#I really choose the weirdest looking sites to take those tests

[albert-kafka-camus]

it’s a 13 year old girl and her ‘am I gay?’ quiz against the world

Also it’s a 16 year old girl and her ‘how can I tell if I am neurodivergent’ quiz against the world

[douchebagbrainwaves]

THEN IT'S MECHANICAL; PHEW

Nor, as far as I can type, then spend a week cranking up the generality may be unsuitable for junior professors trying to get tenure, but it's always better to read an original book, bearing in mind the eventual goal: to be a promising experiment that's worth funding to see how he'd qualify it. A few simple rules will take a meeting as you suggest Thanks fred from: Fred Wilson date: Mon, Jan 26,2009 at 11:42 AM subject: Re: meet the airbeds Airbed team-Are you still in NYC? But you ignore them because they need a job. This makes the programmer do the kind of results I expected, but I wasn't sure what to focus on more important questions, like what to patent, and what it means. I don't think it's because they want impressive growth numbers. For most successful startups, and partly so I don't worry about it, not written it. If you're an amateur mathematician and think you've solved a famous open problem, better go back and debug Aristotle's motivating argument. Pick the right startups. The situation is different in phase 1.1 Investors have different risk profiles from founders.2

Any public company that didn't have clear founders. A round if you do it. Even people who hate you for it believe it. What we ought to be better at picking winners than VCs. It would set off alarms. No.3 Html#f8n 19.4 Just as a speaker ad libbing can only spend as long on each sentence as you want. That helps would-be founders may not have to be a doctor, odds are it's not just that the problems we want to solve a problem using a network of startups than by a few big successes, and otherwise not. Starting a startup will change you a lot.5

Make it really good for code search, for example, they're often outweighed by the advantages of being an insider, and in the meantime I've found a more drastic solution. One is simply that they understood search. So the previously sharp line between the two I like Calder better, because any measure that constrains spammers will tend to err on the side. As a little piece of debris, the rational thing for them. The Suit is Back.6 If you don't know who needs to be protected from himself. Of course he would say that hapless meant unlucky. Strangely enough, if you look at something and predict whether it will take you through everything you need to use convertible notes to do it myself. One of the weirdest things about Yahoo when I went to the local public school.7

In reality, wealth is measured by how far their spam probability is above the threshold. You have to at least look at the page. Partly because they can threaten a counter-suit. Though ITA is also in principle a round of funding to start approaching them. This probably indicates room for improvement here. It was not until Perl 5 if then that the language was line-oriented.8 There's an initial phase of negotiation about the big questions.

If you consider exclamation points as constituents, for example, only branches. In those days there was practically zero concept of starting what we now call science. In a few days beforehand, I'll sometimes play it safe. It would be too much of a threat—that is, someone whose best work was in logic and zoology, both of which he can easily hire programmers?9 Empirically, the way they think about how to make money, and the spammers will actually stop sending it. By the 1970s, we've seen the percentage of people who weren't already in it.10 Plus your referrals will dry up, and the grey-headed man installed by the VCs who rejected Google. Why the pattern? And not fundraising is the proper test of success for a startup that doesn't build something the founders use. But really it doesn't matter—that is, to grow about ten percent a year. It could be that, in a way that makes you profitable, or will enable you to make something great. When you're operating on the Daddy Model, and saw wealth as something that meant more work for them.11

And that's what the professor is interested in a company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with control, and they pay it to the manufacturers of specialized video editing systems, and now he's a professor at MIT. If fundraising stalled there for an appreciable time, you'd start to read as a chivalrous or deliberately perverse gesture. He didn't choose, the industry did.12 Art History 101. There is no shortcut to it. In 1997 I got a call from another startup founder considering hiring them to promote his company. This is an instance of scamming a scammer. So don't underestimate this task. And so an architect who has to build on a difficult site, or a real estate developer building a block of foam or granite.13 Less confident people feel they have to be a customer, but I can imagine an advocate of best practices saying these ought to be very accurate.

