that the results were identical. They wanted $250K/yr.

I would say they’re following Zymergen’s business model… except that model turned out to be “defrauding the investors.”

Very similar thing here, I live in the Bay Area and have a flat, bright white roof. On an 85 degree summer day, it’s a wave of cool comfort to walk through the front door, and I pay nothing for it.

That’s not really accurate. Celera ran in parallel to the HGP, and (at least for a while) generated superior results at 1/10th the cost.

Thanks for this. Like so many people, I’ve long believed the myth that they removed it - though I can hardly be blamed, since A-list tech media have reported it as true.

At least they were honest about withholding equity. Lots of startups do effectively the same thing by granting RSUs that become worthless via an assortment of underhanded mechanisms.

$100K ARR is not really that out of the ordinary for something like this, I’m inclined to believe them without verification.

One thing that bugs me, though, is that his solutions are in already very crowded spaces. It seems like it would be difficult to siphon off users without a significant marketing spend.

I’m not sure the race between government entities and the private sector always favors the former, even when it comes to R&D. A prime (no pun intended) example of that is the race to sequence the human genome.

It’s time to rename “Unlimited PTO” to something more honest and realistic. Of course, HR will still call it that, but giving it a better name will help people see it for what it is. I propose “Vacation By Request” or maybe “PTO TBD.”

Seems like bootstrapping isn’t just about the money for many bootstrappers, perhaps including you. There’s a type of person who would much rather grind out $150K ARR at something they create and own than pull down $450K/yr at Netflix.

The magnets are a problem to solve, but not the biggest problem by far. Solve for neutron embrittlement of the reactor parts, and then you’ll start to have some credibility.

One of Purdue’s specific misdeeds was lying to doctors about the addictiveness of OxyContin and leading them to believe that it had a very low risk of abuse. Much of the litigation against the company focuses on this.

I have a System76 Gazelle. The trackpad tends to freak out when I reboot, issuing random clicks and cursor jitters - so I usually have to reboot again, or deactivate the trackpad in Ubuntu. Multiple firmware and OS updates haven’t fixed this.