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Forbes recalculated the wealth of the richest billionaires to add back in what they gave to charity.

I have had the misfortune of having to get D&B numbers (for various Apple things). I believe is the source for lead lists where you start to get dozens to text and phone spam calls…

No. They are by far the safest drivers in Santa Monica. Ideally we get to a point where human drivers are banned.

I was just dropping my kids off at their elementary school in Santa Monica, but not at Grant Elementary where this happened. While it's third-hand, word on the local parent chat is…

Wasn't that Scott McNealy? (Though, if I recall your bio from previous HN posts, you'd know far better than me.)

There was a version of streptococcus mutans developed that didn’t produce tons of lactic acid and would have pretty much ended tooth decay back in 2000. Iirc, it was built to outco…

Looking, you’re right. Those are regulated at the state level. But it does look like pretty much every state has a law.

In the US, I believe that would not be legal under GINA (the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008) https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Genetic-... (Ed…

The change you describe from N+1 to N+2 wasn’t made to defeat your hack. It was made because we got lots of complaints that people thought the filters were buggy/broken when they s…

The YIMBY's are asking the individual property owners be allowed to decide what to do with their own properties. Not letting government dictate what people do doesn't seem like "ty…

It changed its name from the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 1990. (Over time they’ve also eliminated some of the sections most correlated with IQ.) There’s a good history of the SAT a…

Is the creator thinking of doing another printing? If not can someone recommend a service that will print a high quality card deck given the PDF?

Salganik MJ, Dodds S, Watts DJ Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1121066

I am not a lawyer, but I've had to argue about copyright with several. In the United States, there are two bits of case law that are widely cited and relevant: In Kelly v. Arriba S…

Or if not, their work for 43 of the 100 largest global polluters [0] or illegal corruption in Africa? [1] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/business/mckinsey-climate... [1] ht…

Good point but I wonder which way the causality runs? I could make the argument either way: 1) Parent expectations higher -> college becomes more expensive 2) People would love col…

In 1999, Brown University which had only used 863- added the 867- exchange. A suite of students got 5309 and kept getting calls asking for “Jenny” at all hours. They stopped assign…