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> The goal is economic growth, which matters more than anything else. To some people, but not everyone. It doesn't make sense to give unqualified "bests" without these kinds of cav…

To what end? "Best" implies towards a certain goal. Is the goal economic growth? Or is it a fair society? Those are very different. For example, if the goal is a fair society, then…

In California, it is regulated: https://california.public.law/codes/food_and_agricultural_co...

Writing blog posts has become cheap, making them sound human has become hard.

Thank you!!

This is wonderful. Could you add European-style (i.e. non-Greek) yogurt as an option? That's what I most often have on hand.

Please, if you want to persuade me, do it yourself. If you don’t believe in it enough to go through the effort to write the article, and instead ask an LLM to do it, it’s not going…

I hate that in our modern world, we are obsessed with being "productive". Why is this important? Why do we punish ourselves for being "unproductive"? Maybe we should try and spend …

I don't know whether to call it a corner case or not, but I was pretty easily able to find this one (based on my own experience – the peak temperature in the East Bay has always fe…

The plot is almost exactly the start of one of my favorite Onion Talks, What is The Biggest Rock? https://youtube.com/watch?v=aO0TUI9r-So

This is interesting. Could you provide any information about this commercial product? As far as I understand, the most sophisticated treatment happening is low oxygen storage. But …

Apple grower here. I still don't understand Honeycrisps. I'm on the younger side, so I haven't seen that many years of Honeycrisp, but I feel I have never had a good one. My experi…

Hive and Impala are databases. Presto and SparkSQL are SQL interfaces to many different datasources, including Hive and Impala, but also any SQL database such as Postgres/Redis/etc…

I believe there are HLB-infected trees in California as well: https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-citrus-greening-20190329-... reports that there are over 1,000 affected trees as of…

Some folks also report to having success using cover crops to restore soil, to mitigate the effects of HLB: http://citrusindustry.net/2019/11/18/cover-crops-bring-hlb-r...

Could you elaborate on what "Money at the End of the Rainbow" business model is? Thanks!

> Because Facebook is battling Google for engineers. So you've got a big fight between two companies over which company is the coolest place to work, and both of them are companies…

> Because Facebook is battling Google for engineers. So you've got a big fight between two companies over which company is the coolest place to work, and both of them are companies…

Very interesting concept, and I agree completely. One thing I've noticed in myself – and I'm curious if others have noticed this as well – is that the "million-dollar idea", as he …