Time and motion studies can be incredibly effective. My company once wanted to automate some processes and sent me down there to watch the workers and identify the processes we could automate. Talking with the workers and filming a few of them gave me all the information to save well over $1M per year just by making the current process more efficient. Literally cost some people's time to do the analysis, change some documentation and validate the improvements. Even the workers were happy because they had less waiting around for things to happen and were part of the process.
Agreed, you look at how places in Asia treat the importance of education compared to how North America does and it isn't a surprise how we are falling behind all over the place. Not to say there aren't plenty of issues with how their education systems work, but with the status quo we are essentially throwing away any advantage we have over the East.
Obsidian files are just Markdown, so there is plenty of software out there today that can parse them. The only thing you might miss is plugins that don't exist outisd of obsidian.
Nah their laptops are shit too. We are forced to use them for work and they have sharp uncomfortable edges everywhere, randomly have the fans on maximum (even when in sleep) and sound like a jet plane taking off.
I clean the earwax off/out of them when I see it or the sound is affected (I wear deep insertion IEMs with tri-flange silicone tips), but otherwise just replace the tips when they wear out a couple times a year.
Yup, this degradation is all well understood. The only value I see is studying how a large portion of people use their devices to identify what the expected life actually is with the abuse they put their devices through.
PebbleOS was open sourced and now the original founder who hasn't worked for alphabet for ages wants to build a new device using the now open sourced OS. No way Google can drop support and they have essentially given the code away because they aren't using it anymore.
Getting paid in stocks doesn't affect how much income you report though. Shares are taxed as income as soon as they vest, and options are considered income when you exercise them at the difference between fair market value and the strike price.
It is only additional capital gains after that point that are taxed at the reduced rate because it is the same starting point as if you bought the shares on the open market.
Uber's support is an actual nightmare to deal with. I had an issue where they charged me significantly more for an order than the website said. Their support just wouldn't do anything except go through their script and tell me I'm shit out of luck. They only had someone do something when I complained at them on Twitter.
I'd probably just say something non-pressuring but supportive like "I know with everything that is going on recently that things may be challenging for you right now. If you need anything please don't hesitate to reach out to me and I'll support you in any way I can."
Yeah this is pretty much what I'm doing. My subscriptions are pretty much spaces about my interests that post positive content, and even then I filter out keywords for the bullshit that leaks in. Trying to spend more time reading books and unplugging from the internet. It still feels so hard to avoid the depressing bullshit though.
Hard to make a good recommendation right now. Prusa really didn't impress with the core one because they are still using their old bed size (z height isn't important at all for me) and the MMU just isn't as good as the AMS. Creality still has OQC issues that enough people encounter even on their high end printers.
There aren't really even sls printers in that price point yet despite there being somewhat cheaper ($20kish) options for awhile. I wouldn't expect anything for at least 5-10 years.
You don't become a billionaire by pure luck though, you need to seek out situations that could make you rich and then you need to get incredibly lucky (unless you are born into money of course).
Being the type of person that seeks out becoming that rich is going to have to do it at the expense of others.
Ideally we can use this strategy to our benefit, tell the North American automakers that there needs to be x readily available models of electric cars with minimum specs at a certain price by a specific date or they will open up the market to China who will eat their lunch.
Floorp is what I use and it is pretty decent.