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> Caribou are herded This is literally the purpose of a stone wall: herding the animals in a specific direction, to a specific location. > not sure why you would make a wall to hun…

> A prehistoric structure reminiscent of England’s iconic Stonehenge has been uncovered in Grand Traverse Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan on the western shore of Michigan’s Lower Peni…

Strongly recommend this deep dive podcast from Acquired https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc

Friend who spent time there 2008-10 has a great line: "the air is a prison".

Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper https://www.cbc.ca/books/wilful-blindness-1.6136088

I have the exact opposite experience. My first time ever wearing a helmet on the slopes I slammed head-first into a tree. Got up, laughed it off, and rode away. Better lucky than g…

For anyone missing context, joke refers to the fabulous TV show `Detectorists`. Well worth your time to watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists

This. Nextjs / Vercel is amazing. React + Typescript for building (Nextjs), Vercel for devops (hosting, dns, CI/CD). Excellent DX and customer service (the CEO/devrel will reply to…

High Output Management by Andy Grove (Operations, people mgmt) Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Compani…

pg and others commonly cite founder divorce as reason startups fail. If Tiny et al can workaround for this (liquidity + recruiting network), they can unlock value that would otherw…

There are several initiatives in the hunting and fishing community doing this, aka buying land, managing the wilderness, and making it available to the public. * The Theodore Roose…

> that nature is there to be economically exploited. Does a species run up a loss? Extinction is its fate. Nature will do what it wants, so I can't speak for the wolves. Humans on …

Related, an excellent podcast episode by that name "Landscape of Fear" from Meateater: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-162-landsca... Steven Rinella talks with Dr.…

This is fascinating: > Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mind-cont... the study for those tha…

While morbid to some, pet crematoriums are potentially great business for 3 reasons: * service that humans require in perpetuity * luxury status good * no one wants to own/operate …

And, it's back up per OP. https://twitter.com/Twotafkap/status/1443250484458962953

The drama with Google has to be mentioned as major part of their company history. They also had a famous fight with heroku https://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annot…

> Heat shock proteins are produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions (heat, cold, UV light, and during wound healing or tissue remodeling) > Many members of …

Came here to post something similar, "I don't experience this problem..." and realized this is due to my age (approaching 40yo) and having the good fortune of curated great group o…

Very few firms want to hire juniors, while nearly all firms desire senior-level talent. This manifests inflated job vacancies because so many firms have an evergreen job posting fo…

IIRC, in this[1] video Andrej Karpathy mentions radar was mostly redundant, and in addition was occasionally harmful (sending conflicting signals vs. video), so they got rid of it …

Likely because of the outliers. If you live in a "nice quiet neighbourhood" and an airbnb party house emerges, everyone freaks out. Horror stories on sites like https://www.airbnbh…

Agree. They own the company, success or failure is on their name. A 2-person team on brink of failure doing week or two of 18-hour days to rescue the business (and reputation to le…

A few charts showing 20-year quit rates via FRED: * ALL Non-Farm: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR * Professional and Business Services (which I believe captures software)…

Canada is widely known (internally and among allies) to be an easy place to launder money (relative to other similar countries). > The U.S. Department of State has designated Canad…