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I have noticed this too. I really hope that it is some kind of bias on my end and not the phone listening to serve ads. When trying to bait the phone it does not work though. Ie. having a fake conversation and then reviewing the subsequent ads.

I have found people typically have a certain way of paying. Some companies pay late on principal, some pay early on principal, some pay late due to dysfunction or cash problems, some pay on time on principal. Over time I think you learn to set prices accordingly, offer small discounts for timely payment, and big discounts for prepayment.

No. Mine were mostly cognitive. I mean, when I was a kid I had no tooth enamel (had to have surgery to install fake teeth) and puked up everything I ate that had wheat in it, but somehow no one diagnosed it until later. I just assumed it was normal but my symptoms were migraines, anxiety, stomach bloating, joint pain, hair loss, stunted growth, constant fatigue, sleep apnea, nutrient deficiencies, malabsorption. It took about a year to feel better. It used to be cross contamination would mean 3 days of pain, gluten 7 days. Now cross contamination is a worthy trade off for occasional meal out, and gluten is 2-3 days in small amounts. I shudder to consider eating a full bun or something but I haven't tried in years. I know within 10 minutes because the skin inside my mouth peels off. So I kind of have systems for managing it. I have a normal job and would say it has not really hindered me outside of eating a very strict diet. Having support from my partner also helps a great deal. It's good you caught it early.

I have Celiac. Unfortunately immunotherapy is not currently done in a way that would make much of a difference for us. Celiac is typically an autoimmune response to Gliadin protein as a result of human leukocyte activation genes HLA-DQ2.2/2.5 or HLA-DQ8. In either case, it is happening at the cellular level for every cell that comes into contact with the protein. The intestines are hard hit mostly because they spend the longest time with exposure. I found for the first year or so I simply could not eat anything made by a restaurant or friend because of cross contamination. My resilience went up over time though, it takes a few years for inflammatory activation to come back down to a subclinical level even if the gut repairs in 3-6 months. Gut bacteria change in response to all the immune activity, but damping the immune response would not necessarily fix the issue of the protein destroying the cells it comes into contact with. The immune response is therefore not entirely autoimmune in nature but necessary to protect the cells. The vili are being destroyed directly, essentially. You could develop a drug that would dampen the immune response (I think a few others posted links) but you could not realistically get to a point where you can eat gluten. The antigen will always destroy your cells, autoimmune response or not. Sensitivity depends on how many (one or two) of the HLA genes you have that react with gluten. I have one out of two so my reactions are less severe (only 2-3 days with symptoms). If you have both Celiac HLA genes, it will always and consistently harm you.

All school is private. Sometimes you pay tuition, which seems better for accountability, and sometimes you pay more for housing. That people send their kids to school is unfortunate. It seems like if you took the daycare out of it, school would not be structured the way that it is at all. It is a source of daycare for children first, and an attempt at productively using that time second.

I thought they didn't even need to own the land to build tunnels as long as they do it at the right depth?

I had a startup that made software for meat processing companies. It is pretty horrifying being in meat plants but most people are not yet at the point where they can accept not eating it. In my experience I feel better eating occasional offal and grass-fed meat than I do regularly eating meat of any other variety or eliminating it entirely. It is one thing to claim moral high ground and simply avoid eating meat, and we can absolutely do away with it on a taste basis based on what is coming out of vegan restaurants these days, but the cultural shift will take a long time and "good enough" is clearly a higher bar than tofu. I suspect it is somewhat like electric cars. A more political issue than we like to admit and something where assuming the products were comparable in price/taste/texture/experience people might opt for the socially concious choice, that threshold simple isn't there for the majority of people yet. A worthy pursuit but one that is not necessarily limited to startups. Big Food and one off restaurants are pursuing these ideas more fundamentally than anyone else is right now and I suspect that they will be the eventual winners of the race to good enough. The meat industry is fundamentally antiquated the way it is setup now and will simply shrink down to as demand wanes, or more likely just switch to exporting.

I think he thinks differently and on a philosophical level that few in business admit to publicly. I respect the conviction and thinking different and integrity regardless of the content.

If you feel guilty enjoying the product of your work, you were probably doing pointless zero-sum work that did not need to be done. It is fine to say you want other people to be economically empowered, but the amount of guilt flying around here is incredible. Why not apply the constraint of only doing things that actually benefit other real humans at the start of your career, and feel good when you end up being successful at whatever constrained but moral venture you undertake. Feeling guilty about it accomplishes nothing. We made the collective bargain to build a technological society, we cannot go back now. Fix the real problems and it won't feel dirty.

Brave New World not 1984.

