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4y ago
Aren't those mammals making comeback mainly in Carpathian mountains (arc from Slovakia to Romania), leading to bears openly attacking population, but almost nothing is happening in the Alps?
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4y ago
Lex Fridman already applied to be the new Twitter boss lol
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4y ago
Nobody wants to use Windows Search but some Microsoft PM thought it's because people don't know what that box is and need a label to find it and use it...
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4y ago
Yes, so another umbrella diagnosis that can have 100s different reasons with the same outward symptoms. Like some people with pellagra exhibiting the same symptoms but when their nutrition improves long-term, they get completely cured from
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4y ago
I mean if it is an unrecoverable loss of glial cells during puberty (AFAIK most diagnoses start during that time) then nobody would be able to "flip the bit" back anyway. As glial cells feed and protect neurons, their lack will li
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4y ago
Per this article protozoa could be affected: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8918027/ One would have to administer it in early stages before it passes BBB. Pity it got such a bad rap because Zapp Brannigan mentioned it
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4y ago
So Ivermectin for everyone?
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4y ago
Wasn't schizophrenia identified as basically off-by-one (multiple?) error of the deletion algorithm in the brain that is garbage collecting more (glial?) cells in a row than needed during teenage years? And "overclocking" gli
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4y ago
Dunno, just getting VSCode to run and debug a project requires manually editing cryptic config files which is what almost any IDE does much better...
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4y ago
Sequoia's main driving factor was paranoia of missing the next big thing. Why would that change with one of their assets tanking? They went through similar (albeit at a smaller scale) many times. Most investments flop, this one very pu
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4y ago
Well, it has always been a "privilege" for a few.
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4y ago
Lymphatic system is drained only through movement. I wouldn't be surprised if the same holds for the one that was discovered in the brain recently.
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4y ago
The usual short-term thinking. Get more money quickly at the cost of the first major layoffs that demoralizes the company leading to nasty internal politics, gradually destroying the company from within.
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4y ago
Well, playing it at 0.25x on YouTube, the main riff is the same/transposed with slight changes of timing!
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4y ago
Some songs are more successful as covers, like Pulstar from Vangelis by Hypnosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvyzI8g4NUc
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4y ago
Look at what China did - they copied whole economic/technological systems of countries, each in a different region, then ran it for two decades, then evaluated which ones work best under what conditions. How would you get this effect w
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4y ago
Why is it inevitable? Given the propensity of humans to destroy their own cultures over time (see all extinct civilizations), one could argue that diversity in cultures/nations is the only hope so that at any point in time at least one
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4y ago
Even if you run it over a VPN connection?
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4y ago
It's total compensation (including stocks and bonuses).
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4y ago
In your jurisdiction (Europe?) you are likely fine doing it legally if you are a consultant/contractor (i.e. responsible for all taxes/insurances yourself) but not as an employee. So if you find two remote jobs in the US, you are
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4y ago
There are some strategies one can use, e.g. work for one company on the East coast and one on the West, then being an early starter at the first one and late starter at the second one. Perhaps have some known medical issue that occasionally
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You said "it's not true" and not "I believe it's not true", i.e. a fact vs opinion, so I reacted.
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4y ago
It's true, I know the guy. He's an outlier for sure, but he exists. Moreover, he moved from the toughest FAANG to more relaxed ones.
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4y ago
"Muscle" is just a tiny part... It's about the limbic system in the brain that can get damaged.
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Wouldn't high dose fast-acting Niacin (500mg) help resolve it like it does help resolving almost any addiction by bumping up levels of NAD+ in the brain, reducing cravings to continue whatever addiction a person has? With the added ben
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4y ago
Well, you aren't supposed to destroy the fabric of society! /s How do you think society would work if there was no restriction on the size of the group that is allowed to break the laws for their own benefit?! Imagine the horror i
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4y ago
He'll likely get fired once they figure it out but by that time he might be able to retire early.
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4y ago
I know a guy that left one FAANG recently which was laying off people, interviewed at two other FAANGs, got offers for senior remote roles for over $600k, accepted both and is now working two jobs at the same time. Given he was doing the pr
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4y ago
The described output sounds like a perfect example of an MBA essay. You can fine-tune it if you want the output to resemble HBR articles, HBS or MIT Sloan cases and there you go, your homework done in a minute. Writing MBA essays was the la
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4y ago
Given trends started in the 60s, every year we add more and more safety measures so I guess nothing is too far in the future.
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