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by creato 5y ago
This reads like a copy/paste of the usual comments on HN about big tech, but almost none of it actually applies to most vaccine manufacturers.
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by creato 5y ago
First, the science in developing a vaccine is not the only work involved. Clinical trials and scaling up manufacturing to name a few. Second, it actually is the scientists getting rich at least in some cases: https://www.nytimes.
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by creato 5y ago
Vaccine manufacturers are making $20-25/dose in revenue , not profit. The price for vaccines currently being charged is absurdly reasonable. I would pay 10x the price out of pocket without a second thought, and I wouldn't care ho
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by creato 5y ago
My uninformed eyeballing of the study linked in this thread is that Moderna might not need a booster, or at least not on the same interval as Pfizer. The graph of Moderna cases in the linked paper looks roughly proportional to the unvaccina
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by creato 5y ago
It's probably not a coincidence that Moderna 1) has a higher dose, 2) has more side effects, and 3) is more effective. I got the Moderna vaccine. The second shot hit me pretty hard, I was definitely knocked down for a day. But honestly
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by creato 5y ago
The only thing they've ever really cried about is the salaries they have to pay to get the workers they want. With remote work becoming more of an option, the candidate pool is larger, and so the salaries they have to pay to get the
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by creato 5y ago
The relationship isn't direct, but it ends up roughly working out this way, because whenever a company has a choice between two or more candidate employees, they bid the salary down to the point where one of them walks away. The point
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by creato 5y ago
A lot of people simply overestimate how irreplaceable they really are. If the 1/100 Google employees that are actually hard to replace (and Google knows it) threatens to leave unless they keep their Bay Area salary, they won't g
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by creato 5y ago
> Our institutions have failed, decades of lies to cover up their failures in the face of their unsustainable embedded growth obligations have caught up with them. What specifically has failed? This kind of blind unthinking cynicism is a
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by creato 5y ago
It also sounds difficult to curate (just another kind of moderation), and much of the success of the current social media heavyweights is due to their curation.
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by creato 5y ago
> My problem is that the whole thing is based on old data and a false premise that life is safe when vaccinated people are only around vaccinated people. We know this is slightly more true than among the unvaccinated, but only by about 4
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by creato 5y ago
I think most engineers overestimate their irreplaceability. If a company actually wants you to stay, they'll fight for you. They just choose not to for >90% of engineers leaving. Chances are, the new hire replacements will be in the
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by creato 5y ago
The thing with these things is that when you do it a lot, the cost of ski passes or bikes or whatever is not that high. If you ski 50-100 days, a $500 or $1000 ski pass is much cheaper than most forms of entertainment (that's less per
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by creato 5y ago
One of the authors of that paper is acknowledged here, so at the very least the authors were aware of each other before this was posted.
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by creato 5y ago
Some of the issues shown in these videos make me wonder about Tesla's strategy of using non-professional driver (customer) data to train FSD. Things like changing lanes at the last second is a thing that (obnoxious) humans do, and woul
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by creato 5y ago
Brain cancer incidence since 1992: https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html Cell phone subscribers since 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#/media/File:Mobil..
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by creato 5y ago
The dollars per unit energy already includes this inefficiency of photons to electricity though. You are double counting it.
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by creato 5y ago
I haven't seen this at the job sites I've been on. Most of the wasted wood is a small pile of cuttings from the oddly sized parts of the build, but it's surely less than 5% of the whole build, probably even less than 1%. Any
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by creato 5y ago
I think this is a pretty absurd take. These companies are highly profitable and highly visible to the average person, but in terms of revenue, they aren't outliers among the largest companies. They aren't disproportionately impact
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by creato 5y ago
> with no room for negotiation. The only room for negotiation is being willing to walk (usually because you have an offer somewhere else). Otherwise, it's not negotiating, it's just begging.
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by creato 5y ago
The US is explicitly not getting data on US citizens from foreign spying according to this article? And the article implies that no loophole was needed for Australia to get data on Australians, there was a legal warrant for that in Austra
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by creato 5y ago
> As opposed to diffing her public moves with what she said in the emails? You seriously think that the mere existence of leaked emails was enough to sway voters regardless of what was actually said in them? Those same emails motivated s
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by creato 5y ago
This should be trivially easy for proponents of that theory to prove it if that is in his emails. Just link to an un-edited, full context email thread relevant to that topic. So does this exist? If so, just share that link. If not, stop pre
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by creato 5y ago
How do you expect a service used by average joes to exist without Apple holding a key somewhere? For 99.99% of the users of iCloud, losing access to their data because they lost the key is going to be a problem for them before having their
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by creato 5y ago
> Engineering used to be one of the few fields where you could transition from blue collar to white collar even if you were a child from a poor family. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be very true, anymore. It seems more true than ever
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by creato 5y ago
It's not even remotely close. FAANG total revenue is $275 billion [1]. National health expenditures are $3.8 trillion [2]. You'd have to tax FAANG on revenue at a rate of over 1000% for this to be true. 1. https://c
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by creato 5y ago
> Again, did Swiss citizens ask for it? It seemed like US politicians asked for it. Why should I raise my prices because you said you are losing customers to me? Because if this agreement has any teeth, it will require some kind of sanct
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by creato 5y ago
Blaming this on inability to understand is a mistake. Many people, perhaps even most, just don't care that they are doing something collectively long term destructive. In the short term, they are benefiting, and they can move on to the
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by creato 5y ago
I agree the total peak load on the grid would be lower if many houses had residential solar + batteries. The question is, is that an overall cheaper solution than if those solar panels and batteries were in utility scale installations? The
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by creato 5y ago
> Aside from that, you suggested voting...which is exactly what was attempted to make insider trading illegal in the first place. ... And succeeded. That was the whole point.

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