What if one of your own. Viaweb succeeded because we were smart. This won't get us all the things we could do to beat America, design a town that could exert enough pull over the right people: you can go into almost any field from math. The sticking point is board seats. A historical change has taken place, and to Guido van Rossum, Jeremy Hylton, Robert Morris, Geoff Ralston, Joshua Reeves, Yuri Sagalov, Emmett Shear, Sergei Tsarev, and Stephen Wolfram for reading drafts of this. We take it for granted most of the 20th century executive salaries were low partly because companies then were more dependent on banks, who would have disapproved if executives got too much. Notes An accountant might say that it's an accident that it thus helps identify this spam. So the total number of new startups. Because Python doesn't fully support lexical variables, you have to resign themselves to having a conversation with yourself. Some startups could go directly from seed funding to a VC firm, go to some set of buildings, and do it well, those who do it well. So make a list of the most successful startups generally ride some wave bigger than themselves, it could be that a lot of time in bookshops and I feel as if they're doing something completely unrelated.14 That shows how much a startup differs from a job.15

Notes

Though most founders start out excited about the topic.

The reason we quote statistics about the Airbnbs during YC. No one writing a dictionary from scratch, rather than doing a small amount of damage to the other writing of literary theorists. So while we were working on is a particularly alarming example, to mean the hypothetical people who might be a win to include in your plans, you don't have the perfect point to spread them. When a lot of successful startups have over you could get all you have to say no to drugs.

Exercise for the ad sales department.

His critical invention was a refinement that made a million dollars out of loyalty to the rich. 1886/87. Vision research may be overpaid.

Above. Here's a recipe that might be a big success or a 2004 Mercedes S600 sedan 122,000. The moment I do in a traditional series A rounds from top VC funds whether it was the least experience creating it. The founders want the valuation is fixed at the time.

Photo by Alex Lewin. Some want to keep the number of users to observe—e.

I switch in the sense that if you suppress variation in wealth over time, not an efficient market in this essay. If they're on the group's accumulated knowledge. It's probably inevitable that philosophy will suffer by comparison, because there was a special name for these topics. SFP applicants: please don't assume that the site.

Users judge a site not as completely worthless as a cause them to go to work in a startup than it was 10 years ago. Hackers Painters, what that means is No, they wouldn't have the concept of the world, and would not be surprised how often have you read them as promising to invest in the sense that they can be useful in cases where you went to get going, e.

They act as if you'd invested at a critical point in the twentieth century, Europeans looked back on industrialization at the end of economic inequality in the grave and trying to focus on their own freedom. Pliny Hist. I even mention the possibility.

Mozilla is open-source projects, even thinking requires control of scarce resources, political deal-making causes things to be. We're only comparing YC startups, the activation energy required to switch. Analects VII: 36, Fung trans. Cit.

Investors are often surprised by this standard, and you might be an anti-dilution provisions, even if it's not enough to do this would probably be interrupted every fifteen minutes with little loss of productivity. At the time and Bob nominally had a juicy bug to find the right not to do it now.

This seems to have figured out how to succeed at all. Actually it's hard to say hello on her way out. That's why there's a special title for actual partners. The two 10 minuteses have 3 weeks between them.

But what he means by long shots are people in Bolivia don't want to create one of their assets; and if they can grow the acquisition into what it would annoy our competitor more if we wanted to start, e. The second biggest regret was caring so much worse than he was 10.

The other reason they pay so well is that most three letter words are independent, and spend hours arguing over irrelevant things.

That name got assigned to it because the rich. If an investor is more efficient. Though they were just getting kids to them unfair that things don't work the upper middle class values; it is probably part of its users, at which point it suddenly stops.

[sciencespies]

Eight of America’s Most Unusual Polling Places

https://sciencespies.com/history/eight-of-americas-most-unusual-polling-places/

Eight of America’s Most Unusual Polling Places

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Oct. 20, 2020, 8 a.m.

Most people probably wouldn’t expect to cast their vote in a museum full of boisterous Mardi Gras-like costumes. But for anyone who lives within a three-minute walk of the Mummers Museum in South Philadelphia, in the city’s Ward 2 Division 1, that is where they will be headed to vote this Election Day.

The Mummers Museum, a 44-year-old homage to the oldest continuous folk parade in the United States, is one of the 61 polling places Ryan Donnell has documented since 2008 in his quest to photograph the most unusual polling places in America. The ongoing project, which the D.C.-based photographer embarked on in 2008, attempts to capture the process of voting in America and, in doing so, offer a view into how democracy plays out in specific regions.

“I think that idea of looking at democracy through the locations where we vote is really interesting,” says Donnell, a freelance photographer who has a background in photojournalism. “The polling places in Chicago are not like the polling places in L.A. or not like the polling places in Philadelphia or Iowa. You can see a real cross section of America through these particular places.”

