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by theprop 9y ago
I primarily use the Epic Privacy Browser (it is chromium based). No other browser except TOR comes close to them in terms of privacy.
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by theprop 9y ago
Nice thoughts on privacy. Vivaldi is good, but the Epic Privacy Browser is better and it also blocks a lot of Facebook & Google tracking.
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by theprop 9y ago
For each person who climbs Everest, a Sherpa has effectively made 2 to 3 climbs...and for many of them because of the dangers, it costs them their life.
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by theprop 9y ago
More evidence that betting against vaccines is not a good idea...
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by theprop 9y ago
That's payments to the patient for trying the drugs??
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by theprop 9y ago
Where did the $850 million to bring the drug to market go? What is that spent on? The drug or chemical itself is often discovered somewhere else, in say a university lab financed by the NIH, then licensed to a company. Rarely are the sub
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by theprop 9y ago
I used to think a "miracle drug" would sell itself...I guess at $350k/year it needs some help?!
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by theprop 9y ago
Great insight into how and why Pharma spends the highest percentage of its revenues on marketing, more than any other industry.
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by theprop 9y ago
I know tons of scientists, post-docs, lab heads. It's WAY too hard to be a scientist. The kind of salary and other sacrifices scientists are asked to make are unfair and surely deter many to leave science. Science is the only thing
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by theprop 9y ago
It's hardly fake news. It's actually the truth. Of discretionary federal government spending, ~57% does go to the military (if you don't include interest expense on the deficit I believe...removing that...) https:/&#x
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by theprop 9y ago
That was after WWII...it still does a bit because there aren't enough "volunteers" to work in the US army... Remember that the volunteer army was formed after Vietnam and all the objections to the draft (mostly by better-off,
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by theprop 9y ago
To some extent. Military spending as a % of GDP isn't that high, ~4%...but may still be a bit higher than usual for relative peacetime.
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by theprop 9y ago
Moody's also says that bundles of subprime mortgages are a AA+ investment.
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by theprop 9y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that US government deficits are run to invest in education and infrastructure? Deficits are mostly attributable to military spending. I'm doubtful that killing people in other countries who present absolu
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by theprop 9y ago
Argentina went bankrupt at the US's current debt to GDB ratio I believe (~80%).
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by theprop 9y ago
Sorry...thanks...let me clarify the question, why on earth does Lyft have 10,000 VMs??? They have less than 200,000 rides per day. That's a 1 VM to 20 rides per day ratio.
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by theprop 9y ago
This is cool! It's sad that front-end technologies are dominating. No browsers have added any back-end languages to the front-end, and instead, javascript is starting the dominate the back-end (i.e. node.js).
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by theprop 9y ago
Why does Lyft need 10,000 microservices? They probably have less than 100,000 active cabs at any point in time?
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by theprop 9y ago
What about the US's debt-fueled government? Sustainable?
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by theprop 9y ago
You can be super-human with just cameras. Lidar is not required.
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by theprop 9y ago
I stopped skimming this at "If you are not an engineer at Google or Facebook, it's hard for you to innovate."
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by theprop 9y ago
Those of you flummoxed by this probably at some point have questioned why study the immune systems of bacteria (led to the biggest breakthrough of late, crispr) or number theory (led to all cryptography) or build an app to make photos disap
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by theprop 9y ago
I know many who buy an old laptop and ONLY use the Epic Privacy Browser or the TOR browser on it when traveling.
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by theprop 9y ago
One Thing per Page should probably be mandated by law for mobile forms! So much easier & faster to manage.
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by theprop 9y ago
The most impactful technology that will ever exist is "engineering human beings". This becomes possible as we identify genes for things like intelligence and with CRISPR. Intelligence is of course huge. Trustworthiness is huge.
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by theprop 9y ago
The Mozilla that was using your browsing history to target new tab page ads to you? That's "least" coupled to the privacy-invading ecosystem? That gets hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Google & Yahoo/Micr
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by theprop 9y ago
"Are we becoming controlled by the computer..." "...our computer weighs about 12 pounds, you can throw it out of the window if the relationship isn't going very well..." And WOW, 6 minutes of discussion of privacy c
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by theprop 9y ago
This is no surprise to anyone who's seen the Wire.
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Just using Postgres instead of Oracle saved you many millions as well :-D.
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by theprop 9y ago
I noted in another comment, but I'll say it again hopefully right below my post (sorry I should've clarified it in the original comment because it is VERY annoying that every company claims to hire "the best"). What I m

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