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As DHH himself says here: The cloud allows flexibility, which is essential when you are figuring out what you are doing, as in a startup. If you are large and stable and know what …

They are probably doing it in an attempt to get coverage by insurance (even if that is now not available). They can then raise the price manyfold. See this discussion of prescripti…

Why do these teachers take on such a life? You could say that the long-timers were fooled, they are now in too deep, and can't start a new career, but those deciding whether to do …

"IBM and the Holocaust", Edwin Black, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

When I was at IBM around 2010, they offered $250 for filing patent, then $750 when the patent office approved it, usually after 3-8 years -- if you were still at IBM. Then after a …

That's great! Liberia can't afford to protect its forest, and this deal allows that.

I was hoping to see "Best Practices for Time Travelers (2043)"

Eritrea is the only other country to tax non-residents.

Thank you. That does make sense. But do lawsuits against arbitrators happen with any non-trivial frequency? From the little I know, lawsuits against arbitrators are not a serious t…

Thank you. That does make sense. But as pointed out by the article, typical consumers/workers have no idea about how to choose an arbitrator and do not hire a lawyer.

The points in the article seem quite obvious. I wonder then, why do arbitrators ever rule against the companies that pay their fees? I asked on Law Stack Exchange, but the answers …

It is briefly mentioned here that the major driver of the high-end of their tech industry (mostly near Ramallah rather than in Gaza) is Israeli entrepreneurs, who hire teams and al…

Perhaps it's a symbolic statement that their data should not be used for training, in the thought that these ML systems are configured to avoid training on AI-generated data.

It's like saying "That's already done" when undertaking to do a task, as a sort of guarantee, asking for the thing to be considered done, similar to "consider it done".

Even the recycled wastewater is potable, but it is use for agriculture to satisfy people's sensibilities.

In Israel they add minerals back in because the desalinated water is too pure.

Not nothing or nominal, but cheap enough that it is feasible, and about the same as other options. We also recycle 80% of the water, first in the world. The second-place country do…

Or the humanities need to tighten up, to build a system that encourages and enables students to get on with their lives.

They imagine themselves as an aristocracy of talent, whose brilliance let's them live the life of the aristocracy of bloodlines.

> reads a new book once per week" type of discipline that the average ivy leaguer tends to have I got two degrees and spent five years at Harvard, and -- no, they don't.

I studied at Harvard and the answer is that they want to pretend to be so smart and talented that they don't need to work. The image is of the effete aristocrat who enjoys life wit…

What is the time period? Is that 98% per day, per month, etc? If there is a loss of 2% a day, then in a month, about half is lost.

The key is to have no involvement from marketing and other executives, other than the engineering department. The approval process should be very very fast and easy. For example, j…

The people being involuntarily detained have to pay the hospital bill, and in the US that is expensive .

The discounts vary randomly, and the publically advertised discount prices often disappear the moment you log in. (They would say these are for new customers only.) This incentiviz…