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Your comment reminded me of this Asimov short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

That's from Indeed. And, Indeed has fewer job postings overall [ https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUS ]. Should we normalize the software jobs with the total number of Indee…

Manhattenhenge: https://shademap.app/@40.75481,-73.98696,14.82042z,171702794... https://www.amnh.org/research/hayden-planetarium/manhattanhe...

I've seen articles saying that it would be hard to find any large enough investors to buy it who also don't cause a monopoly. Can ByteDance spin off TikTok to a separate company wh…

Anthropic's Claude summarized this, too (the article was too long for ChatGPT): In April 1993, Don Calhoun made a miraculous full-court shot during a Chicago Bulls game to win $1 m…

I have a deck of these cards from the 80s in very good condition (except the box is not in good shape). Let me know if you want it and if you live in Seattle I'll give it to you (o…

Woops, I guess I was thinking more about ordering online and picking up the food myself. I usually just call the restaurants to place my take out order, but tend to prefer places w…

It seems like this area is ripe for a non-profit, open source platform to help out. What options are out there along these lines?

See here: http://www.counsyl.com/ But, about 30 genomic mutations are spontaneous every generation. I have one that causes brittle bone disease. So, just knowing the parents' genom…

That paper is a mini review of this paper which actually has the data in it: http://emboj.embopress.org/content/37/14/e98597 In there, they did work on A549 cell lines and showed t…

If I am European and I ask Facebook to remove my data, will they also remove pictures of me which are owned by my family? I doubt it, and that's also the problem with providing con…

From their blog: "In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known p…

Last paragraph: The University of California, Los Angeles, owns a U.S. patent (6,274,119) entitled “Methods for Labeling ß-Amyloid Plaques and Neurofibrillary Tangles”, which has b…

And real tumors are quite heterogeneous, so maybe experiments done with contaminated cell lines are more realistic than those done with pure cell lines.

I totally agree. I just wonder if there is some way to take that open space, visual programming which so many people do with Excel and make it more robust. Well, actually, lots of …

The article didn't mention it, but I think that Excel is a great example of where "the masses" have learned to do programming. It is visual and the effects of changes are immediate…

A few points not yet mentioned: - Increasing the diversity of the Amazon culture by having an HQ in a new city will help Amazon understand the customer better... the last election …

If you are skeptical of the company's future, and the CEO is not to be trusted (and it is clear he is trying to take advantage of you), then ask yourself if you had 100k, would you…

I really like this idea! No one else mentioned it on the comments (and I saw this post too late for too many others to notice), but if we got more companies to do this, then it cou…

This is a very important question - many employers get mad when you have side projects. Tread carefully or at least work on something clearly unrelated to the business of your empl…

What about enormous sunspots or some type of variable star - why is there no mention of this as a possibility?

ditto that, I just read the whole thing! I knew some of those tricks and others were new. Thanks!

Australian journalist does not agree with this story: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2015/02/24/was-mh370...

That seems like an important fact which should have been in the main story! Thanks for pulling it out.