curious: farms and space | fascinated: technology cost curves | imagining a world with: borderless currency, terrestrial rocket travel, space-based solar power
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Jason Tarre retweeted
Great chart of how the perceived decline in vaccine effectiveness might be driven, largely or in part, by Simpson's Paradox*
*ie: in which efficacy vs. hospitalization for specific age cohorts is actually MUCH HIGHER than efficacy for the total population
Jason Tarre retweeted
If you're a young man, say under thirty, and you work really hard for the next thirty-five years of your life, you could be the first space pirate captain in history.
A grey-bearded menace of the black. Feared, respected, loved, the toast of New Tortuga.
Jason Tarre retweeted
Dear US Senate - Meet @elonmusk and his 58.9 million followers.
Sounds like a challenge 😤
The amount of water in the atmosphere of Venus is so low that even the most drought-tolerant of Earth’s microbes wouldn’t be able to survive there, a new study has found. scientificamerican.com/artic…
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Tell me you understand leverage without telling me you understand leverage
In 6 mo, Mighty will have a world-class design team to complement its great engineering team as we leave beta. Design will be critical as we make a great browser for work.
$25K award if you refer someone we hire. DM me if you know someone great.
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Jason Tarre retweeted
I told my 6yo that Eric Carle had died and she said, "But his books are still alive, right?" And I said, "Yes, yes they are." 😭😭😭
Jason Tarre retweeted
Remembering that time in grad school when my advisor, a great ornithologist, got a random call:
drunk guy, bar noises in background: IS THIS THE BIRD PROFESSOR?
my advisor: um..yes?
drunk guy: DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET?
my advisor: ...yes
*wild cheering over phone from bar*
Jason Tarre retweeted
Urban streetscapes typically thrive the most when they are the culmination of many peoples' vision for what the street and city should be, not just diktat of one designer.
But our zoning rules only allow people to build when they amalgamate sites, to limit "externalities"!
The inverse is true. Get your foot in the door and watch the new room drive your body to adapt.
Bezos set the stage for his mental model with a quote from Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker:
“The body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment...if living things didn’t work actively to prevent it, they would eventually merge into their surroundings.”
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