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by pge 6y ago
I agree with your comment, and it highlights for me a challenge I have seen in cleantech VC. For VCs coming from tech, there is often an implicit assumption that new product innovation is the solution. When dealing with climate change, howe
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by pge 6y ago
Agree - and a related is that because you don’t have 100% ownership, you have less skin in the game. The reason to tkae money is that you believe that the 80% of the company you still own will be worth more than 100% of the company without
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by pge 6y ago
The two things that I had trouble with last time I used Mutt were calendar invitations from outlook or google calendar, and html pages (without opening firefox). Any suggestions on best practices?
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by pge 6y ago
average of 17 pedestrians are killed by cars in the US every day (data from 2018). Over 1,000 people per day are dying from covid in the US. So your odds of dying crossing the road on any given day are actually far, far less than your odds
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by pge 6y ago
offlineimap works well with mutt to have everything accessible offline
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by pge 6y ago
For used books, bookfinder.com is a great site that has listings from independent booksellers (as well as amazon)
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by pge 6y ago
Maybe in the era of multinational corporations, the idea of corporate taxation is outdated. What if corporate taxes were eliminated entirely and replaced with higher taxes on personal wages? It’s far more difficult for a person to game the
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by pge 6y ago
I had shoulder surgery a few years ago, and I had to argue with the doctor to get him to do a nerve block instead of general anesthesia. He never suggested it - I researched the options myself and found that patients who did the nerve block
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by pge 6y ago
Randi was also a very good magician himself which gave him insights and credibility that other skeptics that followed have never had.
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A shadowy AI service has transformed thousands of women’s photos into nudes(washingtonpost.com)
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Diversification into Alternatives Has Failed(institutionalinvestor.com)
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by pge 6y ago
google the Buteyko method (which is the subject of much of the book). Not surprisingly, the claims made by its practitioners do not hold up to rigorous testing.
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by pge 6y ago
If I understand correctly from the various articles on this topic, there is a theory (with some evidence) that the lack of difficult chewing in childhood while the jaw is developing, leads to smaller mouths and tooth or breathing issues.
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Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet(washingtonpost.com)
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by pge 6y ago
UVB is what causes vitamin D production, and UVB doesn’t penetrate the atmosphere when the sun angle is below about 50deg, so if you are not out when the sun is high enough, it doesn’t help with vitamin D
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by pge 6y ago
This is a great idea, and I wonder if there is a complementary product of a calendar that has a similar scale - detailed by the hour for the next three days, then by the day, week, and month as things go out further. It would be an interest
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by pge 6y ago
you neglected to mention athletes, the “acceptable” non-academic path in. In this case, they used that opening to get big donors in.
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by pge 6y ago
Thanks for the link - interesting reading. It looks like he modified the PDFs from the bank which is pretty sneaky, since most people assume PDFs are inviolable (this topic has come up on HN before). In my experience, auto-generated PDFs fr
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by pge 6y ago
Are you sure they were audited? I havent seen that in the material released so far, only that an auditor was engaged for due diligence, which was fairly cursory, not anywhere near an actual audit. Typically an audit would involve a direct v
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by pge 6y ago
Where was the board during this whole time? I have trouble understanding how a board allows a management team to operate in such a way that controls aren't in place (eg basic segregation of duties in finance) that would prevent or at m
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by pge 6y ago
typeset - published 1979 by Apple
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by pge 6y ago
I have an Apple II plus original reference manual here, and it uses “Apple ][“ (brackets) only on the cover. In the book text, it uses “Apple II” (Roman numeral) throughout.
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by pge 6y ago
Sounds like a graph of the quality of his relationships with other human beings would have a spike at only one point and zero everywhere else...
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by pge 6y ago
yes - Perrow spends much of the book (too much, perhaps) on case studies, with Three Mile Island being the most significant.
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by pge 6y ago
If you are interested in this topic, worth reading Charles Perrow's classic work, "Normal Accidents". The book is an analysis of industrial accidents (eg Three Mile Island) and their root causes. His observations suggest that
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by pge 6y ago
While I am not going to argue that valuations are wholly rational (and specifically the fact that valuations increase with investment size), it is also true that having more capital may make the company able to accomplish more, and thus rai
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by pge 6y ago
I was surprised to see that most of these are traditional sailing vessels, which as you note are not practical at large scale. With all the advances in competitive sailing technologies (eg solid wing sails), it would be interesting to see h
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by pge 6y ago
David Lewis’s book, We the Navigators, provides an in-depth study of polynesian/melanesian/micronesian boats and navigation methods and is the best source I have found on the subject
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by pge 6y ago
Lots of place names in US that reveal not just non-native speakers but also native speakers that aren’t locals. Some that come to mind: Worcester, MA; Wilkes-Barre, PA; Versailles, KY; New Berlin, PA; and many others.
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by pge 6y ago
My key takeway on Elon Musk is how much he is willing to bet on something he believes in. Capitalizing SpaceX with $100M when he only had $165M is gutsy. Not saying $65M is chump change, but there is an opportunity cost to putting over half

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