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by jfoster 6y ago
Do drug approvals even have much history? My impression was that the concept of drugs needing to be approved has been around for less than 100 years, but I guess it will vary from country to country.
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by jfoster 6y ago
YouTube became popular because it was a central place where you can find videos and get good recommendations and such. The fact that it became "the place for video" has made it a battleground for this type of thing. It makes me wo
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by jfoster 6y ago
Apple is definitely fashion-driven, but I think they also produce some hardware that is much better to work with. The touchpads on Apple laptops are much better than what you can find on other laptops. The screens are much clearer. The weig
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by jfoster 6y ago
Not asserting that I am. It was a hypothetical.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Facebook Groups, unfortunately; much less interesting than Reddit, but touching a far greater % of the population.
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by jfoster 6y ago
If I sell my data for a dollar and subsequently ensure I only buy what I need, am I ahead?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Or it's easy and gets made hard unnecessarily.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Aren't the micro-transactions a bit beside the point? Those seem more harmful to parents' wallets. Surely it's the addictive nature of the games that is more harmful to kids? If the principle is that anything hazardous for ki
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by jfoster 6y ago
Why? As in, what would be the principle behind that? How about... Toys? Should toys for kids be illegal? Should lollies for kids be legal?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Has anyone done a comprehensive review of the Airbnb regulatory environment? I know there's a bunch of places where some of it has settled but also many where hosts might still be operating contrary to regulations. Would be interested
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by jfoster 6y ago
It sounds like you're mostly taking issue with his other views around covid. Fair enough, but I don't think he was entirely wrong to call a test that seems nearly random bogus.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Isn't the correct response to that ensuring rollback of the measures once the crisis has passed, rather than resisting commonsense measures during a crisis, though?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Could you please explain what he was missing about how rapid tests work? He got 2x positive and 2x negative results. Makes it seem like they might be a bit useless. What's being missed?
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by jfoster 6y ago
I don't think this change is so bad in isolation, but one thing I'm beginning to feel is that Google are removing things & changing propositions so much that at any point in my life, I'm trying to adapt to their newest wh
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by jfoster 6y ago
It is an unreasonable concern in the case of Gmail because it would impact too many people. There would be backlash significant enough to damage Google Search.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Taken to extremes, it's easy to see how a virus that is 50% fatal within 24 hours will not last long itself. Is there really very much selection pressure between 1% and 2% fatality rates over 4 week timespans, though? Especially if imm
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by jfoster 6y ago
Also, if you are part of the target market for a product, it makes sense that you might be demographically targeted as well as mention the product in conversation.
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by jfoster 6y ago
I would like to emphasize that Batch Compress doesn't upload your images anywhere; they're all processed on your device. Doing the processing locally has the benefit of being more private & secure, as well as being much faster
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Show HN: Batch Compress – Compress batches of images in the browser(batchcompress.com)
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by jfoster 6y ago
They may also be better. Humans can very easily be unaware of cyclists, whereas Teslas do have (a) no lapses in awareness, and (b) full view of what's around the vehicle.
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by jfoster 6y ago
If customers understand that it's not yet in existence, what is the dishonest part?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Sometimes there's even conscious bias against vulnerable people. For example, VietJet forces anyone who has any type of injury, disability or is pregnant to sign an indemnity form before being allowed to board. If you read what you&#x2
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by jfoster 6y ago
For anyone who hasn't seen the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKW-Gd_S_xc What's the likelihood of any given collision like this initiating a space debris chain reaction? I'm guessing it's fairly
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by jfoster 6y ago
I think Waymo won't have too much trouble actually finding the money to do it, but it's quite wasteful to have a $100 billion cost on something where it's in the vicinity of $100 billion revenue* for your competitor. *: I don
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by jfoster 6y ago
I think it can happen simply through one serverless offering becoming very popular and other services (or open source projects) trying to reimplement the API of that offering. To some extent, this happened with Google App Engine. (AppScale)
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by jfoster 6y ago
At the moment. Is there anything stopping an organisation from defining some standard types of serverless environments? Is there anything stopping someone from turning that standard into implementations to help cloud providers offer it, or
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by jfoster 6y ago
When you say "trading of user information", you mean API calls, right?
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by jfoster 6y ago
They have $100B+, but do they want to spend it all in one go like that? Sure, there's also ways to split or reduce the cost, but those also require things to be done. How long do you think it takes Waymo to get their stuff ready for a
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by jfoster 6y ago
I would argue that the most significant way in which Tesla have the lead is simple but a bit unintuitive. It's that their customers pay for the cars. Think about how much capital will be required to put a million Waymo vehicles on the
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by jfoster 6y ago
Those seem like good examples. It's a valid point, but presumably Duplex has (or can have) a catch-all response to anything it doesn't understand, such as "oh, I'll need to check about that... can I call you back?"

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