aaron425

Can you defend your statement and cite how renewable this domesticated area is? Aren’t most areas deforested for cattle farming (legendarily inefficient) and soy plantations (monoculture)?

Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107810

Can you cite a source or study for your assertion?

For what it’s worth, Epic is a private company and employee upside has been capped in the sense that compensation has been mostly cash (and not Netflix tier cash). Exposure to equity may been a better way to share in upside and ensure some buy-in.

IMO investing in a marketplace was fine, but hemorrhaging money for 7 years on non-performant software + free game bundles is probably not defensible from an executive standpoint.

Probably, because Waymo runs 24/7 in San Francisco and has been for a while.

There are some in LA as well, although at a smaller scale.

That’s… an odd argument to make. Do you really think that the vast majority of people derive more happiness from having things than experiences/memories with loved ones?

I think a popular sentiment near the end of life for most is that they wish they’d adventured more and spent additional time with family & friends, not acquiring material goods or more wealth.

Isn’t France heavily dominated by Les Grandes Ecoles & La Sorbonne?

I agree. I’m not sure what people’s preoccupation with increased population growth is. And how more people is inherently a good thing.

Sure, the Earth has resources that if distributed more efficiently, could support more people (some say by a magnitude). But are governments and companies incentivized to extract and distribute things more efficiently? Will they ever be? What is the cost to other species and the biodiversity of the planet? We’re already in the midst of a mass extinction event, and it’s sobering to realize that future children will only think of some animal species barely hanging on today as “dodos”.

To be fair for your second point, speaking as someone attended an Ivy but is from a low income household and terrible at sports, many of the people who manipulated spherical objects adeptly also had brilliant minds.

I was always impressed with my friends who had the mental fortitude to wake up at 6 every day, practice for 3-4 hours, go to class, practice after class, and still take the courses/do the research necessary for elite graduate schools. Meanwhile, I woke up at 11 AM on a good day and only started going to the gym regularly my senior year. I honestly can't say the proportion of "regular" athletes to "smart" athletes was any different from that of students in the general population.

I'm not entirely sure I agree with the "stalling" portion of the title for this article. Vice could argue that they're slow to react, but transfer limits have been a thing for these kinds of apps forever, including CashApp which doesn't seem to be mentioned here.

Might be some sort of liability aspect to this, where the doctor has to certify in case something goes wrong. Do nurses/PAs have to carry malpractice insurance? Not super clear on this myself.

FHIR APIs are definitely becoming more and more broadly deployed, which is awesome! Scaling wise, it might be worth looking into the interoperability partners that specialize in standing up FHIR endpoints for providers like Datica & Redox.

It's incredible that medical tourism can allow people to be treated by a Mayo & Brigham and Women's trained physician at a fraction of the cost, and that the physician actually makes more. I suppose much of the expense here is what American facilities normally charge, though I wonder if the stated prices in the article are before any negotiations between the providers and payors.

This looks great & hi Abhi! Will this support left script languages?