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by maxlamb 7y ago
Why is it that hospitalizations are expected to keep increasing indefinitely even with the interventions in place? I assume the graph represents point-in-time hospitalizations and not accumulated # of interventions? If so it would be nice t
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To be fair, Gmail and Chrome are 16 years old, and Google acquired Android 15 years ago. Their main search algorithm of course was developed over 21 years ago. That doesn't leave a good track record for the last 15 years or so...
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Yes, I’m sure lots of people in Italy, Paris and Madrid wishes they had spent more time/energy challenging the notion that ventilators are important as they are letting hundreds of people die every day because of the lack of ventilator
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Without human intervention, it would infect 40-70% of population. Multiply by the death rate and the fact that most hospitals would be completely overwelmed and you do get millions of death.
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by maxlamb 7y ago
To me it seems more related to Paul Graham's essay "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html A startup working on Schelp might not necessarily be working on a very hard
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by maxlamb 7y ago
The book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond pretty much answers this question, pretty convincingly to me at least. The book "Sapiens" does provide additional insight as well on this subject.
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by maxlamb 7y ago
Whatever that list of 1000 must-reads books, I would include "Guns, Germs and Steel" and "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, and "A General Theory of Love" by Thomas Lewis et al.
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by maxlamb 7y ago
Gawker published a private sex tape (Hulk Hogan's) without permission on the grounds that it is "news" in order to make its publication legal. I can't see how anyone could say Gawker had the moral high ground, they were
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by maxlamb 7y ago
I think the point OP was making is that dozens of people died because executives as Boeing “shut down” concerns that some long time engineers had. I’m not sure lives at risk with Google’s products but I think the point is hoping that a hal
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This line of thinking can lead to catastrophic consequences if the long-term implications are not well understood. Short-term exponential growth can lead to a catastrophic crash down the road if the debt, resources, or social fractures are
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To be fair, Obama didn't start a new war.
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I think simply OI (Organic Intelligence) would the more appropriate term since it's no longer artificial ;)
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Israel may be cooler than Las Vegas but definitely warmer than Reno, NV where the gigafactory is located. Reno gets 22 inches of snow per year.
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I think this essay was valid for the year it was written (2007) where much fewer people were doing startups, lots of good ideas had not been executed yet, mobile was about to take off. Just like the belief in 2007 that "real estate pri
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by maxlamb 7y ago
I see these Googler's point of view, but if Google refuses to have contracts with big oil, won't these companies just find another tech company to provide services for them? How is that going to help fight climate change? Wouldn&#
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|bohemian artist communities Do bohemian artist communities still exist in San Francisco? How can they afford to live there?
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MySpace failed to scale with their user base and the site at its peak became horribly slow and felt broken. They didn't get good technical folks to fix the architecture in time, and then combined with the failure to innovate and add mo
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That's what makes reading this piece 12 years later so interesting - there was definitely fear of a bubble in 2007 (probably partly due to the trauma of the 2000 dotcom bust) even though in retrospect there definitely wasn't. It&#
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The pace car was a Tesla so no fumes :)
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That's patently false. There is no proof whatsoever that olive oil is not good for you. Every study on extra virgin cold pressed olive oil shows it is associted with increased longevity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub
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by maxlamb 7y ago
Except that WeWork is not a tech company
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it pretty much means a modern-day hippie.
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A particular narrative? Isn't it common sense that watching extreme graphic violence all day every day will lead to a lot of psychological issues for a significant percentage of people? This article about FB moderators in the U.S. pai
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A lot of vegetarians/vegans I know think eating vegan food is automatically healthier than eating animal products. Of course, none of them are scientifically inclined.
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I found this to be the opposite in Barcelona. I had a discussion with people who live there who said that since the majority of restaurant customers are tourists (a lot of whom travel on a budget, i.e. young backpackers) and will never com
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Indonesia’s Bajau people, who for generations have spent the majority of their days diving and hunting underwater, have genetic adaptations that include spleens that are around 50% larger than those of their land-based neighbors. https:&#
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Except that are plenty of examples where the state is a pro-social institution. Take Norway for example. Societies before states (i.e. prehistory) had much higher rates of homicides by all evidence collected.
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I think it's referring to the part where the web page says "that we’ve “sold out” due to “overwhelming demand”" when obviously there is no overwhelming demand at first. If you say there is huge demand for your product even th
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I was in Bangkok for a month and have a couple of friends living there and would say it's very safe. Safer than any big city in the U.S.
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For sure: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-france-fore...

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