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Comment #23668325
No. This has been disproven by the only good studies we have. Even with zinc and early, it has not been shown to have any effect.
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Comment #23668319
The data we have on hydroxychloroquine is now convincingly negative-there's just a ton of misinformation and it's become a political issue. But when some institutions fail you get …
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Comment #22376692
It's a cool idea, but you can't yet apply homomorphic encryption and then ML and get anything useful. You can do more limited data obfuscation.
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Comment #22376682
This just seems like something that will catastrophically fail. If you can build a good enough generator you can just build the ML model internally. And if you can't the statistics…
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Comment #22120326
You can create much higher margins for products and services at the Apple price point. For Autos, people are very price sensitive. Even if Tesla slowly takes over the industry, not…
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Comment #20178012
If you're not zero margin, you can't scale the same way.
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Comment #20071641
Why do you think college is 10x more expensive now? Seems like maybe some of those expenses are not materially impacting education quality, unless you think that the generation tha…
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Comment #20071504
I'd almost be more interested in the change in variance across time. If education costs are the main factor, and the top 10-20% (? estimate) have parent's who pay for college, you'…
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Comment #19564707
That is correct. There are not ETFs for these kinds of investment classes, so similar to hedge funds you would need to believe that you are capable of picking the right managers. Y…
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Comment #19564564
It's somewhat hard to calculate the correlation because VC is so illiquid, but for sure it provides diversity and has historically been an excellent investment. The variance across…
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Comment #19564194
VC has historically done slightly better than the stock market, but returns over any time period are inversely correlated with how much money is flowing to VC (ie when everyone wan…
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Comment #19504597
This people do not understand the math of startup comp. If you get equity instead of cash, you could have taken that cash and just put it into as high a risk investment as you want…