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by tchalla 5y ago
Moldova has 5 wines and 1 spirit protected under the GI status. https://www.tmdn.org/giview/gi/EUGI00209900380 https://www.tmdn.org/giview/gi/EUGI00209900381 https://www.tmdn.
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by tchalla 5y ago
The US has 681 Geographical Indications which are registered and/or protected under agreement [0]. 679 of them are for wine products, 2 for spirits (Bourbon/Tennesee Whisky). The US has applied for 1 food product GI - Alaska Pollo
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Any new vaccine candidates will be compared against the existing ones as a golden standard But, this clinical trial didn't compare to existing ones.
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by tchalla 5y ago
Yes, it does. The other vaccines weren't tested on "real world" either. Therefore, a comparison to the "standard of care" (other vaccines) instead of control.
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by tchalla 5y ago
And it’s routinely done in clinical trials called “Standard of Care” - good idea!
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Do we have another baseline that was conducted in a variant rich environment? In this trial, out of the 134 cases - 124 were due to variants from at least 13 types.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> The disappointing efficacy of the shot known as CVnCoV emerged from an interim analysis based on 134 COVID-19 cases in the study with about 40,000 volunteers in Europe and Latin America. The number of people who had Covid-19 cases seem
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by tchalla 5y ago
A movie scene played out repeatedly- “A person dying and his last moments aka for a cigarette”. There are so many of these that go back to manufacturing consent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Infor
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Apple: Inclusion – Human Interface Guidelines(developer.apple.com)
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MeWork(profgalloway.com)
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> The company lost €13 million in 2020, €23 million in 2019 and €11.2 million in 2018 for revenues that amount respectively for €7.5 million, €5.8 million and €3 million. Pfft ... this seems to be peanuts for the Silicon Valley VCs out t
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by tchalla 5y ago
Well, I don't believe what Stripe (or anyone) says; I believe what you do. Does Stripe have a legal contract with users that says something to the effect of "if it does 1 and 2 above (by mistake or by choice doesn't matter) -
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> In comparison, Stripe seems to charge for each product it offers. I think that’s a more fair and transparent model. They could be charging you AND creating an international ID database.
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by tchalla 5y ago
I almost always assume “foreign” and “domestic” is relative to the US unless stated otherwise. There’s typically very little attempt to be inclusive.
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Mocking a man’s manhood spurs a reverse MeToo in South Korea(latimes.com)
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Is the GINI scale linear? In other words, what does a difference of 0.81 vs 0.85 mean?
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by tchalla 5y ago
I read two articles on Politico.EU on the subject. Yet, I have a few questions. First, was there a request made to share data? Second, if there was a request made - what is the legal procedure to share data? Third, if there was no request
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by tchalla 5y ago
People who went to medical school may not know how to assimilate, read, synthesise and make conclusions about scientific literature. Yes, the average social media person wouldn't either but better ask the scientists.
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by tchalla 5y ago
I’d me interested to see this math for subscriptions like Netflix, Spotify and AWS.
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by tchalla 5y ago
The power of compounding which comes from discipline is one of the most underrated concepts. There's one caveat to "keep at it for x years"; deliberate practice. You have to work towards being aware of gaps, identifying them
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El Salvador to Declare Bitcoin as Legal Tender(nasdaq.com)
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Bing censors image search results for “tank man”(twitter.com)
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Of course! Everything can have a bias - that's well understood. Just because something can have one, doesn't mean it does. If one finds bias in the research methods or data in the article - one can conduct their own study and subm
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by tchalla 5y ago
In this case, they are reporting on a specific research which was published 2d ago. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015...
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Mr Graeber relied heavily on surveys of British and Dutch workers that asked participants whether their job made a meaningful contribution to the world. One may feel that their job is not making a meaningful contribution. That doesn&#x
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The article is a summary of an analysis and I can’t find the analysis linked in it. I don’t know why or how journalists find this an acceptable practice.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Experience also shows me that it wouldn't take you a long time to solve the problem, and in our industry, at least my experience in startups, speed is key. If you feel that way, here's a viewpoint from Derek Sivers which talk
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Most interviews I conduct (algorithms) include puzzle-like problems. The reason for your predicament is in your comment.
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> Just to mention Belgium's example despite having an eID, you can't even change your address online in most communes and you need to physically present yourself and demand the address to be changed. I don't see why this s
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by tchalla 5y ago
> It's easy to remove the incentive: Just add some statewide delegates that are elected based on the "wasted" votes. Can you make this more generic so that people who don't understand the US political system could fol

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