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Thank you. So sorry to what happened with your brother. I agree with you, NPC is not rare. I know at least 3 people on my network that have them.

I'm lucky, in a way that the stage was low (stage 2, T1N1, low-risk/low-EBV). My entire treatment (chemo-radiation) was done in ~3 months, and my team of doctor knew well what they were doing. The side-effects of the treatment last for years unfortunately, something I have to deal with.

It's been 3 years on remission, no sign of cancer/marker anywhere. I'm grateful.

Been gone through something similar. It's important to be persistent. My PET-CT was originally scheduled for 6 weeks, and they couldn't get it sooner. I had to call every imaging labs within 50-100 miles radius, eventually got one within the next couple of days.

The next important one is to find the best doctor you could afford. I didn't have a lot of faith on my local oncologist, especially when he said that my cancer (nasopharyngeal carcinoma) is rare and had not much experience with it. I was able to get ahold of the chief surgeon at UCSF, purely by luck. Felt a lot better when he said that this type of cancer is pretty common for south-asian descent. He has dealt with it quite often due to a large concentration of asian in the bay area.

The treatment sucks, but small price to pay considering I can spend more time with my family.

I don't know about that. Some concepts are just genuinely hard to understand.

I remember watching Tao's video on the IOI (or math olympiad, I don't recall), and I couldn't understand anything he said :D

But maybe I'm just not his target audience :shrug:

I think it's going to be free: https://openai.com/index/openai-and-apple-announce-partnersh...

My son is in the top 20, I believe. He spends a lot of time on it, but I still look at him like a baby :)

And in some cases, you might not even be in a condition to give the smart-cards (eg. coma, stroke)

Just remind me of the story about a consultant that got paid a lot of money just to fix one line of code.

The cost is not on the component, but the knowledge to know which component to fix. That's not something that come cheap.

Because having a mass layoff is an easy way to reduce non productive people. Otherwise you have to go through a complicated process for each individual, with a higher risk to be sued.

Also speculative, but Google probably has a set of equipments that don't work well with others. When you play in the access and transport space, there usually a set of standard that you have to follow, in order for it to work together with others.

If Google owns the entire infrastructure, they can build their own equipments that are a lot simpler/cheaper to build, because they don't have to deal with all the standard-crap that other manufacturers have to deal with.

If they bought TWC, then they need to integrate all those devices, including all of the OSSes that are guarded by bureaucrats.

Why do you have two masters in the same AZ?

A bit of advise, you need to compare between capital gains vs stock loss. Most problems come when the stock is losing 40% of its value, and still keep it in order to avoid capital gains, ended up losing even more.

Why must you laugh? If it works, why not?

But I think the implication is a lot more than just being the second.

Once you're the second, you can't easily dictate anything anymore. Just like having multiple buyers, the seller has more options to sell the product.

Couldn't agree more.

I have two kids. I've spent a lot of money to make them healthier, smarter, and happier. I want nothing in return except to see them smile and growing to be a wonderful human being.

Believe it or not, I'm happy.

Depends on the employers. Lot more employers now are willing to switch away from BB. There were some reports few months ago that was showing how the BB market on corporate/enterprise was declining.

For me personally, I own both Droid and iPhone, and bought lots of apps as well, with my own money. There's no way I will do that on BB.

That's one thing.

The other problem he was also trying to cover was, how do you scale? When you are dealing with a big project, how can you tame the complexity of dealing with so many people?

CMIIW, but is that the reason why Google acquired MetaWeb a few months ago? I'm expecting to see some improvement on that front.