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"In short, we found product-market fit." "Despite our early successes, we’ve decided to close Walnut. Our tests revealed that we could create an experience customers loved, but we …

Did you actually get through the entire story? This guy got 2 cases in front of the Supreme Court WHILE IN PRISON! That in itself would be a career maker for any lawyer...he did it…

"... then we have bigger problems." Yes, I think this is precisely the point of this issue...that the problem IS bigger than just some outlier assholes and extends to a systemic bi…

Focus doesn't mean exclusion. (borrowed)

"I don't often write immediate reactions to recent news." This is a peculiar statement to start with. Was this "news" because it only now came to his attention via this particular …

"I still think driving a truck as a profession will be a thing of the past within 20 years or so." I hope so. Trucking is one of the toughest professions for a person to endure tha…

"... extremely offensive viewpoints." I imagine it'll be a very fuzzy line that they draw.

Having never tried rock climbing, I'm curious what the potential causes of catastrophic events would be on this kind of a climb (that would necessitate safety gear for most climber…

This might be just about the most awkward product marketing page I've come across in my memory. I personally probably will never be able to afford a model S. So I'd essentially be …

I wouldn't give up on it. I remember a few years ago the stories of people 3d printing prosthetic hands for $50...where the cost had previously been $30k+. I imagine that some inge…

I also practice BJJ but think of MMA as a pretty brutal no holds barred sport. The 2 things are not the same (although often talked about as being the same). BJJ is a (relatively) …

I wonder if by the time we find "The Ultimate Secret to Staying Married" we'll have already learned that marriage doesn't have to be the final goal of a relationship after all.

Better source from UC San Diego: https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2017-04-25-novel...

Respectfully, you're dancing around the issue. What it would betray is the reality that not all wealth is earned equally. Yes, there are plenty of people that earn through effort a…

The aim was to show that in the absence of academic cheating, a meritocracy would emerge. What the researcher realized was that the deck was stacked against poorer students and in …

Killing someone is a bad outcome no matter how you look at it. But we make a moral distinction between defensive and offensive killing and allow for "justifiable homicide". Similar…

I think if there's any airline that I'd give the benefit of the doubt for making a change like this, it would be SW. I can't imagine that a conversation around this issue ONLY came…

The focus on simplifying language reminds me of "Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less" http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html

I don't think the parent comment disagrees with you that it's an emergency...I think he's surprised by the designation because it'll focus attention on the root source of the probl…

Thanks for that affirmation. I actually taught them binary counting too over a weekend a few months back...I was amazed how quickly they were able to pick up on it (3rd and 5th gra…

Would you happen to know of any websites, video series, books, etc that would be in the same vein as these 2 sources but geared towards very young students (elementary/middle schoo…

For clarity, that's "Leland Stanford Junior University"

The article also goes on to say (in essence) that even if you assume that United was in the wrong on this point, it constitutes a breach of contract on United's part. At that point…