Have you ever considered where you would be if all the hours you channeled into the sport you hated had been channeled into something you loved? Maybe you could have had the best of both worlds? Who knows...
But I totally understand what you're saying, I can't say I ever (EVER!) enjoyed going to practice, but I stuck it out and ended up making it to the Big Ten level as a walk-on. I'm very proud of that accomplishment.
It sounds like you had innate talent or aptitude that could be honed and take you places. Not all kids have that though, and can probably take it easy with sports and focus on growing other strengths.
It was less about having talent and more about developing in a great program - and that was just dumb luck.
I grew up in a midwest farm town that just happened to have a couple incredible coaches that ran exceptional sports programs. I also had older brothers who were better than me that I learned from.
I was less good and more tough in that I was pretty much the slowest guy on the team in college, but I could absolutely hold my own in practice. Unfortunately, due to the recent NCAA roster limits, there doesn't seem to be a place for athletes like me in college anymore.
As a PM, I factor this into prioritization. An engineer passionate for a product will lead to better engineering output, increased morale, and feeling of being heard. A motivated, bought-in engineer team is important when it comes to building the ‘high impact’ products.
Prioritization isn’t always black and white.
These qualitative factors matter and shouldn’t be ignored. As always, you weight it against other trade offs.
I’ve been a pm Eng and designer and this sort of patronizing attitude sucks.
Look at the end of the day you should be cultivating fellow thought leaders because when you grow up you learn your priorities are more often than not just your own egotistical nonsense and wrong. But you have a lot of phrases to cut others down.
Sure there were some buzz words in there... But the actual core of the post wasn't patronising at all. Might need to take a step back and ask why your response to that was so strong.
There are indications he may have been raised Jewish, and later converted to Catholicism. Or, converted but still close to Judaism.
His choice to set sail for the New World on August 2, 1492, the exact date ordained for the expulsion of Jews from Spain does suggest he may have not converted yet.
Further, It's also known that the family profession was weaving, a traditionally Jewish profession at the time and that Jewish given names like Abraham and Jacob were common in the family of Columbus' mother.
One of the hypothesis from the dna analysis says:
> hypothesis proposes that Columbus was a Jew from the Mediterranean port city of Valencia. His obscure early life, according to this theory, can be explained by the fact that he sought to hide his Jewish background to avoid persecution by the fervently Catholic Spanish monarchs.
> His choice to set sail for the New World on August 2, 1492, the exact date ordained for the expulsion of Jews from Spain does suggest he may have not converted yet.
This is one of the least compelling pieces of evidence: one doesn’t set out for a cross-oceanic voyage on a whim. He had sponsorship from the Spanish crown and lobbied and prepared for years for the journey. His journey was formally sanctioned by the the royal family in April of the year he left.
Conversos and Moriscos were overrepresented among the early Spanish settlers [0].
Same story in Portuguese territories as well.
An exodus of Sephardim and Muslims was a win-win for the Spanish crown - they'd lose (in their eyes) a potential 5th column in their competition against the Ottoman Empire as well as have manpower to nominally stake their claim in the New World.
At the time, the Spanish were completely unaware that Columbus would find a land that could be settled. The goal of the expedition was finding a route to East Asia to establish trade with those known-to-be-inhabited areas. Colonization was a pivot after Columbus did not find Asia.
Also colonization didn't start in earnest until several decades later. For a generation or two the exploitation of the Americas was largely extractive.
> the exact date ordained for the expulsion of Jews from Spain
This came up in another part of the thread, but it wasn't the exact date—the decree gave Jews until the end of July [0], while August 3 (not second) is the date he sailed.
It's still close enough that it may have been related, but it's not the slam dunk that "the exact date" makes it sound like it is.
Why would anyone ever think that it could have been anything but a coincidence?
Who would have sponsored his expedition knowing that Columbus would be legally banned from entering the country if he was successful? That just seems silly…
> His choice to set sail for the New World on August 2, 1492,
He could have just moved to Italy or the Low Countries?
> does suggest he may have not converted yet.
And he did while he was in the Americas? Why would the Castilian crown sponsor an expedition led by a known Jew and even make him governor of the newly discovered territories (note that in a few decades even converted descendants of Jews or Muslims were banned from emigrating to the new world after a few decades)
What’s so strange about this? Columbus is one of the most important explorers in history, but his past, and resting place had been unconfirmed - even his birthplace was unknown.
500 years later after multi-year dna study, we now have the information and it paints a very fascinating picture. He left Spain in August, the same week that Jews were kicked out. This explains why he left Spain. He was known as a catholic, but it’s now clear this was due most likely due to forced conversion.
History is important, and this is a significant dna study that sheds light on the legacy of a key figure.
> He left Spain in August, the same week that Jews were kicked out. This explains why he left Spain
Extremely absurd statement that makes absolutely no sense at all. Surely his investors expected him to return?
