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Really? I still have my 9.95 PayPal email receipt from buying the game in 2010, but I don’t have a single email sent to that email address about any sort of migration.

Email me and I can connect you with some. There is a FB group for folks growing them in the NYC area, plus a list of all the parks where they are planted.

> Homeopathy was invented after the discovery of germ theory [1][2]. So not really. Germ Theory was only finally accepted (after initially being rejected) due to the advent of evid…

There is a huge amount of overlap between the genes associated with schizophrenia and the genes associated with autism. This is part of what makes it tricky to diagnose yourself, b…

Not to be confused with Google’s existing product called Wiz.

Having worked at both greenfield startups and unicorns, I've found that virtually every problem I've encountered at the unicorn startups was caused by folks being incompetent at th…

For both Amazon and Nvidia, their marginal costs are probably much lower than their fixed costs.

> Did they buy some code for Gmail from an older company? They bought both Deja and Neotonic.

I mean the I would really only include the code for things like: - Fetching email messages - Parsing email headers - Mime parsing - Converting the text of email bodies into UTF-8 -…

This is a pretty good talk on the history of email: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q

He wasn't sitting there writing binary code and implementing all 7 layers of the OSI stack by hand, he was was gluing together pre-existing components. And the pre-existing compone…

> You guys cloned a whole suite of products in a short period of time that cost millions of dollars. At the risk of stating the obvious, the functionality isn't actually cloned, on…

> Prompt engineering is like a shittier verson of writing a VBA app inside Excel or Access. Sure, if you could use VBA to read a patient's current complaint, vitals, and medical hi…

This is the key issue. There is zero doubt whatsoever that flossing is essential, and the fact that the empirical evidence is equivocal shows the limitations of science to prove ev…

> What’s stopping a similar crisis that 23andMe customers faced where their genetic data along with their identifying information getting sold to the highest bidder if you ever bec…

> But then at the end it added a "Fun fact" that unicode actually does have a seahorse emoji, and proceeded to melt down in the usual way. To be fair, most developers I’ve worked w…

There is at least one service that scrapes and archives the DKIM keys of popular websites.

More common than needing stitches? That’s hard to believe.