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Hastings: Palo Alto has no charter schools while East Palo Alto has several
“So for example, in Palo Alto, California, there's no charter schools. But in East Palo Alto, which is quite poor, right next door, there's a bunch of charter schools, because the parents are desperate for change in options.”
Hastings: Gates-Funded GMO Cassava Delivers 5 to 10x Crop Yield in Trials
“The plants with this genetic modification don't get the virus, and instead of getting a 10 or 20% yield that a farmer gets, because the virus has taken 80 or 90%, they get, you know, a 95% yield, so it's like a five or 10 times more food produced, ok?”
Hastings: Epic and Ikon sell around two million ski passes each
“They sell, you know, two million passes a piece. They generate, you know, a lot of the visitation. And they're becoming bigger and bigger.”