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KEXP is a local (and beloved) station for me. WIll have to give some of these others a listen if they're doing similar things.

You've got to find the rare radio stations with public support and human djs. kexp.org is a great one based out of Seattle with a wild variety of shows and decades of history. Are …

"Hey, the whole team is getting together for an all hands next week and I'd like you to join..."

Giant miscanthus can grow on land that's not viable for farming food (other than grazing grasses), has a lot of properties that ready it for becoming charcoal (high tonnage per acr…

Why's that, given that files are encrypted?

Speed of development of something important isn't necessarily good. Humans are bad at absorbing a lot of change at once and it takes time to recognize and mitigate second-order eff…

30 million people in the US are affected by "rare" genetic conditions.

"Locked doors only stop honest people" -Abe Lincoln

Up to 1/2 inch thickness... Great. Just need to 4x that to replace 2x4s, the construction material that the entire US home building process is built around. But looks like it's rea…

That seems unlikely, given that beekeepers have kept hives in similar thin-walled boxes for centuries and colony collapse is a recent phenomenon. Plus CC occurs in wild populations…

While it felt awkward at first, I've been intentionally trying to befriend my neighbors. I've managed it with one couple and am working on a second. Tech helps reduce the barriers …

As a long time PM (of all sorts of P)... If you don't want to have to talk to customers, which only one developer who I've ever worked with has actually wanted to do, you need a wa…

Yeah, they kind of blow past light sheet microscopy, but I'm optimistic that this can still be quite useful. There are brain banks with already donated brains that we could use to …

Mozilla's biggest source of revenue? Google. By about a factor of 5.

People usually overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years. Perception is reality. This is true of how you see the world and how people s…

They hadn't written the ending of Die Hard when they started filming - the Movies that Made us episode about it is pretty wild & illuminating.

Like Signal?

From Bacteria to Back and Back follows a similar path and was a worthwhile read for a layman like myself. It emphasizes the evolutionary fitness of ideas as well as biological evol…

Agreed, but on a transaction level having higher profit MARGINS is what enables the company to have money to plow back into the business.

More rich people in and of itself is not a bad thing, and as you say, having a baseline level of wealth in a nation leads to huge quality of life improvements. However, the increas…

I'll have to keep an eye out, thanks!

Sure. You want businesses you deal with to make profit, otherwise they won't be around to do business with in the future. In industrial supply chain, if you have two suppliers who …

BS. in a comment about pricing "more" does not include complex concepts like autonomy - it clearly only referred to money.

Humans have sapience. Cows don't. Cows should still be treated humanely and only have one bad day (when they're slaughtered) since they're clearly capable of suffering, but ignorin…