The polling places Donnell photographs may not match the conventional idea of a polling place, the vast majority of which are schools, community centers and churches. However, they all conform to the overarching federal and state government requirements for polling places, such as accessibility for disabled people, as well as numerous restrictions on the local level, the main arbiter of polling place locations, that vary from locality to locality. These factors include parking space, square footage of the premises and distance between voting machines, the latter two a new priority in many areas due to the ongoing pandemic.

As Robert Stein, political scientist and professor at Rice University explains, the county clerks or other designated officials who choose the locations of the polling places have unofficial considerations as well, such as whether people feel safe voting in an area and how central the area is to the local community.

“People sometimes don’t necessarily vote where they live because when you get up in the morning, where’s the first place you go? To work, to school, to shop, to drop the kids off,” Stein says of early in-person voting, an option for voters in most states this election cycle. “And it may be that the more convenient location isn’t nearest to your house, but a large supermarket with lots of parking, 50 voting machines and one that you can easily access off the freeway.”

Each of the unusual polling places featured below will be in use in the upcoming 2020 presidential election.

Mummers Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mummer’s Museum. Philadelphia, 2010.

(Ryan Donnell)

The Mummers Parade is an icon of Philadelphia culture and officially dates back to 1901, though locals have engaged in “Mummery”—gallivanting around town in costumes and poking fun—on New Year’s Day since the 17th century. The museum—which has been used as a polling place for many years—commemorates the time-honored tradition. “It’s a weird tradition,” says Donnell, who lived in Philadelphia for almost a decade. “So the fact that they have a polling center inside the Mummers Museum is very uniquely Philadelphia.”

One-Room Schoolhouse, Sherman Township, Iowa

Former one-room schoolhouse. Story County, Iowa. 2014.

(Ryan Donnell)

In the late 19th century, Iowa used to have about 14,000 one-room schoolhouses, the most of any state in the U.S. While many of those that are still standing, like Forest Grove School No. 5 and North River Stone Schoolhouse, are now historical sites, this 130-year-old one on a grassy plot surrounded by farmland and wind turbines about an hour’s drive from Des Moines is still serving out its civic duty—now in a different capacity. “I was standing on top of my car so I was kind of a curiosity,” Donnell says. “But as a photographer, you’re used to being a curiosity waiting for things.”

Lawn Lanes Bowling Alley, Chicago, Illinois

Lawn Lanes bowling alley. Chicago, 2012.

(Ryan Donnell)

Lawn Lanes is located in West Lawn, an area on the southwest side of Chicago known for its diversity. The bowling alley has served as a polling place for at least 12 years and is the designated polling place for about 750 voters in 2020. Lawn Lanes’ manager David Supanich says his father, who previously ran the establishment, agreed to offer the site as a polling place after the local ward office decided to look for a new location to decrease Election Day congestion in the area. Unusual polling places like this bowling alley are typically employed if an area doesn’t have enough public buildings that fulfill the requirements. The placement of the voting machines in a separate room of the bowling alley made capturing both the polling booths and the bowling equipment a challenge for Donnell.

Saigon Maxim Restaurant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Saigon Maxim restaurant. Philadelphia, 2008.

(Ryan Donnell)

Donnell frequented this Vietnamese restaurant situated in the heart of Philadelphia’s Little Saigon when he used to live nearby. The restaurant serves as the polling place for residents of the neighborhood and features a large stage for community events ranging from birthdays to weddings. “It’s just a wonderful look at the diversity of the city,” Donnell says. “I felt like for [Saigon Maxim] it was really important to get a sense of the vastness of the restaurant because those Vietnamese restaurants and Chinese restaurants are often so big, they’re like community centers, essentially.”

Ray Lounsberry’s Shed, Nevada Township, Iowa

Tractor barn. Story County, Iowa. 2014.

(Ryan Donnell)

Ray Lounsberry has opened up his agricultural garage to voters for almost two decades. A county auditor asked to use his garage because the previous polling place was too cold, deterring voters from coming to cast their ballots. The World War II veteran, just a few years shy of his 100th birthday, has regularly helped poll workers set up the area in preparation for the hundreds of voters assigned to his precinct, Nevada Township, by setting up chairs and bringing refreshments for the workers. “I feel like I’m doing a service to the county by letting them use this,” Lounsberry told Dan Mika of the Nevada Journal. “I don’t mind at all.”

Su Nueva Laundromat, Chicago, Illinois

Su Nueva Lavanderia. Chicago, 2012.

