hmm.
Reading
Technical
Data Compression Drives the Internet. Here’s How It Works.
You Don't Always Need Indexes indeed, I don't have index for so many scenarios.
300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time
Non technical
Why Does Nuclear Power Plant Construction Cost So Much?
High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Students
Intelligent brains take longer to solve difficult problems intelligent brains can suppress the urge to jump into conclusions
The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions
Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.
Youtube
~10 minutes
musical diaries: a short message from an emotional classical pianist in Germany
How To Get Venom From The World's Deadliest Spider huge shout out to rabbits...
Going to Therapy Compilation Part 1
The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies - Quasars
Longer
Talking about Money in Japanese
musical diaries: what was I thinking?
Annual Japan Q&A: AI, Banned Pesticides, and Rising Taxes
A Man Ate Pork Tacos From An Illegal Food Truck. This Is What Happened To His Brain.
musical diaries: Q&A, pianist advice
Podcast
Can Data Keep People Out of Prison? Yes
Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good
How China's mail-order brides are taking back control
It's in a dominant market position, tremendous pricing power, provides great value for the price of its product, long runway for pricing power, operating leverage, not a lot in the way of reinvestment, a natural networking effect, which keeps its scores relevant. You really can't sit down on a piece of paper and design a better business than what FICO is.