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> What's true is that most stocks, including IPOs, don't do well in the long run. The half-life of a publicly traded company is something like 10 years. I was very surprised to rea…

What about pirated models?

25 years roof lifetime might be right for cheap asphalt shingles that are popular in the US. Concrete and clay tiles, which are common in e.g. Germany, will last 50y and 100y respe…

From the article: “ Cider was a light client that opened much faster than traditional IDEs. All the magic happened on a backend that indexes the entire codebase, so that all the da…

> there's no reason to believe the progress of LLMs [...] will stop anytime soon Wrong. Every advancement has followed a s curve. Where we are on that curve is anyones guess. Or ma…

"Goodwill Industries was established in 1902 and is widely known across the country as the place where we all donate clothing and household goods to help others." That's the first …

Very cool! Thanks for the detailed tech blog explainer. Some, hopefully constructive, feedback: - You mention "other games" several times. It would be so much more interesting to r…

It’s not bs. France is lobbying for “Eurobonds”, debt they can take at German interest rates and with Germans etc holding the bag, for about two decades now. https://youtu.be/tMd7E…

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Maybe, but there is a trend towards more and longer education. More college graduates, more PhD grads, etc.

Given how many of these problems are self-inflicted, maybe we should focus more on trips to the moon and beyond, not less.

Sorry, I should have quoted properly in my reply. My first sentence ("Yes.") was in general agreement with you, the second sentence was specifically about > Mathematica has been ab…

> There is no history of any sort of long planning Sure there is. Its the formal education system that produced the college grad.

That would be cheating. If the exam is 'gate keeping', I will say that it is a gate worth keeping. To be clear, I am not against alternative forms of education. Degrees are optiona…

Yes. But to be fair to your specific point, symbolic solving of integrals used to be a huge skill in the engineering education. Nowadays, it is not a focus anymore, because numeric…

Every PhD program I'm aware of has a final hurdle known as the defence. You have to present your thesis while standing in front of a committee, and often the local community and pu…

Awesome! Small feedback: The test should maybe auto run. I solved the first level and was confused why I didn't proceed. The out was -1 (but goal was z) and it took me a while to s…

Guys, this is a well known and under utilized effect of human psycho physiology. Visually focusing on a single point, small object, or just small visual field (aka tunnel vision) i…