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Key paragraph (from the original FT article): > The issue has arisen from idle cash sitting in customer accounts at brokerage firms and large banks, which “sweep” otherwise uninves…

My understanding is that most[1] other satellite devices use a centralized dispatch center who have experience with backcountry emergencies. Speculating obviously, but that article…

The ban was postponed, as I understand it, as they work through ways to catch people cheating by still using the substances. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation…

I’m not sure where you’re starting from, but this seems like a reasonable progression to start with: (1) A video about how the immune system works: https://youtu.be/fSEFXl2XQpc (2)…

If this caused anyone to be interested in what happens to snowflakes after they fall on the ground, The Snow Grain Photo Library[1] has a library of photos of snow in various state…

I think you may have just re-discovered Disruptive Innovation (sometimes also called Disruption Theory): incumbents over-serve their customers by adding lots of features, complexit…

The author doesn’t spend much time on _why_ re-orgs “almost always make some people unhappy, cause employee departures, and stifle productivity,” but I’d claim it’s organizational …

These (fairly specialized) ski boots have a boa lace system as part of their closure system, which uses a central dial to tighten a continuous metal lace. It's not automated, but i…

That does not match my experience (but n=1 and all). In my case, the result of the sleep study where I didn't really sleep was, "hmm ... it looks like you might have insomnia." (No…

The New York Times has a fairly detailed rent-vs-buy calculator that makes it easy to see the effects of changing some of the variables the author talks about in the article. https…

// I'm making the assumption here that you're _relatively_ new to strength sports. If I've misjudged that, sorry! > My callouses are starting to become a bother and my hands are pr…

Indeed. For further clarity: The retina is the thin layer of cells at the back of your eye that pick up light. The iris is the colorful ring on the front of your eye. A retina scan…

I do the same thing - I make an email alias for nearly every organization that I do business with. It was surprisingly easy to set up with GSuite. This has the side benefit of maki…

Generally, agents in legacy airline lounges (e.g. a United Club, Admirals Clubs, etc.) are willing to do things like this. Anecdotally, I've noticed that they tend to be more senio…

You can roll your own VPN on a cloud provider. Still not perfect, but I'd argue Azure, AWS, and the like are less likely to try to inspect/monetize traffic than a consumer ISP.

The private labeling strategy is also getting to be a thing in the travel hacking crowd too. See, for example, http://www.frugalhack.me/2017/02/23/private-labeling-101-int...

I use my iPad pro about as frequently as I use my Macbook Pro now. As I've gotten further away from R&D and into business development and then a management-like role, most of my ti…

> You're not going to be in the $1B space selling services There are lots and lots of companies in the government and huge enterprise services space that have more than a billion i…

I made a quick little zsh alias for the wifi commands: wifi () { local opt=$1 case "$opt" in (on) networksetup -setairportpower en0 on ;; (off) networksetup -setairportpower en0 of…

>> For whatever reason this seems to get motorists to drive more slowly and makes it safer for everyone. That's actually a known phenomenon. When drivers experience unusual situati…