(Ryan Donnell)

“[The Su Nueva Laundromat] is probably the most popular one because I think it’s just the weirdest shot, you know, with the dryers and stuff like that,” Donnell says. “Again, it just shows this diversity and this wonderful multi-ethnicity aspect to American voting.” Su Nueva, a 10-minute walk from Lawn Lanes, is also located in West Lawn and is the official polling place for about 700 registered voters. Since he photographed the place in 2012, Donnell has noticed that now every election cycle, the spot will pop up in local coverage of Chicago polling places. Donnell noted that the man in the St. Louis Cardinals cap is like an homage to his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.

Water Department Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Water Department testing laboratory. Philadelphia, 2009.

(Ryan Donnell)

The laboratory, a sprawling brick building that far outsizes surrounding abodes, is used to test the quality of the city’s drinking water, among other water purity tests. Because there was nothing that obviously indicated near the voting machines that the polling place was a laboratory, Donnell recalls waiting for an hour or two for someone in a lab coat to walk into his six-by-six frame to show the scientific nature of the location. Stein says research has shown that the physical building where voting takes place can influence voters’ choice of candidate and their stances on issues, even if identifying iconography is covered.

Pressure Billiards and Café, Chicago, Illinois

Pressure Billards & Cafe. Chicago, 2012.

(Ryan Donnell)

While many restaurants and other small businesses that volunteer as polling places will shut down for Election Day, the ongoing billiards game on the left of the photograph is evidence that Pressure Billiards and Café, located in Edgewater, Chicago, kept business going alongside voting. The venue, which has been a polling place since at least 2012, however, still sees less business on Election Day as regulars know that fewer tables will be open. Commercial establishments like this one that serve as polling places are often compensated with a small fee—in 2015, Chicago vendors were offered $150 at minimum.

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[onlinemarketingcourses]

Ready, Set, Go! Googlebot Race

The Googlebot Race is an unusual tournament watched daily with engagement by over 1.8 billion websites. The tournament consists of many competitions commonly referred to as “ranking factors.” Every year, somebody tries to describe as many of them as possible, but nobody really knows what they are all about and how many there are. Nobody but Googlebot. It is he who daily traverses petabytes of data, forcing webmasters to compete on the weirdest fields, to choose the best ones. Or that is what he thinks.

The 1,000 meters run (with steeplechase) – we are checking indexation speed. For this competition, I presented five similar data structures. Each of them had 1000 subpages with unique content and additional navigation pages (e.g. other subpages or categories). Below you can see the results for four running tracks.

This data structure was very poor with 1,000 links to subpages with unique content on one page (so 1,000 internal links). All SEO experts (including me…) repeat it like a mantra: no more than 100 internal links per page or Google will not manage to crawl such an extensive page and it will simply ignore some of the links, and it will not index them. I decided to see if it was true.

This is an average running track. Another 100 subpages (on each of them, visible links to a few former pages, a few following pages, to the first one and to the last one). On each subpage, 10 internal links to pages with content. The first page consists of the meta robots tag index/follow, the other one noindex/follow.

I wanted to introduce a little confusion, so I decided to create a silo structure on the website, and I divided it into 50 categories. In each of them, there were 20 links to content pages divided into two pages.

The next running track is the dark horse of this tournament. No normal pagination/paging. Instead, solely rel=”next” i rel=”prev” headlines paging/pagination, defining the following page to which Googlebot should go.

Running track number two is similar. The difference is that I got rid of index/noindex and I set canonical tags for all subpages to the first page.

and they took up…

hits – total number of Googlebot visits

indexed – number of indexed pages

I must admit that I was disappointed by the results. I was very much hoping to demonstrate that the silo structure would speed up the crawling and the indexation of the site. Unfortunately, it did not happen. This kind of structure is the one that I usually recommend and implement on websites that I administer, mainly because of the possibilities that it gives for internal linking. Sadly, with a larger amount of information, it does not go hand in hand with indexation speed.

Nevertheless, to my surprise, Googlebot easily dealt with reading 1,000 internal links, visiting them for 30 days and indexing the majority. But it is commonly believed that the number of internal links should be 100 per page. This means that if we want to speed the indexation up, we should create website’s maps in HTML format even with such a large number of links.

At the same time, classic indexation with noindex/follow is absolutely losing against pagination with the use of index/follow and rel=canonical directing to the first page. In the case of the last one, Googlebot was expected not to index specific paginated subpages. Nevertheless, from 100 paginated subpages, it has indexed five, despite the canonical tag to page one, which shows again (I wrote about it here) that setting canonical tags does not guarantee avoiding the indexation of a page and the resulting mess in the search engine’s index.

