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Abstract from the Nature Sustainability paper:

From a single planting, irrigated perennial rice produced grain for eight consecutive harvests over four years, averaging 6.8 Mg ha−1 harvest−1 versus the 6.7 Mg of replanted annual rice, which required additional labour and seed. Four years of cropping with perennial rice resulted in soils accumulating 0.95 Mg ha–1 yr–1 organic carbon and 0.11 Mg ha−1 yr−1 nitrogen, along with increases in soil pH (0.3–0.4) and plant-available water capacity (7.2 mm). Perennial cultivars are strongly preferred by farmers; growing them saves 58.1% of labour and 49.2% of input costs in each regrowth cycle. In 2021, perennial rice was grown on 15,333 ha by 44,752 smallholder farmers in southern China. Suited to a broad range of frost-free environments between 40° N and 40° S, perennial rice is a step change with potential to improve livelihoods, enhance soil quality and inspire research on other perennial grains.

"It was incredibly fragrant and super tasty."

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1165680024

It is not admin staff - overheads have generally been constant as a % of other expenses. The biggest components of cost escalation are MUCH higher spending on student services (3x at Princeton in the last 20 years), library expenses, and staff benefits cost escalation.

I did the analysis for Princeton once - the average out of pocket cost was $15,000 per year. That has remained constant even as sticker prices (and the cost per student) has escalated.

What people don't appreciate is how much expense per student has skyrocketed in the last 20 years. Princeton has about 100 more student sports staffers, and spends about $45,000 per year per student in student services. Library expenses have also escalated far faster than inflation.

Adrian Tchaickovsky's "Children of Ruin" is solid scifi on what uplifted Octopus might look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Ruin

The "S" in SEC stands for "Securities" -> they are chartered to protect investors. There are other bodies who are chartered to protect consumers.

You don't know her deal yet. She might still be going to prison. (If my copious Law & Order watching is anyway accurate.)

It reminds me of a what a friend of mine said who priced Mortgage Backed Securities before the financial crisis "Oh, we never modeled different mortgage default rates - those were fixed assumptions. The really complicated math was driven by interest rates."

He did leave me with the impression that tnterest rate modeling was technically challenging and had lots of scope for sophisticated work - so that's where the effort went.

the coastguard?

I think we've learned a lot about soil complexity since then and how hard soil is to create.

Also went to an ivy and found the "math for non-majors" to be pretty well taught & very manageable - although I did have pretty solid high school math.

I did not have the same experience with my first physics for majors course - which was taught by a guy who talked into the blackboard and spent the entire class writing on the board in a fugue. Made me switch majors.

Just don't try to use cross document embedding (like putting an excel chart in a word doc) - that would blue screen my PC fairly reliably

If it's significant enough, the SEC will knock on your door when this happens in the regular market

Same way - the extended 3rd century crisis in the Roman Empire led to a loss of sculpting expertise. No art was commissioned for so long that skills weren't passed on.

The Terraform ecosystem worked with VM's - big difference vs. Docker. The VMware ecosystem spends a TON of money on software.

Yes a bunch of SVG ops have been offloaded to Skia GPU rendering.

Yes it is insane. Apple's SVG development team is practically non-existent.

Has YC ever published a full retrospective of the YC classes by cohort: for every class showing last company valuation or year of exit (M&A, acquihire, shutdown)?

From what I've read, it matters a great deal what time period you're talking about. Like the Ummayyads were pretty tolerant, but the Almohads were quite oppressive.

Well it's not a myth - but it is relatively minor compared to - say fossil fuel based power generation. Methane output is well documented - about 1lb a day for dairy cows and about half that for beef cows - without mitigation from additives.

Beyond Meat is a fairly big % of this and they had a bad Q1 (11% growth) but a good Q2 (30%+). I personally don't like the taste of Beyond Meat (although I find the Impossible Burger delicious - and tastes exactly like high quality meat.)

It has a fine sprinkling of Russian state information talking points for some weird reason.

You don't have to resort to QAnon thinking about cabal's and secret clubs when institutional protection is plenty motivation all by itself (which is what happened in my school with a pedophile priest).

Well this is a roundup of a bunch of sources:

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2021/03/are-catholic-c...

5.6% is the estimated historical incidence rate for pedophile priests in the US. 7% of Australian priests have face accusation - so incidence would be a little lower. The pope was reported as saying 2% - but the interview in which this happened was walked back by the Vatican. 2-3% would be on the low end. I'm surprised that you would consider this hyperbole after the endless revelations over the last two decades.

The protagonist is a synthesist - whose sole job is to translate the incomprehensible in-language of the augmented scientists to mission control

Yes, now would be a great time to join Amplitude.

Just be aware that if you invested via a convertible note, that the QSBS holding period may not start until that note converted into stock - particularly if the note had any debt-like features like interest payments.

Chinese emissions are primarily because of a choice to exploit its thermal coal reserves for power generation instead of going nuclear. Probably was cheaper and faster to go that way - but it was definitely a choice.