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Is Fastmail in any way similar to what is being described here? Fastmail looks like a replacement for Gmail or maybe Gsuite.

There is a certain amount of overhead in servicing an account whether it has $5 in it or $500,000 in it. A $5 account doesn't give the bank much to loan while a $500,000 gives the …

For example, Amex Platinum comes with $400 Dell credit each year, and several other similar perks.

When it comes to banks, there is also a tier where fees are waived for high value customers. For example, checking, atm, wires, are free if you have $50k or more in your checking a…

There is a very big difference between a bilingual school and a school where half the kids don't understand the language that math is being taught in.

ADHD and autism are diagnosed based on behaviors. This might work for cases at the more extreme end of the spectrum, but when it comes to trying to identify more mild cases, you ar…

That may be less true than it was 20 years ago. Even free resources like Khan Academy can go a long ways in helping parents educate their kids beyond what they know themselves. And…

I think the idea is that it is a numbers game. If you have a way to inexpensively generate a much higher click-through rate than doing it manually, your success rate will go up wit…

> people are choosing the least-worst option in terms of employer Doesn't that mean people are choosing the best employer that wants their skill set?

Well, they were giving them jobs where they could earn money as well as providing for most all the things that a homeless person is going to need. But the return on investment from…

> When people aren't using the services there's always a reason. That is what I was saying. There is the perceived return on investment of using the services designed to help get o…

> until we can figure out a way to convince other americans that everyone deserves a home I helped get a homeless person into a place that provided him with an apartment, food, and…

I've tried to help some homeless people get into a place where they are provided with housing, jobs, etc. to try to get them back on their feet. They often didn't last very long be…

I initially thought it was saying we should not expect to have the results of the election sorted out until the 8th.

> when you need to generate a massive amount of randomized data. Even faster than Clojure: Open VIM for a VS Code user and ask them to exit.

Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation might be useful for the context you are describing. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

I would argue that a shared corpus that everyone has read is a key foundation to a society with rich and nuanced social intercourse. That doesn't mean everyone has read the same bo…

The Do Nothing Scripting [1] is an approach that I feel recognizes the difficulty of automation by starting out with a script that just tells you what to do like a checklist. Once …

Can you give any examples of someone whose idea formation was not improved went they undertook the task of writing their thoughts down?

I agree with the overall idea of the article, but it is important to recognize that our modern assumptions make us think there is a particular version of a fairy tale that is the "…

The relevant sentence from the link: I would very much like to reach the point where we are able to provide access to some digital surrogate of the game while keeping the original …

> (e.g. like the US library of congress) Does the LoC do something like this?

I think this is a lot less clear than just a yes or no. Imagine you have a library where you can't touch the books so you have to look at them through glass and turn the pages with…

> I agree strongly with the bit about not including memes and jokes It probably matters if it is related to the talk or not. A slightly related joke or funny picture at the beginni…

Dijkstra's blog posts were handwritten with a fountain pen and distributed by being photocopied. :)