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It's easier to just have 10% of listeners pay $10/year and go ad-free. Advertising is a pollutant and no longer necessary in the new at-scale world.

When you have a small podcast, you can just do it for the love of it and not worry about money. If it gets big, you can get a small percentage of your listeners to give you money. The number of contributors should continue to rise for many years as more people discover how great podcasts can be.
Perhaps not for this Russian climber as he says he specifically avoids doing any "one-arm pullups" and "superman-like stunts." However, the other daredevils like now-deceased Wu -- died doing a pullup from a building ledge -- he couldn't pull himself back up and then fell and died. So yes, buildings can be considerably safer if one avoids doing the ridiculous stunts.
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From the article:

> the few listeners who do skip ads continue to remain engaged with the episode, rather than dropping off at the first sign of an interruption.

I'd bet that this is because fast-forwarding through podcast ads is pretty trivial. If podcast apps tried to do anything to make the midroll ads unskippable, you'd probably see a different pattern. (Here I'm thinking of things like online video ads and the TV networks' fight against the TiVo 30-second skip button.)

For my part, I often skip through ads that I know have no relevance to me, but listen to ones that might have relevance. It also helps that many podcasts bring their own humor to the ads rather than just reading the ad copy verbatim, so there's still some entertainment value even if I know I'm not going to buy what they're selling.
"and we can tell which is which" - I doubt that. You think you can, but others will disagree on your truth. So how do we determine who is right?
Yes, it's a philosophical discussion, but therefore no less relevant.
As someone very far removed from the medical field, immunotherapy has always seemed to me to be the most logical programme of cancer treatment.

The animal immune system has evolved over hundreds of millions of years to target and destroy pathogens. Why use an indiscriminate chemical treatment to destroy cancer when our body already has a self defense system that operates with pinpoint accuracy, unparalleled target recognition capabilities, and ubiquity throughout the body. All these things make it a terrific candidate to destroy cancer.

Using it just makes so much sense.
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> In other words: Butterlfy effect

The point of the butterfly effect is that everything you do could be responsible for some massive change in the future. (though the odds are extremely low)

"using this treatment" and "not using this treatment" are about equally likely to cause a butterfly effect.
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What a horrific double whammy — an autoimmune disease AND cancer.
This is epic! The COO at Docker is one of my advisors and some customers of ours are doing really neat open source ElasticSearch integrations:

Even comes with a dashboard for dataviz and querying the FTS system: https://github.com/lmangani/gun-elastic/blob/master/README.M...

And one of the other comments asked about how to keep their RDBMS synced with ElasticSearch, that is also what the above linked person is working on, I know they already have it syncing with Cassandra. I'm sure Postgres is just a plug and play away.
Same story with an alternate ending [0]. It's a more realistic story for a capitalist society.

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That's fine. I don't really understand why you have an issue with concepts like zero tolerance for corruption, police reform, collective responsibility, police accountability.

They are fairly commonly held opinions–that individual actions can destroy trust in an organisation, and that passiveness or tolerance within an organisation of such actions is equally as damaging.

I also think I've made fairly strong points about why your comparison is, in my opinion, incorrect. Not sure I'm being obtuse, but sorry if you think that is the case.
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How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
Perhaps you could pass your eye through the light and see a brief flash when you reach it?
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"Perhaps the most extreme example of how this can play out was reported in 2014, when researchers described a 115-year-old woman. Nearly her entire supply of white blood cells was generated by mutated stem cells in her bone marrow."

Erm... Getting to 115 sort of negates the argument doesn't it? She managed to get through decades of 50% heart attack risk. A single counter example isn't evidence, but given with all the given issues this does seem to be anomalous.
Haha, I always expect far worse when sending a blog post like this out there. It's the nature of the medium and I try to take it in stride. Your comment was good-natured, so no worries.
In a regulated market you just, in theory, take the closest taxi because you have no choice. But if there are five companies covering the same area, each company is going to have less coverage or need more cars. Each company is going to have to drive longer to pick up passengers. One company might have no cars available and passengers waiting, while another company has empty cars doing nothing. All in all there is less utilization of cars. I am not sure how big the effect would be though.
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else:
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I could see that getting rationalized as "creating tether for the contemporary USD equivalent of BTC, so it's still all as promised" (even though it is not), but that would really just be throwing tether under the bus to buy bitcoin some more time. And not terribly far from plain out minting unbacked tether.
My tax dollars pay for this: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

Do yours?
One reason is that you can get a higher quality DAC/headphone amp if you use USB C.

Something like this (https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-DragonFly-Black-Headphone-...) is needed to drive high end headphones and might mid-quality headphones sound better.

I don't think that the average person will want to use USB C or lightning instead of a headphone jack, but I also don't think the average person will care about it. Because their phone probably came with a dongle and/or lightning/usbC headphones, it will probably be a pretty similar experience to before the headphone jack was removed.

