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by ttobbaybbob 5y ago
It will be interesting to understand the long-term impact of covid on immunity. Given that covid came from GoF research have we developed defenses (albeit at an ultimately very-high price) that will protect us from future novel coronaviruse
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by ttobbaybbob 5y ago
Climate engineering is obviously incredibly fraught for a variety of reasons (unintended consequences/etc) but at what point do we start to consider it ? start developing and evaluating technologies related to it ? it seems like it wou
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by ttobbaybbob 5y ago
I don't understand calling it a nanny state. The government punishes you for not wearing a seat belt, children are excluded from school if they aren't vaccinated, drunk driving is illegal. Other than fda approval is the covid vacc
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Supercharging Venture Capital Deal Flow(bobbyyoualreadyknow.substack.com)
5 points by ttobbaybbob 5y ago|0 comments
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by ttobbaybbob 6y ago
Alternatively - Airbnb selected investors that they knew would hold the stock and support their long-term vision for the product/brand. Those investors being inclined to hold, did not sell, yielding a relatively small float that was ma
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by ttobbaybbob 7y ago
“ But another possibility is that we engineer the perfect happiness drug, with no bad side effects, and no one wants to do anything but lay in bed and take this drug all day, sapping all ambition from the human race” Someone has read Infini
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by ttobbaybbob 7y ago
Such a database would certainly have been valuable to anyone who ever wanted to commit genocide. It's easy to see the short-term, first-order positive results. However the power to abuse such information is basically unlimited.
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by ttobbaybbob 7y ago
This article seems to make some pretty big, unsubstantiated claims. ie "America’s spies hijacked the Trump Administration’s trade agenda and turned into a global campaign against Huawei. This has been a humiliating failure." They
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by ttobbaybbob 7y ago
The stock market is the frontend of the whole system. Companies can issue stock to raise money to fund operations, compensate employees, etc. Companies can also use their stock as collateral to borrow money. The higher the stock price the l
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by ttobbaybbob 7y ago
I'm more than a little surprised that Haas would publish an article that seems to indicate a complete lack of understanding of the purpose of the markets. Better data yields more efficient markets which is what we actually want. “Techn
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by ttobbaybbob 8y ago
The NDA/non-compete may not enforceable, but if Renaissance believes employees with valuable IP are being poached, they will sue and make it very expensive to hire, then defend, ex-rentec employees. https://www.marketwatch.c
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by ttobbaybbob 8y ago
I wonder if the banks, who are increasingly branding themselves as "tech companies"[1], are worried about Google and Amazon encroaching on their territory. My understanding is that at least part of the appeal of NY to Google and A
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by ttobbaybbob 9y ago
There is no mention of the fact that fiber is more reliable than microwaves. Inclement weather can cause substantial packet loss in a microwave link. Fiber has no such issue. Getco et al may not have made perfect decisions, but the fiber &l
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by ttobbaybbob 9y ago
Interesting that the techcrunch link has thrice as many upvotes as the amazon link
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Chaffetz letter to fbi(nytimes.com)
4 points by ttobbaybbob 9y ago|0 comments