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That’s also how much teens spend on TikTok a day

Also dogs at some point decided they'd stop looking for food themselves and instead focus on taking advantage of how insanely industrious humans are

The heaviest users of wind forecasting use knots

It is almost ridiculous that there's no easy rail connection between Madrid and Lisbon. I assume it's because, when push comes to shove, the governments never come to agree on who pays for what

There are two ways to price carbon from the government point of view.

One of them is a pure carbon tax on all carbon emitting sources, which is regressive: it will affect poorer people more while affluent people can just conveniently pay more to emit the CO2 they need.

The other way is by specifically increasing taxes on income and wealth and using that money to invest in decarbonisation - for the most part by making solar, wind (and in some cases nuclear) cheaper, which eventually makes carbon more expensive in relative terms.

Governments these days tend to focus on the second way, either because it's progressive and therefore perceived as fairer, or because they see the alternative as political suicide (Macron's Gillet Jaunes appeared because of a proposed carbon tax on petrol)

It was a strong conceptual design, yes.

For my aerospace engineering undergrad we also had to create a conceptual design for a new aircraft. And of course, as university projects go, we basically did it in five days. But I won't tell you how many iterations we would've had to go through until we had an optimum configuration ready to be sent to detail design

The headline makes it look like their design was a definite one. Then you actually read the article and it says it took another four years before the first one would fly. Which is actually to me the more impressive part of the story, considering the amount of time it takes aircraft manufacturers to go from concept to production these days (e.g. the A380 was first conceptualised in the 1980s and its first flight was in 2005)

BeReal's growth is probably a good example of this kind of "organic" and "healthy" social media

That is some wishful thinking there

Well, considering Ferrari only sells 8k cars/year worldwide I think 24k cars is not far off from being all cars sold in the US in the past 17 years

Social Media is not going away anytime soon. It'll just take a different form. Just look at TikTok

This hits close to home

honestly i'd say cocaine is today's cocaine

Nothing except years of learning of how to launch and operate a non-software service like this properly

Anyone that can read P&Ls, are they making a profit?

One of the Mckinsey decks that got leaked can be found here in case anyone's curious

https://www.reddit.com/r/consulting/comments/k2c8ku/mckinsey...

I think a big part of the value proposition that firms like McKinsey and BCG brought during the 70s'-80s' is the idea of operational excellence.

Many companies work on the same markets and sell the same products than others, but operate much more efficiently. Best practices are hard to share though, because companies cannot become full monopolies or engage in corporate espionage. McKinsey became then a discreet way of ensuring that your operating model was at least as good as the competitor, as they would share with you some fully anonymised benchmarks related to how competitors are operating.

Nature has created conscious beings. It would be a bit presumptuous to assume humans will be able to do so too

My favourite pinnacle moment in the history of plane automation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkEYAy7Qc4

It comes with Headspace free in the UK curiously enough

Thing is, you still need to support smaller artists buy buying physical or going to live events. Spotify pays very close to nothing to small acts.