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by elil17 4y ago
How would we read the article if people didn’t put it in the comments? What, by clicking the link? Unthinkable! Please remember this is hacker news, you’re not allowed to click the link /s
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by elil17 4y ago
People read for different reasons. Some people hope to "take notes and think deeply" about a topic. Some people read for fun. Others hope to gain a broad overview of a subject but aren't hoping to remember everything they rea
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by elil17 4y ago
Unfortunately US courts have not been very receptive to disparate impact claims recently
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by elil17 4y ago
There is no case to be made in the US unless the constructive dismissal was discriminatory in nature. It is legal to get people to quit by making working conditions worse, as long as you don't break any employment laws by doing so. Say
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by elil17 4y ago
That does not sound right to me. Common law (US/UK/etc.) almost always favors someone's intention over technicalities (e.g., you can sign your name as a triangle but it will still count as a legal signature if you say "t
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by elil17 4y ago
Durable viral undetectability means someone has remained undetectable across all viral load measurements for 12 continuous months. So, no, it’s not a “no true Scotsman argument.” This is a scientific term with a specific definition.
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by elil17 4y ago
Well in that case I hope no one is out there transplanting cells from these people into other people. I can’t imagine why anyone would do that. It seems to me like this should still count as curing someone.
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by elil17 4y ago
I guess there’s a difference between a mathematical proof and practical, real life truth. Multiple studies have looked for transmission across tens of thousands of unprotected penetrative sex acts. There’s also a solid theoretical backing t
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by elil17 4y ago
>> I think it's quite likely that at least one of these 5 people have... something in their body that could be transfected into another person's cells and cause an active HIV infection. No, they definitely don't. It&#x2
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by elil17 4y ago
The Lancet is a peer reviewed journal - their goal is to publish research that meets a high bar in terms of academic rigor and potential impact. They didn't take a u-turn on hydroxychloroquine, they just published multiple papers at di
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by elil17 4y ago
If you have enough antibiotics, there won't be an incentive to do that because, when someone has an antibiotic resistant disease, that will just mean it's time to shelve an old antibiotic and start using one that has been out of c
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by elil17 4y ago
Thank you for your excellent summary. How does antibiotic resistance in animals cross over to antibiotic resistance in humans?
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by elil17 4y ago
He teaches at a business school - probably loved by the people who take the classes but not something that would appeal to anyone else
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by elil17 4y ago
It’s 11 million bananas out of 11 billion bananas
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by elil17 4y ago
But you can have it both ways because most rare disease research is already funded by governments and nonprofits
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by elil17 4y ago
I’d just change the “or we won’t use it” to “or your patents go away.”
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by elil17 4y ago
I do like the utilitarian approach, I just think sometimes you need to look outside the box of do A or don’t do A. If the only options were pay for the treatment or don’t, then Ireland might be making the right call by not paying for it. Ir
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by elil17 4y ago
I agree there needs to be pressure. Why not regulatory pressure?
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by elil17 4y ago
Governments and non-profits already funded the development of gene therapy. Letting private companies charge money for it and then blocking people who need it from getting it is a policy decision.
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by elil17 4y ago
Just trying to be funny
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by elil17 4y ago
About 500M is in the form of Azure credits. Those Azure credits should be as good as cash to OpenAI given that they are in the business of training AI models. Tesla paid 11M for tesla.com. Apple paid 6M for iCloud.com. They are still doing
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by elil17 4y ago
Doesn't surprise me. Maybe you've heard of low temperature heat pumps, but not the refrigerants that enabled that technology. You've certainly heard about solar panels but you probably don't know what metallurgical and m
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by elil17 4y ago
Not necessarily an allergy thing - could be cost out, supply chain issues, or a new focus group that tells them that consumers don't actually like sesame seeds.
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by elil17 4y ago
I think it would actually be 227 drops in a 3 gallon bucket. However it's important to consider that it would be a mere 19 drops in a 1 quart pail. (based on 75k drops per gallon)
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by elil17 4y ago
$11 million is not a confirmed number. The company who brokered a prior trade of ai.com in 2021 said the asking price was $11m, but that they are not going to share the final price of that prior transaction. But, I have not been able to fin
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by elil17 4y ago
rl.ai is probably not so valuable. Everyone now knows the word "AI," but only specialists know "RL"
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by elil17 4y ago
OpenAI has raised $11 billion. $11 million is a drop in the bucket for them if it gets them more customers, more job applicants, etc.
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by elil17 4y ago
I believe CycleGAN does some thing along those lines (it's called "cycle consistency loss")
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by elil17 4y ago
That's really cool. However, that's not what ESRI is doing. You can see evidence of the mistakes it will make in their own blog post.
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by elil17 4y ago
As far as I can tell - yes, it's just that it is in ArcGIS now.

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