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I don't know about number 7 - most of the USA is actually pretty nicely temperate. There are some exceptions like death valley (3000 sq mi) or the chihuahan dessert (about 25000 sq mi in the USA), or some parts of Alaska, but we're talking about a very small area of a 3.7 million sq mi country. If those aren't your thing, I do recommend skipping them. UAE is only 32000 sq mi and it's all very very hot.

Otherwise that's all fairly accurate. But Disney world is pretty damn great.

Though a lot of what say is reasonable, it's of interesting note that NASA has had this issue basically since day 1. Many of these causes boil down to the same issues that caused the devastating Apollo 1 fire.

oh yeah, this is super true of sales. everyone in your sales org needs absurd titles or nobody will ever speak to them. Just one of those things apparently.

Interesting the Atlantic is considered to skew left

You can get 8gbs?!?! What can you do with that? I have 1 gbs and the bottleneck isn't that bandwidth for pretty much anything.

Depends on the artist...T. Swift vs. Rogan would be a pretty close thing.

I don't know man - graduate student might be the only job that's more demanding that amazon warehouse employee.

So interesting that we're comparing to buzzfeed, who also has a fairly good investigative journalism group!

Here's a rather interesting one: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/collection/wwfsecretwar

Really recommend longreads.com

Mostly they curate other's long form journalism, but also have some of their own and usually quite good. They'll link out to eater, ny magazine, aeon, nautilus, outsideonline, nytimes, propublica (super recommend these) and anyone else producing good content.

The study that pushed that thought about wine tasting was looking at amateur enthusiasts, not professionals. The top folks can identify, in all common cases, the vineyard that a wine has come from. Some aspects of this are surprisingly straightforward to learn. Smell is an incredibly powerful sense when you train it, but most of us don't. It is not pseudoscience, though you can have a pretty solid debate about whether it's truly a useful skill or not.

Rounded corners actually

The skyscraper point is tremendously silly. Sure, the max height has slowed it's march (though not stopped!), but far more supertall towers have been erected since 2001, than had been previously. This is because of cost decrease and technology improvements. (As an aside, a lot of this is owed to work resulting from the 9/11 attacks).

Funnily I've had many Amazon engineers fail system design interviews because they only ever saw their little area with more senior people handling all of the interesting stuff.

I also consider a small company starting to bring on ex-Amazon managers a sign that it's on its last legs.

Amazon used to be great. They used to refund, or replace an order immediately. The other day I literally had a chat support agent tell me to call the shipper to check status and then gave me the Amazon support number, because Amazon was the shipper. This was after the website showed it as probably lost. They have decided that they don't need to care anymore. Oh, they also have started hiding the late order in your order history... imagine hoping you'll forget.

Very frequently seen $5000 or even $10000...often from hypergrowth venture backed start ups. There is nothing insulting about that.

Wait...what on earth is American paella?!?!?!

This is a really awfully broad generalization. Crime in SF, NY, Chicago, Boston, LA or Houston are all vastly different situations. Even with shootings up a ton this past year, NYC is still safer per capita than places like Savannah. SF seems to have gotten very out of control, though. Fwiw, I would never leave my car unlocked anywhere, but I also wouldn't feel weird about leaving a bag out. And there is a ton of pick pocketing and petty theft in places like Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome and Paris. Big cities require some attentiveness.

Forced exclusion sounds terrible. It's about having options, so there is not forced inclusion, which is the trap we've found ourselves in.

Everyone ignores early endings, late starts is so much better!

Business selling faraday cages for the home, anyone?

This reads like an episode of black mirror. It's also brilliant. I also think we'll see this company IPO for $4 billion in 2030.

I'm sorry to be this guy, but it's "tenure"

Ok, so cancer is essentially a blanket term for describing that you have a group of cells in your body doing uncontrollable runaway mitosis (replicating themselves). But the thing is that it's caused by hundreds of different mutations to your cells in thousands of combinations. So developing a single way to combat all of this is super hard. But if we can identify your particular set of mutations and train your body to attack cells with those, we can get rid of your cancer and prevent it from returning. There are a few strategies for this and it's how some of the most incredible cancer therapies of the last few years work...those are just only applicable to certain very specific mutations.

I've seen realtors ask for ID unless you're accompanied by another realtor (who would leave a card). Basically they want a record of people through the house in case something does happen. You could easily make a fake business card, of course... professional courtesy means a realtor seldom asks another for an id. But this would likely only work briefly in a given area once word got out.

Only comment is that keeping your money in cash instead of invested for a 5 year horizon isn't wise. Put them in something on the safer side - I'm not saying buy Bitcoin or something - but that's a long time to have your money not be working for you at all. Interest rates at way below inflation.

Cash is held for it's stability. bitcoin is the polar opposite of stability right now.

another thread noted that the hardened CPU was not fast enough to do the required sensor fusion and responses. In the case of a severe fault, the 801 can be restarted fast enough (while in mid flight!) to not crash the vehicle.

I've felt that same freaking feeling as a US citizen returning to my own country! It's crazy! The customs officials entering the Netherlands were cracking jokes with us, the ones entering japan were unflinchingly polite and effective. At home I feel like I'm a criminal.

J&J only announced phase 3 results a few days ago and will be up for approval shortly. the Astrazenaca vaccine's results were a mess of p-hacking and mixing methods (they reported a result on a half-size first dose which occurred by accident and in a non-representative population because it looked good).

Personally it makes me more confident in the FDA that they have yet to approve that vaccine.

shorting is identically borrowing. You borrow the stock from someone who owns it, and resell it at the current price. Then later down the road, you buy it back at the lower price and return it to the original owner. You have made money on whatever that difference is. This is not a metaphor, this is how shorting operates.

It can easily go over 100% if the person you sell it to also lends it to someone to short (and they have no clue that the share they bought was involved a short, already).

Note - this is why it's possible to lose your shirt when you are shorting. Eventually you will need to return that stock you've sold, which means buying it at whatever the price is. So if it goes WAAAY up, you lose a lot of money. In contrast to buying a stock, where you can only lose your position.