You're right. Y Combinator doesn't deserve a shred of the respect they garner. I don't know why I thought I could trust one of their portfolio companies. I assumed they did due diligence and had customers/users in mind when selecting companies to invest in.
I feel bad for the users that were left holding the bag. I put a good amount of money in the YC backed StableGains (Terra) just to watch it evaporate overnight. The investors and founders should feel deeply ashamed for selling these platforms as legitimate savings accounts. The fact that these platforms were backed and promoted by well know VCs/incubators, such as Y Combinator, is utterly appalling.
Aside from appointing governors, what power does the president have over the federal reserve board? The president can direct/order the FCC to pursue a course of action, but as far as I'm aware, the president doesn't have executive authority over the fed's monetary policy.
The Federal Reserve, which is almost completely independent from the federal government, is the biggest player in regards to controlling inflation. In reality, POTUS doesn't have effective levers for controlling general inflation. However, I agree that their messaging has been absolutely horrible. They could at least create the appearance of doing something about it instead of just dismissing it as the Putin price hike.
Yea, I agree. I wish there was some kind of organization that would seek FDA approval for racemic ketamine treatment of depression. It's cheap, and widely available. Unfortunately, without the incentive for a patentable product, it's unlikely to ever happen.
FYI: Johnson & Johnson patented the S(+) enantiomer of ketamine and sells it as a nasal spray called Spavato. It's been FDA approved for depression since 2019. Although Spravato costs more on paper than regular ketamine, it's often less expensive for patients since it is covered by insurance (regular ketamine treatments are considered an off-label use and are usually not covered).
The title is somewhat misleading. A groundstop is far less dramatic than "grounding" all flights (including ones already en-route). Grounding all flights would be akin to what the FAA ordered during the 9/11 attacks.
I feel like I can relate very well to your situation. I dropped out of school in Canada when I was 20 to move to San Francisco and start making iPhone apps. I was also addressing my sexuality for the first time. I remember feeling like I showed up to a party I wasn't invited to. I had a pretty tumultuous upbringing filled with abuse and impoverishment. When I moved to SF, everyone I talked to seem to be a straight white dude with a degree from Berkley, Stanford, MIT, or somewhere else along those lines. I fell into a very deep hole of depression and had zero friends for a while. To this day I still feel like an outsider if I let myself.
A lot of my depression was the result of my own learned cognitive behaviors from growing up. Going into therapy and starting antidepressants helped a bit. Things really started to change when I got into Zen meditation and started to become aware of my own thought processes and preconceptions. At the end of the day, you can convince yourself of anything if you want to. We spend a good deal of our time telling ourselves the same stories over and over again to build up our ego identity. I can feel like a total outsider if I fixate on the past and what separates me. I can also feel perfectly content and at home if I let that go and focus on what's happening now and what I can do now. If you didn't belong where you are, you probably wouldn't be there.
I highly recommend building an awareness of your thoughts and pausing when you catch yourself reinforcing your perception of being an outsider. The more you fixate on being an outsider; the more you'll feel like an outsider; the more you'll act like an outsider; the more people will address you like an outsider.
This is an analogy for mindlessness versus mindfulness. It's also been well understood, for over 2,500 years, that mindless activities only lead to suffering. Even though they deliver immediate satisfaction. Mindful activities on the other hand lead to happiness.
Not that this isn't nifty, but hasn't drag and drop been a standard UX fixture since 1984? The fact that drag and drop is a standout feature adds fodder to the argument that the web is an immature platform who's functionality doesn't parallel that of native applications.
As a fellow Zen practitioner, I was delighted to see that this post is actually about applying Zen principles to programming and not just a post that uses the word "Zen" in the postmodern simulacra sense.
I personally have found Zazen to be very beneficial to my work (as well as every other facet of my life). If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, I imagine many readers of this site are, the San Francisco Zen Center has an Introduction to Zazen offering every Saturday morning at 8:30 for people completely new to Zen. I would highly recommend it. You can learn more about it here: http://www.sfzc.org/cc/display.asp?catid=2,6,206