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France is now:

* one of the leading geographies for AI development

* making the most reliable commercial airplanes in the world

* gearing up for war

Are we going to have to update our stereotypes/jokes now? What’s next? No cheese and wine? 40 hour work weeks?

To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because

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Interesting French SAAS metric

Translating our website into different languages had zero effect on the % of each nationality using the app.

EXCEPT FOR FRENCH - the number of French users doubled now the website is available in French

We are woefully incapable of being satisfied with a prior desire, and many people argue that this is just a part of the human condition. That greed resets any goals you once had, and short of becoming a monk, you are destined to shift that goal by a few more commas.

Of course, there is some truth to this, but I think this view only scratches the... See more

Open source is voluntary cooperation. Marxism is involuntary cooperation enforced with violence. One leads to better software, the other to oppression and mass murder.

We are not the same.

People are so used to talking about minimum acceptable outcomes in education that they truly have no idea how high variance educational outcomes can/should be.

The top quartile of students can skip grades. The top 2% of students can do an entire multi year curriculum in *weeks*.