Prior to having read what was written, or seen the company fire him, people generally towed the line of "pro-diversity". Once it was publicly available, and after he was fired as a direct result of it, people took a step back and thought about it. We have more information now, so the tone now is more likely to be accurate.

It is interesting how aggressively people cite science to back their politics (on both "sides"). IQ distribution by gender is inconclusive. There is structurally valid and statistically significant science backing a higher beta normal distribution for male IQ than female IQ. There are similar studies attempting and failing to reproduce this. I think this is an issue like whether caffiene is healthy (or does it cause cancer? both?). Confounding is strong here (men do more school? are smarter? hormones? DNA? patriarchy? all of them?). I support this because it challenges the irrational tone on diversity of genetics. Why is that better? Isn't diversity of thought better? Are our thoughts simply a product of our skin colour and gender? What does that say about free will or moral development? About progress itself? Don't discriminate, don't hire based on gender or skin colour, do understand the science, don't take anything considered progress at face value, do question everything, don't allow people to bully you for your opinion, do assume that people will judge your actions instead of your intentions, do risk being fired for what you believe, don't be surprised when you get fired.

We met at 10 years old and are getting married at 24. When we really started dating three years ago, about a month in we did a spreadsheet of ~270 questions about how we wanted to live. We blindly answered so as to not concede or compromise in our answers. VLOOKUP and merge answers. 90% of them are basically identical. The remaining 10% are completely predictive of current and perhaps future points of disagreement and contention. All around it worked infinitely better than prior relationships. We assumed since we had been friends for so long that we could just build the love part. The byproduct of that has been growth mindset around resolving issues and making decisions that makes us extremely effective at helping each other achieve our goals and get our needs met by the relationship. I think a good litmus test for a relationship is how safe you feel talking about long term issues and resolving points of contention. If it just seems normal, invest there. If it is extremely hard to raise those issues, don't.

The platform building that functionality themselves. Vertical integration in the customer-facing direction. 90% of my apps are Google-made now.

A barge in international waters where I would harvest organs from willing donors in third-world countries paid for in cash and sell them to rich alcoholics and whoever else wanted them.

One philosophical question I have been wondering recently is whether this problem could not be addressed by removing "real life" identity from the equation.

I don't think personalized ads would be nearly as obnoxious if I knew that the ad matches my browsing history but has nothing to do what name shows up on my passport.

Most of what people seem to take issue with is their personal identity in addition to the tracking.

The tracking for the purposes of relevant ads would be identical from the perspective of the advertiser (efficient/profitable) but much more private for the user.

"For models, Musk could look to Google co-founders Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, who have moved in and out of daily management at Google." Submarine promotion announcement for Eric Schmidt to co-founder of Google.

Good article. Musk seems less structured than Bezos and his "regret minimization framework". He will leave when it makes sense to and is boring. Success is boring.

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Musk and Bezos are clearly smarter than Zuck and Dorsey.

In theory, one might think this just makes you hardcore and productive. In practice, it always seems to be people who are (merely) equally or a little less productive than people who don't work all the time. But the optics is so convicing before you join and early on. As time goes on, you see the truth. I think everyone has this experience at least once.

The good part about anti-kid people is they leave the gene pool.

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Does this affect customers? Alcohol somewhat, swearing in office but not with customers no. Therefore, no swearing is a stupid policy to change, limited cultural benefit high cognitive tax. Alcohol in the office has really harmed one company I worked at, and no one missed the omission when it is not there. I understand when you are a two person team and your kitchen fridge has beers, but a giant company pretending to be that instead of people just getting alcohol when out makes no sense. Just go to a bar and pay for it yourself.

This is what I did. It worked well (for me). I would recommend it to someone like me. If you are smart and hard working, University or no University you will eventually be reasonably successful in the right circumstances. If you want to do something abstract, like invent or do business, it probably makes more sense to skip University. If you want to do something more professional or conventional, like engineering or medicine, you probably have to do University. For the most part, the implicated disparity is actually priced into jobs. Part of doctors income implicates paying off tons of debt and opportunity cost. Likewise, through compounding, hard work and networking, you can end up with the same net worth by other means. The key is to approach it in a self aware way. People rarely make any decisions on a purely rational basis, why start with University? University is easily reversible. Spend less time worrying about what major you take or college you attend. Spend more time worrying about being self aware, choosing a life partner and taking care of your physical and mental health.

Could have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling learned machines.

Options != Assets. Don't do it.

2016 Ford Taurus SHO has an Ecoboost 2.5L engine with twin turbo and I chipped it and added high performance intake/exhaust. ~550hp, 25 mpg. My beater from 98 was worse on mileage at 150hp. Strange.