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Harris significantly outspent Trump, particularly in key swing states.

Part of the reason why in particular English & French settlers saw the local Indians as incapable of building the things they saw is because by the time they were settling these ar…

Relevant article from patio11 on how to fix this problem if you have it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

The context is more like this: we regularly have internal brainstorming sessions when we run up an interesting or tricky problem, to come up with ideas on how to solve it. So in th…

Scientific computing. We write software to do domain-specific scientific analysis on customers' machines. So we have a diverse set of needs of the specific analyses to do: sometime…

Interviewees are encouraged to use Google, code on a laptop rather than on a whiteboard, etc. Sadly, I only get an hour to interview people rather than a week. But I have had peopl…

It's the other way around: the "green = new" is derived from the usage of green timber, where newly cut timber is literally green.

I've heard bitching about some of the interview questions our team asks before, but here's the thing: each of those questions is about a problem our team actually had to solve befo…

Compare to needle cases, which were similar womens' tools. Most of them were wooden or bone, but rich women would get fancy ones made of bronze, and pretty commonly be buried with …

It was found in a woman's grave goods: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s00283-013-9403-7 Sewing, spinning, weaving, and knitting tools are fairly common grave goods to find in women's g…

Plenty of people foresaw it. California spent ~$200m on building up a stockpile of PPE and other medical supplies back in 2006, before Brown cut funding for the program in 2011.

I think we're at the point where public mandates are doing more harm than good. I am disappointed that there are so many people pushing back against simple approval of an effective…

Because the largest risk anyone has found with the Pfizer vaccine is of myocarditis in teenage boys.

The risks of Covid to children is, as you say, extremely low. The risk of the Pfizer vaccine to children is even lower. Right now those "individuals with an underlying complex disa…

Here you go, Bernal Diaz del Castillo's account of the conquest of Mexico, written as a soldier in Cortez' company: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm

More than 90% collapse in Mexico from 1520 to 1580, mostly from three epidemics. Starting from ~22m, 8m (37%) dead from a 1520 smallpox epidemic, 12-15m dead (~80%) from a 1545 coc…

There's one, at Fort Pitt during the French and Indian war, as documented by multiple letters, as described in your link.

There is exactly one documented case of deliberate attempts to spread smallpox among the Indians, from the British during the French & Indian war. https://www.history.com/news/colo…

California regulatory requirements basically shut down drivers owning their own trucks: the cheap old diesel trucks aren't in compliance anymore. So there's a lot of scummy leasing…

But lots of stocks have their spread limited by the subpenny rule, in which case additional HFT in that market is completely socially useless.

But the spread in many-to-most stocks is limited by the sub-penny rule (SEC rules, as of 2005, say you can't have a spread < $0.01) rather than by the supply of market makers in th…

The Amish do not simply reject all technology past a particular date. Instead, they collectively decide on whether their community will use any particular new technology, based on …

It's really strange seeing the anti-suburban attitudes right after we got a lesson in why relying on communal urban amenities doesn't always work. We moved to a nice town in walkin…

Scott has OCD. Search for "obsessive compulsive disorder" here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/11/going-loopy/

Brain drain from developing to developed countries is far from a clear win. Here's some good links talking about the effect of emigration of Kenyan health care workers (mostly to t…