I mean sure, but in a practical sense the company becoming the only seller of gasoline happened through anti-competitive behavior and not just because they have a superior gasoline product. I think that two app stores controlling 100% of distribution and setting their rates similarly feels pretty anti-competitive.
I think mileage varies man. You get a good probation officer and can basically do as you please. You get a crappy one and they show up randomly everywhere. It also depends on if you are pushing the rules. If your probation officer doesn't trust you it's going to be a bad time
I'll get a remote job and eat poptarts delivered by amazon. I won't leave the damn house unless the PO says I have to. He can show up and watch me program anytime he likes.
As someone who has consistently worked out 3 to 4 time a week for many years I believe and of course have heard many people speak to all the positive effects of exercise. I think what's interesting after doing it for so long and it being a normal part of my life that it doesn't really have the same benefits it once did.
I think there is something to doing unique things and it taking you out of your comfort zone. For instance in this case I could see hot yoga being vastly different than my typical workouts and that having a positive impact on my moods more so than my typical workout. I think it might be something that would be interesting to study, because while having better cardio and the endorphins that are generated from a good workout do make you feel better I have to imagine just as important for better moods is the fact that you are improving yourself in a way that takes you out of what might be a routine that you associate with depression or negative moods, which I think we all cycle through at points in our lives. Shaking things up seems to be important I guess is what I'm saying.
From my experience effects are longer lasting than 4 weeks, you'd have to stop for 1 to 3 years, you'd still be at better baseline if you haven't done it at all but you'll be able to notice it at mental level. Of course smoking, not moving at all covid style, drinking, overeating and trashing your sleeping pattern will all help with depression if you want to achieve it faster.
no way thats true, especially for strength training. it takes about 2 weeks of not training to feel like a packet of jelly. at least if you're like me and sit on the computer most of the day
100%. Strength training is one of those things I've come to think of as body maintenance more than actually an athletic performance thing. Believe it to be equally if not more important than cardio
I found playing team sports competitively does more for me mentally than solo exercise. I realized this while in uni/college, playing intramural sports which were competitive but we weren't stupid competitive. I always felt great afterwards, even when we lost. I didn't get the same effect from jogging/lifting on my own.
Probably also thanks to the social interactions with your teammates. You socialise more, chat more, laugh more and all that makes our ape brain happier ig
I lived with half of my teammates at the time, so I don't think it's as simple as saying it's due to the social interaction. When it's competitive the entire focus is on winning. Sure you have some chuckles in the down time, but there's also plenty of irritation/frustration mixed in. We gave it our all and let each other know when we screwed up and our opinions on how we needed to fix it.
I worked for a start-up that was struggling for money. The CEO had a bunch of relationships with small carriers in the US. One day he asked me to create a program that rooted a specific type of flagship Android phone and to update the carrier information to his choosing. At first, since we were a testing startup that had some government contracts, I thought this was for testing purposes since we had cell test equipment. I realized not too long after it was to basically enable small US carriers to sell flagship phones that were meant for different regions... Let's just say that was the final nail in the coffin for me at that specific startup.
>Let's just say that was the final nail in the coffin for me at that specific startup.
I don't understand what you had an issue with here? Legally it's completely in the clear (see first sale doctrine) and morally I'm not sure how it's any different than, say, the startups making IBM compatibles back in the 80's.
Not the person you’re replying to, but I would have a problem working somewhere that had a business model of signing contracts they had no intent of honoring. Ethics aside, I’d have serious doubts about how they would handle any stock grants or other obligations to me.
> One day he asked me to create a program that rooted a specific type of flagship Android phone and to update the carrier information to his choosing.
Are you referring to the baked in default APN's for different MCC/MNC combinations? Yeah those were/are quite annoying to have around if they were out of date. (I think there might be auto-update of these now, but that obviously requires a network connection)
Or are you referring to actual radio config partitions on the flash? (Where one was able in the past on many models, flip bits in order to activate different cell bands)
The former being janky and security risk, the latter being somewhat illegal.
This is from about 10 years ago. So the carrier apis were a little different then, but the answer is both were necessary to update depending on the test or in this case carrier.
