It's a good filter for drive/ambition, not immediate talent.

The best grad/intern I have supervised had the least domain knowledge starting out, but was an olympic finalist level swimmer. They were easily the most competent by the end of the graduate rotation.

Unfortunately, they were also annoyingly perky first thing in the morning as they had already been awake and training since 4am.

Its rare in Australia too, but well known and memed about in hunting communities (one symptom is painfull swelling in the genitals).

The best home cooks I know do this meta or syntopical reading. For a new dish, gather a few different recipe sources and then look at all the common elements, and work from there.

Last time I did a deep dive into this, found a few papers suggesting that it can be any salt imbalance (potassium, magnesium or calcium) that triggers cramps.

However, potassium and calcium are a lot more prevalent in standard diets so it's usually lack of magnesium that is the culprit.

Depending on where 'here' is, an intersection could be a roundabout which you would slow on approach.

It's not necessarily a roundabout, but it applies to roundabouts as well.

You could help dozens of people, at best.

$15 mil to shame the Chinese Govt (among others) to action and encourage citizen discontent was a bargain.

You couldnt possibly run an ad campaign to tell 1 billion people their govt was lying for less than $15mil.

This assumes that "Chinese" "Citizens" didn't notice the air in their cities looks like AAA game textures from the mid 2000s. It also assumes that "Chinese" "Citizens" will pay attention to the US about an AQI number (or whatever the data was).

Also have you ever been to the L.A. Basin?

> This assumes that "Chinese" "Citizens" didn't notice the air in their cities looks like AAA game textures from the mid 2000s. It also assumes that "Chinese" "Citizens" will pay attention to the US about an AQI number (or whatever the data was).

You don't have to assume anything, this is a real (past) event that has happened:

> In 2008, the US Embassy in Beijing started regularly tweeting about the air quality in the city, which was gearing up to host China’s first Olympic Games. Two times a day, the embassy automatically published current pollution levels measured by an air quality monitor installed on its roof in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency. The data contradicted the figures published by the local government, angering local officials and eventually spurring China to clean up the air in its capital city.

https://www.wired.com/story/air-monitoring-beijing-state-dep...

Clearly, having numbers that are/seemed more trustworthy had a large and good impact on the city and it's inhabitants.

I think it's more, any free service provided by the government shouldn't exist on principle (because this is a potential market opportunity for someone else).

That it had environment in the title is just extra bonus.

Domestically, that is correct, you are taking away an opportunity in the market. But in a foreign embassy there are no such competitors. And controlling air pollution is typically a job for the government.

I think they have stats showing that the most prolific contributors all use the old reddit interface and so they don't yet want to risk their more engaging content.

I dont think the pressure from payment processors is because of puritanism, but rather payments in this space tend to come with a much higher % of fraud and chargebacks and they've decided it's not worth the risk.

That is half truth that gives them cover.

Visa and Mastercard also have limits on what percentage of a bank's transactions can be adult.

Unfortunately, data centers also need access to considerable amounts of water.