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The anecdote you describe happened under the illegal black market, where production is unconfirmed and harm reduction is not available as easy. With decriminalization or even a legal market, that person maybe wouldn't have done it like
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1970-2030+ or so will be seen as a drug dark age. A time where criminalization made everything more dangerous, and harm reduction worse. Part of a 60+ year gap in innovation using all substances for many health related cures and issues as w
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"Put that coffee down!! Coffee's for closers only."
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The article viewpoints are probably right, Netflix and Amazon need a few more hits that people trust. The Office was a big fallback show and Netflix needs a few of those of their own. Stranger Things probably fits that. The Witcher might c
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Possibly, in the McDonald Monopoly scam eventually the mob got involved, so maybe some are able to get away with it somewhere. But like in Office Space, when the account gets big enough it has to eventually be investigated and people aren&#
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Kvashuk, the complaint suggests, was undone by Microsoft's UST Fraud Investigation Strike Team (FIST), which noticed a suspicious increase in the use of CSV to buy subscriptions to Microsoft's Xbox gaming system in February 2018.
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Timing has a great deal to do with it as well as with anything. Environment and timing can make a 10x coder even better or just average, depends on where the rest of the market is at and if the market timing is right. Though a good develop
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There have been a few products named Monday recently. This, the project management app and another one called Happy Monday. Who in their right mind thought branding as Monday was a good idea? First off it is difficult to find in any search
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Very true, short term is self-interested and you have to be in today's corporate world, especially in the value multiplication/extraction/funding side. I have no doubt Gavriella Schuster figured it would help her budgets and
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This highlights why budgets and metrics don't always tell the full picture. The manager/bizdev/MBA on the team sees a loss to their budget. To CYA they want to fix that budget issue, but they are only looking at the short ter
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Ross Perot was also mad at that even with the access he had. So he did 30-minute commercial blocks [1] and used them as campaign ads/media/airtime during primetime to make up for time on the debates and how the two party system b
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Companies can come back after the HBS MBAs/bizdevs take over, they must return to product/engineering/creative focused though and it is tough, usually it takes a near failure for the problem to be recognized. Apple survived w
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MAD helped the world learn to laugh at itself, including comedic cynicism and sarcasm with top notch satire aimed at everyone including themselves at MAD. MAD inspired all types of comedy from many greats today. Terry Gilliam called MAD&#x2
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Virtualization has helped immensely in many ways to reduce resources used and to eliminate costs. People used to buy books, games, music, movies, in addition to clocks, cameras and others you mention in a physical form but now are moving to
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This will help but until health insurance and healthcare is disconnected from employer provided, and instead consumer focused, the pricing will continue to be shrouded and fixed. Healthcare and health insurance should almost be separate but
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I don't entirely understand the attacks on e-cigs and vaping. 1) e-cigs/vaping is safer with less carcinogens going into lungs. That will lead to less health issues down the line. Even if kids are getting them, which they shouldn&
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Fast key-value stores are really great for caching layers, as the main source of truth on data not as much. Whether these are local in-memory or external like Redis/memcached/mongo etc. Any good large scale system will have a cach
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> This looks like a good way to spark real-life violence in what is otherwise a remarkably safe way to exchange drugs. The drug war is the antithetical to harm reduction and safety in production and use. The only solution to the drug war
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I agree with this, it is good for skillsets to cross pollinate and it makes you better at both. Another divide is development and design, those that can do that produce amazing products. You see this more in the gaming or interactive space
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Telcos and ISPs are the bigger threat by far in a fixed local monopoly physical market that is hard to enter. Telecom/ISPs are afraid of antitrust, being labeled a utility and competition, they work overtime to throw the blame onto Big
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NFO files highlighting groups like Razor 1911, Phrozen Crew, CLASS, FairLight, DEViANCE and others, fun.
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Engineers, product focused entrepreneurs and innovators would like a Long-Term Stock Exchange (LSTE) quite a bit if it works out. Usually to list on public markets the whole bizdev/marketing/operations/VC/board/lawy
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Clear conditionals like this (or short circuiting) are very nice when it comes to merging. One liners and mammoth tertiaries that are too long can lead to conflicts and more problematic merges/diffs/etc. One operation per line mak
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> So what is "normal" nose-up pitching? Good question, apparently on the 737 Max this is more pronounced with the larger/forward LEAP engines. This was enough of a problem that it constantly has to be checked and MCAS ha
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The 737 Max does fly differently, the MCAS and AoA checks to offset the engine "pitch up" due to more powerful engines was to get around a regulation/certification [1]. > The LEAP engine nacelles are larger and had to be
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The AoA sensor that MCAS uses, as well as the nose pitch monitoring adjustment due to the larger more powerful LEAP engines that causes a pitch up on the nose, is external and in the front [1][2]. > Stall sensors are common, but the MAX
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“I drink and I know things” -- Tyrion Lannister Sometimes you need to step outside yourself and let your guard down on your normal routine to see things more clearly. Humans and sedation have always been a part of one another, it can lead
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That one was a Boeing 737 MAX 7 " Boeing 737 MAX 7 (twin-jet) ". Isn't it only the 737 MAX 8 + 9s that are grounded? According to this article it is just the 8s and 9s. > The United States will follow much of the rest of
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Similar, both flash card based, and with spaced repetition. Anki is downloadable and TinyCards is web based and online. TinyCards has a community around it but Anki is probably more individual focused. Both are great tools and you will le
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For spaced repetition, if you haven't tried it here is a fun interactive that is well presented to try it out [1]. For spaced repetition tools, besides Anki [2] there is also TinyCards [3]. Ultimately learning new things means building

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