What about giving cancer to others by secondary smoke inhalation, what about tongue cancer and mouth cancer and gum disease and cardio-vascular problems and breathing difficulties and eventual COPD and all the negatives of smoking that aren’t lung cancer?
I can't tell if you're joking or not but that's an interesting approach for sure. I'm surprised gene screening was accurate enough to do that 20-40 years ago?
LOL. I think he was an idiot, in that regards. Similarities to Steve Jobs, who resorted to quackery with his cancer. People can be geniuses and dumbasses at the same time.
I don't see the quackery, man liked smoking so he kept smoking. I think you're assuming some stronger claim about smoking or genetics which nobody has made.
Reminds me of an advanced version of the old Dropbox where you could quickly host static sits from the finder.
Was the best thing about Dropbox.
Of course they killed it.
Their product teams really dont know what they are doing. I dont think ive seen company that was trying to do so many thing over the years just failing with everything.
I dont even mean Dropbox Paper - thats actualy useful (acquired company).
* Paper documents after years of trying are still separate service and wont show up in you dropbox. Only new accounts have this.
* At some point they started to be universal API/backend for third party apps. Something they years later started to kill off.
* Vault their e2e part of dropbox got suddenly killed (was probably gimmick anyway but you were 100% that these files wont get accidentaly shared).
* They have half baked password manager that probably nobody uses because they might kill it on a whim.
* Bloated but somewhat ok screencapture tool that creates normal videos which is limited by recording 120 minutes at time. So you are already paying them but get this lol limit. You either have to delete old videos or pay more. Actually you can move the video to your dropbox but dropbox still counts it in their limit because the file has some metadata (which you can probably delete).
* The last nail is they started to play ball with Apple moving their client to some Apple API loosing bunch of features (including stuff like not being able to sync/backup projects from Final Cut) https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected...
If their product/management knew anything about their product they would make the invisible features and be the “pro” solution. Instead they compete with google drive on bloatedness.
I think it's largely that they discovered the real money is in B2B. And once you go down that route, all you care about is checking feature-boxes, not whether anyone actually uses it willingly.
Pretty much every company that does that starts hemorrhaging users at some point. And there's not really any going back either, because they definitely won't shut down features to improve the core.
Dan do you ever talk about retro fitting old houses at your monthly talks.
It would wonderful to learn what can be done to existing (my home is 1880’s) buildings to improve their performance.
Not exactly the same, but my city is retrofitting a lot of Soviet-era apartment blocks to bring them up to modern standards. They are made out of concrete with no insulation and were built when (natural) gas was basically free.
The bulk of the work is wrapping the building in 25cm of rigid foam exterior insulation, replacing windows and making sure that they are fairly air tight. They aren't adding mechanical ventilation, as installation would cause too much disruption to residents who are living there. Heating systems are being upgraded to newer units if they are old and inefficient (still powered by gas or district heating, no heat pumps).
The main issue with older buildings is often you want to maintain the 'character' so wrapping the building in external insulation and replacing the facade isn't always an option. However if you have a building made of masonry this is the best way to insulate it, as the masonry then acts as a thermal mass to keep temperatures inside more stable (in both hot and cold weather). These apartment blocks were ugly concrete that nobody wants to ever see again though, so it's not an issue here :-)
>The bulk of the work is wrapping the building in 25cm of rigid foam exterior insulation, replacing windows and making sure that they are fairly air tight. They aren't adding mechanical ventilation, as installation would cause too much disruption to residents who are living there.
Hmmm, like the worst possible idea (air tight + not adequate ventilation), the early (10-15 years ago) "Class A" or "Class B" new buldings made here without appropriate ventilation have given lots of problems (humidity/mould).
The only possible remedy being daily manual ventilation, i.e. open windows for 10/15 minutes every single day (but many people won't or cannot do it).
I mean if I were a cartel with a lot of money, I would absolutely start a legit shipping company as both a front and also a way to smuggle. Not saying MSC are that, but I feel like if cartels can buy off senior politicians and police chiefs, some civilians can't be too difficult.
Ah, drug criminalisation. What a great problem we've created.
I’ll never forget seeing an email from McKinsey outlining cuts to Gov. spending on aboriginal health with you guessed it in the email footer, “We pay respects to the Eora people……”
