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"Fight cancer," are you saying that AIDS doesn't matter?

It's true everywhere except for Africa. Poorer countries in Latin America are having wayyy fewer babies.

Yeah it's extraordinary how prepared today's elite undergrads are. Population demand has outpaced spots in these colleges, and so that's why I don't believe "grade inflation&q…

Satirical IG post I saw from a college professor: "In 2050, I'll be getting emails from high school students about research opportunities, because the average college will require 2 publicat…

Are they all just focused on sex, debauchery, lots of drinking today? I went to the one near Pasadena around a decade ago, maybe related to the OG faire, and there was so much sexual humor in the open…

Everything he described, mission requirements, sizing, trade studies, is taught in undergrad aerospace engineering curricula today. It's part of every new clean sheet design, civil, military, fix…

CEO of Loopt makes a cameo at 1:28 in the youtube vid.

Airbus has them too. So does Cessna, Bombardier, Dassault, and so on.

The output of even junior mechanical engineers today would be considered mindblowing to the mechE's of 100 years ago, for similar reasons: computational tools have allowed an exponential increase…

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Impressive augmentation.

I did, and I gave it lots of detailed, nuanced answers about my life specifics. I spent an hour answering its questions and the end result was it telling me to watch the movie "man called otto&qu…

The era of rebuilding chesterton's fence.

These are sad stories but you have to wonder how many such stories you might collect from any mostly-functional organization. Certainly there were people who had unjust firings, toxic interactions bef…

Yeah I've tried some of the therapy prompts, "Ask me 7 questions to help me fix my life, then provide insights." And it just gives me a generic summary of the top 5 articles you'd …

That's why you gotta make it a not-for-profit.

> People have tried making original OKCupid style apps, and they fail That's why you need the original founders to make it again. OkCupid was a site made by 140 IQ dudes in Boston for 100+ IQ …

No, Chris Coyne, Max Krohn, Christian Rudder never joined Match. I don't know where you're getting that from. Match was already a behemoth before buying OkCupid. You can check their linkedin…

Hinge IMO is the best of the bunch because it's the only app still run by its original founder, even though it's owned by Match.

OkCupid was different, before it got bought by match. The single best thing that could be done for the dating world and fertility rates would be to hire the MIT/Harvard math guys from the origina…

It's called consolidation. Strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. Through taxes it can be done imperceptibly over time.

Full article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/seattle-tech-boom... …

It's downright scary working with indians in a highly regulated industry. "Can we pretty please (with a cherry on top) [do something that bends or breaks federal regulations on national secu…

Take from the poor, give to the rich. It's an Ayn Randian gerontocracy.

Minor formatting quip: At the top, the "dd mm yyyy" format should not use a comma.

FT says it all: Korean companies admit cutting corners on US visas but say they have little choice. South Korean companies have routinely used unsuitable visas for workers sent to the US to build mult…