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Well, check out the annual reports from your favourite charitable organizations; the most successful ones have a high correlation with those where fund raising costs is the biggest line-item expense. It seems to be this "grow or die" mentality spilling over from the corporate world. United Way is one of the biggest offenders.

I wish more charities would constrain themselves to their original narrow mandate without success inevitably growing their "addressable market"...

As an adult learning about his personal history/development and late conversion to Catholicism explained a lot of what confused the kid version of me who read the books decades earlier

Reading is a great skill and encouraging kids to read has real value. I have an avid reader who is ten however who struggles with many aspects of writing and communication (organization, idea structure, penmanship, thinking before you speak, etc). He would much rather read and often rushes through other work so he can get back to his reading. He doesn't need more time to read sitting in class, he needs more practice speaking and presenting, learning to construct and edit work and other interactive skills.

Sending your kid to school to read independently seems like a waste of resources, likely tolerated because it takes work from everyone's shoulders and no one complains. I'd like to see the reading be the homework and the day filled with practice, teacher guidance and student coaching, similar to what Sal Khan promotes. None of this has much to do with technology and screens though...

If you're exercising so you can make big concessions in your daily diet, you're delusional. Take a look at the calories you burn doing high intensity exercise vs. those in your preferred dessert.

>> I have not heard of anyone having a problem with rats and mice hunting other animals

In Canada rats are a bigger threat to bird species than cats, topped only by humans. Or visit an island environment Galapagos where they've been introduced.

I took it simply as a comment on how the same scale of impact has very different emotional responses if the cause is a big, notable event vs. a long-running regular one.

Isn't this the entire problem with climate change in general? It's really hard to get people concerned with very small temperature changes over long periods of time because we use our human perspective; it's hard for us to understand a geological time scale.

These types of observations help IMO.

>> The Australian wildfires are destroying ecosystems on a scale cats don't really do. And a much greater variety of wildlife is dying than what cats will typically kill.

Well, domestic cats are considered an invasive species in much of the world, and in Canada are the #1 killer of birds. Studies show they are the 3rd biggest offender towards putting species at risk. The story is worse on islands, of which we have many.

>> Finally, wildfires don't support life. They're naturally occurring things, but they are not an activity occurring in the support of other life.

This is absolutely wrong. Lots of forests in Western Canada depend greatly on regular, large-scale fires to support specific species of flora and fauna. Our excellent job of preventing these fires is likely to blame for many huge problems like mountain pine beetle and predator/prey imbalances.

Also of note - this appears to be the UK-style of master's vs. the typical path a lot of us may be more familiar with, in the sense of very strong undergrads complete a 4th year and earn a Master's vs. finish an undergrad and then spend 2+ years (1 year classes, 1 year lab/thesis) as an in-betweener before Doctoral programs.

It seems very expensive for 2-yrs of part-time, online work. I did a MSc in Canada part time and it took me almost three years of year-round effort, completing the course requirements 2 or 3 per semester (which is more than 1/2 time). Because I was P/T I paid full tuition but it was still less than $5K/yr. F/T grad students were almost all on scholarship or covered tuition via RA pr TA duties.

IMO, if you want more than the credentials on your resume this would be an expensive and disappointing grad school experience and of limited value.

>> Would you rather a lie from an "authoritative" source or a truth from a "wacko"

Well, an authoritative source can still be wrong but by definition does not lie, while a wacko can get it right occasionally without being truthful.

It kind of feels like you're confusing single-roll probability with cumulative odds; who are you going to bet on over the long term?

>> Why should they get 40% margins? Form a union, demand more money.

Why should they pay you more? Form the next FB and pay your employees 3x what they currently pay.

Pretty ridiculous response, right?

but everybody at a startup gets offered equity and almost all of it ends up being garbage, so maybe you made a poor assessment of the startup & founder but it seems a silly thing to thinking about and a dangerous one from which to draw lessons or advice.

I think it's great to learn from your previous decisions but this one seems (1) emotionally dangerous, (2) logically faulty and (3) largely selected for the headline.

Interesting experience. I also wonder if the comparison is made from the perspective of someone working in non-academia who might get a few days at Christmas, or undergrad students who get plenty of time off?

