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This is very common in Europe. PhDs are sponsored by a given company

For an overview of the psychology of how people understand things (and don't!) I highly recommend this paper. It highlights a lot of ways our brains take shortcuts in terms of actu…

It just updated. Maybe affected by their own outage!

The actual rule for this part is farther down. Section 465.7b (p161 of the pdf). My reading is basically if the website is showing something that it looks like all of the reviews, …

I'm allergic to sawdust so went ceramics instead. Making things is awesome and it's always lots of fun with the anticipation of opening the kiln!

Yep - obviously corner cases are left up to the reader! The other way to think about this is to work backwards from your guess of a final price. So that would give you the size of …

Assuming you want to maximize income (and in turn, profit), this becomes a math problem based on data. Income = Price * Conversion Rate. So assuming a constant number of people com…

The city of San Jose is spread over a huge area (a good fraction of Santa Clara Valley aka Silicon Valley). The downtown area of San Jose which you might think of as a city is rath…

And for small businesses, there is a massive wave of boomers retiring. Either they sell or go out of business. For the better ones, PE is buying and rolling them up.

Was management in place so when the founders exited the company would still grow? With lower valuations (1-3x), the purchaser is often buying a job in some way (either for themselv…

There's a few factors. Are there that many, or is there just a lot of news? And related to a lot of news, there are a lot of orgs chasing AI whether they understand it or not. So t…

Having worked at both. Hardware companies treat thier software like hardware. They spend a ton of time planning and iterate very slowly. It's very waterfall. I think one of the key…

$1m is what - one person-year, two? Sure that's not enough. However it doesn't mean the api is custom. Just not the same as the public one. For your specific example, Tesla renders…

Sure just like any (big) company paying for a contract.

So it isn't nothing. It is something. If it were only the states vs the federal government, that would be great! Unfortunately it is also all of the county, city (and other??) loca…

The multiple levels of governments and associated regulations is very much preventing it from happening. If any one of them in any of the jurisdictions the train might travel says …

Several governments have lists of "good" journals that "count" (tenure, grant considerations, etc), and those lists take into account things like impact factor over the past severa…

Very cool story! How did you grow the group? Was it all through word of mouth from your initial seed group of friends?

In a previous life, I learned that the fleet of all Toyota vehicles out there produced 320.5 million tons of CO2 in 2019. See line 11 of table I on pg 37. https://global.toyota/pag…

The problem with swapping is the battery is a very large portion of the residual value of the car. While functionally very different it'd be more like swapping out the engine or tr…

I use an extension to remove them - no affiliation but it seems to work. Chrome: "No YouTube Shorts". Between that, a plugin to remove already watched videos and my ad blocker, you…

It also has some more details about wave height: "their models indicate that open-ocean wave heights in the Gulf of Mexico would have exceeded 100 meters (328 feet), with wave heig…

I went to more parties last year than the previous 10 combined (maybe past 20)! However, I think this is exceptional and it took me seeking out folks that wanted to have fun like t…