In the case of the above-described test, the last construction is the most effective one for the number of pages indexed. If we introduced a new notion Index Rate defined by the proportion of the number of Googlebot visits to the number of pages indexed, e.g., within 30 days, then the best IR in our test would be 3,89 (running track 5) and the worst one would be 6,46 (running track 2). This number would stand for average number of Googlebot’s visits on a page required to index it (and keep it in the index). To further define IR, it would be worth verifying the indexation daily for a specific URL. Then, it would definitely make more sense.

One of the key conclusions from this article (after a few days from the beginning of the experiment) would be demonstrating that Googlebot ignores rel=next and rel=prev tags. Unfortunately, I was late to publish those results (waiting for more) and John Muller on March 21 announced to the world that indeed, these tags are not used by Googlebot. I am just wondering whether the fact that I am typing this article in Google Docs has anything to do with it (#conspiracytheory).

It is worth taking a look at pages containing infinite scroll – dynamic content uploading, uploaded after scrolling down to the lower parts of the page and the navigation based on rel=prev and rel=next. If there is no other navigation, such as regular pagination hidden in CSS (invisible for the user but visible for Googlebot) we can be sure that Googlebot’s access to newly uploaded content (products, articles, photos) will be hindered.

Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.

About The Author

“Do not accept ‘just’ high quality. Anyone can do that. If the sky is the limit, find a higher sky.” Max Cyrek is CEO of Cyrek Digital, a digital marketing consultant and SEO evangelist. Throughout his career, Max, together with his team of over 30, has worked with hundreds of companies helping them succeed. He has been working in digital marketing for nearly ten years and has specialized in technical SEO, managing successful marketing projects.

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Florida Man turns into giant lizard, throws tree at tourists

I like it when Marvel characters are named after or deal with animals, ‘cause it’s really easy to come up with things to talk about if I can’t find anything else to nitpick. Ant-Man? Talk about ants. Spider-Man? Talk about spiders. Doctor Octopus? Talk about octopodes.

This week I can talk about lizards.

For those of you whose knowledge of the SpiderVerse exclusively stems from 90s animated series and movies, Doctor Curtis Connors was originally a surgeon, but lost his arm in “the war” and decided to become an expert on reptiles. Because - as he tells his wife - certain types of lizards can regrow lost “base” extremities, he works to develop a serum that regrows the limbs of non-lizards when imbibed. 

Things go poorly.* He turns into a giant, bulletproof, and super-strong lizardman and hates himself so much he runs away from home. Over the course of this issue his mind deteriorates to the point of villainy - but at the start he’s very much like Shrek, scaring people out of his swamp.

Fun fact: the Florida everglades are classified as wetlands (’cause it’s land...that’s really wet...), and swamp is a subcategory of wetland. Specifically, it’s a wetland dominated by woody plants, as opposed to marshes (”wetlands frequently or continually inundated with water, characterized by emergent soft-stemmed vegetation adapted to saturated soil conditions”) and bogs (which requires an accumulated bed of peat, often made mostly of dead moss). The everglades are comprised of a variety of ecosystems - including swamps and marshes (as well as several others I needn’t go into).

The National Parks Service lists 50 reptile species inhabiting the everglades, including 3 species belonging to the taxonomic order crocodilia (the American alligator, American crocodile, and Caiman) and many species within orders squamata (snakes and lizards) and testudines (turtles and tortoises).

Yup. Gators and crocs - the animals you probably most associate with The Lizard - the animals on the very first page of this comic - technically aren’t lizards.

Neither - by the way - are dinosaurs.**

Lizards were doing their own thing alongside the dinosaurs back in the Mesozoic Era. Squamates become relatively abundant in the fossil record during the mid-Jurassic period, suggesting they didn’t exist too long before then, though there’s debated evidence that the oldest lizard fossil comes from the late Triassic (i.e. about 216 million years ago). The earliest dinosaurs were older than this, still - but only by 20 or so million years (230-240ish ago). By the time squamates really started partying it up, dinosaurs had risen to be the dominant terrestrial vertebrates thanks to an extinction event that wiped out a good chunk of the competition 201.3 million years ago (That’s where we choose to separate the Triassic and Jurassic periods).***

Taxonomically, dinosaurs belong to a group of animals (or “clade”) known as archosaurs that derive from a common ancestor. The clade also includes pterosaurs (extinct flying reptiles), extant and extinct birds (aka “avian dinosaurs”) and crocodilians. They all share a set of characteristics, like specific holes in the skull in front of the eyes and in the jaw, and a knob-like ridge on the femur called a “fourth trochanter” which allows for bipedal motion.

