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Ultimately to the end of allowing Pittsburgh and the surrounding area to be a place with agglomeration effects, growth, and opportunities enough to allow smart and ambitious young …

you may mean exacerbate

BLM means Bureau of Land Management

Yes! Applications are open for YC Winter 2023! Started out /s, but upon consideration I imagine YC really is the closest you could get to the spirit of HN in an in-person meetup.

That's true, but I have a thesis for why this might be good for the biotech ecosystem. A lot of people will dismiss phage therapy on economic grounds, suggesting that you'd need to…

This site is actually doing something interesting through its curation, and I would be pretty impressed if that was how it was pitched to me. But I have to agree, expecting a books…

I think the concern is that you could still be getting pharmacodynamic effects at 1mg, so the control wouldn’t really be a control. It’s entirely feasible that you could get good r…

I remember exactly where I was, about a year ago today, when I realized Deep Thought was an existentialist. B2 Data Structures lab in a building called Fitz. I knew I couldn’t have…

Here’s how this gets broken: The more countries faithfully adhere to the global corporate minimum, the stronger the incentive becomes for a “cheating” country to lower its rate. Th…

Happy you found it helpful! The final section (imposters) of this [1] simplified exploration of “green beard altruism” might be of interest to you if you want to explore this furth…

The point is that effective tax rates can be really subtle. For instance, you could have a country change what it considers to be “profit” so that you’re paying $2 on $100 of reven…

Whether or not we see such a harmonized tax rate emerge and even if we could find a way to have some governing body “enforce” it, you’d still see countries lowering their effective…

Careful, there are a lot of people who wish IQ tests didn’t have anything useful to say about intelligence. Implying that IQ tests can be useful tools and that their results might …

People have definitely gotten smarter. Here’s a small case which might help illustrate how this happens in general: We know infection with hookworms and other soil-transmitted helm…

This just sounds like a really clever mechanism for solving the cold-start problem for the protocol. You generate a bit of initial demand to pull in some initial supply, which in t…

At the beginning of the pandemic the world health organization was saying that there was no evidence of human to human transmission, when there was. The surgeon general of the Unit…

Here’s the thing to understand: the “economists” you’re watching on TV are not representative of the field, and TV economics is hardly a better source of information on economics t…

Watching a tech company break free of legacy media and seize control of its narrative and position in the culture is awe-inspiring. Stripe is all the more impressive because their …

I get it, and I actually agree that the culture you describe isn't a good look. What I'm going for is more the idea that if you consider the best alternative I can think of to the …

I used to think that the “holistic” criteria elite US colleges use to select students was a failure of meritocracy. My view was that the non-objective metrics were excuses for coll…

The idea is that you want a trusted third party because either of the two adversarial parties could screw the other over. The company could say: we’re going to pay you 125 and you …

I don’t think it’s accurate to say Tesla is developing an AGI. I mean, the point of the project is to get a computer to drive a vehicle, not interpret French literature, which mean…

I mean he was promising to land rockets and put men in space and launch a mass market electric vehicle for quite a bit before he did any of those. Loads of people called Elon a cha…

1: Agreed. 2: One of the problems a lot of people see barring the use of bacteriophage therapy for combating bacterial infection in the clinic is the really fine specificity of mos…