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Viruses face an inherent trade-off between being highly lethal and being highly contagious, rarely achieving both.Their words
They face a fundamental biological trade-off: highly lethal or highly contagious, but typically not both.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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A cabin in literature typically serves as an escape from trouble or a place where new trouble is found.Their words
The cabin is a classic literary setting. It's the getaway spot where characters can flee to escape their troubles or journey to in order to find new ones.
Processing: How Josh Riedel Edited Thirty Cabinscountercraft.substack.com
19 August
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Modern TimesTheir words
I’ve loved it since I was a teenager, but professional historians typically rolled their eyes in disdain when I mentioned it.
14 August
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making intelligence cheap does not automatically make “agency” cheap. people are constrained by time, money, confidence, health, education, institutions, family, geography; a model does not magic any of that away. there’s a perfectly believable future where these tools mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and the spare time to use them well.
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electrification in Germany is usually bundled with other projects that end up costing that in total
Electrification Costs and Confounderspedestrianobservations.com
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PE funds optimize for a 4-7 flip and typically resort to aggressive cost-cutting and near-term optimization at the cost of the "soul" of the business or what made it successful in the first place.
13 July
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El Niño events typically peak near the end of the calendar year, between November and January.Their words
El Niño almost always peaks near the end of the calendar year - typically between November and January, occasionally as early as October
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The world is shaped by how consistently incompetent governance is, and competent governance would remake itTheir words
As an econ professor who specialized in governance, I can assure you that the world is greatly structured by the fact that we typically have pretty incompetent governance.
7 April
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World OrderTheir words
Many of the indicators I use to track unfolding events are explained in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. I especially recommend Chapter 6, “The Big Cycle of External Order and Disorder,” and, if you are interested in the unimaginable-in-peacetime investment-related developments that typically happen during wars, I recommend Chapter 7, “Investing in Light of the Big Cycle.”
31 March
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This Hour, Our VigilTheir words
If I say it reads a bit like fanfic for Neumeier's own work, that sounds like I'm damning it, but I actually enjoyed it, because, I wanted good things to happen for those characters, who'd had drama enough and to spare.
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27 February
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and then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.
18 February
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The world may be complex, but complex systems are typically controlled by a small number of highly stable invariants.
29 January
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No Country for Old MenTheir words
The Coens are typically considered to be at their best when they're cruel diagnosticians of American life - see their portentous, overstuffed, painfully self-impressed No Country for Old Men
15 January
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Public scrutiny of a new technology tends to jump only after a deadly incident, otherwise rising slowly over decadesTheir words
Scrutiny typically either jumps several points on any 10-point scale after an incident that kills a bunch of people, or increases very slowly over decades.
1 January
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the cost of your good habits is in the present. The cost of your bad habits is in the future. And so what you find is that a lot of things that typically get categorized as a bad habit, eating too many donuts or smoking a cigarette or something like that feels good in the moment, but it creates some kind of cost or consequence in the future.
5 October 2025
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I think if you have especially a B2B feature where you may have some lock in reverse trials can be super powerful. You just want to get people in there. You don't need to ask for their credit card because they're using your CRM or they're investing quite a lot of time in like building out, you know, material and content. And so by the time that window drops, you actually like feel, oh man, I probably should keep this and and start paying. I think for a lot of consumer products, it's a little bit harder for that to work. And so I've typically seen more just normal free trials be be the norm.
18 August 2025
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When new technologies come out, this pendulum swings from best of platform towards best of breed. And the reason for that is incumbents typically aren't that great at these new technologies.
3 August 2025
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A new performance team can likely find enough optimizations to halve infrastructure spend in their first couple of years, even for companies that have been using commercial performance or observability tools.
16 June 2025
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Shoulder generation (in late summer) of any given year is generally a higher share of global electricity demand than the peak generation (spring) of the year prior.
3 June 2025
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It actually means that to make it easier for users to transition from something they were used to — in this case, phones typically being slabs with a grid of buttons on them — to what things had become — phones were all-screen, so they could show any kind of button or interface imaginable.
19 April 2025
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People who can be trusted to make something inevitable are really rare, and are typically the bottleneck for how many different things a team or company can do at once.
22 March 2025
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There's a point in which all of your choices add up. And I typically find that right around 5 to 10,000 lines of code. The choices you've made either weigh you down or kind of free you up.
2 February 2025
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Each and every time, it took at most a few years but typically months before other companies would achieve the same level of performance using a broadly similar, and always relatively simple, recipe.
29 January 2025
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Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.
21 July 2024
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The bar I typically suggest is that the people manager doesn't need to have the most technical depth on the team, but they need enough depth that they can follow most discussions without slowing them down, understand who's correct in most debates without needing to rely on trust, and generally stay oriented easily.
18 April 2024
From one piece How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordable 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The optimal scenario is typically when the generators supply 1% of yearly electricity (shown below).
How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site
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Installed generators cost ~$800/kW, and the data center capital cost, including servers, is ~$40,000/kW, so adding 1% more makeup compute capacity is money ahead of purchasing generators.
How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site
13 March 2024
From one piece Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Claims to the contrary could lead to a misallocation of investments and, consequently, worse environmental (and social) outcomes.
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Therefore, land sparing is more likely to take place, even at the local level, when yields of staples go up. The situation is different for some internationally traded products like soy and palm oil.
19 December 2023
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Breakthroughs achieved with massive compute are typically achieved using it inefficiently.Their words
while massive compute often achieves breakthrough results, its usage is often inefficient.
1 October 2023
From one piece GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I don’t view Keynes primarily as an economist, rather I see him as a British aesthete rationalist who did economics in his spare time, and fortunately he had lots of spare time.
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Interest rates have little effect on investment, and central banks have limited control over real interest rates.Their words
In the actual data, interest rates don’t seem to drive investment that much, and furthermore central bank influence over the real rate of interest typically is limited.
25 July 2022
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In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).
8 July 2022
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The drone-like architecture of the multicopters is simple, but as the rotors are responsible for keeping the unit at a constant altitude with hover power, they represent an energy-intensive version of VTOLs. Their range is, therefore, short, typically less than 20 miles.
20 October 2021
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FaunaTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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DynamoDBTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
3 September 2020
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