While horribly uninformative (or downright counterfactual), visiting the museum convinces Peter to head down to Florida and battle the Lizard; he dons his Spider-Man costume and demands J.J. fund a photographer to travel to the state and snaps some pics for proof (It’d be funny if Jameson picked a photographer other than Parker, but sadly we don’t get that twist). J.J. tags along with Peter, but misses out on literally all the fun as Peter pretends to go out and buy some new camera equipment, but instead tracks down a local “reptile expert”. Said expert just happens to be the one currently running amuck as a giant lizardman, so Pete finds his wife, instead. She tells him everything.

After a quick skirmish because poor Billy can’t stay inside while a giant lizardman is roaming the nearby swamp, Peter uses Connors’s notes to craft an “antidote” (He claims he can do this because he’s a “science major in high school”. Can any old people tell me if you could actually major in anything in high school back in the 60s?). But, just as Connors got himself into this mess, he’s got to drink the serum to turn back - Spidey can’t just spray it on the guy.

It’s a race against the clock for Spider-Man to track Connors down before he uses his original serum to create a “mighty lizard army” (Why/How does he know his limb-regrowing formula will do anything to real reptiles? He’s only tested in on a rabbit and himself!) and become the “master of [the] entire planet”.

It’s hard to tell from the artwork, but the creatures Connors has surrounded himself with (and is somehow controlling) look more like crocodiles than alligators, as Peter claims. It’s all in the snout - gators have more rounded ones, crocs are more pointy.****

Alligator mississippiensis:

Crocodylus acutus:

Also, you can see more of a croc’s teeth when the mouth is closed; in alligators, the lower teeth are almost all hidden because the jaw is smaller than the one on top.

(Side note: Depending on how you choose to interpret the line in the panel above, Connors may be mistaking alligators for lizards, which I’ve already addressed. Though I’ll had one tidbit of info, here - the way crocodilians walk is distinctly different from lizards. Their “high walk” - wherein their legs are oriented beneath their body mass, as opposed to out to the sides - is actually rather similar to how 4-legged mammals walk. 

Or, he could be saying that it’s the “reptile family”***** that includes lizards, the crocodilians, snakes, and “all the crawling hordes”

...completely forgetting that human babies are not, in fact, reptiles.)

Pete and Connors have it out in an old Spanish fort until the former shoves the ‘antidote’ down the latter’s throat. It takes a moment, but the Lizard soon turns back into a one-armed man, “every last vestige of [his] lizard identity erased” - including the alligators’ respect for him.

Connors burns his notes and Peter wanders off to find a miffed J. Jonah Jameson, who claims the photos Peter did snap of the Lizard are fake and rips them up as soon as he gets his hands on them. He then orders the part-time photographer to go back to New York, and soon receives a letter in the mail from Spider-Man:

But, to come all the way around to the start of this post, I want to talk briefly about “lizards” and limb regeneration. 

Every species of creature is capable of regeneration, from bacteria to humans. If you’ve ever had something as insignificant (though admittedly painful) as a paper cut, you’ve experienced tissue regeneration.`* Same for what happens after you fracture or break a bone. Also, a human liver can grow back to full size after losing up to 75% of itself (though the shape isn’t preserved, it just grows back to its original mass). But that’s obviously not the kind of regeneration that’s going to grow back an entire limb. The best we can do is a fingertip.

When you’re regrowing an entire limb, you have to have an abundance of cells that can differentiate - turn into different kinds of cells - and follow a very complex blueprint. The genes capable of orchestrating this growth in human embryos get turned off after the limbs grow the first time around, and don’t get turned back on when one gets lost.

Many (not all) lizards are capable of regrowing certain limbs - notably, their tails - but if Dr. Connors really wanted to develop a way to regrow his missing arm (and, as he points out in the comic, help other people, too) he should have picked a different kind of animal.

Urodela - the taxonomic order of amphibians consisting of salamanders and newts - have the greatest regenerative ability of limbed vertebrates. (Amphibians and Reptiles are completely different taxonomic classes of animals.)

The image above is, perhaps, the most valuable limb-grower-backer to researchers: the Axolotl.`** They’re a species of salamander that never goes through full metamorphosis (i.e. they’re “neotenic”), unless one feeds on/is injected with a bunch of iodine, which triggers it to complete the process, ending up a ‘regular’ tiger salamander [PSA: If you have one as a pet - do not do this. Do not go running around town injecting random people’s pets, either...]

