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They missed a great chance to call this "To Serve Man."

These are great. I particularly like Waymo because of aggressively most of the media/talking heads wrote them off as "never going to beat Tesla" because google. In the end, they to…

My list wasn't meant to exhaustive. Honestly not much of a list, just a few examples. SpaceX and Nvidia are both examples of deep technical moats, as are some of the others mention…

Fair enough. I definitely should have added nvidia to the list.

Thank you. What I love about that quote is that he knew that, some day, the cure rate would go even higher.

Thank you. I've only ever had bad luck creating Wikipedia entries, though it's been a while.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. He was.

Thank you. My sister is an incredible write and he was a perfect subject.

Thank you.

I don't fully understand how he did it. I know he took a lot from the line in the Talmud that said "whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world." My mom s…

Thanks for saying that. Here's a bit more about him from the obituary my sister wrote: https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/pnys1147090

My dad started his work as a Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist in the late 60s. He had a firm belief that cure rates could and would climb as a result of research and better clinic…

I was six when Flood came out. My brother had a bootleg copy, which I later "borrowed" and carried around with me in my walkman (also "borrowed"). It was so...different than anythi…

Much as I’d love to debate you about this here, I don’t think either of us will convince the other - or anyone else - in this format. Always happy to have a real conversation about…

The overall tenor of this thread, and this comment in particular, is diving right into deep conspiracy theory territory. There’s a huge difference between supporting an ally with c…

On photography, in no real order, and probably overweight on street photography. - Henri Cartier Bresson - Joseph Koudelka - Gordon Parks - Phil Penman - Alan Schiller - Annie Leib…

Well I do have you to thank for teaching me about combinatorial auctions :). That said, you can think of the auction in two parts - the first gets the relevant people from the star…