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Comment · 2 years ago
Key paragraph (from the original FT article):
> The issue has arisen from idle cash sitting in customer accounts at brokerage firms and large banks, which “sweep” otherwise uninvested funds into interest-bearing alternatives in order to generate income. The SEC is looking into whether the firms steered those clients into sweep accounts that paid little or no interest, and whether the financial advisers at those groups had a fiduciary duty to advise clients they could make higher returns if they moved their cash into other accounts.
Comment · 3 years ago
My understanding is that most[1] other satellite devices use a centralized dispatch center who have experience with backcountry emergencies.
Speculating obviously, but that article makes it sound like Apple might have tried do something else and that whatever they came up with is more equipped to deal with frontcountry issues.
Sounds like I should keep packing my inReach.
Comment · 3 years ago
The ban was postponed, as I understand it, as they work through ways to catch people cheating by still using the substances.
https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news...
Comment · 5 years ago
I’m not sure where you’re starting from, but this seems like a reasonable progression to start with:
(1) A video about how the immune system works: https://youtu.be/fSEFXl2XQpc
(2) An infographic from FDA explaining the EUA process: https://www.fda.gov/media/143890/download
(3) Reports from the Advisory Committee on Immunization describing evidence of effectiveness for the various vaccines. For example, Moderna’s: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm695152e1.htm
(Important caveats: I have family and friends who work in healthcare and drug discovery, so I’ve got a tiny bit of layperson background on this, but this is far from my field and I’m far from an expert)
Comment · 5 years ago
If this caused anyone to be interested in what happens to snowflakes after they fall on the ground, The Snow Grain Photo Library[1] has a library of photos of snow in various states of decomposition and metamorphosis.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think you may have just re-discovered Disruptive Innovation (sometimes also called Disruption Theory): incumbents over-serve their customers by adding lots of features, complexity, and cost. Upstarts can attack them by focusing on only a few core features and/or low price. The incumbents can't respond without annoying their existing customers who have grown accustomed to all the features the incumbent provides.
Comment · 7 years ago
The author doesn’t spend much time on _why_ re-orgs “almost always make some people unhappy, cause employee departures, and stifle productivity,” but I’d claim it’s organizational politics. Every re-org has winners and losers, almost by definition: there can only be so many people in charge, and likewise not everyone can work on that cool new feature. This is particularly true in relatively stagnant organizations: your best chance to move up the hierarchy as a manager might be during the once-in-a-blue-moon re-org. _Of course_ zero-sum shifts in organizational status of a bunch of imperfect human beings are going to be political.
The central thesis seems to be that by “involving the team members that would be effected from the beginning and making it their decision,” the discomfort around re-orgs will be avoided.
I might be missing something obvious from the article, but I have a hard time believing that adding more imperfect humans (in fact, all of the imperfect humans the organization has!) into the mix and letting teams self-organize would reduce awkward politics rather than making them worse.
Comment · 7 years ago
These (fairly specialized) ski boots have a boa lace system as part of their closure system, which uses a central dial to tighten a continuous metal lace. It's not automated, but it's close.
For what it's worth, though, I didn't find them that much faster to put on than normal three-buckle boots.
Comment · 8 years ago
That does not match my experience (but n=1 and all).
In my case, the result of the sleep study where I didn't really sleep was, "hmm ... it looks like you might have insomnia." (No kidding). No drugs were offered -- or forced -- during the study.
Comment · 8 years ago
The New York Times has a fairly detailed rent-vs-buy calculator that makes it easy to see the effects of changing some of the variables the author talks about in the article.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
Comment · 8 years ago
// I'm making the assumption here that you're _relatively_ new to strength sports. If I've misjudged that, sorry!
> My callouses are starting to become a bother and my hands are pretty raw for any other lifts later in my session.
Calluses hurting late into your training session but not the beginning is typically a sign that you're not taking very good care of the skin on your hands.
Donny Shankle, a very accomplished weightlifter, has a really good video on hand care here[1]. It's sport specific for weightlifting, but it applies pretty well to strength training in general.
In addition to what he says, I've had really good success with a combination of a corn/callus shaver[2] and a dremel tool. The goal is to take the peaks off the calluses such that they're more or less flat to the rest of your hands. My typical routine for palm callus care, performed every few days, is to shower so that my skin is relatively soft, shave off any parts of the calluses on my palm that are protruding above the plane of the rest of my palms, and then smooth it out with the dremel's grinder tip set to low speed.