paul_milovanov

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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
PSA reading most popular science reporting considered harmful
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> The one saving grace is that these truly bizarre quantum > behaviours don’t seem to have much of an impact on the > macroscopic world as we know it, where “classical” > physics rules the roost. > Or, at least, that’s what s
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
From the "you're factually wrong department": > Yelp, like Google, makes money by collecting consumer data and reselling it to advertisers. False. Google does not resell consumer data to advertisers, nor anybody else, and
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
For a bit of a reality check, go take a look at Financial Times coverage of Tesla. Tesla will require regular infusions of capital over, say, the next 5 years. The only source for that is more equity, and to do that you need to actually sta
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
Are you kidding me? Fiduciary duty ring any bells?
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
I wouldn't worry about this too much. There'll be lots of time for sulfur later where we're all going.
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
aka, design.
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Lithium market is a three-company oligopoly.
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
in the hypothetical case you're right, what gives you any assurance that the manufacturers of any of your other connected devices are not cooperating with the state?
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
~380 lines? What a poverty of imagination.
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
Search for "WTF", results by language C++ 2.4M C 400K Java 150K ... Sounds about right.
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(documentary narrator voice:) "Expelled to the desolate periphery yet in the irrevocable embrace of the dura mater, the cortex directs its entire energy into the fractal dimension."
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
One thing that comes to mind is that for any former USSR country geopolitical considerations come into play. Unless you're willing to spend more money on this than Russia is willing to and able to procure other resources that Russia ha
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
Provincial amateurs. Don't have to look as far as US: every municipality, region and the federal gov't in Russia is doing the same but with more skill and elegance. Speaking of which, any official GDP statistic is probably a numbe
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
it didn't occur to me but you're completely right: probably the best way to get out of the situation is to crowdfund ransom money and figure out who to give it to (and get the company the fuck out of there in medium-term) Crowdfun
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
thrway has pointed out quite thoughtfully elsewhere that another more efficient way to get out of this situation would be to pay the right "tax" to the right "government department". Crowdfunding ransom money instead of
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
"Conscious Taxpayer Award", aka "You're completely out of your fucking minds but we'll take the money" Focusing on the largely theoretical concepts of tax and law is an extremely inefficient way to try to under
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
> As a rule, when Moldova is in the news, it is rarely good news. That, unfortunately, is exactly true. I was lucky to emigrate as a child, and my sad, cynical reaction to whenever I see "Moldova" on a page out of a corner of m
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
the purchasing power of $1000 vs ₹265 is not important; Gilead benefits, because they now have >$0 from each pill whereas otherwise they would have $0. Identical to software piracy in poor countries: if people are buying DVDs with your s
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
Intellectual property (incl. patents, etc) is a tool that countries use to stimulate innovation. More practically, there's no market in India for this pill at $1000 and there is at $4. The original manufacturer's most reasonable c
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
The chicken-egg problem has been solved and nobody told me? my, my.
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
Sorry, I was kidding about "what entity". The same entity that traditionally steps in to solve the needs that otherwise are not met due to tragedy of the commons -- government. Patents, copyright protections (yes, they're scr
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
If there is in fact such a problem with incentives, what entity do you think might have the power to create proper incentives, and what are the odds of it happening? Or perhaps let's shelf this discussion at least until we figure out h
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
crdb: are you my separated-at-birth twin? I've been looking for you all my life. These are my thoughts exactly, down to my favorite Dickensian analogy. Everybody's favorite pastime, pointing fingers on China on everything from &qu
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
Nope, she's describing the only reasonable way of operating under conditions you can't change. So far as Chinese companies are concerned, the government has just standardized and formalized rules already in place. So far as foreig
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It's all ok as long as they know we know they know we know.
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They won't think twice, but I'm getting the popcorn to see the kind of PR acrobatics they think of around this.
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
To be the best, you need to learn from the best. Tencent's immensely popular WeChat (Weixin) has been blocking links to Baidu properties for a while now. Coming soon to a server near you!
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
Oncologists are probably right up there with surgeons regarding the toll of their work to their mental health.
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by paul_milovanov 11y ago
"some promise" is very far from "anywhere close to phase I human trials", so, this is not quite that tricky :) I think a lot of good would come out of: (1) more awareness of Cochrane Collaboration (& donations to) (2

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