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It seems the population using the GLP1 drugs are predisposed to pancreatitis. Causes of pancreatitis include Diabetes, obesity, heavy alcohol use. The first cause is the on label use of GLP1 drugs. The second two are off label uses for the drug. Article doesn't seem to touch coloration of these health issues and the use of the drug.

I'm a manager but has single contributor responsibilities.

1. How do you interface with your team (and how frequently)? A. Daily, if not hourly. Via calls, chats and emails.

2. How do you interface with your manager (and how frequently)? A. Ad-hoc and scheduled 1:1, my manager is a C level (smallish company, ~$40 in net profits.)

3. Do you have some recurring meetings? What is their cadence? A. Yes, but this depends on the employee, high flyers I let them set the schedule. Folks that turn out to need more help, I set the schedule, anywhere from once a week to once a month.

4. How do you take care of documentation? A. I have a background in Technical Documentation... Probably drives my team nuts. But I focus on getting tribal knowledge in to Wikis at least, formal documentation as required by regulation or policy/standard.

5. How do you ensure that you have time to work on your sprint tasks while context switching? A. LOL... In seriousness I weight my story points heavier as what I am working on is usually obscure and/or steeped in regulation.

6. How do you ensure everyone is moving in the same/correct direction? A. Through 1:1 and daily stand-ups. Plus monitoring the board. Finally, communicating the overall goals and obligations of the group. If one of my team members says "I've heard this before" I respond with "Good, you'll here it at least one more time."

I took the more challenging direction with my leadership. I manage people balancing their expectations and mine. I'll give someone enough rope early on to see if they can manage themselves.

Parting thought, I work with and worked for many veterans. One thing I learned from them is find your NCO, lean on them and reward them. Consider yourself a newly minted butter bar (Lieutenant) and don't assume you know best. But use your experience to guide the ideal direction, avoiding pitfalls you know about.


What is a NCO?


Likely non-commissioned officer.

I think GP means to say find someone with the business context and experience you lack, who you can rely on as a 2IC (second in charge).


There's a lot of points in this thread about birth rates needing to rise for economic good. This is based on the false premise that the only stable thing for an economy is growth.

For what it matters, here are my reasons for not having children. And yes, I'm in a heterosexual relationship and it was possible for us to have children but chose not to. The world is fucked, I couldn't bring a life in to this world where we are killing ourselves and the planet. Where the day to day is to hope you make enough money to just survive. We humans are selfish and fearful creatures. It's a gross world we live in.

Someone will come along and say, who will take care of me when I'm old? When I get close to that point, I'll follow Hunter S. Thompson's lead.

Seriously, I watched my grand parents slowly decay over the course of 15 years, it was not life.

If our primary goals as humans was to learn, create, explore and preserve; I would probably have a big fucking family because I would want my children to share in that.

Rather, we deny, horde, kill and build walls.


> This is based on the false premise that the only stable thing for an economy is growth.

Are you sure it's false? I'd like to believe that we could just have the generation being born replace the generation that's dying. But when you're saving for retirement will the inflation adjusted price of your stocks go up?

There are a lot of interesting details to look at. For instance, housing: With population size fixed, once a country has built enough housing, you'd only build new houses if you're going to tear another one down. Maybe this results in better housing over the long run, and maybe it results in the construction industry diminishing.


"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Is the longest grammatically correct sentence in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...


That sentence isn't the longest valid English sentence, for example, this sentence is longer. In fact, as that Wikipedia article says, you can extend that sentence as well:

> Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos"; any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct.

Anyone who wants to go down that rabbit hole, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...


I never herd that before, thanks.


Not everyone is made for herding buffalo.


It's the longest grammatically correct sentence composed entirely of one repeating word.


I love that the article has a diagram with Buffalo from Rochester, NY too LOL


Wow, the privilege this missive screams is deafening. The writer comes so close to realizing their privilege but pulls away at the last moment.


Yeah, smart kids are out and rich kids who can afford to start non-profits and hire image specialists are in.


Well, of course he's still more privileged than others but he definitely makes a point.

While rich kids do get an edge with private tutoring and other support from their parents, well designed standardized tests allow intelligent + hard working candidates without many resources to get in.

If only CV and grades matter, the system is way more rigged in favor of the rich kids.


I think the issues of privilege are worth considering, but I think they’re not the only dimension worth thinking about.

Consider this hypothetical. You’ve got two equally wealthy kids who go to the same private school, take all the same classes, and take the same SAT prep class.

Kid 1 has a perfect GPA and a 90th percentile SAT score. Kid 2 has perfect SAT score and a 90th percentile GPA. If there’s only one spot, which kid should a college admissions office pick?


Also, it’s far cheaper for schools and the government to provide SAT tutoring to poorer students than say put them through 10 years of piano classes.

If private SAT tutoring is an edge for richer students it’s one that can more easily be minimized than really any other edge rich students may have.


I love this comment. Because it doesn't try to even explain the reasoning.


How so?


I wonder if there was someone in King Louie's court that had a similar statement.


The French Revolution was an evil thing. Its horrors exceeded anything that the ancien regime could even fathom doing. And in any case, the situation isn't comparable. The average poor American is overfed and lives a life of comfort that the rich of 200 years ago could only dream of.


Yet Henry Kissinger is still with us.


And Chomsky.


Not only photography, anything dropped shipped from a warehouse. For example, if I need a printer or laptop in a pinch B&H will get it to me pretty quick. Pretty much anything electronics wise they are great source.

Going back to photography, you totally trust B&H. You know the equipment has been treated well since it arrived from the factory. No chance of grey market stuff either.


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There's a well preserved one mounted on the M-21 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/lockheed-d-21b-drone

It seems the drone had been moved to that back lot at some point. The last time I was at Pima that drone was in a hanger with other unmanned aircraft.


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