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I don't think this is true, though enforcement is another thing and the standard is different than in securities markets. Prediction markets are regulated by the CFTC and the insider trading standard is “misappropriation of confidential information in breach of a pre-existing duty of trust and confidence to the source of the information” (vs any “material non-public information” for securities) https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/phamstateme...

Haven't you heard? Crime is legal

Also anti-trust, monopolies and insider trading are all legal.

The SEC won't do anything.


HIS crime is legal. Yours is still illegal unless you pay tribute, e.g. binance.

shorter syntax != higher level of abstraction


> Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of about $6.9 billion three months ago. Investors in the round included Blackrock and Neuberger Berman, as well as Samsung, Cisco, Altimeter and 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.


They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm…


That's the thing though -- no one made Jimmy Carter sell his farm[0].

But Jimmy Carter was an honorable human, and, well...there are fewer people fitting that description sitting behind the Resolute desk, today.

[0] He didn't sell it, he put it into a blind trust. He should have sold it. When he left office, the farm was $1MM in debt.


> Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western territories and the only general to be elected president since George Washington

Do they mean up to that point? Eisenhower was elected twice


Maybe awkwardly worded but that's implied by the phrasing "since"


So that's why I can't check in for my Alaska Airlines flight... https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transform...


"BREAKING: Alaska Airlines' website, app impacted amid Microsoft Azure outage"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJVkLP57yvM


Pretty much every single Microsoft domain I've tried to access loads for a looooong time before giving me some bare html. I wonder if someone can explain why that's happening.


I was wondering the same thing


I am unable to load this article...presumably for related reasons


> I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago

Ok, so subjective


any objective measure of "productivity" (when it comes to knowledge work) is, when you dig down into it enough, ultimately subjective.


"Not done" vs "Done" is as objective as it gets.


You obviously have never worked a company that spends time arguing about the "definition of done". It's one of the most subjective topics I know about.


Sounds like a company is not adequately defining what the deliverables are.

Task: Walk to the shops & buy some milk.

Deliverables: 1. Video of walking to the shops (including capturing the newspaper for that day at the local shop) 2. Reciept from local store for milk. 3. Physical bottle of Milk.


Cool, I went to the store and bought a 50ml bottle of probiotic coconut milk. Task done?


Yes.

milk (noun):

1. A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.

2. The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.

3. Any of various potable liquids resembling milk, such as coconut milk or soymilk.


In germany soymilk and the like can't be sold as milk. But coconut milk is okay. (I don't know if that's a german thing or a EU-thing.)


The last 3-4 comments in this sub-thread may well be peak HN


Only if you can tick off ALL of the deliverables that verify "done".


Sure, I took a video etc like in the deliverables. That means it’s successfully done?


Yes, it's done.

You get what you asked for, or you didn't sufficiently define it.


And when on the receiving end of the deliverables list, it's always a good idea to make sure they are actually deliverable.

There's nothing worse than a task where you can deliver one item and then have to rely on someone else to be able to deliver a second. Was once in a role where performance was judged on closing tasks; getting the burn-down chart to 0, and also having it nicely stepped. Was given a good tip to make sure each task had one deliverable and where possible—be completed independent of any other task.


Yes.

Why would you write down "Buy Milk", then go buy whatever thing you call milk, then come back home and be confused about it?

Only an imbecile would get stuck in such a thing.


Well, I think in this example someone else wrote down “buy milk”. Of course I would generally know what that’s likely to mean, and not buy the ridiculous thing. But someone from a culture that’s not used to using milk could easily get confused and buy the wrong thing, to further the example. I guess my point was that it’s never possible to completely unambiguously define when a task is done without assuming some amount of shared knowledge with the person completing the task that lets them figure out what you meant and fill in any gaps


It removes ambiguity. Everyone knows when work is truly considered done, avoiding rework, surprises, and finger-pointing down the line.


At work we call this scope creep.


on an iPhone?


The blog post also talks about MacOS at the end.


Linux isn’t on option on recent Mac hardware either.


asahi linux is still a thing as far as I know, give it a shot


Asahi only supports M1 and M2 at present. Having lost their main contributors, I’m not expecting that to change either.


Technically that’s what Android is.


I recently had similar experience where a legitimate text from my insurance company was 100% indistinguishable from a scam text, directing me to a link on allstate.yem.bo. You would think it would be in an insurance company's interest not to train their users to click on scam links but what do I know.


Why would it be against their interest? Do they lose money somehow?


Well more people falling for scams might increase insurance claims some now


I find the claim (repeated verbatim in some of the comments here) that people with ADHD process stimulants differently particularly specious. Are there any medical studies/not-reddit threads that suggest anything like this?


Essentially the idea is that there is an "optimal" amount of alertness (inverted U curve). People with ADHD start below the optimal point, and stimulants move them up towards the optimal point. People without ADHD are typically closer to the optimal point, and stimulants move them past it.

Someone with ADHD taking a large dose will therefore feel the same as someone without ADHD taking a small(er) dose.

Methylphenidate improves sleep in people with ADHD: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2276739/

> Compared to [non-adhd] controls untreated [adhd] patients showed increased nocturnal activity, reduced sleep efficiency, more nocturnal awakenings and reduced percentage of REM sleep. Treatment [of those with adhd] with methylphenidate resulted in increased sleep efficiency as well as a subjective feeling of improved restorative value of sleep.

I can't find a corresponding paper studying the effect of stimulants on sleep in healthy adults. I would assume it hasn't been studied because it's common knowledge and it's not worth the risk of making healthy people take stimulants. I also don't think that's the part you were disputing.


It’s called the ‘paradoxical calming effect’. Here is a nature article on it [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07029-2].

Here is more detailed data [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45708101_Role_of_Ab...].

It doesn’t happen to everyone with ADHD, but the majority.

The effect itself was prominent/notable as early as WW1, as the drugs were widely used by all parties to help fight fatigue and drowsiness. However, a small percentage of the population would end up with the opposite effect - ending up tired, even sleepy, and often calmer instead of more alert.

It took awhile however, before wider implications of sub-population differences in drug effects like this were studied or applied.


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