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by vikramkr 6y ago
You're currently in the comments section of a hacker news post of a source on the syndrome occurring weeks after infection.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Bocconi might have more signaling value to European or Italian companies perhaps, but American companies have European companies thoroughly beat in terms of number, size, power, global influence, etc. One of the "benefits" of valu
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by vikramkr 6y ago
According to the website - $2000. That seems absurd. If you're paying $2000 in the early stages of starting a business to join a community (because I guess networking and literally just googling startup resources that are available for
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Usually these sorts of posts are some sort of interesting content that wraps around an ad - like maybe steps you can take to engineer luck leading to more serendipity and bg the way check out this service - but this just literally seems to
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by vikramkr 6y ago
What is Microsoft extinguishing here? Email?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
This is a weird article - it looks like its pushing a conspiracy that cloud flare is secretly an agent for Google bing and Baidu simultaneously?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
America is the one taking charge in all the invasions and stuff in the relevant region, and the financial regulation relevant here was a 9/11 response. Its fair to call this a post 9/11 world
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by vikramkr 6y ago
there absolutely is a post 9/11 world, because 9/11 affected a country that has outsized power and influence on the world stage. Relevant to this discussion, massive changes in financial regulation significantly impacted how money
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I'm curious to hear more about their carbon neutral/alternative fuel source plan. What sorts of fuels can they use instead of regular jet fuel? Lowering that eco impact would get rid of a big part of the concern people have with t
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It depends where the hurricanes hit as well. Here in New York we just got hit with a little tropical storm (Isaias) and that caused a lot of damage and pain because the electric infrastructure is barely equipped to dea with a stiff breeze,
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by vikramkr 6y ago
This is a hell of a market to short anything. In the near term anything that helps remote work like this is probably going to spike up. Good luck with that. I know that I wouldn't personally be comfortable being confident I could make
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by vikramkr 6y ago
In addition - does your ten year old protocol still work? Do your 10 year old results replicate? This isn't isolates to just programming - making robust and reproducible tools, code, equiptment, protocols, and results is undervalued ac
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I'm not sure what precluded me from reading that, but I don't think not knowing numbers would have helped me figure out that portable is p0274813 without context clues. Might need a more readily parseable example there.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Ooh, I never tied that to flag colors, thats super cool. Indigos and I assume anthraquinone dyes for the reds. Though I think with some "younger" countries like India that have oranges on their flag, saffron/mangowood yellow
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by vikramkr 6y ago
N2 isn't a pollutant but many nitrogen compounds are major pollutants, and its not so far fetched to call something like NO2 a "nitrogen product"
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Fun fact - the blue in woad is indigo, and indigo was once banned in parts of Europe to protect the local Woad industry once it became clear indigo is just a better source of the dye. Little bit of fun old timey trade war/protectionism
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Yes of course, because of how important search engine optimization was in 1976. Nothing has changed in the business environment between now and then.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Even though I also think that epihub sounds like epipen or something epidemiology related (especially in the time of covid) - getting a 6 letter dot comfor a nice prononceable name is not a small feat haha. That alone is a not insignificant
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Thats less a forest and more just a farm pretending to be a forest. If they are criminals, then the people growing monoculture wheat fields are also criminals.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
With the exception of oxygen (where a forest is definitely not a closed system, since the light from the sin and the co2 we breathe go back to the forest), the amount that we remove from forests through foraging and hunting is trivial compa
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by vikramkr 6y ago
technically you patent the molecular structure too, and then take out a cloud of dozens of patents around it, while getting as broad language as possible (used for any disease where the pathology is influenced by this molecule, or whatever
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Changing an atom is a big deal, thats a whole other drug. Evergreens, where they extend patents through small modifications, has nothing to do with the active ingredient since changing that requires another few hundred million dollars in cl
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by vikramkr 6y ago
you think the reason that a drug fails a clinical trial is because of ... competition? Like, Bayer's aspirin is just going to stop curing headaches because it's angry that J&J is developing Tylenol? A drug that doesn't wo
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Were they hiring a big sales force like a typical pharma company or were they less directly relevant jobs? That's interesting how that played out - I guess they were a bit overconfident in their market predictions
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Looks like you edited your comment with a lot of alternate systems, but all the examples you gave are ones that aren't expensive to develop. You have to prove drugs work and take a significant amount of risk that you don't take wi
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Definitely fair to call it an over generalization - I grew up in a town with a "private sector" that only existed because of government contracts and have worked on pursuing DoD contracts for life sciences applications, and from w
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by vikramkr 6y ago
How does that help? That just reduces the commercial incentive to pay for clinical trials and stuff even more. Phasing out patents doesn't work without an idea for an entirely, fundamentally new system of developing, testing, approving
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It's politically difficult yeah. If there was like a $500 million or $1 billion dollar reward for bringing a new antibiotic to market (maybe with price regulations on the other end, but i don't think those would matter with antibi
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The problem is that in America, creating jobs is a significant focus in government spending, including military spending. There's not a lot of jobs in antibiotics the same way that there are lots of well paying jobs to bring to your co
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by vikramkr 6y ago
This is genuinely a pretty big problem in the field. The reward for making a good antibiotic is getting a drug that nobody will use since they want to preserve it for when a bacteria becomes resistant to everything else. We've yet to s

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