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The biggest stockout problems in my life are those where an inconvenience turns into a big mess. If you can expand your thinking to that problem, I'm very interested. Specifically: Toilet Paper Diapers Diaper Wipes Paper Towels Cat Lit
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Down in Singapore
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Lucence Dx, Stanford University Applying AI to Liver Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment(genomeweb.com)
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Respectfully disagree. One, it normalizes truly radical engineering projects (look higher in the thread to see building an artificial kidney). If YC signals it sees a jet bike as acceptable, imagine all of the ideas that seem just a bit too
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Mari Kondo Mac edition: Google Drive Personal for all personal files : photos, tax returns, etc. Only sync files actively touched in last thirty days. Google Drive Work for all work files : presentations, spreadsheets, contracts. Only sync
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Facebook, Tesla and Google Take Big Reputation Hits (Axios-Harris)(theharrispoll.com)
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I would do two things. First, I would get credentialed. Credentials are a time-proven barrier against unfair discrimination whether on sex, race, age, or sexual orientation. The AWS Dev Ops Engineer Professional credential certainly says th
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Phạm Tuân – First Asian in Space(en.wikipedia.org)
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Hadron colliders make surprisingly bad precision measurement machines. All that crap creates a lot of background, which makes doing the fine work very challenging. Now a lower energy lepton-lepton machine, like the proposed ILC, would be go
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As far as I can tell, the Standard Model does an unreasonably good job about explaining particles and their interactions up to 10 TeV. Given the many, many open questions in other areas below 10 TeV - perhaps we could shift attention elsewh
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Does your business 1) work in retail and 2) have more than 2% margin? Then Amazon is coming for you.
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$10/month undersells both the value of your service and your cost to provide it. My first thought was : either they're going to go out of business or they are going to raise prices. If you want an easy promotion say that it's
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Socilab Shuts Down(socilab.com)
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To the usual list of reasons, I'll add one less often discussed: it is awkward for a boss to manage someone older than themselves. A lot of social authority depends on age and experience, and having older staff makes that story more di
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I can find 10 people to say nearly anything I want them to on my behalf. Whatever the job requires, they will say I have it. Whatever competency is required, I nail it. Whatever cultural fit is required, I blend into it. Taking my own exam
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Property Taxes is the simple two word answer. White School Districts come from proportionally wealthier tax bases.
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Google Autocomplete is very instructive here. Lularoe is a .... Lularoe is a cult Lularoe is a pyramid scheme Lularoe is a ripoff. That’s enough information for me.
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Near Death Experience Leads to Stronger Company(linkedin.com)
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The past decade of commercial research has failed to deliver the market successes needed to justify the premium. If you look at the biggest winners for pharmaceutical companies over the last decade (immunotherapy is the poster child), most
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Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology(nature.com)
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Gates Foundation annual letter(gatesnotes.com)
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They have been playing high stakes poker for a long time and are used to bluffing with embarrassing information . Their mistake was to think that would deter Bezos.
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Three things have helped me through a difficult period of burning out and returning to health. +) Daily positive habits are a strong and resilient buffer against life's onslaught. Quick inventory - today did you get enough sleep, have
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I have been researching this topic for some time, mostly to prepare for life after 50. For the below, consider holding all other equivalent variables equal for simplicity: + Learning how to sell is the most important skill to develop, wheth
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I'm shocked by the lack of porn on the Internet. Gambling appears to be a much more popular activity.
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Google+ was one of the few places on the Internet I could go to be alone. Everywhere else seems so damn full of people.
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If good design makes one want to lick a site, this is very lickable.
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As anyone can attest who has seen a $300 M building burn to the ground, very simple permanent changes can be extremely expensive to reverse.
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Lucence Diagnostics | Singapore | Software Engineer | ONSITE Lucence is a fast-growing genomic medicine company that invent advanced cancer diagnostics to change the way cancer is detected and treated. We specialize in building powerful dia
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Life's too short to work for someone that you do not respect and does not respect you. You have limited ability to change your manager's behavior, but a lot to change that manager.

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