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https://cdn.drawception.com/drawings/T25OX7JfsD.png
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The Most Controversial Tree in the World (2019)(psmag.com)
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This doesn't seem a long-term take. Historically pricing was based on vehicle cost because the vehicles were expended. With reusable vehicles the companies can make a handsome margin well above launch cost (and covering the fixed up fr
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Is this the right way to think about flight pricing given that the vehicles are not expendable?
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"Foods containing sugar have been found to save lives in a number of studies." "Regular smoking use is associated with lower BMI, which is shown to correlate with improved heart health and lower mortality rates." "U
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0. Find your search term! The thing or field you are looking to learn about almost certainly has a specific phrase that describes it that may or may not be intuitive; if you're building an internal search engine you want to look up &qu
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A $5 donation is at least tax deductible and comes with less overhead for the foundation to process.
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I haven't tried IDAGIO. Do you like it?
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It's pricey but I like it. I like the archived performances too. It does let you play some content offline. It has let me feel a bit more cultured when locked in a garage for a year and a half working on a startup during a pandemic!
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It will be interesting to see if others are similarly taken off the table. I've been tremendously impressed by the Berlin Philharmonik app, for instance; they've made a subscription service available on nearly every platform (Appl
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1) All options expire. Liquidity timelines are such that expiration of some options predates a liquidity event. This is not unusual or the company trying to screw you over. 2) As an advisor, you should ask for early exercise 83(b) rights on
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This insight is clearly illustrated in one of my very favorite songs from Disney: https://youtu.be/MJV4vjlziNI
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Requisite snippet: https://youtu.be/kHUSGynWuVk
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(Gestures at the community of people who smugly use the word "fiat" as commensurate with obsolete) Not sure everyone has gotten the memo yet.
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It sure sounds like this was forced on them by their payment processors, not that this was a voluntary move. https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1428420774449266691?s=...
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With a quarter of a million dead[1], I'm not sure I can agree with "better" for the families of those impacted. On a "Dollars Per Amount of Joy Conferred" metric for success (which I like!), I think this one gets a
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To the latter point, a minor user transmitting sexual images of themselves may be breaking the law depending on the state and the age of the recipient, so an algorithm may not need to "special case" a "legitimate" reason
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What the Education System Could Be(dweekly.medium.com)
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The good news is that electricity still costs a lot, even at scale, so there is lots of financial incentive for hyperscalars to make their datacenters and computation maximally efficient. To wit: there are a lot of people at Facebook (and G
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Yes, and that's a conservative lower bound (their web application servers likely draw much less than a kilowatt each and constitute a healthy portion of the fleet).
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I took a programming class at my high school in 1994. I was a sophomore and had been programming for a decade, including several internships. It was the first time the school had ever offered a computer class and on the first day the teache
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FAA Handbook: How Humans Learn [pdf](faa.gov)
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Yep. Here's how I'd napkin math it. Facebook has purchased 6GW of renewable energy to power its datacenters [1]. Its datacenters have a PUE of about 1.06 last they published (they unfortunately seem to have taken their dashboards
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All true. The problems start getting gnarly when Something goes Wrong in the magic black box powering your service. That neat framework that made it trivial to spin up an HTTP/2 endpoint is emitting headers that your CDN doesn't l
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Fiber construction is $6,000/HHP for dense suburban deployment and much much higher for rural. So a meaningful chunk of the world's rural population may not be able to afford the NRE. Getting the world high speed Internet is going
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The natural place for truly undisrupted observation is going to be the far side of the Moon, so let's put an observatory or two there and stop quibbling about LEO.
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It's in the article.
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Right - but part of the difficulty and expense in hiring teachers is that we've segmented it off as an expert population with high barriers to entry. If everyone who learned was also expected to teach, you scale the teaching population
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Ahh - that makes a lot of sense. Thank you. Can you link the image?
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Yes! The thing that was missing in the original article was answering the most important question in all of this: Does Tutoring Work? The implication left for a reader of the original article is that tutoring is mostly about exam-prep or th

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