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markus92··on Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules
Bolt has a tiny bit of market share, Lyft is all but existent. Uber has a de facto monopoly in The Netherlands.
markus92··on Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules
What kind of benefits do you mean? It’s a very common construction in The Netherlands.
markus92··on Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening
Patient outcome, financially for the radiologist.
markus92··on Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
Auto import could be turned on?
markus92··on A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way
Tell that to the antivaxers that attack vaccination sites and spread the propaganda.
markus92··on Long-term studies of Covid vaccines hurt by placebo recipients getting immunized
Not necessarily true. The incidence rates of those are well-known. Rarer side effects are impossible to find by comparing vaccinated/unvaccinated in a phase 3 and need larger groups to be found. That’s routine, though. Look at the VITT for the Adenoviral vector vaccines, no strict control group was necessary to identify that.
markus92··on Alphafold
That was Uber iirc
markus92··on It's been three years. Stop saying your European visitors are important to you
Any company that serves EU residents has to comply. If they block users from the EU, they don't have to comply. Fines can be massive (up to 2% global revenue).

Nexstar might not have any European assets, but non-compliance might not be a smart move if they get fined and business executives travel to Europe...

markus92··on List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K
Many don’t fully cover the USA due to the exorbitant costs.
markus92··on HIV vaccine trial starts at Oxford
Phase 1 trial, just to see if they are fine and if there’s any major safety signals or not.
markus92··on Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
Wasn't allowed by the journal as it'd be considered prior publication. Used to be quite common in the medical field actually, COVID is slowly changing that luckily.
markus92··on Nintendo announces Switch OLED Model
SoC has a bootloader exploit which makes it great for homebrew.
markus92··on “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
They'd only own the copyright on the minor change so can't force everyone to use GPL on all of the code.
markus92··on Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
Wasn’t at home, don’t have them in my Dropbox.
markus92··on Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
I’m a researcher at a first world university. I used sci-hub to pirate my own papers cus we did not have a subscription to the journal anymore. I’m not paying $39 to read my own work!
markus92··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
How can I verify that the QR code is of the person in front of me, if there's no name or anything included? Screenshots are old you know.
markus92··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
The person reading can use their eyes to read a passport/photo ID ;) You don't need an app to do that.
markus92··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
The Dutch app will have two QR codes: a national one which does hardly contains any information - initials and day/month of birth - and the EU DCC which is discussed here.
markus92··on Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval
That would be considered off-label prescription.
markus92··on Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval
And that's exactly why it should not be approved. There is no proof there is ANY effect on the disease outcome. The trial was halted prematurely for futility ffs! And now the FDA is giving people false hope? Letting them spend $65k/year for possible snake oil with no scientific evidence behind it?

Alzheimer's is a terrible disease. And I get it, you're willing to try anything for a possible improvement. Problem is, there is no proof at all that aducanumab leads to any kind of improvement: only stuff that you might find if you do tons of data mining to get the result you want. If the drug was that good, you would find it each and every time you try it, not one out of a hundred times if you look at a subset of a subset.

The only reason the Biogen wants approval of this drug, is to earn money out of desperate people willing to try anything. The FDA should be there to protect people from this. They have failed to do that here.

markus92··on “AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”
But how many have commercially available/succesful products?
markus92··on Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs
That was added after this scandal first unearthed.
markus92··on Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid
That's exactly what it is. Reasoning being two-fold, first is that it's easy to implement as the government knows the exact payroll of every company anyways (they file taxes quarterly), second is to keep people on the payroll in case restrictions can be loosened. They're still working, so can go back to productivity immediately.
markus92··on Stripe Payment Links
The "I send you a tikkie for this .25ct tomato paste can"-meme.
markus92··on UK Rail services to come under unified state control
The energy requirements are vastly different, rolling stock is a lot cheaper than airframes etc.
markus92··on TikTok Remix Culture
You don't click. When you open the app, the first thing you see is a "random" video (selected by their creepily good algorithm). Watched it or don't like it? Swipe through and the next video instantly starts. The app is good at figuring out which videos get engaged with and promotes these.

Though there is the functionality to go to user profiles and click videos, like on Instagram and such, it's not the main functionality of the app.

markus92··on Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
That's why there's digital qPCR now, testing has come a long way since 1993. Larger targets etc.
markus92··on Baltimore plant ruins 15M Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccines
Basically this. You need four consecutive batches with consistent quality in a row for approval.
markus92··on Video RAM Transplant Doubles RTX3070 Memory to 16GB
Not relevant if your model doesn't fit in GPU memory.
markus92··on Italian authorities discover 29M Oxford/AstraZeneca doses: La Stampa
Easy to say but not necessarily true. Let's look at the Halix factory, which is the main point of contention in the EU/UK dispute. The Dutch government (thus, EU) already offered them a major contract in March/April '20, for precisely this purpose. They already had started expanding in Feb '20 as part of their production for the AZ trial, so they declined.
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