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Neat project, worth checking out https://750words.com/ for inspiration. It's a great, simple product.

Supply chain issues, for one.

Eg. Not enough cotton swabs: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/coronavirus-testing...

Non-profit, with several $1m+ donations: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/our-supporters

Np! Just went through a rebrand to make that a bit clearer. Btw excited to see Harsh build a great team and lead HR, he was great to work with while at MakerSquare :)

Ya I agree it’s annoying. Will flag this with our marketing team.

We teach the MERN stack with some CS theory (basic data structures & algorithms). There’s also a heavy focus on building so your portfolio pieces will start with wireframes and end with deployment and code reviews.

Realistically, that’s looking like a 2019 goal but yes we’d love to offer that fincancial support. We currently offer partial scholarships to veterans for both products.

re: Thinkful, we have a rigorous, full-time program that matches your definition of "online classroom" as well as a flexible program for those who can only commit part-time. Both offer 1-on-1 mentorship, with stats available on CIRR.org.

OP - you're welcome to ping me (bhaumik@thinkful[dot]com) w/ any specific questions. I run the full-time product.

Thinkful pivoted from a subscription model to being a school focused on job placement a couple years back. Our core products are remote immersive & part-time courses in software development & data science. But tying back to the OP, the immersive program has a no tuition till you're hired financing option, (which a few other schools offer too). It's been pretty exciting hearing the joy from applicants who wouldn't have been able to afford the course w/ traditional financing options.

Diderot's Encyclopédie has been a beaitful binge read.

See entry for 'Philosopher':

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=did;cc=did;...

A bit more haunting for me on the east coast, the Pentagon:

https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/detail-sovi...

Linus Torvald's first email re: Linux belongs here:

> I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

It's starting to happen, ecstasy was recently designated a "breakthrough therapy" for people with PTSD in early trials.

https://www.axios.com/ecstasy-to-treat-ptsd-fast-trackedl-24...

Usage stats, from article:

- Duplicate: 23.21%

- Reload: 22.74%

- Pin / Unpin tab: 13.12%

- Close tab: 9.68%

- Reopen closed tab: 8.92%

- New tab: 6.63%

- Close tabs to the right: 6.06%

- Mute tab: 5.38%

- Close other tabs: 2.20%

- Unmute tab: 1.41%

- Bookmark all tabs: 0.64%

"The NGA is to pictures what the NSA is to voices. Its principal function is to analyze the billions of images and miles of video captured by drones in the Middle East and spy satellites circling the globe. But because it has largely kept its ultra-high-resolution cameras pointed away from the United States, according to a variety of studies, the agency has never been involved in domestic spy scandals like its two far more famous siblings, the CIA and the NSA."

The rest is political fluff.

A friend suggested something similar about Trump & his relationship with Russia. Whatever happens there, he's positioning himself as the strongest candidate in 2020 to deal with the aftermath.

They contain resources from the same source. e.g. all the "green" content comes from http://www.deeplearningbook.org/.

Here's a neat 4 min video demonstrating how the cup works & how to "beat" it with mercury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfIT3B4y6E

This kind of sentiment is exactly what's wrong with "disruptive" culture