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by twoslide 6y ago
"Single cord" is not a great selling point when Oculus is wireless and very competitive on price. Oculus has lost a lot of good will from its community by requiring Facebook login, but many will probably stay with the best hardwar
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by twoslide 6y ago
This probably just reflects greater uncertainty in the application process due to lack of standardized test scores. In other years, have a better sense of where they stand and can strategize appropriately (i.e. a few aspirational applicatio
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by twoslide 6y ago
Selective enforcement could be another issue. If this is common practice at the organization, then using it as justification for termination is a false pretense. Possibly still legal but not really ethical.
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by twoslide 6y ago
An owner of a local restaurant told me he pays about 30% revenue to share to Deliveroo, as part of his agreement with them. He also runs his own delivery service, and encourages customers to use that (phoning in) rather than Deliveroo.
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by twoslide 6y ago
Agree that Deliveroo fees seem high on both ends (customer and restaurant). Wonder if this means they (a) they are inefficient (b) they have large profit margins or (c) it is actually more expensive to run than one might think. If (a) or (b
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by twoslide 6y ago
Interesting, it implies that unvaccinated young people will be exposed to the virus in order to establish minimum levels of exposure required for infection. The BBC article is very poorly written, and based on it I assumed they were vaccina
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by twoslide 6y ago
Definitely needs "challenge" - of course there have been many "human trials."
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by twoslide 6y ago
Apologies for making you sad and sorry bringing party politics into this conversation. Perhaps a more constructive way to say this would bave been: "I worry that this story may lead individuals to conclude there is a broad pattern of r
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by twoslide 6y ago
Thanks, that is an interesting point about sentencing that I was not aware of. It is interesting that in the prison population, White groups are under-represented (compared to the population), but it is also true that females are under-repr
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by twoslide 6y ago
This kind of story is really difficult: it provides fodder for right claims that social justice warriors have taken over the country. As a professor of education, I have some reservations about the decision based on the information I have H
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by twoslide 6y ago
I think we've heard enough about sovereignity in the UK recently to recognize that it is sovereignity is always contingent and somewhat ambiguous.
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by twoslide 6y ago
Interesting, does that mean that the Queen has implicitly agreed to a lot of controversial legislation (e.g. Internal Market Bill, and Brexit more generally), or the process of the proroguing parliament last year? It seems she might be a lo
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by twoslide 6y ago
Which overlaps with the CI on other COVID variants. This is a small sample study, and the media and governments are probably too quick to take the centre of the estimate. Sampling variation could explain the outcome as much as the South Afr
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by twoslide 6y ago
This story has been picked up by a lot of media, but really lacks essential information (what does "far less" know). All we know is N=2000 (splot ~50/50%), and no one was hopitalized with COVID in the treatment group. We don&
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by twoslide 6y ago
This article discusses why mRNA vaccine manufacturing cannot be outsourced to third parties, but there are other vaccines that might be be produced in this way (Oxford/AstraZeneca). Not sure if this is authorized in the US, but it is i
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by twoslide 6y ago
A private blog for sharing photos is great, but the suggestion it's a Facebook replacement is questionable. People now use Facebook not only for photo sharing/status updates, but buying/selling stuff, communities, and (unfort
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by twoslide 6y ago
Agreed, important to keep in mind the UK has highest per capita mortality of any large country. But this is good news for the government’s gamble to increase spacing between doses to 3 months
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by twoslide 6y ago
I don't know if it is a question of intelligence or understanding, but rather evidence that there is currently very little demand for climate solutions (because everyone can externalize these costs for free). The lack of jobs on HN in
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by twoslide 6y ago
I just did the same. I moved to Google, even though I’m no fan. Cost is about 70% less.
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by twoslide 6y ago
Reminds me of these BBC interviews with children in 1966, imagining the year 2000 (video): https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/946365140642889728
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by twoslide 6y ago
It's not really about the most efficient, easily consumable delivery of information from point A to B. Students are really "consuming" a bundle of knowledge, skills, experiences, credentials, reptutation and social networks.
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by twoslide 6y ago
Yes, but you have a lot more chances to have the bad luck if the virus is spread widely
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by twoslide 6y ago
Good point, we’re a small share of global cases. I’ll temper my wrath a bit.
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by twoslide 6y ago
One of the things that irritates me most is that Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck. Don't know much about genetics, but I guess such a variant becomes more likely when there are many infections (more of the
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by twoslide 6y ago
That's great you have a plan but this is not really an option for much of the world's population and perhaps they should not suffer lack of water because of this.
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by twoslide 6y ago
Also worth noting that we did this by having a board research base that was not tied to immediate returns. A year ago Sarah Gilbert was struggling to get funding for work on the MERS vaccine, which was seen as largely irrelevant.
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by twoslide 6y ago
I don't think we know based on public information. Some media report "up to 90%" which suggests the upper bound of the confidence interval, rather than the centre. Could also be a very wide CI, that overlaps with the standard
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by twoslide 6y ago
It's equally probable to say that the driving factor is caste discrimination, which is the underlying cause of economic inequalities. They are two highly correlated variables, and disaggregation is difficult, but there's no (a pri
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by twoslide 6y ago
Agreed that doubling every year is wildly optimistic, other technological growth is much slower, e.g. mobile phones were about 36% annually between 1990 and 2018: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.CEL.SETS.P2
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by twoslide 6y ago
True, for another perspective, one way across the atlantic is about 1 ton, so this is 2000 one way trips or (roughly) 10 flights of 200 people. On the other hand, if this amount doubled every year, it would equal total US CO2 production in

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