cryoshon

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by cryoshon 9y ago
nobody said it would be easy, but here are six ideas for stopping the problem. 1. don't work for companies that surveil or support surveillance and don't hire, associate, converse, or lend aid to anyone who has worked for those co
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by cryoshon 9y ago
speak for yourself. some of us refuse to answer when we are called to serve something we don't believe in-- even if answering the call causes us to miss out on prosperity.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
this was my impression as well. "look at all these bad things we do, that the chinese also do-- oh yeah, but they also do OTHER stuff that's horrible too" the line between a surveillance state and an oppressive political stat
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by cryoshon 9y ago
de facto, yes. imagine if you knew nothing, and then the people you trust said you need X to succeed. you go and get X with the means you have. most people only have the means of borrowing.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
what, a laughably small proportion relative to the country's population? median income is in the 50k range...
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>1. Buy a house in a place where it's normal for people for rent rooms or have roommates sorry can you explain how you start with this step if your net worth is zero?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
have to disagree on the following grounds: 1. most people aren't even exposed to the opportunity to gain any appreciable wealth. step one is getting out of salaryman slavery existence and getting into companymaking, rent extraction, fi
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>In the National Security Letter dated May 19, 2017, the US Department of Justice withdrew the request entirely rather than proceed with judicial review. if the DOJ would rather not get any information at all rather than have their reque
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by cryoshon 9y ago
i mean right off the bat: spam accounts for 45% of email sent. what a huge waste of resources... and if the US is home to the most spammers and the largest spammers, i have to wonder what the government is doing to stop it considering that
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by cryoshon 9y ago
a post on corporate responsibility that does not mention concepts like "income" "inequality" "wealth" or even "politics" requires a bit of rounding out before it's a complete discussion. the auth
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by cryoshon 9y ago
i'm a proponent of the SENS approach myself, but nobody else asked yet, so i will: what if 150,000 people dying per day is the cost of mankind's ability to progress with each generation? especially in science, progress occurs as t
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by cryoshon 9y ago
> is there a concise spreadsheet to show the state-of-the-art doubtful imo. the state of the art is rapidly changing, and plenty of things are happening behind closed doors. clinicaltrials.gov is your best bet but the expected success ra
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>The internet will almost certainly spawn a social movement to destroy the class system in the US it's called socialism. it's been spawned already, and it's growing. people can thank bernie sanders for its major populariza
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by cryoshon 9y ago
"whose goals get accomplished by believing this claim" is the biggest question to get into a habit of asking yourself. make it unconscious. make it follow every line of written text and every sentence you hear. you will find that
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by cryoshon 9y ago
there is, but making the jump from mouse to humans with a therapy isn't always successful. sometimes subsequent mouse studies don't pan out, or sometimes the FDA sees something they don't like and you need more research befor
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by cryoshon 9y ago
as a former immunooncology scientist i'd say you should be guardedly optimistic. you should be aware that there probably won't be a generalized cancer cure, but i think we'll be starting to tackle a lot of different cancers i
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by cryoshon 9y ago
all things considered, it's probably far more dangerous than chemo in the sense that it could kill you or seriously and permanently injure you with your first dose depending on your phenotype. at least chemo is a slower process. but im
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by cryoshon 9y ago
as a former scientist in immunotherapy/immunooncology research: we are going to win against cancer. and very importantly for you and your wife, many of us consider the PD-1 therapies as the biggest battles and biggest victories that we
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by cryoshon 9y ago
horrendous. US based companies need to stake a moral stand against working with backwards regimes with ongoing human rights violations. google is no exception. money chasing is, of course, amoral. to be clear, this isn't even a case of
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by cryoshon 9y ago
occam's razor: you don't need to introduce migrants to create deep fractures. look at the US. we're still fighting political battles along (roughly) the lines of the civil war. there's genuine animosity before you introd
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>The danger here is that we might be lulling ourselves in a complacent state "it can't happen to us" this is the perfect chance to plug one of my favorite books, sinclair lewis' "it can't happen here."
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>the surveillance state that's developing you mean has been developed and deployed and actively in use for over a decade, and is continually expanding even now? you can have oppression without murder, or even without the threat of v
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by cryoshon 9y ago
if you have critical thinkers in the family, sure, it will work great. most people don't.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
as a writer i would mostly suggest the opposite of what this article suggests, though the author makes good points too, especially the one about reading being essential for writing. my (opposite) suggestions: 1. worry about what the world n
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>First the pharma/cancer industry is a giant conspiracy working against the health and needs of cancer patients everywhere. as a former insider, i will tell you that this is not the case. the real case is not nearly as bad: imagine
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>plot a revolution and train for it. i suspect the wheels are already in motion.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
why not do some research online, buy the meds for a penny on the dollar via the darknet, and give them to your mom's nurse with a $100 note to seal the deal? is it absurd that i have plans for these exact situations already worked out?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
i never got the self pity vibe from hoagies' page. i felt it was more explanatory than comiserational. it's a great resource, though.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
as a former biologist: please, please, please, please, please, please, please ensure that at YC the people with money do not try to interpret laboratory data and stay far away from making any kind of project-level decisions. it's somet
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by cryoshon 9y ago
when they stomped down their own curiosity by refusing to search for more information on the internet because it'd get them on a list.

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