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The article hints at a special relationship with NVIDIA, but it goes back a long time. They didn't move recently to be close to NVIDIA's HQ. They have been there for 30 years. For …

I'm very glad to hear that your son had a happy outcome! "Ear infection" is often not even a heuristic. Pediatricians sometimes say that when it's not obvious what's wrong with a s…

It's not about traveling. It's about staying as long as he wants to and whenever he wants to. American citizens are limited to staying 90 days (in any 180 day period) in the EU as …

I recently bought an Epson Perfection V600 based on online reviews and I've been pretty happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OEBMRU/ (I used to have a CanoScan 8800…

At Harvard and MIT "need-blind" means that all admitted students receive a financial aid package, adjusted for the student's financial means, to make it work somehow. It's a combin…

Yes, most "top" schools do not have Harvard's endowment, so they have to work with a limited budget. Still, their motivation is quite different from GP's suggestion that they are a…

> International students usually pay a much higher effective tuition rate. That might be true for other universities but not for Harvard and MIT, whose admissions are aid-blind and…

The whole thing is optimized for maximum cruelty, but the suggestion that students should transfer to another school that has in-person classes is just mockery. In normal times tra…

FD orders come from their warehouses. With Amazon WF, a shopper goes around the store picking your items. The last time I was in a WF almost half of the people in the store were Am…

Lots of negativity in this thread and comments from people that either have not had children or have had them so long ago that they don't remember what is age-appropriate for a 3-y…

It's called adverse selection. You don't want to be on the other side of an order from an informed trader, because the market is moving against you in the short run. In the longer …

Making a reservation or ordering food from Bloomberg Chat actually sounds like a feature that would be used by a lot of traders. I doubt that there are many restaurants that have a…

As a tourist, crossing from the German-speaking to the French-speaking part, the differences were quite noticeable. I was told that something like 30% of the population never cross…

Supa has western European etymology, and chorba was the word brought by the Ottomans. Not sure about Romania, but throughout the Balkans the difference in meaning is mostly in the …

I was disappointed to find out that the ex-WOW developer in the title was Mark Kern. Sometimes the messenger can undermine the message. Reading his Twitter thread seemed like he is…

I'm wandering what services and price structures you are referring to. Examples? While there are vast differences between what's available to low income vs., say, upper middle-clas…

Streeteasy started employing the same dark pattern a few months ago. It seems like companies who have an effective monopoly just cannot resist the temptation. They replaced the lis…

The ports of LA and LB handle something like 40% of the US-China trade. There are "clean trucks" requirements, but that can be enforced only in the immediate vicinity of the port. …

The benefit is decoupling the timing of setting funds aside for charity and the timing of donating to organizations. For example, let's say that your income this year was unusually…

Frankly, I don't remember with certainty. But Wikipedia seems to agree with what my memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit " The term GPU was popularized by…

From what I remember, the term GPU was invented by NVIDIA's marketing team for the GeForce campaign. It sounded a bit weird in the beginning. In hindsight, it was a strike of geniu…

I have heard from ex-Bing engineers that Microsoft had deprioritized search R&D a couple of years ago. Since then there has been an exodus of engineers from that group.

Babynests seem to be a Nordic thing, I guess? Personally, I had never heard of them until I read your comment. For what it's worth, the US market seems to be quite unexplored, some…

"Could have gone for citizenship, but didn't. I was never seen as an American." Perhaps you were not seen as an American because you yourself didn't feel that way? I would think th…

I have really enjoyed watching this show but the last few episodes it seems like the writing has went downhill. There were a number of cringe worthy scenes like "tabs vs spaces".