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by powera 11y ago
Why can't there be an FDA approval exemption for drugs with foreign approval that have limited use in the US (maybe less than 100 patients per year)?
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by powera 11y ago
These all sound like good things to look for in people you are hiring, but what happens for the people who don't have those things? My sense is that "Smart, Gets Things Done, and Not a Jerk" are all things that are teachable
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by powera 11y ago
I can't imagine that Google is going to just accept this globally. As the article says, they can't possibly agree with this and then disagree with China or Russia on content censorship, and there's no way Sergey will allow t
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by powera 11y ago
How is this not equivalent to a theoretical "The ATF Might Ban Specific [Gun] Operating Systems"? The ban isn't on the OS, the ban is on the gun (or in this case, high-powered radio).
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by powera 11y ago
This is a TERRIBLE idea in my opinion. Apart from the blatant marketing LIES (this will NOT get you free money, you will lose money on the electricity, even the promotional material admits this in the fine print) this only claims to do thi
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by powera 11y ago
Those two certainly apply IMO, they both have The Next Zynga written all over them. Any investment where you have to spend the money buying every ad on TV has a red-flag that the valuation isn't nearly what people claim it is. Actuall
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by powera 11y ago
I hate to use science fiction as an argument, but basically every sci-fi movie with time travel as a plot has no problem coming up with some way of using knowledge about the future to (at a minimum) massive profit. If Elon Musk or some oth
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by powera 11y ago
I find it completely inconceivable that there are secret time travelers who would be found by searching the internet. I think it's legitimately more likely that you would discover dragons living in the earth's core by searching t
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by powera 11y ago
What would a positive result have even looked like? "We found evidence of time travelers, but it's probably just a sign our model is bad?" or "We discovered people from the future hiding perfectly from us, until this (p
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by powera 11y ago
How is searching the internet, especially when it finds "no evidence" of something nobody expected there to be evidence for, something that should be a topic for a "classic physics journal"?
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by powera 11y ago
I'm not saying "get rid of the free market". I'm saying that in a monopoly situation, there is no free market. And if there is no free market, claiming "the free market will work" is insanity, so we have no c
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by powera 11y ago
And everybody also generally hates the airlines and feels the pricing is unfair because of this. You might say that without it airplanes would not fly at all, and you might be right. But it's incredulous to claim that without these pro
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by powera 11y ago
No, unless you feel that people who use medicine are nothing more than a resource to be exploited. Were it not for a (probably illegal in this case) monopoly, other people would be able to make that same pill for $5 per tablet. And then no
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by powera 11y ago
I hate to say that the (lousy) article claims exactly what you say the audit doesn't claim. It specifically describes "how shoddy oversight by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which manages federal health pro
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by powera 11y ago
Can anyone explain to me briefly what Stan actually does that's different from what I could do in Python without it? I don't want to have to read the entire research paper to get a description in layman's terms.
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by powera 11y ago
The article is framed in terms of the 1965 Moynihan report, so I feel I should quote the recommendations Moynihan had at the time: "Moynihan had lots of ideas about what government could do—provide a guaranteed minimum income, establis
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by powera 11y ago
I think this is great. For Bitcoin to really be a useful currency, it needs 1) full faith and credit of something; 2) mostly not proof-of-work; 3) sub-chains. Right now it is what I might call an "ur-currency". Paying for everyt
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by powera 11y ago
I wouldn't consider that a credible source at all (the front page has multiple 9/11 "truther" stories). Other sources such as the WHO cite the 4000 number as including all future cancers: http://www.who.int&#
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by powera 11y ago
Article is from 2014. And when it was discussed last time, I believe the conclusion that focusing on highway fatalities was cherry-picking to show the best possible outcome given all the changes in crime / accidents in the past year i
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by powera 11y ago
Some people reading Hacker News are interested in basic optimizations.
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by powera 11y ago
This is where your libertarian "unrestricted right to contract" turns sour.
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by powera 11y ago
So was it an anti-counterfeiting measure masquerading as an anti-drug message, or an anti-drug message that worked as an anti-counterfeiting measure?
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by powera 11y ago
I wouldn't say that any of these are bad based on TechCrunch; I mean more that there were something like 3 products that sell machines that sell food, and there's a chance in 10 years we'll say "there was no way that a f
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by powera 11y ago
I know that Sam knows 100 times what I do about failing startups, and that some probably do fail for this reason. But I think this meme that "your startup probably failed just because you stopped trying hard enough" is awful. Eve
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by powera 11y ago
"Don't save for retirement" is much better advice when you know you're going to make $10 million before you turn 30.
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by powera 11y ago
You clearly didn't start a company with a $15 million exit. I'm sure all the advice/numbers here will have a MASSIVE MASSIVE amount of selection bias and probably don't apply unless you're guaranteed to be making m
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by powera 11y ago
The article makes some valid points, though it's mixed in with a bit much anarchist/nihilist philosophy.
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by powera 11y ago
400k is 0.3% of 140 million, not 0.0003%.
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by powera 11y ago
Since they only investigated 37 languages, isn't this only really evidence that they found a feature that ties 98% (~= (38/39) of languages together? Languages are known for having a few outliers with completely crazy rules. Also
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by powera 11y ago
Re-worded, I thought it was obvious enough it was quoting my summary of the paragraph but I guess not.

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