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by svnt 3y ago
Yeah, debt is better for the founder which is why investors want priced rounds.
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by svnt 3y ago
Except they did not accept funding from PE firms, they accepted it from completely typical VC funds, who state on their websites things such as the following: “Anzu Partners is an investment firm that focuses on industrial and life science
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by svnt 3y ago
This is not inaccurate. Play seems to have been a fundamental part of the social life of basically any human group we can discern record of. The best research we have indicates that these groups had more free time than most of us engaged in
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by svnt 3y ago
The same thing happened to my car — they discontinued support for the cellular module it shipped with. I had to bring it in (and I believe pay something) to have the module updated. I did not and now it no longer has the online functionalit
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by svnt 3y ago
> gets us to about 150 trillion humans in 1,000 years I realize the big issue is settled here but just to scope this detail: the total land area of earth is coincidentally approximately 150 million km^2 At 150 trillion humans each human
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by svnt 3y ago
These systems are something but not really representative human economics. Empiricism is vulnerable to the changing awareness of the participants: if you discover a reliable principle it will be manipulated until it is learned. Once it is l
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by svnt 3y ago
It is clickbait. ABC transporters are not Maxwell (sic) Demons but billion-year-old electrochemical-mechanical one-way valves. Would you click on that?
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by svnt 3y ago
Because the benefits of breastfeeding are already extremely well documented in the literature.
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by svnt 3y ago
High single digit improvement for an increase from a breastfeeding duration of one month to several months was found in a study referenced in this review (other parts of the review reference benefits including protection against SIDS and AD
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by svnt 3y ago
Yes, fair.
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by svnt 3y ago
There is a pretty good accounting for polygamy in the genetic history of humans as well. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14817-polygamy-left-i... Mitochondrial DNA, which most people understand to be inherited e
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by svnt 3y ago
Ultimately they are asking individuals to make a personality association call. The effect is not huge in the association of “cynical” and of “genius” which itself is not even defined as far as I saw. The association is essentially “People g
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by svnt 3y ago
Correct. We are an unlikely species, as far as we can tell, for a number of reasons.
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by svnt 3y ago
They are very different times, yes, but the idea of a human population bottleneck at all in my experience is foreign to most people outside of the evolutionary anthropology/archaeology/etc fields. Is there more discussion at your
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by svnt 3y ago
The idea of (at least one) population bottleneck in the evolutionary history of humans is fairly widely accepted. I haven't reviewed the paper or methods but generally their results fit the range of expectations of many in the field. T
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by svnt 3y ago
There is a minimum in the fossil record at that time. There may be other explanations for it, but one very reasonable one is that there just weren't very many skeletons to potentially fossilize.
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by svnt 3y ago
I don’t know that there is good evidence of “more and more people” going to SF to be homeless and use drugs. There may be more homeless now, and there may be more open drug use, but the motivation and agency doesn’t necessarily follow.
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by svnt 3y ago
This is a good point I hadn’t considered.
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by svnt 3y ago
Fair points.
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by svnt 3y ago
Almost, but I qualified it with probably, and also if I was a stegosaurus I couldn’t be presently alive on earth, or understand language, or type.
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by svnt 3y ago
Ok so it is just marketing spend, and buying the relationships then.
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by svnt 3y ago
It’s a great story, and maybe has some truth, but long before drugs were legalized everyone bussed their homeless to the big cities. The problem was here before the legalization.
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by svnt 3y ago
Probably the grants have clauses that convert them to debt or equity in case of a transition of the company. [0] The bigger math is significance_of_contribution = $size_ai_grant_program/$size_ai_vc_program (or maybe $size_ai_grant_prog
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by svnt 3y ago
“We are disguising this round of seed funding as a grant, accomplishing all of the below: 1) brand-washing for people who don’t do the math 2) avoiding angering our LPs and/or violating our fund theses and 3) getting in on the ground f
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by svnt 3y ago
Based on what we’ve seen acquisition costs are likely extremely low. This is an “if you build it they will come” situation and they built it. Lifetime value they don’t even know at this point — the best we could hope for is an early (and pr
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by svnt 3y ago
Not having reviewed the full list of measurements, everything other than ear protrusion mentioned seems to involve bone structure. The ears, especially their protrusion as measured, have little or no relationship to bone structure. The othe
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by svnt 3y ago
Buddhism itself is a very diverse beast to get a handle on in that part of the world. But I agree it serves to preserve (especially male) populations in conditions of little material possibility. It sounds like you are making a different po
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by svnt 3y ago
You chose quite the counterexample. Siddhartha Gautama was royalty before he became the Buddha. He pursued yoga for six years after having been married and had a child before he sat down to do nothing. He was an introspective rich kid. He w
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by svnt 3y ago
Personally I think that aspect is more locked in to the aging of the post-World power great expectations of “up and to the right.” If people have never had decent health care, and their classmates from school haven’t either, then how are th
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by svnt 3y ago
People are being really hard on you, but there is truth and probably painful experience in this statement. 1) Your friends may have begun to make and spend more money than you, and you cannot participate in their activities. Many people her

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