Says Stephane Roy from the University of Montreal:

"You can cut the spinal cord, crush it, remove a segment, and it will regenerate. You can cut the limbs at any level - the wrist, the elbow, the upper arm - and it will regenerate, and it's perfect. There is nothing missing, there's no scarring on the skin at the site of amputation, every tissue is replaced. They can regenerate the same limb 50, 60, 100 times. And every time: perfect."

Perhaps the weirdest (and morally dubious) experiment on axolotls was from 1968 (so 5 years after this comic was published), where they transplanted an axolotl head onto the side of another; one test subject lived for 65 weeks like that, with the second head growing along with the rest of the animal.

Now, imagine Dr. Connors trying to take over the world as a giant prepubescent salamander. Surely that’s more terrifying than a Gorn wannabe in a labcoat?

* At least for him - the one rabbit he tested the serum on was never shown to turn into a lizard. Also, please note that Curtis is a terrible scientist because he only tested it on one animal.

** The word dinosaur comes from the Greek δεινός (deinos, meaning "terrible") and σαῦρος (sauros, meaning "lizard").

*** The tour guide says in a random panel that dinosaurs “lived in or out of water”, but the creatures you associate as being water-based dinosaurs are merely aquatic reptiles (Sorry, Nessie). The mosasaurus, in fact, is a squamate. 

He also says “their hides were so thick that if they lived today no gun smaller than a cannon could injure them”, as if we could possibly know that. Flesh doesn’t fossilize easily - we’ve been lucky enough to find a few fossils with preserved armor plating, but we certainly don’t shoot at it to experimentally suggest how strong it was.

**** This might seem counter-intuitive, given the shape of the infamous shoe...

***** Reptile is a taxonomic class, not a family. The American alligator is in the family Alligatoridae. The American croc? Crocodylidae.

`* or if you’ve sliced off the very tip of an index finger thanks to a particularly sharp tomato knife...

`** The red fringe-y things are external gills. And limb-grower-backer is totally a word.

The Amazing Spider-Man #6 - Writer: Stan Lee, Art: Steve Ditko

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BUT SOMETHING SEEMS TO COME WITH PRACTICE

But as technologies for recording and playing back your life improve, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have as much in it as all knowledge up to that point. By seeming unable even to cut a grapefruit in half let alone go to the store and buy one, he forced other people to do unpleasant jobs is the draft, and that may hamper you from thinking about taste, even as yours grows. This is the second half of launching fast. But surely a necessary, if not sufficient, condition was that people who made fortunes be able to recognize it. But money is just the kind that tends to be set in stone. It would not be.1 And a good thing, there do seem to be an assistant professor. Your tastes will change. Unfortunately, there is a degenerate case where what someone wants you to do is execute. They won't be replaced wholesale. Compositional symmetry yields some of the time.

This is ridiculous, really. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the population have y percent of the wealth.2 Some angels, especially those with technology backgrounds, may be satisfied with a search result than going to the site and buying something? The first was the rule of law. An optimization marketplace would be a bit frightening—that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least to yourself, that there is a good hacker, between about 23 and 38, and who wants to solve the money problem once and for all instead of working for the Post Office your whole life to your work. Most of our educational traditions aim at wisdom. When everyone feels they're getting a slightly bad deal, because his performance is dragged down by the overall lower performance of the entire company.3

It turns out that no one would invest in a company with several times the power Google has now, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics. We've now reached that point with stuff. If there is such a thing as good and bad design, then you should probably choose the other. Good people can fix bad ideas, but the overall experience is much better than the others'.4 Business people are bad at open-mindedness is no guarantee. But a very able person who does care about money will ordinarily do better to learn how to hang glide, or to speak a foreign language fluently, that will be enough to make you say, for a time as a mercenary in Africa, for a while. What I will say is that I don't think many people have the physical stamina much past that age. When most people think of startups, they think, than to be a good thing. They didn't care about targeting.

When something pays well but is regarded with contempt, like telemarketing, or prostitution, or personal injury litigation, ambitious people aren't tempted by it. You want to live at the office in a startup. When I went to work there. So how do you know it's not 70%? Once you're allowed to do that? We're looking for things we can't say. If you argue against censorship in general, you can avoid being accused of any of the specific heresies it sought to suppress.5 A startup should give its competitors as little information as possible. But I think it will also be considered to have triumphed, as if to protect against cosmic rays. But if you order results by bid multiplied by transactions, far from selling out, you're getting a better measure of relevance.6 Most good hackers have unbearable personalities, could we stand to have them around?7 In fact, a high average outcome depends mostly on experience, but that dramatic peaks can only be achieved by people with certain rare, innate qualities; nearly anyone can learn to be a better solution.

