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This is extremely important. Most people have a very skewed perspective on what it means to be in the global 10% or 1%. I think this paper would be much more impactful if the autho…

https://alearningaday.blog/2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enou... The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made mor…

Glad to see this finally getting the attention it deserves. With a major election coming up in the US next year, I'm frankly terrified.

Can you provide some additional citations on this?

The negative health effects of red meat are one of the few things in nutrition that we have consistent, overwhelming evidence for. See for instance the studies linked here: https:/…

Even if this is true (and I've never been able to find credible evidence it is), what we're seeing now is just the upper bound of sustainable plant-based food production. As they s…

If you did a blind taste test between Impossible and Beyond (or the McPlant), I suspect people would pick Impossible nine times out of ten. Writing off all plant-based meat at this…

The seaweed diet is just the result from a single study that has yet to be widely replicated. I'd caution against putting the fate of the planet into the hands of miracle cures unt…

You can get them from the same place the fish get them from, algae! Like many micronutrients, fish don't actually produce them, they just accumulate them from non-animal sources. U…

I was a high schooler developing a web-based multiplayer RPG game around this time and remember being so impressed and intimidated by Graal.

+1, lucidrains is practically a one-person ML start-up

Do you have examples of false articles he published? I can't find any examples of work he's done that comes close to comparing to Roger Stone's crimes.

Hi! I'm not a veterinary nutritionist, but I did used to teach metabolic biochemistry, and I spoke to a few veterinary nutritionists before putting my own dog on a vegan diet. Dogs…

When I was in middle school I was sure I had cracked the meaning behind 42. I sent Douglas Adams a letter telling him how much I appreciated the books and laying out in detail how …

This is meant to be satire, right? The percentage of revenues of the two examples you gave are nearly identical.

That's correct but your article says "which charges an added hefty fee to the restaurant for each order", which is simply not true.

One of the more obvious pieces of misinformation here: ChowNow does not charge any per-order commission fee, it's right on their pricing page -- https://get.chownow.com/pricing . C…

"On average, 8% of revenues are federal, 47% from the state, and 45% locally sourced" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_funding_in_the_U...

Even if we take at face value the idea that the products have barely changed, which I completely disagree with, this explanation vastly underestimates how many engineers it takes t…

Do you have any evidence to back up this "both sides" argument? The responses executed by each party are starkly different, and the results are in some cases are already measurable…

There's a great short story that makes use of this in its setup. Lostronaut, published in the New Yorker in 2008: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/17/lostronaut

B12 is largely misunderstood. B12 isn't produced by any animals, it's only produced by certain bacteria. It used to be available in plant based diets, but modern hygenic practices …

Take with a grain of salt as this is an opinion piece (not a news article) written in a publication owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has substantial oil interests.

NYC is probably not a good example to use here. Its median property prices are negative this year and flat for two years before that. It's likely (IMHO) that the post-recession bui…