For the author: Getting all that money without the life experience to build some values or ambitions for your impact on the world is proof enough that your fortune is just random luck. There are millions who have put more thought into life and had no financial reward for it. Give it to them, or get a life for yourself. Then you'll know what to do.
As a European I am very aware of that. But like I said about dollar amounts, the extra you can earn in the US made the move worth it for me personally.
I suspect many/most of the people in the highly paid areas of the tech sector in the US would not actually jump for 2-3 weeks of unpaid leave per year (without other consequences--which I realize is an issue if you're a small minority that takes the offer).
Personally, I always have taken my max time off and even taken unpaid leave for shutdown when that was an option but I realize that's probably not the majority.
Out of interest, how did you see that coming? The discussions I remember here on HN were full of people wondering why, and being generally blindsided by the news...
I didn't see the writing on the wall for them shutting it down, rather that I could not rely on it.
I have (or rather had) two Google Domains accounts, one for my own projects, and one with my work email address for work purposes. My work Google Domains account got banned for some imagined rules infraction. I sent an appeal with evidence, which was immediately denied. In case you are curious, the effect of being banned from Google Domains is: you are no longer able to use Google Domains at all, which means you are both unable to change your DNS settings, and unable to transfer your domains out. For all of the domains, I had to wait until they expired, wait for the grace period to expire, and re-register them on a new registrar, hoping nobody else got to them first.
After this experience, I decided it was not worth the risk to keep my personal domains on my personal Google account, so I transferred them out a few days later. I assume this was a bug, but as soon as I initiated the domain transfers, Google deleted all DNS records, which meant I had some non-trivial downtime on all of my websites while I got it all sorted out on a new registrar.
After both of these experiences, there is no way I would ever trust another domain to Google Domains.
Yes, several hours per image. This resolution is still an achievement. But in vivo images (alive) are much more useful as they enable longitudinal studies, but obviously far more challenging to get anything close to good resolution in a mouse. More like 150 micron in alive, sedated mouse brains, even from 9.4T.
Not true so much in mice. Because we use isogenic cohorts we get pseudo-longitudinal data per genome. Ten of you, ten of me scanned every 10 years. And we can do all 20 scans in mice within 1 month of machine time. We just finished scanning 110 mice—half young and half much older—all with balance for genomes and sex.
If you're a consumer in the UK, and thinking about an EV, consider Octopus Energy's Go tariff: https://octopus.energy/go/. They also offer a salary sacrifice scheme to buy EVs: https://octopusev.com/, because this grid-supplementing storage is part of their offering, I think.
Concerns such as, "will my car be charged in the morning -- or for that emergency hospital run?" are considered, I believe, and you can set things like a "minimum charge" with smart chargers.
