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by vikramkr 6y ago
the products are already killed as a part of this acquisition. Google must think the market is worth pursuing if they're willing to dish out $180 million for the company, but considering they simultaneously announced the end of all pro
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by vikramkr 6y ago
North was not doing so hot - they've been looking for an acquirer for a while now and were facing running out of money. So, not exactly a promising startup at the current moment unfortunately. Based on the announcement that second gen
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by vikramkr 6y ago
They seem to be targeting very different use cases. Apple looks like it's going for the everyday consumer while microsoft sees AR as a business tool. I think the everyday consumer would be willing to trade off how good the AR is for st
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Drug companies don't charge american prices outside of this country - they barely charge sticker price within this country. Whatever country you live in in the developing world, the price that Gilead sets for you will undoubtedly be us
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I guess the competition for smart glasses is heating up - I imagine google thinks apple's glasses are coming soon and they take that seriously enough to want to be prepared to compete. It will be interesting to see how this space plays
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by vikramkr 6y ago
What do they do well that can be transferred without basically asking the mods to do more work? Isn't it just a manpower thing? Or do they have a way of verifying expertise etc so you know you're getting answers from experts witho
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The price they're asking is pretty reasonable. A couple thousand bucks for a few percent increased chance of survival is well below the benchmark set by drugs in less public disease areas. If this was a cancer drug they'd be charg
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by vikramkr 6y ago
What does this have to do with sovereignty? They aren't obligated to do business internationally.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I don't know if that would be enough to make the analogy hold, since what we do know about biology includes a lot of things that are distinctly non-computer like. At the end of the day, one is a system designed by humans for humans, wh
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by vikramkr 6y ago
This highlights why it was so irresponsible to create CRISPR babies, and why you take things slow in science. Don't let the analogies about bio being programmable just like a computer fool you - it's not that easy or that simple.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
We're already pouring huge sums into covid, that's likely near diminishing returns now. On the other hand, what would be really helpful is spending a lot of money on viruses that arent currently causing pandemics. There was a lot
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Isn't concern trolling when you pretend to support something but actually make arguments against it? This article seems to be pretty firmly against the idea of building a collider from the title on. I would think textbook concern troll
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The hydroxychloroquine study I'm referring to has less to do with the data and more to do with how the FDA behaves regarding the drug, where they gave the drug an emergency use authorization based off of what seemed like pretty blatant
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Good point. Might be better phrased as "were overtaken by political pressure" or the like
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by vikramkr 6y ago
No, it's worse. It devolved into a political institution. Any academic institution would have trivially been able to get the PCR test right (and academic institutions did). Bur our agencies gave into political pressures, were defunded
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Over the past few years a series of American agencies have lost their reputation and world standing. The FAA with the 737 max, the CDC with the test, the FDA with testing regulation and hydroxychloroquine. Its important to have institutions
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It's a self defeating record. The point of the abstract is not to be the conclusion. It's meant to be a summary of the work. If the conclusion section was "no" I'd be more charitable to it, but a conclusion is not a
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by vikramkr 6y ago
After over-regulation of PCR tests leading to the flawed CDC test being the only one available during a critical part of the pandemic, the agency decided to swing way way way too hard the other way so they couldn't be accused of holdin
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Who in physics works in imperial? Research is solidly metric in the US. The mars orbiter loss was due to a failure to perform the necessary checks etc to make sure the mission was on track. Continue reading the section about the failure rep
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Lot of "why not metric" comments. Heres what I think is the main reason: it's just not worth the effort. The US isn't missing out on tangible benefits from not standardizing with the rest of the world. Where it matters i
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Just not worth the effort to switch. What do we gain that's worth getting everyone to relearn everything? We already use metric where it matters.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The best way I've heard it phrased is that europeans 2ant to know much much fuel they need to get to their destination, while americans want to know how far they can go on a tank. Its obviously oversimplified/not relevant/oth
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Everything is already made to imperial, people are already comfortable using imperial. And the US is in an international position of strength in that we arent manufacturing amd selling things to other countries, we are buying goods made els
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Some of these articles have been up for years. What triggered their investigation into this reporter now?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I don't think the denial was within the independent scientific establishment. From what I saw as it was spreading, many people in academia knew something was wrong. But, the scientific community that was tied to politics (public health
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by vikramkr 6y ago
well, they'll be taking on more risk if that money ends up not being enough to support early stage startups. And, it makes the deal even more difficult to swallow for hardtechs/biotechs/moonshots, and potentially making it wo
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Who owns these poles? Are these municipalities or corporations? If the latter, who owns the land these poles are on?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I think the problem is that there isn't really anywhere to look for funding for meaningful research. The public sector isn't really picking up the slack right now.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
They invest in opportunities to build portfolios that provide a reward/risk ratio and performance/risk characteristics that are appealing to their LPs. If they don't, they don't survive. They aren't charities invest
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by vikramkr 6y ago
"Other ideas he’d considered earlier were more like moonshots—hotels for homeless people, for example." I'm curious to know whether those moonshots were ideas he decided to not pursue himself, or if he was talked out of those

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