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by hyko 5y ago
Who said anything about Communism? I’m talking about the people who do the work for a business owning and managing the business themselves, and competing in a free marketplace. Having a class of workers and a class of capital owners is cent
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by hyko 5y ago
It’s things like this that make me realise I’m actually a free market socialist.
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by hyko 5y ago
They don’t under my rock!
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by hyko 5y ago
After providing a description, you can add a phrase like "sometimes referred to as best effort." This practice is what used to be known as the activity formerly called sometimes referred to as best effort . It’s a free country,
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by hyko 5y ago
You can make a decent living coming up with new and exciting ways to regenerate teeth. Meanwhile in the real world drilling & filling remains the cutting edge of dental treatment, as it has done for 7,000–9,000 years.
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AstraZeneca vaccine elicits stronger T-cell response in elderly than Pfizer jab(ft.com)
2 points by hyko 5y ago|0 comments
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by hyko 5y ago
Viral vectors have been around since the 1970s. The mRNA tech feels like a glimpse of the future, let’s hope they can iron out some of the teething problems (e.g. anaphylactic shock, absurd storage requirements).
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by hyko 5y ago
On balance I’d rather just put up with chewing gum on the pavement thanks. I wouldn’t even visit this place.
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by hyko 5y ago
The strong should protect the weak; they still have to put their own oxygen mask on first though. Protecting your citizens is the first duty of government. There is a political failure here, but the domestic mass vaccination programs aren
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by hyko 5y ago
Wouldn’t the greedy thing be to export all the vaccines you produce for maximum profit?
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by hyko 5y ago
Well...not really. The UK manufacturing capacity is tiny from a global perspective. The EU tried to scapegoat the UK for their failure to run an efficient procurement, but that was just irrational politicking. The U.S. obviously has more ma
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by hyko 5y ago
Yeah, $20 a shot vs $3 a shot buys a lot of influence. Still, it’s good that someone stepped up the the plate, otherwise most people on earth would remain unvaccinated.
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by hyko 5y ago
I’d probably be careful using this as a public health communication tool; you’re comparing these risks to things like flying, which people are viscerally afraid of. Not to mention that the CVST issue is a poorly understood and evolving pict
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by hyko 5y ago
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool
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by hyko 5y ago
I'm not sure why people think Paul Graham's perspective on wealth inequality is in response to a recent shift in public opinion; he's taken this position since at least 2004: http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html
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by hyko 5y ago
The solar roof business has always struck me as the “...and we’ll also have a city on Mars” part of the Tesla car business. It’s just seems like an economic non-starter to me. These kind of moves seem to underscore that; they don’t seem to
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by hyko 5y ago
guaranteed decentralized this time
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by hyko 5y ago
Yeah, not deploying on a Friday has nothing to do with a lack of CI; it’s related to the human culture of having a weekend, which reduces an organisation’s ability to handle the unforeseen consequences of pushing to production. “So just rol
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by hyko 5y ago
Software is predominantly a fashion business, not a technology business. Just allowing the market winners to drive that fashion means we aren’t able to progress the state of the organisational art scientifically.
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by hyko 5y ago
No, these are not your risks of dying by selected causes; this is a population study. “Hey, statistically the odds of dying on a motorcycle are Lower than driving a car!” buys motorcycle
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by hyko 6y ago
Should this title not be “BIG TECH AND CHINA: WHAT DO WE NEED FROM SILICON VALLEY? starring Peter Thiel”
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by hyko 6y ago
Urgh. That’s immediate dismissal from his post and a brisk escort from the building for gross misconduct in my book. Flat out disgusting, not to mention illegal.
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by hyko 6y ago
The aviation industry could teach tech a thing or two about safety and quality. Note that a safe flight is not one where the aircraft happens to land in one piece with all hands alive; things that are out of spec, mysterious, and curious ar
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by hyko 6y ago
You could say that was a near miss.
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by hyko 6y ago
Is appeal to cosmic rays a candidate for an engineering logical fallacy?
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by hyko 6y ago
Washing hands is basic hygiene, definitely not theater.
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by hyko 6y ago
Yeah, an extra fifty minutes of life instead of an extra three seconds.
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by hyko 6y ago
It's a mechanism designed to reduce economic inequality Income inequality. Totally different thing; really wealthy people can play all sorts of games with income, so it’s not relevant to them. And that’s the way they like this debate
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by hyko 6y ago
Yeah CRISPR-Cas9 is an incredible breakthrough. I’m just not sure the regulatory environment is geared up for exponential growth, and my assertion is that reverse engineering biology will be a much steeper climb than the history of transist
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by hyko 6y ago
We need more people like him in charge Hard pass.

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