I make 290k total comp as a SWE III at Google.

I would make around 240k if my initial stock grants hadn’t nearly doubled in value since I joined. I will probably actually make less money once my 4 year grant runs out, all things being equal.

5 years total experience.

I'm getting

  "Sorry

Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here."

in both Chrome and Firefox. What's up with that?

It is probably an extension of some sort.

I have heard this can happen with Privacy Badger, but I'm sure other extensions can cause the issue. I think it is a fairly common issue with embedded Vimeo videos, but I haven't had a chance to look at alternative options/settings and hosting videos myself comes with a whole other set of issues.

Just FYI I am not personally doing a bunch of tracking here. I don't even think I have Google Analytics setup on this domain. Instead it is a byproduct of Vimeo having at tracking cookie :(

I turned off NoScript, and uBlock doesn't show any blocked requests (the only privacy add-ons I have.)

Still no video.

The player loads and shows an image, the video bar shows background video loading progress and even clicking to certain parts of the video shows different image clips. Just no video. So I've just given up.

That sucks. Email me? jon@calhoun.io

I'll happily work with you to figure out the issue, even if it means giving you a link to download some videos in the meantime.

I discovered the problem after I managed to break video playback while configuring the newly installed browser.

Firefox has an "advanced" setting (about:config only) to prevent media automatically playing which was preventing playback - even with the video player's buttons. about:config | media.autoplay.enabled | true -> breaks the player.

However there's another anti-tracking option that prevents embedded videos even being displayed - Preferences | Privacy & Security | Tracking Protection | click [Change Block List...] -> 'Basic' works, 'Strict' doesn't .

I have Firefox Nightly installed now (with no extensions yet) and a blank profile which works so there's no need. I do appreciate the offer to help though.

I find that mindfulness both reduces my stress in the short term, and causes me to reflect and choose to eliminate stress-causes in my life in the long term. Both effects are positive.

The "Non-Timely Scotsman" fallacy?

Er, no, bitcoin going up is nice if you hold bitcoin like gold, and irrelevant if you imagine actually using bitcoin as a way to do transactions. Bitcoin going up or down in value relative to other cryptocurrencies is orthogonal to the problem that it is inconvenient and expensive as a way to move money.

Don't use the tool, then.

This comes off as pretty biased. "Run its course?" - really? Remind me, did DeepMind use Probabilistic Graphical Models to beat Lee Sedol at Go? Does any of OpenAI's research use them?

Which doesn't even take into account other serious externalities like smog.

For formulas, I find Anki to be pretty effective, because it forces me to recall the formula. I also try to put proofs and proof-techniques into Anki so I can maintain knowledge of an area without using it frequently.

Really cool idea, thanks for sharing!