“It’s a tribal issue,” said Mr. Murphy, who has worked for Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other moderate Republicans. Mr. Murphy, a fan of electric vehicles, founded the EV Politics Project to try to get Republicans to stop bashing them — a lonely struggle.

“If you can’t crack the Republican problem there is no way you can get to these targets,” Mr. Murphy said, referring to the E.P.A.’s emission goals. “They are going to run out of Democrats.”

let's stunt demographic growth because we can't figure out how to build more houses

In 1857, the AMA took aim at unregulated abortion providers with a letter-writing campaign pushing state lawmakers to ban the practice. To make their case, they asserted that there was a medical consensus that life begins at conception, rather than at quickening.

We are very excited to finally share a bit more about what we are building: a full-stack hardware platform to harness the natural fluctuations of matter as a computational resource for Generative AI.

Havana Syndrome involves the Russian intelligence services and radio frequency / microwave weapons. U.S. intelligence is wrong to say it has no foreign source.

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Here's the lay of the land in the race for the white house in 2024, as well as my takes on various aspects and debates on this year's presidential election.

What is scaling in large-scale multi-tenant data systems, and how does that compare to single-tenant data systems? How does per-tenant scaling relate to system-wide scaling? How do scale-to-zero and cold starts come into play? Answering these questions is chapter 6 of The Architecture of Serverles

frequency of persuasive bullshitting (i.e., bullshitting intended to impress or persuade others) positively predicts susceptibility to various types of misleading information

the "personal slush fund" model of philanthropy

In Musk’s case, according to the Times, that meant giving millions of dollars to Cameron County, Texas. Of course, that decision was announced shortly after a SpaceX rocket explosion littered the region with shrapnel. Other donations went to two schools — one walled off inside a SpaceX compound and another built next to a housing compound for employees.

“The way I see Elon Musk is that he’s really pushing the limits of the alternative approaches to philanthropy,” Pasic said.

Advanced Strategy to Account for Correlations, Risk, and Returns in your Portfolio Leveraging Hierarchical Structures

Research shows that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. Studies have found immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated and undocumented immigrants are 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime.

“nobody seemed to have a definable skill set. There was no one with engineering, planning, language or communications skills.”