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New insights into the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease(nature.com)
2 points by spchampion2 5y ago|0 comments
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by spchampion2 5y ago
Anyone interested in product management shoulder read "INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love" by Marty Cagan.
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by spchampion2 5y ago
The article correctly points out that Plaid helps avoid the whole challenge deposit problem, which is a real source of issues in US banking. What this misses, and what everyone forgets, is that Plaid didn't invent this concept of using
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by spchampion2 5y ago
This is a pretty typical deck for an activist investor where they cherry pick all kinds of problems from a high growth company and make them look incompetent. If Peloton had kept its growth curve, we would all be taking about how amazing Jo
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George Crumb, an influential and deeply American composer, has died at age 92(npr.org)
3 points by spchampion2 5y ago|0 comments
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by spchampion2 5y ago
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/277/
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by spchampion2 5y ago
A lot of Americans really only knew about "red" and "white" wines back then (and frankly still do). Red was very often a cheap merlot, while white was a cheap chardonnay. I recall so many (so many!) terrible merlots and
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by spchampion2 5y ago
Longform - where we bury the lede and you get to find it, for fun!
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by spchampion2 5y ago
I think this acquisition may go down in history as one of the most successful ever, delivering shareholders a return of over 82,200% (the Nasdaq returns have only been about 1,100% in the same timeframe). According to Google Finance, Apple
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Storm Drains Keep Swallowing People During Floods(propublica.org)
4 points by spchampion2 5y ago|0 comments
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by spchampion2 5y ago
This sounds like backpacking... which you can do for way less than $30k. A nicely equipped pack from scratch can be had for less than $1k. Add in a little more for food, airfare, and any accomodations before and after, and you can do a trip
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The 4% Retirement Rule Is in Doubt(wsj.com)
3 points by spchampion2 5y ago|1 comments
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Old Power Gear Is Slowing Use of Clean Energy and Electric Cars(nytimes.com)
1 points by spchampion2 5y ago|1 comments
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The great boat lift of 9/11(nj.com)
1 points by spchampion2 5y ago|0 comments
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Moderna Makes Twice as Many Antibodies as Pfizer, Study Says(bloomberg.com)
5 points by spchampion2 5y ago|7 comments
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Where Online Services Go When They Die (2014)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by spchampion2 5y ago|0 comments
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‘Massive wake-up call’: Crypto faces growing legal crackdown(politico.com)
1 points by spchampion2 5y ago|0 comments
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by spchampion2 5y ago
Because the magnitude is no longer defined using the original Richter scale. Earthquake magnitudes are now defined using a similar scale called the moment magnitude scale. Also watts are an SI unit of power, whereas Richters are not a unit
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Biden pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 52% by 2030(axios.com)
3 points by spchampion2 5y ago|0 comments
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by spchampion2 6y ago
As far as I can tell, both the JAMA study linked in this post and the study I linked are describing antibody responses. I was trying to make an apples-to-apples comparison by sharing a similar study with contradictory results on a broader s
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by spchampion2 6y ago
This is not well aligned with other research[1] showing the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines perform little better against the B1351 (South Africa) variant than they do against plain old SARS and distantly related bat COVIDs. They're also o
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Multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants escape neutralization by vaccine(twitter.com)
3 points by spchampion2 6y ago|0 comments
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FDA review confirms safety and efficacy of single-shot J&J coronavirus vaccine(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by spchampion2 6y ago|0 comments
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Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes(bloomberg.com)
4 points by spchampion2 6y ago|1 comments
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Citigroup Loses Fight to Get Back Millions in Mistaken Revlon Lender Transfer(bloomberg.com)
1 points by spchampion2 6y ago|0 comments
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These People Rushed to Buy Homes During Covid. Now They Regret It(wsj.com)
3 points by spchampion2 6y ago|1 comments
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AstraZeneca vaccine provides minimal protection against virus from South Africa(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by spchampion2 6y ago|0 comments
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J&J's single-dose coronavirus vaccine is 66% effective against Covid-19(businessinsider.com)
2 points by spchampion2 6y ago|0 comments
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Just Vaccinate People(slate.com)
3 points by spchampion2 6y ago|2 comments
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by spchampion2 6y ago
Using a vaccine created by one of the many other mechanisms that are in the pipeline, like the Oxford or J&J vaccines. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...

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