The manufacturers have contractual agreements with certain carriers in specific regions and get reduced rates because of the purchase power of those markets. It's not ethical in my opinion especially if you want to have a lasting relationship with said manufactures, which we did, to purchase large amounts of those phones and then sell them to US carriers by changing carrier configuration. At the time we were receiving pre released flagship phones to test with. I see people arguing that it's a supply and demand problem and there is nothing wrong with it, but the reality is more like there is demand there, but at the time carries say in South America could make a quick Million USD off just dumping the phones to the US which leaves the people of that region unable to purchase flagship phones at reduced rates. I'm not sure if the economics are the same now, but that was my understanding at the time and I felt like it wasn't and ethical path forward.
Have you been to South America? Flagship phones don’t cost less here.
Paraguay is about 20% more, Argentina 100 to 200%, and Brazil 30 to 40% more.
Anything that is high end costs much more here due to a combination of tarrifs, reduced volume and the people who are wealthy not caring.
Read up on Ciduad Del Este, it’s basically the electronics hub for the southern cone where electronics are smuggled into Brazil and Argentina. Beef and eggs from Argentina get smuggled into Brazil and PY.
Anything that you were doing pales in comparison to what everyone here is doing.
Thanks for sharing I'm definitely going to read into it a bit, and I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about South American economics nor have I spent a lot of time there.I definitely haven't bought anything expensive there. As I said in a previous comments this was sometime ago, but I would say that if a bunch of carriers were selling their allotment of phones to US markets it could lead to the scenarios that you are depicting. If it's easier to offload to the US market expensive phones than reasonably there would have to be a big incentive to keep them in market which would inflate costs to be higher than US markets. I can't speak to the tariff issues though that could hurt my argument. It may be a lesser evil at the end of the day who is it for me to say. I just didn't feel right about it.
I think you are looking at this from the consumer side, and I completely agree with you. Consumers are probably none the wiser on the original intended region of their phone and should not be penalized.
I'm talking from a corporation/carrier side that let this happen to consumers. If you sign to terms of a contract that gives you special access to phones to sell in your region and then you just go and break that contract that doesn't seem right to me. To be clear I don't think downstream consumers did something wrong.
From my understanding they don't dogfood a lot of gcp products internally. That's how you end up with janky integrations between their products. It's really frustrating at times to see their cloud architects pitch some grouping of technologies that you should use to find out the integrations aren't well tested at scale. For example, pushing for pubsub to be used with dataflow for near real time processing just to figure out at scale global pubsub has high latency, above 1 minute sometimes 5 minutes, on 1% of messages at scale.
I feel like the Wall Street Journal has been pretty balanced on the FTC's case in regards to the MSFT/ATVI acquisition. They have noted Lina Kahn's strategy and how it is meant to hopefully bring attention to Congress of issues that are arising that the FTC doesn't really have legal grounds to stand on at the moment. They also have had some oped and reporting about how the FTC is being disruptive and over extending. It will be interesting to see what side of history Kahn's FTC lands. I guess you take what you want when you read reporting these days though.
Personally, I like her. It has been very long since someone from the government has shown some fight. One who is not afraid to lose. Some lawyers like to boast about not losing a single case in their career. There is something fake about that. Somehow you have found a way to game the system.
Vertical Integrations are bad and turn out to be bad in the long run. The Robinson Patman_Act was especially created to stop vertical integrations.
Consumer prices may go down. But what about quality. More Redfalls for you.
Today, people generally want corporate power to be checked. The judiciary has not got the memo yet. At the very least, someone is forcing them to think about it.
I'm actually impressed that this OS patch strategy didn't cause more outages over the years. It seems like there was no health check before starting more restarts. I'm also surprised that no one seems to have tested the patch because I would assume something similar would happen in a testing or canary environment.
It was surprising to me, but my kids like going into retro toy stores and getting things more than getting newer stuff. Some things can be more expensive but generally these places have a bunch of cheap used toys that come from franchises and brands my kids understand and like. For instance, transformers, star wars, power rangers, and ninja turtles.
Anecdotally, everytime someone tells me Kubernetes is overkill and then follows your approach. In a year they end up building the capabilities that come out of the box with Kubernetes, and of course they aren't as well thought out. Because they were done adhoc and as needed.
Why is that bad? If the business survived for long enough to have that problem, that's a win, not a failure. Being killed or at least hobbled by unnecessary complexity, on the other hand, is a thing in way more businesses than we like to admit.
Yep, you can grow to be a huge company with just autoscaling groups and some terraform.
Absolutely painfully boring stack. I’m working at a place now with that stack and we haven’t had a single page in over a year now and we do 5 deploys a day ish.
