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This quote "We're feeding it to the public in bite-sized chunks." from a non-paywalled article https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/dozens-heard-amel... makes it clear that t…

Does this make these worms the oldest living things?

Privacy nightmare perhaps, but actual threat to SV cos, no.

Reading this, I was reminded of Hardy's Mathematician's Apology. He mentions several of these points.

Though this article sounds plausible, I became more skeptical when I noticed he put the word "facility" in scare quotes.

I've worked at home for decades. In the beginning when I had small apartments, I used to put a table with my computer on it inside a closet. I'd open up the closet door, pull up a …

Ask them what they would pay for.

If this trend is real it will be really good for social mobility.

Than the general population possibly, but not than the applicant pool, which is the comparison that matters. It seems more likely that in the applicant pool the non-legacy kids wou…

"Legacy applicants, or students with a parent who attended Harvard, were accepted to the school at the rate of about 34%, according to data from six admissions cycles analyzed by a…

How could they be moving faster than the speed of light?

Do you think the state of the art in quantum computing is already more advanced than we realize, in the same way that the state of the art in cryptography was when R, S, and A thou…

Blaming the "startup mentality" makes a good linkbait title, but Occam's razor suggests that when the latest cool-sounding attempt to reform public schools in cities fails, it's pr…

Ah, thank you.