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As an investor in healthcare AI companies, I actually completely agree that there's a lot of bad implementations of AI in healthcare settings, and what practitioners call "alarm fa…

Pediatric allergy and atopic diseases in general is a mess an only slowly getting better. There's strong correlation between early eczema and food allergies, and now mild but convi…

Freestyle rap should be the modern equivalent. Can judge on things like lyricism, flow/delivery, concept/cohesiveness, etc.

As a healthcare tech investor, I do see a lot of startups selling potentially dangerous AI systems into the healthcare system. That said, there are also a good number of companies …

Metagenomic sequencing: The field exploded after technologies and techniques were developed for using next-gen sequencing to characterize entire populations/communities of living t…

Yep, you're right. Only meant to associate them in terms of why they're valued land, but yes, they're in separate riparian zones. Central valley is Sacramento/San Joaquin river del…

The unfortunate thing is that large stretches of California desert (and much of the Central Valley to the north) used to be lake bottoms and have incredibly rich and fertile soils.…

I like the Singaporean model of benchmarking high-ranking government salaries to a percent of the pay of top earners in the country ( https://www.dollarsandsense.sg/heres-much-sing…

Broadening out, this reminds me of one of the most eye-opening classes I've ever taken (and it was back in high-school!) -- Comparative Government/Politics: https://apcentral.colle…

Had a similar experience with GCP -- wanted to run an experiment in AWS, Azure, and GCP side-by-side. AWS and Azure were set up within a day. GCP required hitting up support to "tu…

I'm finding with the teams I'm working with that the junior employees are the ones most impacted by not working from an office, but they often don't realize what they're missing --…

You should -- protease inhibitors inhibit replication, but existing viruses should be more than enough to generate a durable response in most individuals.

Yeah, as parent mentioned in another reply below, ritonavir is an antiviral, but has no effect on SARS-CoV-2 ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34048671/ ). Ritonavir is just used t…

ACLU, Cato, EFF, and EPIC have all shown real success in legislative efforts and in court.

This is a decent state-by-state overview of the enforceability of non-competes: https://www.wonder.legal/us/guide/what-is-the-enforceability...

Reminds me of when a honeybee swarm occupied the parking lot behind our building and eventually mostly settled on a bike rack (this also happens to be the building of the downtown …

^ Yeah that's directionally accurate. The AMA is one of the two funders of LCME, the accrediting agency of medical schools for MDs (outside of the med school trade association itse…

The AMA chooses who can be a doctor, who can train doctors, who can practice any kind of medicine, has extremely strong pricing power over the entire healthcare system via the RUC …

I was fascinated with the history of the Sami when I visited Karasjok in the dead of winter, and spoke to a few who still tried to keep a somewhat traditional lifestyle. It did fee…

You can't go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But, you can definitely go faster than light in a medium. Speed of light in water, for example, is around 0.75c.

I think you are perhaps conflating the public health definition of surveillance with what HN usually thinks of as "surveillance." (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_s…

The WHO usually isn't in the business of sponsoring trials. The development of a single master protocol takes time, especially for one as large as this, and pulling one together wi…

I've worked on data related to healthcare and security (and sometimes both) for quite a while now, and I think there are a couple of general contextual themes, where, if present, m…

I think you may be referring to this publication: https://energyanalysis.lbl.gov/publications/co2-indoor-pollu...

Having worked closely with FDA, I've been very impressed by the people there and how thoughtful they are despite the pressure they're under and the almost complete lack of good sof…