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You don't have to go that far back. See the recent Surfside tragedy. Israel sent an elite rescue team and set up relief centers to assist displaced persons, regardless if they were…

>in silico discovery of drugs is still fairly unreliable Can you elaborate on this? I'm not challenging you on it, just interested in learning more.

Do you propose IP be treated similarly to real property? Maybe require a permit from the government before one writes a book or song to ensure that work will be in the public inter…

The Wikimedia Foundation hosts collaborative projects which are not encyclopedias. WikiNews for instance cuts right into the heart of what EC is trying to stop. Really shows how mu…

I think it is interesting to reflect on the idea that high technology builds on top of primitive technology. Just as he uses past tools to make more complex tools, every human era …

Not only can chaos be exhibited in fully deterministic systems, it can be exhibited in absurdly simple systems. The logistic map is an incredibly simple iterated function that exhi…

There are some corporate structures that seem better suited for owning real estate, like a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). Maybe there is a proxy "Google REIT" that is 100% ow…

IPOs tend to be a lot more valuable. It’s more an implication of a successful exit. In either case, you have to pay off your debt and preferred stockholders before you see a dime f…

How do you suppose we fix this? I'm not being factious here.

It happens when practitioners generalize theorems to scenarios that look similar but don't apply. The common pattern is misapplying an infinite set theorem to finite set case. If y…

How about a compromise? Submit an outline resume that fits on a single page and provide a link to a huge CV with all the details?

Probably something to do with the rent seeking problem. It’s wealth tied mostly to possessing rights to exploit valuable land, not to the labor or ingenuity of people.

This isn't even theoretical! See the Sony rootkit DRM scandal. EME will almost certainly become an attack vector in the future.

>He could not have done them if Fuji hadn't manufactured the tapes. Did he get Fuji's permission to use their product's likeness? This is actually a huge issue here, since the phot…

What business expenses are not deductible?

I would start with diagnosing and prescribing (possibly computer/statistics assisted) versus trying to tackle surgery first. I think you'll find that surgery is considered the hard…

This right. In fact CVS MinuteClinics are usually manned by nurse practitioners. They can do many things typically associated with internal/family medicine.

Importantly, the costs of our medical system relative to other systems will never be fixed until we fix this problem. But this is the hardest problem to fix, because nobody wants t…

Part of this is because medical professors make a salary that is at least twice (and usually higher) what the next highest paid professor at a university makes. You fix the salary …

Their gross pay is way higher then $250,000. Actually $250,000 is the net salary after all expenses, and that's about right for not particularly enterprising doctors (ie. internal …

>I think an important lesson for any grad student is to learn to read through the bullshit in papers and try and understand what the authors actually did. We actively work to make …

All this makes me wonder what will inspire the current school generation to get into computing.

>I guess it is kind of cyberpunk-y. All we need now is for US Marshals to lay siege to some SF headquarters, facing contracted PMCs denying the validity of their warrants. I think …