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Treat Facebook like both and apply all the telco and content regulations to them. One of the key principles in telco regulation is ensuring any-to-any connectivity. It is now estab…

Or like a lot of GPs, she just prescribes whatever medication is top of mind after the last visit from the friendly pharma sales rep.

The author has extrapolated their experience in (at most) a handful of airports to the general case. One of the first projects I was given as a junior engineer was to measure signa…

I went through this fairly early in my career. I think the career impact is more severe than a mother taking maternity leave (and without the legal protections). Apart from explain…

I'll stick with a Torrens Title system over a digitised version of the old chain of title approach.

Joshua Gans (my old economics Prof) did a study of births by day of week, and showed that the fall in weekend births was explainable by the rise in inducement and cesarean section …

I feel that what is currently brewing is a form of social cults, or if you prefer softer phrasing, cultural tribes. With a very strong feedback control loop deriving from social ne…

The telecoms research company I used to work for has decided to get into the business of writing "white papers" for Huawei that are not far removed from this piece of "tech journal…

It's a solved issue, in that the cell company "simply" has to spend enough on infrastructure to cover the desired area. Justifying the business case to cover the low value (i.e. fe…

From the article, it sounds like the surgeons are already well aware of the risk from improper cleaning, but don't care enough to push for a systemic solution, instead relying on "…

We are moving towards a state where technology will allow us to punish every infraction every time, automatically and at low marginal processing cost. I expect that rebalancing the…

This should be solved using public sector housing. Which you can think of as similar to rent control as discussed in the article, except the subsidy is made visible and direct thro…

This is exactly the problem. Imagine if every single law on the books is enforced 100% of the time. No leeway, no margin for discretion.

Being a doctor also carries much greater social respect (partially linked to the pay aspect). I expect this social respect gap has eroded in SV, but is still very significant in th…

Their similarity to Scientology is quite striking. Complete with alien conspiracy theories [0]. [0] http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053761,00...

Not testing on women, and particularly avoiding pregnant women, is how to end up with another thalidomide case. Sure, you wouldn't want pregnant women to be amongst your first fiel…

Humanity needs an existential level extraterrestrial threat to unify us.

Would you like to borrow my grandfather's axe?

Nobody escapes death, but the wealthy can still escape an inheritance tax using a trust fund.

Early in my career someone taught me a useful technique for dealing with this situation. After each "new" idea, spend about half an hour working on the idea. Best to do this on pap…

With the offer of rewards I can see a similar scheme becoming popular in Western countries too. I expect it would have a large overlap in users with Facebook. It is possible to arg…

Don't underestimate the cost difference between running a fibre down a street versus running it into every house.

You might be surprised at just how much news is little more than slightly rehashed press releases.

Nokia Networks has some good 5G whitepapers and other learning resources. https://networks.nokia.com/5g/resources

Reminds me of being a junior engineer doing radio signal measurements before and after a network optimisation. With slightly worn hi-vis shirts, clipboards and our portable RF spet…