jonlucc

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by jonlucc 7y ago
> "Nobody reads those" isn't a valid defense. Why not? Presumably the goal is that consumers understand the agreements they're in. If nobody reads ToS and everyone knows that nobody reads ToS, then they aren't us
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by jonlucc 7y ago
This is how my city's docked bike system works, though with a small added monthly membership. The effect is that I have never once used it. The risk of the dock near my destination being full is too big for me to bother.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I'm pretty sure there's some serious dropoff in power with lower battery level. I will walk a bit further for a 100% battery scooter rather than take one with ~60% for that reason.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
The newer scooters have relieved this problem a bit. Something about the construction of the wheels in combination with small shocks makes small cracks much less problematic.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
The benefit to me as a non-coffee-shop-owner is variety. It's not only better coffee, but more options for lunch, groceries, meeting locations, etc.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
Where I live, this is not much of a problem. The only time I have trouble getting a scooter if I want it is during some large conventions and after large sports events. It would not take that much effort to plan appropriately for those even
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by jonlucc 7y ago
Beware. I've done this recently. I purchased a previous pair of Merrills from their own website. I recently re-purchased the same model, color, and size only to find that they are uncomfortably tighter now. I'm not sure if they&#x
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by jonlucc 7y ago
We sort of have this system, but in reverse. You're suggesting to default to government, and we currently have a default-to-private system. The US government funds basic research, basic development, and clinical trials for projects i
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by jonlucc 7y ago
As I'm sure you know but so that others understand, that's technical grade, not pharmaceutical grade.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
That makes sense, but when buying things, the price of those networks is opaque to the consumer and things won't get cheaper for consumers if a business is selling to both "traditional" purchasers and FBcoin purchasers.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I don't really understand the upside to an FB stablecoin, but maybe I'm missing something. Why would I want FB to be the store of my money instead of FDIC-backed banks if the value and purchasing power is going to be identical?
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by jonlucc 7y ago
One way is to make the check-in person more than a dumb data enterer. My iPhone suddenly stopped getting any carrier signal one day. I took it to the Apple store that evening because I needed to go out of town the next day, and I had to hav
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by jonlucc 7y ago
That's true, but I wonder how much of the porn-seeking user base remains? Surely they left in the 40%(?) traffic exodus.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
If you're interested, you should find Jon Ronson's podcast on the topic. It's a finite series of shows called "The Butterfly Effect", and it covers what happened to the porn industry as it was overrun by Mindgeek. I
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I'm not super familiar with the numbers, but I believe the "billions to develop" number is a development number, if a little juiced. I think they take the total amount of R&D spend and divide it by the number of drug laun
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I'm not at all an expert on generics, but the company suing to remove exclusivity has almost certainly done some groundwork needed to produce the generic drug. They likely need to figure out how to produce the drug as well as some busi
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by jonlucc 7y ago
It's still very fruitful compared to PhDs in terms of the pharma industry.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
> If I were a billionaire there is no way in hell I'd wait for a standard drug trial to progress on an FDA timeline. You don't have to be a billionaire for this. There aren't many drugs which sit between proving efficacy
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I truly believe that people don't really understand how difficult cures are. It's not that we in pharma don't want to cure things, we just don't know how. Also, most pharma and biotech companies are built around a small
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I still don't understand why it's bad for society? It seems like this is a common point that implies something, but I can't figure out what that thing is.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
> I imagine most of former are thrown out right off the bat. Why? You don't think cures have monetary value?
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I work in pre-clinical pharma research, so I would love more pharma R&D spend more than most people, but I don't see a problem with promoting approved drugs for their approved indications. The industry has to get the word about new
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by jonlucc 7y ago
I'm not saying it is right, but I think the idea is that an emergency on a plane forces an emergency landing, which is very expensive and inconvenient. At a food court, they just block off a section and call the paramedics.
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by jonlucc 7y ago
Me too. I had a manager once suggest that you could set up a consortium of pharma companies based around a disease. So, for example, every company that has a drug targeted at psoriasis would buy in, then the consortium would be tasked with
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by jonlucc 7y ago
Should they not? Ignoring money, if you have a product which has been shown to improve lives or increase lifespan, shouldn't you aim to make it as available as possible? In general, pharmaceuticals have to prove some benefit over the c
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by jonlucc 8y ago
I don't use Keychain to manage most of my passwords (because I have Windows devices), but when I click a password field, the space above the keyboard says "Passwords". If I click on that, it lets me choose between LastPass or
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by jonlucc 8y ago
I think they must be referring to this: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html
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by jonlucc 8y ago
You're saying that a company can't be sustainable if its spending exceeds revenue, but there are plenty of institutions that do exactly that and are based on the same premise as what we know about Telegram's funding. A single
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by jonlucc 8y ago
Ok, then I'll speak specifically about my local institution. My local art museum gets zero funding from taxes, but runs on its endowment and whatever revenue it brings in from admission, membership, events, food and beverage sales, and
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by jonlucc 8y ago
In case you are as yet unaware, there is a specific 99 Percent Invisible episode about this very thing. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-soho-effect/

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