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9 figure is hardly enough when some kid sells their vscode fork to them for more, is it? Why not just boomerang and get $$$.
Did that really happen? What was the fork you are talking about?
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It was a general metaphor but a reference to Windsurf. On the boomerang side, Noam Shazeer went on to do Character AI and came back via acquisition only to leave again to OpenAI.
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How many lavishly-paid deans and bureaucrats and administrators are employed for each grad student?
It's not easy to disentangle and it varies by country and institution, but those positions are not normally directly funded by public research grants.
They are, because every university (in the US) takes anywhere from 10-50% off the top of every grant
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4. Manage the Nitrogen Cycle Easy solution - eat less products that pass an animal first - reduces nitrogen pollution by 10x intantly, low tech. I'd re-formulate: 4. Make people more flexible to changing their mindsets & habits - this is the ultimate problem.
In other words, a boil-the-ocean scheme. Solutions that require a great many humans to change an ingrained behavior are usually non-starters.
Most agricultural subsidies flow towards those harmful animal products, giving alternatives a fair treatment with subsidies could induce a meaningful shift already. But again - political and thus hard on a non technical level