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> Besides just gaining weight, the movie also claimed that Spurlock got major liver damage and started suffering from a range of mental health issues, all as a result of eating fas…

how does Mistral monetize or plan to monetize? create a chat gpt-like service and charge? license to other businesses?

he is on a pedestal because everyone who’s worked with him said he’s amazing and effective. But it is your right to assume what he works on from reading his tweets and leap from th…

for another POV on Uruguay, here's Doomberg's recent article on Uruguay: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia

perhaps also related to the “Sea Peoples” during the bronze age collapse ~3,0000 years ago? Could see how the people of the Aegean could produce myths like Atlantis when they thems…

Do they? What classes?

Temporary and permanent immigration to Japan seems to be increasing in the last few years. On the "influencer" side, you also are seeing more and more people talk about how cheap h…

> Short answer - no. A tangent: if an article's title is a question, the answer, vast majority of time, is either "no", or not a clear answer at all. I'm sure articles that answer …

Ah yes, I remember how Tony Soprano would always threaten small business owners with endless stream of ads if they did not pay protection fees

someone needs to tell China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe > China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe were the only countries that both added new coal plants and announ…

What percentage of crops will fail in 20 years?

Is there an fertility rates published by income/wealth levels? Does the U-shaped fertility graph show up in SK? As in, poorest people have more kids, middle class have fewest kids,…

Harvard's admits that have legacy status also have better SAT/Grades I believe > And a Harvard spokesperson told me that admitted legacies tend to have higher median test scores an…

oh true. I didnt think about the non-occupied times when they run

they are only allowed to run from 9pm to 5/6am though. Rode a few and they seemed perfectly safe.

went on a short hike around Mammoth Lakes in California with a retired US Forest Service guy, and he told us a story about how they manually surveyed an area that had been fire sup…

true for some commodities but not for others. For example, nat gas prices in the US are usually cheaper than the price in Europe. For the last year, due to recent events, the price…

Same in China (Shanghai). Same 30 to 35 students in the same class would do 1st to 6th grade. Then you'd usually go to a different school for 7th to 9th grades, then take a test to…

Yes this post is about developing accounting or other kinds of software that tracks money (from the subtitle: "... we walk through basic accounting principles for anyone building p…

Really? I feel like these two in written form are pretty different, and I don't have any real knowledge of South Asian languages. Personally I feel Thai and Lao are harder to tell …

a multipolar world means more instability and wars, though. When you say it will "insure competition", that means conflict for sure.

the number of comments "back then" compared to now is a testament to how large HN and the tech ecosystem in general has grown. Still had a good chuckle at someone commenting "This …

Highly doubt 5k IUs is the issue. Some select quotes from "Vitamin D Is Not as Toxic as Was Once Thought: A Historical and an Up-to-Date Perspective" by Michael Holick in Mayo Clin…

> But if he points his mook armies at that same employee and subjects them to the same abuse, it's all good. Just freedom of speech. What does "points his mock armies at the same e…

You see "nether-" in other words too, like "netherworld" or "nether regions", which both mean low/lowest parts of a place.