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Where's the evidence the books are "rare"?

>120 biolabs in over 30 countries And yet the only ones listed in detail are the ones in Ukraine, huh.

You should ask BigCo if they're only providing goods/services to their customers "for the money."

He did so well with Theranos

Now we're seeing more colon cancer in young people. All of the discussion is around factors that change slowly (diet, alcohol, exercise), no one I've heard has pointed out that a p…

Have always been fascinated with Paul Ewald's arguments (as laid out in his books The New Germ Theory of Disease and Evolution of Infectious Disease) that most chronic illnesses ar…

This seems similar to the "let's just rebuild from scratch" impulse that has been tried so many times on very large complicated systems and often, although not always, fails.

I'm not arguing that layoffs lead to a death spiral. I'm arguing that if you're on a downward trajectory and your primary strategy is layoffs and cutting expenses, rather than inve…

Anyone have examples of companies that were in trouble and cut employees and spending heavily and that led them back to success? My personal experience with working for such compan…

My question is less about PDFs and more about the notion that all the facts needed for the RAG are in documents. In my experience just a fraction of the questions that might be use…

The emphasis on PDFs for RAG seems like something out of the 1990s. Are there any good frameworks for using RAG if your company doesn't go around creating documents left and right?…

How do you know you're actually getting what you bought?

Quantum entanglement

Police in my city go to pretty much every protest and take video and photos (with big zoom lens) from the roofs of nearby buildings. It's always surprising to me that more people d…

You're conflating outright fraud with a difference of scientific opinion?

Where are these numbers from? How does 5 million housing units from 2020-2023 (this was published in 2024) translate into "90K housing units" >The United States has added almost 5 …

>If you make them feel good, they’ll say yes. You could really generalize and say this is about relationships in general. If people leave interactions with you feeling good about t…

You think they all magically figured out they were overstaffed at the same time? It's 100% herd mentality. They're cutting because everyone else is cutting, just like they went on …

Reminds me of the famous Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably. Is it widespread, it is representative…

>But SQL is an old language with significant design problems, making it difficult to learn, difficult to use, and difficult to extend. It's difficult to learn and use? Compared to …

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What are you basing this assertion on? It was closed because of the pandemic. When that was over Allen had been dead for several years, his instructions had been to sell everything…

If the museum was open I'm sure it would have plenty of visitors and support. Can't visit a museum that isn't open. But the fact is that most museums rely, in least in part, on gra…

It's not like there's a shortage of money for art museums or natural history museums, but we do seem to be closing museums (this one and previously the Boston one) detailing the hi…

The dude was sick on and off for years, could have had an army of lawyers setting up these places to continue after him, and didn't bother. Don't blame his sister who was left this…