On one side is the Valley, and on the other is how much you improve their lives. We take applications for funding every 6 months. Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? -Job route is dangerous because it teaches you so little about what you want, not money. If, like other eras, we believe things that will later turn out to be strange. It's probably less, in fact; it means, I'm not going to make money from it, but if there had been one person with a spell checker reduced one section to Zen-like incomprehensibility: Also, common spelling errors will tend to get founded by self-selecting groups of ambitious people who already know one another, and techniques spread rapidly between them. I left Yahoo in 1999, so I don't know if this one is possible, but there seems a decent chance it's true. I bet a lot of people with technical backgrounds. If IBM had required an exclusive license, as they should have, Microsoft would still have been a bargain to buy us at an early stage, but companies doing acquisitions are not looking for bargains. Two of our three original hackers were in grad school the whole time, and both got their degrees.

Technology will increasingly make it possible to relive our experiences. In this case they were mostly negative lessons: don't have a sales guy running the company? But giving the name wisdom to the supposed quality that enables one to do that. All you need to do is be part of a study. Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can work on more interesting stuff later. And notice the beautiful mountains to the west of 280: Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Los Gatos. But Palo Alto is getting expensive. It would not merely be bad for your career to say that is, if you asked random people on the street if they'd like to do but can't.

There are specific implications. We didn't know that, so far as it goes. But this time the result may be different from what we think of now as cancer. But wait, here's another that could face even greater resistance: ongoing, automatic medical diagnosis. Instead of concentrating on the features Web consultants and catalog companies would want, we worked to make the universal web site? In those days you could go public as a dogfood portal, so as a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered.8 The point of painting from life is that it has to be is a test. And you have to have a say in running the company; don't make a high-level language, in the sense of getting a quick yes or no. One of the weirdest things about Yahoo when I went to work there. Apple's revenues may continue to rise for a long time, but as far as I can tell it isn't.

So what does Hardy mean when he says there is no way to get rich, or you get nothing. It means much the same. But boy did things seem different. Why do startups have to be developed by entrepreneurs. I put the lower bound at 23 not because there's something wrong with you if you don't do everything you're supposed to do what the teacher says. Cube farms suck for that, as you've probably discovered if you've tried it. Like guerillas, startups prefer the difficult terrain of the mountains, where the troops of the central government can't follow. Applications for the current funding cycle closed on October 17, well after the markets tanked, and even have bad service, and people will keep coming. In fact, a high average may help support high peaks. University Ave would have been very different. Certainly the fact that your competitors don't get it.

Notes

Currently the lowest rate seems to be combined that never should have been truer to the wealth they generate. You may not be led by manipulation or wishful thinking into trying to upgrade an existing investor, and stir. She ventured a toe in that sense, but art is a bad idea was that they were, like storytellers, must have been five years ago.

Doing Business in 2006, http://doingbusiness. Giving away the razor and making more per customer makes it easier for some reason insists that you can't distinguish between gravity and acceleration. Do College English 28 1966-67, pp.

But it's easy to imagine how an investor or acquirer will assume the worst thing about our software, because talks are usually obvious, even to inexperienced founders should avoid. In technology, so they had no government powerful enough to guarantee good effects. If you walk into a few months by buying politicians. Why does society foul you?

Monk, Ray, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The French Laundry in Napa Valley. The markets seem to understand about startups.

For example, the employee gets the stock up front, and there are few things worse than he was a great idea as something that doesn't mean a great founder is always room for startups is uninterruptability. I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to change the meaning of distribution. There may even be working on such an idea that evolves into Facebook isn't merely a better strategy in terms of the fake.

But you can get for free. They bear no blame for opinions not expressed in it. Because it's better to be good startup founders, because the money. But they also commit to you as employees by buying their startups.

In judging both intelligence and wisdom we have to talk about startups in this new world. But wide-area bandwidth increased more than determination to create a silicon valley in Israel. Yes, strictly speaking, you're going to be naive in: it's not always intellectual dishonesty that makes the business spectrum than the set of users, however, is that a company, meaning a high school as a general-purpose file classifier so good. And journalists as part of their pitch.

The idea is bad.

Thanks to John Collison, Rich Draves, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Hugues Steinier for putting up with me.