I personally am in favor of a single port replacing as many other ports as possible. I'm not really sure why, but I like the idea of one port to rule them all.

> Quite common during work. Or when traveling, airports, trains etc. do have USB ports for charging.

I agree that some people will be affected by not being able to charge and listen at the same time. Those who are traveling are probably the best example. Now that most phones have enough battery life for a day and then some of typical usage, and can fast charge to 50% in less than 45 minutes, the number of people affected is small enough for Apple, Google, and other companies to ignore. Much like they ignore people who could use a VGA port on their laptop for their presentations. A good number of people are affected by not having a VGA port, but not enough for it to matter.
So many open source projects being submitted lately without even having a screenshot. Would it kill these maintainers to spend 5 seconds uploading a screenshot? Or do they really expect a bunch of people to clone and try out a repo based on a one line description?
Have you ever heard of the phrase "kicking the can down the road"?
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Let me translate that: "I sure have a lot of money".

The point is having a doctor available for everybody, not just the people who can afford it. Yes, those of us who make more money pay more for it, in the form of taxes.

Ultimately, you'll need to decide if you want to care only about your wellbeing, or about society's wellbeing.
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Confidence in news is also an ever shrinking pie.

Not a great example.
Regulation doesn't affect the ability of a currency to be influenced. It just puts that ability in the hands of a select few. The US govt prints money to pay off maturing debt. After some time, this scheme will come to a disastrous end. As long as there's trust in the central auth, both Tether and USD can survive.
I think the biggest opportunity for seed investors today is actually in bio, but most people won't touch it as there's a perception you have to be a dr or phd to know the space. Which is an unfortunate misconception, bc the opportunity is huge. A program educating seed investors on bio would be super valuable

Biotech venture returns have outperformed techs in recent years, with more IPOs, higher m&a returns and shorter time to exit. Counterintuitively for those who think bio is too capital intensive and it takes too long to get drugs approved, the best exits have been early stage deals where under $20-30M is invested

I know a few seed investors who've had several high multiple exits less than 18 months from seed, including one that sold for over $1B in less than 18 months

Despite this exit environment, the number of seed / early stage investors in biotech has not grown in over a decade. VCs have responded by just seeding / starting companies in house, but there are tons of great seed stage companies that just go unfunded bc people are intimidated by biotech
Extremely agreed. I wanted to make a SCARA arm and it would basically be impossible without a printer. Basically, you can't make something efficiently if you don't know how the fabrication technique works and what its strengths and weaknesses are.

For another example, I made this case:

https://www.makerfol.io/project/8ycrZ9t-case-for-the-dp30v5a...

This would also have not been possible without the printer next to me. I constantly had to print segments to see how parts fit. With a week-long turnaround time instead of ten minutes, I wouldn't even have bothered.

Sure, if I already know how to design and print, maybe I could have designed something without owning a printer, but even that is not very likely (I generally have to make alterations a lot). For $300 (and a bunch of time spent), it's a no-brainer if you want to get into the hobby.
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> I do think restricting it to academic addresses is a huge mistake

I have to agree. I'm no academic for almost 10 years, now, yet I've spent the last three years working with academics on my free time and it's really frustrating how hard it is to work without a “proper” affiliation. I've had to create my own “lab” (it's just a name, and it's only me) to have my name on posters, but I'm still unable to get access to some services because, well… because I'm not paid for the work I do, I guess.
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My gut tells me that if the treatment is given for free (my original comment mentioned I was concerned if the company was charging for said treatments) then there's far less of a problem. However, there's still this incentive for a company to take advantage of this situation. Giving the treatment for free could technically be cheaper than providing the drug in a trial while also paying a participant.
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Ahhh, thanks for clarifying. Good point. Yes, that is true, but my concern is if we tie the dApp to strongly to these forks or plugins we also can only grow the user base as fast as users who are willing to install and use these alternatives - which I believe just shoots our own growth in the foot.

Instead, if we make it work out of the browser by default, then we can get much better user adoption and then optionally ask users to opt into more secure and reliable alternatives after they have already built trust with us and been won over. Does that make sense? Thoughts?
The govt. of Andhra Pradesh (a state in India) has pioneered a state backed insurance program several years ago with reasonable success (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarogyasri). The problem however with these programs is that corruption within the healthcare industry is still endemic and doctors create fake diagnoses and perform unnecessary surgeries on patients to get their reimbursements from Aarogya-sri. If this program is to be rolled out a national scale, the govt. needs to address the systematic corruption in the healthcare industry first.

That said, I think Aarogyasri was overall a huge success in my state and has saved millions of lives and I'm excited to see it being adopted at a national level.
Given they later investors most likely have an exit preference I wouldn't say the risks were that big. What are the odds that CoreOS isn't worth $30M?
Interestingly, this is sort of the case for housing as well, and one explanation for why it goes through boom and bust cycles.

Edit: just the first paragraph, about moving assets at ever increasing nominal values
How/where do you get access to bio seed investment opportunities?
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