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Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
He’s the largest individual donor to the IDF.
Comment · 1 year ago
That happened in Frontiers in Endocrinology?
Comment · 2 years ago
I know someone who was in a similar situation at your child’s age, in the Stanford CS program. He was able to pause his studies and secure some kind of agreement he could come back when he felt ready. He worked on his issues for about 15 years, barely making enough to pay rent. But then he went back and finished, subsequently got better jobs, and now he’s retired at age 49.

Just to share that option.

Comment · 3 years ago
It still matters for life and disability insurance.
Comment · 3 years ago
There’s a full-color dimming filter in Accessibility -> Zoom -> Zoom Filter -> Low Light. You can assign it to the accessibility shortcut for quick access.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Agree on both points, and quite possible the “small financial firms” thing the OP has been doing is a targetable niche.
Comment · 4 years ago
When I was younger I tried the generalist consultant thing. Did a bunch of interesting jobs and patted myself on the back for being able to tackle so many different types of problems, stacks, stages of the business, etc. It actually was really fun.

To my surprise though, as I got more and more general the rates I could demand got lower and lower, even though I had all these successful projects and good references etc. I finally picked up on the fact that the only companies who would consider a generalist either didn’t know what they were doing, or couldn’t afford an expert in the specific skills they needed.

Decided to specialize in something in-demand, and life got a lot easier.

Comment · 4 years ago
I forgot which numbers I saw, but yeah their overall rate is high. The problem is that so many of the remaining unvaccinated are elderly, so if they start getting sick they’ll get it bad and overload the system.
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s not how it works. Plenty of negative stuff shared online.
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s the question a lot of people seem to have, but think about it: they’ve already bought themselves 2 extra years of vaccine + therapeutics development, and beefing up of medical infrastructure. There’s no way they can do lockdowns forever, and they’re open about that in all the media. But there’s a point in those other trends at which opening up becomes millions of times less dangerous, and we’re just not there yet.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ok, so conspiracy theory logic.

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