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I was going to say you can't get very far without a protein vehicle, but then I remembered that's quite incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon The injection is im…

Agreed. Entrepreneurs always see opportunity in disruption, because you can always rebuild something better. Just don't @ me too hard for pointing out that the disruption is real a…

It's certainly possible new channels emerge to restore equilibrium, but I don't see Neeva (or whoever) replacing Google as a customer acquisition channel any time soon. I think peo…

Let's say you're a startup trying to advertise on Google, and somebody has paid a bot network to fraudulently click on your ads. Now Google can't detect that those clicks are fraud…

Because it makes advertising more expensive, which in turn makes the products and services you use more expensive.

There is no mens rea or actual harm involved in legit white hat hacking, including white hat hacking that is incentivized through bug bounties, so this activity is not criminal. We…

I was at Microsoft, in MSN Search (which was later re-branded Bing). This was 2003.

When I worked at Bing almost 20 years ago, the #1 search term was "Google". So maybe this is reasonable :) (#2 was "Gogle")

You can't design interventions for problems that you cannot see. Detection alone doesn't save lives, but it is a necessary step to the discovery of interventions that do.

tl;dr any unique feature of this virus may be explanatory for its demonstrably increased virulence, and may be targetable by existing therapeutics as well. This particular feature …

It's a bit of a stretch to say that a lawsuit is a threat to the rule of law.....

Here's a quick guide to employer regulation in NYC. With one part-time employee you would be exempt from many statutes: https://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/labor-employment/b/…

Fair enough. Although I think a researcher would say our bags of meat often surprise us.

It seems clear that e-cigs are better than smoking. How can this be clear without long-term usage data?

Case law is on the side of corporations having no generalized duty to maximize profit on a day-to-day basis, for what it's worth. Corporations can exist for any number of reasons a…

Can you elaborate on "capital is readily available from Series B to public markets"? I am not in this space myself, but I know a few founders who are and the perception is that the…

> It basically means they have given up on developing a good branded interface between the driver and the car. The one piece of feedback I gave Toyota in their post-purchase survey…

There is no such thing as "withdrawing funding" in this context. The Series A is long closed and Bessemer is deeply entwined with the company's governance. The most severe move the…

If I remember correctly frogs were an early model organism for studying fertilization because their eggs are large. Seems reasonable that would extend to early hormone secretion po…

Copyright law is more complicated than that, but regardless OCILLA drastically reduced copyright liability for the pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringemen…

Huh, that ruling was pretty broad. Only pertains to the 2nd circuit as it wasn't reviewed by SCOTUS, but still. Do you know if it was a key cite in cases in other circuits?

It is FDA cleared rather than approved, which is a lower bar. And it appears to be cleared as a tanning device, not as a Vitamin D-related device: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cd…

This is pretty critical information that, imo, you should communicate more prominently. I was a little shocked at the value of some of these grants for the level, but this makes mo…