- Your comment is fair; obviously I wrote a pretty flippant comment, but the message is largely useful for most people.
The fact is that (largely due to the incredible marketing of Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol brand in the US) way too many people think acetaminophen is "safe and effective" when it's actually both pretty unsafe and pretty ineffective. Most people just "pop a Tylenol" by default without realizing it's not much better than placebo.
Sure there are cases where people have unique risks and should avoid NSAIDs. But for the vast majority of the public, if they or their kid are dealing with a headache, fever, menstrual cramp, or other transient pain or fever, they should reach for ibuprofen (with a snack) over acetaminophen. It's not remotely a close call.
I'm frankly pleased that people are becoming more aware of this and I don't mind taking a couple correction comments for presenting the info in a superficial way.
- From wikipedia:
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- That's fair, but naproxen is OTC or prescription-only in many jurisdictions.
- Basically, the pharma industry's most successful marketing campaign ever. Here's an article from 1982:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/10/02/h...
- Yes, you need to take it with food, but it won't cause liver failure.
- I understand your point. Thanks for your thoughtful engagement.
- Sure - I understand these roofing, HVAC and landscaping expenses are associated to the common amenities? So if you spin out the clubhouse into a country club that members can opt to join, you can allocate the clubhouse an appropriate amount of cash. When you negotiate with the county to take over management of the grounds including the pond, you can negotiate to give them some of the reserve money for the future pond fixes.
I understand it wouldn't be easy to change all these management responsibilities, but in principle everything the HOA does can be devolved to either voluntary associations, or to public authorities (as happens in most of the rest of the world). Unlike a condo association, it's not a completely unimaginable shift what this lawmaker is proposing.
- I upvoted you despite entirely disagreeing with your premise. Yes - negotiate with the county to take over management of the playgrounds and lawn mowing. Yes - make the clubhouse and parking lots open, fee-based and voluntary, and controlled by a private corporation rather than an imposed, taxed service. Yes - return the excess money to the current homeowners, or use some of it to effectuate these conversions.
Honestly, the amount of money you have in reserve, plus the list of amenities you list, makes it sound like the HOA has been sitting on a spigot of endless cash for a very long time and finding nice-to-have things to justify the continued fees.
- The major problem I see in this group is that they have constructed a self-identity of being intelligent. This means that by being part of a Rationalist group, a person can claim to have insight into things that "the rest of the world doesn't understand."
Which, because (1) self-identifying as intelligent/insightful does not mean you are actually so; (2) you are following the "brain reprogramming" processes of some kind of comvincing leader; is a straight shot to NXIVM style apocalyptic cultism.
- > Fewer robots, more humans
Exactly the opposite of what they should be funding..
- https://sabotagestudio.com/ near Quebec City, they made the amazing 2D JRPG Sea of Stars https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Stars
Very excellent takeoff of Chrono Trigger or Lufia 2 type SNES games. Truly exceptional.
- Speaking personally as a JRPG fanatic, I've taken a look at the series a bunch of times on Steam, and there are so many obstacles to getting into it:
- where do I start? There's a dozen titles and no clear entry point
- supposedly the series' genre changed over time? So if you like it in one game it might be a different game in a sequel
- it looks weirdly unserious? Like much of the advertising focuses on doing bizarre side activities rather than any actual plot-driven message
- all this on top of having a very non-traditional environment for an RPG which already is a bit of a hurdle in messaging what the game will be like
It's just very unclear from the outside how to get started with this series, and what I'll get if I do pick one to try.
- I'm not sure you should generalize from your Toyota's reliability to Tesla. https://insideevs.com/news/731559/tesla-least-reliable-used-...
- Cryptocurrency is so exhausting. How do people handle working in a market so full of scams?
- This is a remarkable statement when Fellini and Kieślowski exist.
- It's because the investors still need the founders to run the business, usually.
- That's exactly the approach. Seen many deals where the (remaining) founders get a big slice of new vesting options or reverse vesting shares as part of a recap or semi-distressed round.
Nothing illegal about it when the company needs the money, just one investor can write the terms they want, and the founders are on board with the plan.
- With much love for my angel investors, angel investing is absolutely a mug's game.
If the company doesn't get off the ground (vast majority of investments) you lose all your money.
If the company does get off the ground, you are the lowest on the pref stack, and you have no ability to follow on to protect your position. You're not a contributing employee or meaningful future source of capital so your piece of the pie is just dead weight on the cap table. This means every single subsequent investor (and the founders, if they care more about money than their relationship with you) has an incentive to cram you down.
So net net the chances of success from passive angel investing are only slightly better than playing the lottery.
Best approach would be to make very few investments, where you're able to build a special relationship with the founder, and ideally get a board seat to defend your stake.
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Edit - to be clear, I don't think startups should be giving board seats to angel investors. It does happen in exceptional cases where the angel is uniquely valuable to the company, and those are the cases where the angel can defend themselves. But they are rare, which is why it's mainly a bad game to play.
- Benn has been one of my favorite electronic composers for almost 20 years. Probably my favorite track of his:
The Flashbulb - Parkways: https://youtu.be/C6pzg7I61FI
- "including weekends"
- This is a very mistaken impression, the SEC certainly is the regulator with jurisdiction over private share trades. The onus for reporting is just much higher for public companies.
As a high-profile example, the SEC sued Theranos, a private company with only accredited investors, for making misrepresentations to their investors. https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018-41
- PDFBox is the GOAT of backend pdf libraries. We've built incredible things with it, plus pdfjs on the front-end - full compliant e-signature, templated pdf generation, in-browser pdf editing. Looked deeply at alternatives but very happy with our choice. In particular using itext vs pdfbox feels like using WordPress vs Rails - try to build anything very serious and you will be happier you picked the more capable, lower-level library.
- I've been involved in the Canadian cleantech venture scene since 2011, and General Fusion has been a particular frustration of mine for that entire time. Their pitch to VCs is like a particularly fragrant pitcher plant:
* We are in the last phases of doing a big experiment
* After the experiment, which will demonstrate net-gain fusion, our valuation will soar to infinity as we instantly render the entire energy industry obsolete
* Therefore, even if you think our chances of success are less than 1%, you must surely take the bet and invest now.
Amazingly they have managed to run this racket successfully and repeatedly for nearly two decades without demonstrating any material success, and still getting nice puff pieces like this one from the tech press.
I encourage any reader to check out their Glassdoor profile, which has a bunch of amusing quotes from disillusioned engineers, like "Management would struggle to deliver a pizza, let alone a billion dollar fusion reactor"
[0] https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Employee-Review-General-Fus...
- This is Facebook's death spiral. People came to Facebook for their friends. Then FB inserted ragebait and ads in the pursuit of engagement metrics and monetization.
But then eventually Facebook is just a stream of ads and slop with no activity from friends.. And then you wonder why you're even there.
Twitter is clearly executing the same playbook.
- Gotta say Valve is as close to a benevolent monopoly as I can think of. Great to see this.
As a startup you don't have Google's money. You don't have Google's employer brand. You don't have Google's work environment.
in fact as a (hopefully) fast-growing startup the only thing you really have to offer is growth. So make it clear how you are going to help the candidate grow their career and experience faster at your startup than at the established company, and offer the best you can do on comp and work environment.
This doesn't mean fresh grads, but more like someone with a bit of experience who's ready to jump into a team lead or architectural lead role.