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Googlers that were around when Vic Gundotra was a big player love trashing him. I was surprised when this blog described him in mixed and maybe even positive terms.

Source for your first claim? All the charts I’ve seen online (see [1] for an example) show that the other Anglophone countries you’ve listed now have more doctors per capita than t…

Making tech and gaming more inclusive for women isn’t something that just benefits women — as your comment shows it can benefit men as well.

> He explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize…

Thanks for pointing this out — I actually assumed the linked article was a different one[1] which implied that the third set could replace dentures: > When treatment of teeth is no…

Humans have three sets of tooth buds, the third of which most people never use. The version of this treatment for adults would grow this last set.

Humans have 3 sets of tooth buds. Most people never use the third set. For adults this treatment would aim to regrow the third set.

Apagard renamel is the variation with the highest concentration but also the highest price tag. https://www.oralcare.co.jp/faq/cat2/ (page is in Japanese)

I think it’s because focusing on the pipeline problem focuses on the parts of hiring that a company doesn’t have control over. Those decisions often happen in high school and tech …

The quote from the spokesperson at the very end really makes me think that this situation might stranger than it seems: In a statement to The Post, a spokesman for Miller denied th…

Yes, this is exactly the pattern you see in the r/c25k subreddit. Lots of people hit a wall (usually around week 5 or 6, where you start running for longer stretches of time) becau…

I think you’re right that the turtle one is the first (or at least one of the first) but there are lots of emoji reviews - see https://www.reddit.com/r/EmojiReview/#sort=top;t=all …

> In 2022 I kind of just assume the world is fairly gender-less in most respects Given that women’s participation in the labor force in the US passed 50% in the 1970s (well within …

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Yep. One study^1 estimates that zoning and land use restrictions across the country leads to an (unnecessary) increase in housing costs worth 2% of the US GDP (about $400 billion).…

That’s not the full context on the data OK Cupid released. Men tended to rate women in a normal distribution, but they also mostly messaged women in the uppermost range of attracti…

I agree that the thoughts and feelings of other people in general are difficult to predict. But a person you marry is often someone you spend a lot of time around and hence whose t…

Exactly. If you intend to throw a ball to your dog but accidentally break a vase as a result, does your original intention absolve you from the consequences of your actions?

“Seeing like a state” taught me what high modernism is and it’s pitfalls (since I - and I imagine many readers of HN - are already familiar with its strengths and achievements e.g.…

The vast majority of HN comments care much more about being right than being kind, and this has also been my experience within the tech industry in general. I doubt that the author…

Yes, if you want to say something reprehensible it’s fine as long as you say it in a long-winded and impartial-sounding fashion involving lots of “logic” and “objectivity” à la Sla…

For anyone that isn’t aware of the pop culture reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane

No, it’s a medical term that just means one condition often appears with another condition (e.g. maladaptive daydreaming often occurs with OCD).

It is easy to believe that “all government is bad” when the only government you’ve interacted with is the US government. Thanks for highlighting a counter example.