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Lightning McQueen is even the same color as the doc's car.

'Stranger Things', 'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels', 'The Usual Suspects', 'Pulp Fiction'... all immediately come to mind as man-in-hole stories. Reductive/deconstructive lit…

Yeah, it's satire in the 'humor' section of the New Yorker.

Here is a collection of hype cycle graphs for various emerging segments, from Gartner: https://imgur.com/gallery/noBKI HN has has much discussion of such graphs, so you might want …

You should contact you local Small Business Administration office. They will be better able to direct you to both disaster assistance and Covid 19 support funds, which are low-inte…

In my work with climate data, scientists in my cohort are instructing caution that many (linear) models are incorrect, and those are the figures you quote (1cm/year sea-level rise)…

When the Declaration of Independence was signed, Africans comprised a significant percentage of the US population (60% of SC, 40% of VA, and 20-25% of northern urban centers like B…

"The team behind a pioneering biological experiment sent to the lunar far side has released an image showing two green leaves grown on the moon." "Image processing has now shown th…

Do you know whether the graph accounts for the recently reported error in the jobs figures? According to the Department of Labor, 500,000 fewer jobs were added in 2018-early 2019. …

The US House of Representatives has a Judiciary Committee, with a subcommittee for antitrust activities. They are conducting an investigation into several large tech firms for unfa…

This is a common misunderstanding about the relationships between companies, employees, and markets. Companies aren't the originators of jobs. Instead, demand for goods/services ca…

Thanks a lot! That's really good advice. Much appreciated!

I'm interested in both paths, though at the moment, I feel an analytical position more closely aligns with what I do on a day-to-day basis. Because the onboarding process can be lo…

For the past eight months I've been teaching myself Python and other tools, in order to create a rudimentary ocean drift trajectory model to support my thesis research (in maritime…

Not condoning the decision: however, as a former journalist/editor, I think the effort was to highlight the contrast between the popularity of their work, and its humble origins. I…

You might find Max Tegmark's lecture about 'consciousness as a state of matter' engrossing, given your questions. It's rooted in quantum physics and mathematics, and it's a fairly …

Maritime Archaeologist here: we take photos with a DSLR camera of terrestrial and underwater sites, and artifacts, and then extrapolate 3D models with Agisoft Photoscan. Is there a…

John Cleese's talk on creativity is both funny and inspirational, and it's become a key part of how I approach creative projects and how I encourage people to explore their own cre…

Thirty minutes of TV every day. I'd pick a character and repeat all their lines after they delivered them. It helped me wrap my mind around the rhythm of the language and form word…

I just came off a project in St. Eustatius, where I met a team of marine biologists tracking sea turtles with some form of GPS device. They seemed to be spending a lot on the devic…

Current coup summary: 250 people dead (according to The Guardian), 1440+ injured. According to Turkey's Chief of Staff, the coup was against President Erdogan's government, launche…

I would be very interested. Do you have a sample lesson to share?

What's your project? I've been looking to buy something about that size, and I've found Flippa to be rather disappointing. If you want to chat, you can shoot me an email (address i…

None of the journalists I have met or worked with in six years in publishing and investigative due diligence know about the tools you are proposing. I recognize regex, because of a…

I really have no idea... IANAL. I merely wanted to suggest that the founders could look at something similar in Turkey, where the business model they are implementing is being acco…