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Glucocorticoids are very old drugs. If there were a new patent at this stage in the US, it would be a combination drug or delayed release oral form ([source]( https://www.patentdoc…

You might already be aware, but the MTA was founded by NY state and much of its management is nominated directly by the governor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Transpo…

As of 3 years ago, the WeWork at Bowling Green was also tight on bathrooms, but the private stalls automatically unlocked after 5 minutes. It seemed like a genius idea, but there w…

Do you want ulcers? Because this is how you get ulcers.

I'm not convinced that concentrating tech exclusively in the valley has objective network effects that outweigh the costs. Regardless, from personal experience most of my colleague…

Well you can't really consider the Bay Area housing bubble and cost of living spike without taking the tech boom into account. I think it's both the fault of NIMBYism/failure to bu…

I don't think it's gotten any better as far as cracking down on drivers. When I try to get picked up at NYC area airports, if the driver calls right away and asks where I'm going, …

If they're not just in it for short-term speculation, then they can rent the house out and hire someone to manage it. Make some more profit while contributing to the Vancouver econ…

Cameras seem like overkill and are a much bigger privacy concern for the purposes given in the article. Motion sensors and NFC beacons should be fine for tracking occupancy and loc…

In Manhattan, it's mostly bike couriers who go the wrong way. When I cut across one short block the wrong way because it's convenient, there have been a few pedestrians who've call…

I think Uber Pool only gives you 1 minute from the time the driver arrives, but I've never had a driver leave without the second passenger when they took 5 or 10 minutes to show up…

Source on productivity? And whether or not individual workers are more productive, French mega-corporations seem to have much less of a global reach than American or German ones. I…

I think the network effects have more to do with clueless recruiters trying to tick off a list of keywords for a position, than the actual cost to a company of an engineer ramping …

Google Play Music is the same, at least on iOS (well, the storage usage is accurate). It caches any song you listen to once or twice, until it eats up all free space. Then your onl…

You can play the moral relativist all you want, but American three-letter agencies are nothing close to the Great Firewall. There's a massive difference between out-of-sight survei…

There is kind of a reasonable expectation for sites to run JS on your computer, if you don't use NoScript. I'm more inclined to believe they installed an actual rootkit, though. Th…

You don't need an equal sample size to determine if autonomous cars are safer. But if you're comparing to all the cars on the road today, you need quality data that matches the dis…

There's a warning that makes it clear that you need to maintain your full attention on the road, when you enable Autopilot and every single time you take your hands off the wheel. …

Huh? There is a lot more room for growth in small cities with functional tech industries, and these people can now afford to speculate on multiple properties for the price of their…

Does any midwest airport outside of Chicago actually fly "anywhere you want to go", internationally?

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Wouldn't parasites be a constant factor in the death rate? How do you explain an exponentially rising death rate? The "criminals" in the article's example are more like mutations o…

Particularly as someone involved with research, I'm interested in a framework to manage tests which produce a quantitative value or graphs measuring performance, and compare them a…