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Can't speak from personal insight, but I recommend checking out the Tokyo Llama channel on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ3TEq5SrUuTJuMl1S_4ig (also linked elsewhere …

I doubt you'll ever come to a consensus by trying to think of pros and cons and make some kind of objective decision. Unless you're comparing languages that are very specialized fo…

Really, who gives a shit?

You make good points, but I think my overall point stands: Even a $1000 genome does not provide $1000 worth of value to a healthy individual today. So there is no point in trying t…

There's no reason why we don't have sequencing for everyone at this point. There are at least two reasons: it's still expensive, and we still don't really know what to do with it. …

This post doesn't say anything interesting. I don't know exactly what return to office will look like, but I know it will be whatever gives the CEO the greatest feeling of control.…

Apparently I am not alone in having this reaction: https://www.thedailybeast.com/washingtonian-ceo-catherine-me...

CEO is concerned that senior employees won't return to the office to do the important work of mentoring juniors. Instead of incentivizing them to return, CEO threatens to convert t…

Better membranes and renewable-powered desalination plants are not going to do anything about the waste problem. Has there been any progress on that?

What a bizarre screed. "Baron Von Ripper-off"? Who exactly is Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post writing to? I'd be quite surprised if any of the decision makers in Japan give a …

Two birds with one stone? Unemployment in Spain is crazy high.

people often actually click the right buttons to start the VC even when they aren't expecting VC guests In at least one Google building I worked in, for a while conference rooms we…

The actual quote is "In fact, in places where we’ve been able to reopen Google offices in a voluntary capacity, we’ve seen nearly 60% of Googlers choosing to come back to the offic…

I agree. It's clear from this thread (and it fits with my experience as well) that the usual advice only goes so far, and for obvious reasons: if I had enough energy, motivation, a…