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Thanks, done.

One way to pay into her college fund...

HN can suck you in, especially if you're bored at work.

My understanding is that it's often the high cost of living rather than government policy which means that couples choose not to have more than one child.

I could imagine the "finger slitting throat" could be an older one

Thanks for the insight, appreciated. So as the old adage goes, 'it all starts at the top'...

I'm curious. Ostensibly, working at Blue Origin would appear to me to be prestigious.

Does anyone have any insight as to the reasons for the departures, apart from 'frustration with management' and 'bureaucratic structure'?

Coffee also works for me. The evidence is varied, but I selectively choose that which let's me drink my morning cappuccino without worrying too much.

> Caffeine is a mild diuretic: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140402-are-coffee-and-t...

Yes, it's a slippery slope

Hasn't yet made it over to the UK, thankfully. Let's hope the Atlantic is a sufficient barrier...

Thanks, you're right, I'll add a tag next time

I saw one commentator below mention quorn, but I think it depends on how this was done, presented and marketed.

Some top chefs do something approaching this - not quite at the molecular level in the way mentioned here, in a lab (although it's called molecular gastronomy), but nevertheless experimenting with different combinations and techniques. Artisanal experimentation vs industrial production.

Good point, thanks - effectively an MVP approach...

I suspect this includes outsourcing a whole series of functions from support functions such as finance, accounting, tax and legal, to even what would be considered core functions such as UX, coding etc.

Taken to an extreme, the startup could remain a handful of people while benefiting from a much larger team which is not included in the headcount.

I wonder why they started with lettuce. I get the nutrients and minerals part, but the calorific value is low. Potatoes also grow well using hydroponics and would seem to be a better base choice for longer orbits.

HBR analyzed 200 startups which raised $360m, and concluded that the most viewed slide of any pitch deck was the team one.

https://docsend.com/view/p8jxsqr

The diuretic effect of caffeine. But if you're a habitual coffee drinker your body gets used to the caffeine.

It appears that the answer is "yes", especially if supplemented by a piece of fruit to replace minerals and nutrients. And even tea and coffee are fine provided that your body is relatively used to dealing with caffeine.

This would provide an added dimension to wearables (notwithstanding the standard issues surrounding data ownership and privacy).

Looking at the pitch structure they derive, isn't it just a variation of the standard: "problem > solution > benefit" structure?

It would be interesting to know which people benefit from the phenomena he mentions in the video - luck, conferred status, survivor bias - with those who experience imposter syndrome, and how the two outcomes come about.

Which circumstances lead to people believing that they are solely responsible for, and deserve their success, and which cause people to to feel the opposite. Not sure what the literature says on this.

Looking at the graph, the sale of EVs seems to have levelled off in the last couple of years, so this might be the fillip the market needs.

Regardless of what Tyler Durden said:

> "We’re the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war, our Great Depression is our lives."

The 90s were a pretty fortunate decade. The threat of nuclear war had passed with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the economy was chugging along fine, and terrorism hadn't yet taken centre stage. Certainly that's the way I remember it - maybe through rose-tinted glasses (?)

But nevertheless, maybe a quiet life without crises isn't such a bad thing?

Seems a little overboard to prevent just 4 cases so far.

Many thanks for all the clarifications, appreciated. School was a long time ago and my recollection was hazy.

Surely this stat can't be correct:

> "Even before COVID-19, people spent a ton of time in front of screens. One survey found that the average American spends a whopping 17 hours and nine minutes a day on a laptop, phone, or gaming device. The pandemic pushed that time to more than 19 hours."

Clicking through to the source I can only assume that their survey subjects must be looking at TV screens, laptops and gaming devices concurrently. 19 hours a day would mean looking at some sort of screen in the shower and sleeping only 5 hours a day.

Not TV, but something I used to look at every time I was at the British Museum. There's a virtual tour here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/assyrian-...

I remember learning that cuneiform isn't an alphabet and doesn't have characters, but rather characters to write syllables so it could be used to spell English or Chinese.

Until the invention of the pogo stick. Which the internet informs me was only a few years later...

Apparently the combustion engine was invented before the bicycle as bikes need ball bearings to function smoothly, which also requires advanced machinery.

https://www.ft.com/content/9084f6ad-6146-4b38-8e7c-faf850f90...