If his (possible) Jewish origin would have been know surely that would have came out during one of the lawsuits between the Crown and his descendants:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleitos_colombinos
> but it’s now clear this was due most likely due to forced conversion.
Or that his grandparents or even grand-grandparents were converts?
This must be related to their new product - Fastlane.
Fastlane is an express checkout product, similar to ShopPay. Even if you have never used a website, you authenticate with OTP and all your information (Address & Payment Methods) is available.
Originally, merchants could not use this data to make customer accounts. This was not ideal for us merchants as there was no method to login to track your order information.
PayPal came to me this week saying they were updating their legal agreement to allow merchants to create customer accounts.
(Express checkout options will soon be everywhere - Stripe, Shopify, PayPal, Zelle/Paze are all competing in this space now)
> This was not ideal for us merchants as there was no method to login to track your order information.
You don't need accounts for that. Allow customers to check their order status using the order number and some other identifying bit that you are allowed to get/keep, such as last name or billing zip code. Merchants have been doing this since the very start of e-commerce. (If you can't keep anything, then just make the order numbers long random strings, and use that alone, and/or generate a random, unique URL to send in the order confirmation email.)
If a merchant creates an account for me without my consent, I delete that account and never buy from them again.
Stop abusing your customers' personal information. I'm glad I live in California, and have already opted out to PayPal sharing my information for this, as is my legal right.
Oh my goodness this drives me insane. Ebay sucks for this. Just tell me the info! I shouldn't need to log in.
I do my best to avoid merchants who use shippit because of this. At least shippit tells me the actual carrier and the carrier tracking number so I can do what I need to do. Even if the third party shippit tracking is up to date I still don't want to use shippit's tracking page anyway.
I had to reach out to (deeply patronising!) customer service for Sendle because they don't show any carrier information at all on their tracking page. None. I'm in Australia, and they are an Australian company so it's not like they're unfamiliar with the way things work here. Sendle tracking page never has any tracking information, and if I'm lucky I'll get a 'your parcel has been picked up from the sender!' email a week after the thing has been delivered. It's so frustrating! It's so needless; sendle already got their slice of the financial pie, and as far as I can see, their value proposition isn't going to be negatively impacted by simply choosing not to obfuscate the carrier info, so just give me the information! I think it would make the value prop better; if I am not going to be home when a parcel delivery is scheduled (which again has never been visible on anything I've received via sendle), being able to contact and coordinate with the carrier prior to a failed delivery can be necessary. If I knew what day parcels were coming and by which carrier so I can make sure I'm home at the time they typically show up. Also maybe don't be rude when customers ask for basic information that should already be provided by default! You're supposed to be a shipping company! Useless.
I just don't understand the motives of making tracking hard or impossible (thanks, sendle). Ebay making you log in means you might just buy more stuff while you're here, but for third party shipping companies whose customers are businesses trying to ship things I don't understand the value of (developing, hosting, integrating with carrier tracking, etc.) their tracking pages at all, obfuscating the carrier info or not. Is it just because the shippit tracking page looks nicer than most carrier tracking? I'm probs missing something obvious? If anyone has any insight, I would genuinely love to understand.
These are called ACH return codes and are similar to disputes on credit card.
Liability is on the receiving or the originator institution. But in practice, it depends on the contract with the “processor”. Many Pay By Bank “processors” offer a guarantee model to cover these returns. Otherwise, liability is typically on the merchant.
However, Nacha is beginning to iterate on their return codes to better fit the e-commerce use case and clearly define liability.
If they didn’t consider civilians, they could have been a lot more effective. But, they targeted combatants devices, which also limits the destruction capability of the bomb.
This may be controversial but the cost it would require for a restaurant to replicate what DoorDash/Grubhub provide is less than the fee they are charged by these companies.
Advocating to cap the fee they are charged for a service is restaurants having their cake and eating it too.
Overall, DoorDash/Grubhub have been a net positive for these businesses.
To hire a manage a delivery driver workforce, staff enough drivers to ensure reasonable service levels, manage an online ecommerce storefront, and market their business is very expensive.
If the fee is too high, they can just turn off the service. There’s a reason why they don’t simply turn it off. The value is reciprocated.
What are the technologies that would make this possible? My assumption is that you have multiple cameras around the court, similar to how the infamous matrix bullet dodging scene was captured, and then use that to create an explorable virtual environment. I'm fascinated by this. Thanks!
My dad pushed me to play a sport I despised. Hated it from when I was young all the way to my last games.
But thank god he did. Changed my life completely. As a mediocre student, I could pick any school I wanted.
Love my dad, and he knew what was best. Even if I hated playing, it was all worth it.
Parents should set their kids up for success, and parents do know best - even if that means upsetting your child.
There’s a difference between what someone wants and what’s best for someone - and during my teens, I had that mixed up.