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by ringwalt 6y ago
Glucocorticoids are very old drugs. If there were a new patent at this stage in the US, it would be a combination drug or delayed release oral form ([source]( https://www.patentdocs.org/2018/09/patenting-repurposed-
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by ringwalt 8y ago
You might already be aware, but the MTA was founded by NY state and much of its management is nominated directly by the governor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Transportation_Au... It's a corporation
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by ringwalt 9y ago
As of 3 years ago, the WeWork at Bowling Green was also tight on bathrooms, but the private stalls automatically unlocked after 5 minutes. It seemed like a genius idea, but there was still always a line of several people (and the building w
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by ringwalt 9y ago
Do you want ulcers? Because this is how you get ulcers.
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by ringwalt 9y ago
I'm not convinced that concentrating tech exclusively in the valley has objective network effects that outweigh the costs. Regardless, from personal experience most of my colleagues would prefer to live in any large metro area but the
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by ringwalt 9y ago
Well you can't really consider the Bay Area housing bubble and cost of living spike without taking the tech boom into account. I think it's both the fault of NIMBYism/failure to build sufficient housing in the South Bay, and
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by ringwalt 10y ago
I don't think it's gotten any better as far as cracking down on drivers. When I try to get picked up at NYC area airports, if the driver calls right away and asks where I'm going, I hang up, cancel and report them for violati
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by ringwalt 10y ago
If they're not just in it for short-term speculation, then they can rent the house out and hire someone to manage it. Make some more profit while contributing to the Vancouver economy and rental market.
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by ringwalt 10y ago
Cameras seem like overkill and are a much bigger privacy concern for the purposes given in the article. Motion sensors and NFC beacons should be fine for tracking occupancy and location (for those who opt in to that).
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by ringwalt 10y ago
In Manhattan, it's mostly bike couriers who go the wrong way. When I cut across one short block the wrong way because it's convenient, there have been a few pedestrians who've called me out on it. So someone who's on a b
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by ringwalt 10y ago
I think Uber Pool only gives you 1 minute from the time the driver arrives, but I've never had a driver leave without the second passenger when they took 5 or 10 minutes to show up. Plus people never like to admit that they're at
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by ringwalt 10y ago
Source on productivity? And whether or not individual workers are more productive, French mega-corporations seem to have much less of a global reach than American or German ones. I can't think of many French products that are common in
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by ringwalt 10y ago
I think the network effects have more to do with clueless recruiters trying to tick off a list of keywords for a position, than the actual cost to a company of an engineer ramping up on a new framework for a few weeks.
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by ringwalt 10y ago
Google Play Music is the same, at least on iOS (well, the storage usage is accurate). It caches any song you listen to once or twice, until it eats up all free space. Then your only choice is to purge the entire cache, except for albums you
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by ringwalt 10y ago
You can play the moral relativist all you want, but American three-letter agencies are nothing close to the Great Firewall. There's a massive difference between out-of-sight surveillance (do you think China is any better than the NSA w
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by ringwalt 10y ago
There is kind of a reasonable expectation for sites to run JS on your computer, if you don't use NoScript. I'm more inclined to believe they installed an actual rootkit, though. There are vulnerabilities in image libraries all the
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by ringwalt 10y ago
You don't need an equal sample size to determine if autonomous cars are safer. But if you're comparing to all the cars on the road today, you need quality data that matches the distribution of cars today. Google isn't going t
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by ringwalt 10y ago
There's a warning that makes it clear that you need to maintain your full attention on the road, when you enable Autopilot and every single time you take your hands off the wheel. If anything, giving users specific scenarios where Auto
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by ringwalt 10y ago
Huh? There is a lot more room for growth in small cities with functional tech industries, and these people can now afford to speculate on multiple properties for the price of their small Bay Area house.
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by ringwalt 10y ago
Does any midwest airport outside of Chicago actually fly "anywhere you want to go", internationally?
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by ringwalt 10y ago
The Cached link isn't showing... for any wsj.com articles.
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by ringwalt 11y ago
Wouldn't parasites be a constant factor in the death rate? How do you explain an exponentially rising death rate? The "criminals" in the article's example are more like mutations or other damage that builds up in cells,
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Ask HN: Quantitative tests/analytics frameworks?
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