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>History repeats itself here, with the difference that instead of paying for the data, the ai crawlers simply take it for free. This discussion was broached originally when discuss…

This isn't the danger with assuming good faith. It's the danger with not updating your behavior when the balance of probabilities shows that the individual/group/organization you'r…

You can cultivate good taste by intentionally taking in a lot of information about what's in the field, and what you like and what you don't like about it. This could be commenting…

No, most genetic drift that ends up being reflected in wildtype populations happens during those periods, because small errors taking up a sizable percentile of the allelic distrib…

>Refusing to improve early, probabilistic diagnosis because today’s treatments are modest confuses sequence with outcome. While you're right from the perspective of humanity taking…

I think the skepticism warrants more work than that. Darwin's finches are an entry-level concept to learn when learning about biochemistry and genetics. Separate planets would act …

America had a true famine; the dust bowl resulted in mass displacement, and the government took exceptional steps to create remediation programs to address the plight of those affe…

It's worse than that; within a few generations our linguistic and biological systems will begin to diverge under conditions with little cross-pollination and different selective pr…

>I disagree. You can escape a disease, even during a global pandemic. And not every person that got COVID was on a ventilator or even felt that bad. Propaganda works. The knowledge…

I feel like this was more accurate a long time ago when the first rounds of YCombinator hopefuls were all piling in here and nerding out. The vibe, tone, and content has dramatical…

>Everyone here wants to look like the next Steve Jobs in front of YC, no one wants to look like Steve Wozniak. I think it's interesting that this wasn't the vibe that was here arou…

There were a lot of pre-internet 2.0 groups that were phenomenal in terms of competence density. The first point I worry a bit less about but it does have moments when it's subopti…

>If anything, they'll need to rely on more expertise now, so they can craft laws that aren't open to interpretation. Every law is open to interpretation. If tech can barely secure …

Not really. When performing clinical trials, if you'd like to use the results of the studies in chinese/indian populations you'll need to prove bioequivalence in many cases, so you…

100% what I was going to say. This is a just a misstatement. There's plenty of valid things to critique sama on, but this isn't one of them.

Kinda? Lawyers are myopic, vain, and we don't really do much to innovate. We wanted to make sure there would be no cross pollination between legal advisory services and other profe…

> We should be seeing many people holding mortgages at HSBC not able to pay. Not really. Lying about the source of cashflow doesn't mean the cashflow isn't real. The end objective …

Vaccination generally uses an adjuvant to increase immune response to the target antigen in order to provoke a response strong enough to produce lasting immunogenic memory. Antigen…

I think most people recognize that you don't get every job you apply for, but there are people who contact hundreds to thousands of organizations, apply with custom crafted letters…

>but does that make it surprising that people hate doing it? When an activity validates you, it's tough to imagine other people having the opposite experience with it. Imagine ever…

This is only true to a point. Evaluating incremental cost benefits on the basis of the delta of energy loss along specific lines ignores the state change that occurs when main trun…

Retail banking is low margin high volume, but a bank's CMG or IB divisions are NOT low margin operations. Trading desk margins vary depending on the strength of the group and the c…

The number of banks is not a good indicator of how much competition exists in a market. The elasticity of prices in that market is a better measure, but also has flaws. In general …

Interac is a great example of the opposite. The government of Canada had to strong arm the financial sector to create a non profit third party to allow zero cost transfers and a ro…

This is misleading. Banks have capital sufficiency requirements following the implementation of the Basel 3 capital sufficiency framework. This has created an international growing…