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The answer may be a bit more mundane.

A theory: they needed an existing PDF to test PDF rendering. The Bitcoin paper was (1) handy, and (2) has a diverse variety of content in it, including images and math symbols.

Then upvote it please.

Seems like a case of burnout.

Makes me question their hiring.

If they were good, surely these people could be absorbed in other areas of YC?

I was astonished that Roku has half a billion in cash.

Then I learned this was only 26% of its cash reserves.

I thought cash was considered wasteful because it loses value via inflation.

Has the thinking changed? Can someone knowledgeable please help me understand this?

Curious about this. Could you give me some idea of hourly and yearly* wages for cook, pedicab, junior software dev in your area please? I want to understand this phenomenon better. Thanks.

*The reason I mentioned hourly and yearly is that I'm wondering if a pedicab driver can put in 8 hour days like a cook or dev.

I suppose the fact that "native americans" were also from Siberia/Asia makes it complicated to separate Polynesian/Asian DNA from "native american" DNA.

The Mapuche people look stunningly Polynesian/Asian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche

Polynesians are Asian in origin.

Easter Islanders are believed to be Polynesian.

Here's a strange thing: there's some Asian-origin DNA in some of the indigenous people of Latin American. For some strange reason this is not discussed much.

I've noticed an uptick in car accidents in my area.

Students sit in the classroom scrolling tiktok.

I don't think we're going to make it.

Most of India is not Upper Caste. It is telling that the vast majority of India finally had functional sewage systems reach their village (99.9% coverage), electricity reach their village (99.9% coverage), cooking gas reach their village (100% coverage), and is now having clean water and fiber optic cable reach their village (currently ~75% coverage for each), only after the first non-Upper Caste person became Prime Minister (Modi).

I'm heavily on the spectrum, and sorry, but I don't see anything wrong with using chat GPT to polish up communication.

My guess is these deans too are heavily on the spectrum.

Many times in my life what seemed normal and okay to me, was severely offensive to others. It's a cross I have to bear.

For what it's worth, caste has fortunately ceased to have meaning in a tiny number of social and geographic circles.

But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.

They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.

Some now claim that caste was created by the British.

Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.

My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615

For what it's worth, caste has fortunately ceased to have meaning in a tiny number of social and geographic circles.

But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.

They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.

Some now claim that caste was created by the British.

Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.

My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615

> Shameless chatgpt response

LOL.

Follow on question for anyone reading this: Is there any evidence that pranayam (yogic breathing exercises) can heal mitochondria?

Is there any way to prove that the arrow of causality is the other way? (i.e., depression causes damage to mitochondria).

Much appreciated, thank you.

Excellent advice. Will do.

You just know that it's going to be another WTF experience just like the Windows Media Player UI.

For anyone reading this (especially Donald Trump Jr. [DT's son]):

India will remain in the top three greenhouse gas and emissions producers forever.

If you don't understand why, please learn a little math.

Your point is good.

I seem to remember, after ChatGPT gave me a result (a list of only 103 words/phrases), I searched for the Spanish "Zipf's list" (highest frequency words) on Google Search (to compare it with what ChatGPT gave me).