Indeed did this to me after I completed and presented a 2-day paid project. Ironically for a role with their new assessment acqui-hire company...

likely far more than 6 hours, probably more like 50+ with all the people and tasks involved. But they also cost this as part of their model - I don't think it's fair for individuals to eat the cost of the hiring process dictated by prospective employers; that's why in-demand candidates won't put up with their nonsense.

How about the fact that there's absolutely no upside for a hiring company/manager to give feedback? It's all potential downside...

Well, I'll say more...

They are a summary of what will happen if the commit (which is a bunch of commands) is applied.

They also can elaborate on the context around the commit. It's thoughtful of the commiter if your coworkers don't need to dive into the detailed changes to get a broad picture of why the commit exists.

Step 1: pick a commit message format.

Step 2: be a dick about it.

You can agree or disagree with how effective this would be, but it's essentially the same argument for carbon taxes on consumers and the indirect tax applied via producers: you participate in production of the negative components, you help pay the cost.

Again, not arguing for or against but what's so different about taxing consumers on behalf of actual people in a different country vs. taxing them on behalf of the environment?

And to drive home the challenge of how hard it is to trace the providence of a manufactured device, make the end consumer pay restitution directly to the affected parties.

I appreciate your measured and informative responses that are not pure opinion but everyone else in the thread is adding nothing but gut-impulse emotional opinions. Cut your losses.

Over a decade-plus consulting career I always tried to either discourage spurious new projects or work myself out of current engagements. While this was locally sub-optimal it led to long-term relationships that meant meaningful work, strategic initiatives and more money.

You could also try hoarding knowledge in an effort to maintain your value but this strategy also has a limited shelf-life.

I'd politely suggest you don't focus on solely optimizing the status quo until you're near the end of your career and ready to ride it out. Otherwise you will be in trouble down the road.

Only because you brought it up, someone in the typing pool likely has more education and experience:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-spiers-1b3048a1/

By any measure she's not an engineer.

Two things prevent me from using best buy (in Canada)

1. they too have a giant marketplace of who knows who

2. they require you to stay logged in to paypal if you want to use it for "convenience". The entire reason I use PP is to prevent sharing my payment data with yet another retailer and provide some isolation.

If I need something from them I just order to the store and pay then.

Walmart is the same marketplace and it's not like I shop there for "premium quality" but I still can't trust the stuff they send is legit.

Never thought I'd miss the old monopolistic, competition killing WalMart that raced towards the bottom...

I thought you had created a single massive join to find the answer and was pre-impressed. This is fine in the strict "correct solution" answer but totally against the spirit, so boo!

probably means looked at SELECT * from each table and interpreted the FK relationships vs. querying the schema table or looking at the ERD...

well the nice thing is that you can break down each step if you're not confident with joining virtual tables and aggregated results but also after finishing I think you can right a single query to insert the answer, so it's quite widely accessible!

>> To be fair, if I had 75% of my net worth in a single asset,

to be more fair, balanced portfolio theory generally doesn't account for creating 2+ billion dollars out of thin air which you then need to diversify. I think it's appropriate to include the singalling impact that his massive position changes have on over-all value.

So yes, he's making the locally maximizing correct decisions because let's face it, that's what the individual cares about; You could argue that the overall maximizing decision is for the founders to keep huge volumes of equity and bare the exposure that comes with this because, hey - they really believe they are changing the world for the better!

I think this speaks of huge potential, not actual success. I'm really, really hopeful that blazor becomes something real with long-term committment but not fully convinced yet it's not the new silverlight. I hope these fears are unfounded but hesitant to go all-in as a first mover. W3C support is a positive step.

1. How many work trucks have you seen with a toolbox in the bed - almost all of them? How would you access one in this thing without literally climbing into the box?

2. How do you carry a ladder, roof rack, or box on this thing?

3. Where do I tie down the countless odd-shaped items that a work truck carries?

4. How do I mount a deck for bigger equipment on this truck?

5. Is 250 top range enough for a work truck that does field service and likely hauls significant weight?

This thing is less truck than the original Honda Ridgeline and that's saying something. You'll see one at the mall before you see one in the field.

but they don't even have BAs and PMs...