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> who are more likely to find themselves abandoned at a time when they are increasingly unable to cope on their own

That often happens rapidly, and in many cases putting the Alzheimer's patient in full-time care is the only option -- even with a caring, involved spouse.

I watched my grandfather go from a slightly forgetful goof to confused, violent, and impossible to manage in <3 years. My grandmother, not doing so well herself, struggled to keep up but after a couple years putting grandpa in a facility was the only real tenable option.

RenPy is the VN software that gave us, among others, DDLC and Katawa Shoujo.

Interesting. I've used a notepad++ "spellbook" of one-liners and useful commands (Cisco & Juniper especially).

What would this offer that a well-backed-up N++ doc doesn't? Sell me.

This has been a discussion thread I've heard of before. I.E. the mountains full of rare earth metals, lithium, etc. in Afghanistan, and how we need to secure it ASAP before the Chinese do. Read like Bush-League propaganda and was usually juxtaposed with "China buying all of the rare metals in Africa". Which makes me wonder if this is pure pablum to help Prince ride the propaganda, or if he's looking to corner the market.

Also didn't realize he sold the Acadami/Xe/Blackwater group, and is now beholden to Hong Kong financiers:

> Prince sold Blackwater in 2010 after it was hit with a string of lawsuits. He is currently executive deputy chairman of Frontier Services Group, which provides integrated security, logistics and insurance services in frontier markets and is backed by Hong Kong investor Chun Shun Ko and China’s CITIC Group.

The case study at the end seems overly modest. Even relatively unimpressive internal promotions can bump you up 7-8% or more; jumping ship to new jobs can often add 50% or more.

> GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks, a specific kind of deep learning algorithm that can train a neural network to generate realistic imagery. Whilst GANs are not integral to creating synthetic media, they represent the most significant development in the how new kinds of synthetic media are created.

In the future, our enemies will be Anonymous GANs, or GANNONs

Nitpick: I believe that's "lede" as in "burying the lede".

I do consulting work. My role originally promised 40-60% travel to customer sites.

For a while, that was true.

Now 95% of my work is webex or hangouts or go2meeting, etc. If I need physical goods somewhere quickly then flying is a must, but doing business across the wire is much easier.

More like his neighbors became "those people"

> Wtf is going on in California.

Forreal. As someone in Canada watching the weed thing play out, my prediction is that Cali would legalize and then utterly dominate.

Like the medical and recreational stuff is there, the weather is great for growing stuff, including weed, and with 40 million people -- more than all of Canada -- there is a huge base of investment capital and consumers to pull from.

Why isn't California DOMINATING the global weed trade?

Helping to stimulate the economy of the next county over...