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You mean like this: https://www.trtworld.com/life/breakthrough-nerve-stimulation...

But he's also a middle-aged white guy, so surely that's a wash? Hope that illustrated the silliness of this line of argument.

At least in the UK the vaccine passports are made available through the NHS App, and stored AFAIK the same way any other health information on your person is stored already. At lea…

My impression was rather it's consensus that the vaccine provides more predictable immunity, which is the most important thing if you want to set policy. So recommendation in most …

I'm pretty sure Samsung is leader in sales, maybe second when it comes to profit though. In any case, issue with Tesla is that's it's priced to just not be the leader, but the whol…

For how long though? In my personal experience only one out of 5 people from Western Europe are still in US after 4 years, the rest moved back home.

Except salaries in London are not at all competitive with US especially if you factor in cost of living, unless you get into Fintech.

How was the UK gov blocked from running trains? From what I read some lines actually did get nationalized again after how poorly Virgin & co run some of the lines. For sure privati…

> The difference is that direct democracy doesn't scale. I hear that every time Switzerland is mentioned. I've yet to see a strong argument to suggest why it wouldn't scale in this…

Did I miss it or was there no mention of companies like Transferwise at all? From a laypersons perspective this seems exactly how the "private sector stepped in" to fix the problem…

That seems to me still too conservative. What about Transferwise, which actually offer easy and cheap cross-border, multi-currency transfers right now?

And both Switzerland and Norway have a wealth tax.

This is the commonly assumed tension but I think it's a slightly false dichotomy. The choices are not just between concentrating an obscene amount of money with individuals vs conc…

This can very easily be solved by making it inflation adjusted (i.e. the value increases with inflation every year). This happens for instance with many social contributions in Swi…

The word "cowardly" seems completely inappropriate here. First off, the second crash clearly was only harmless by pure chance, it could have easily killed someone - would you have …

I think the point of disagreement regarding the "link" is not that there is none, but that it seemed to be nothing peculiar about facial recognition. If Apple sent a security camer…

From my understanding the Switzerland negotiated clause re Romania and other late joiners was timebound, which is why it was acceptable.

> English speaking country, stable and predictable legal framework, cosmopolitan city. English speaking being the only real differentiator here and probably the most critical reaso…

So you're happy to have no PC to access Hacker News, for sure no Smartphone, not even a "dumb" mobile phone. No YouTube, Netflix, Amazon. Yes things worked back then but I doubt ma…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos Ironically, your single statement was actually "nonsense on all accounts" as Theranos definitely was valued multiple billions at some point.

Wasn't Theranos multibillion valued at some point? Not trying to imply anything about Stripe being fraudulent, just evoking an extreme example of clear overvaluation to put such nu…

Here's a classic German one where a group of comedians pretend to be the 'most disgusting' Finish band, singing Finish gibberish mixed in with mostly proper English and some random…

Is this the average doctor or some specialist? The fact that some specialists can hugely profit from the system the same way the hospitals, pharma companies and insurance do, is li…

Why does this get nowhere the attention than the initial piece? Is it that the mob has made up it's mind and cannot be tamed anymore at this point?