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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Global warming is destabilizing mountain glaciers, making catastrophic glacial-lake outburst floods more frequent.

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  As the planet warms, the entire region's frozen mountain slopes are becoming less stable, making glacier collapses-and the catastrophic floods they can unleash-far more likely.

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  The papacy made Italy uniquely unstable in Europe, because each new pope inherited a precedent that he could overthrow any government he liked.

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  And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  Burn rate is a measure of risk, and preemptive rounds push successful companies to raise it whether or not they need to.

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  Look, first of all, if a company's successful, someone will knock on your door and try and give you more money. So, like almost every round is preemptive for successful companies. And when you take that much money, $300 million, the only way to spend it is to take your burn rate up. And I always thought of burn rate as a measure of risk.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Dell XPS (Panther Lake)

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  Give the new Dell XPS series, or any of the other laptops shipping with Panther Lake, a try. I think you'll be as impressed as I've been.

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  Intel Panther Lake

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  Intel really delivered with Panther Lake.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  The reason we cannot simply make more memory is that there is nowhere to put the tools, and a fab takes two years to build.

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  Uh, Micron bought a fab from a company in Taiwan that makes lagging edge chips, right? Um, Heinix and Samsung are doing, you know, some pretty crazy things to try and expand capacity at their existing fabs, uh, that also have like very large knock-on effects in the economy. And so, hey, why can't we build more capacity is like there's nowhere to put the tools, right?

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Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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  Everything closes at a higher rate in person, and tech sales is automating anyway.

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  We should knock on more doors. We should do more in person. All the data I've ever collected shows everything closes at a higher rate if you go in person.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  Attacking DHH personally over the WP Engine dispute was wrong; the quarrel is with WP Engine and Silver Lake, not with him.

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  I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH, who, while I disagree with him on several points, isn’t the actual villain in this story: it’s WP Engine and Silver Lake.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one.

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  Deleting the UPSs could knock off ~$750/kW after considering equipment, installation, and square footage reduction.

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Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.

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  Judgment and cognition are the two capacities the nuclear launch decision actually turns on, which is the standard a presidential candidate should be measured against.

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  Because why on earth there would be two candidates, one of whom has cognitive problems and the other of whom has judgment problems? These are the two biggest issues with the nuclear launch, judgment and cognition. And so where’s the young-ish, thoughtful, forward looking, wise, dedicated civil servant running for president? I know that sounds fantastical, but I wish it weren’t.

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Fraudulent papers pass peer review routinely, which is direct evidence that peer review does not do the job it is supposed to do.

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  In fact, we’ve got knock-down, real-world data that peer review doesn’t work: fraudulent papers get published all the time.

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