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nickgrosvenor··on Killer Whales: 'Transient' Orcas Are Thriving
One of the best articles I've read in a long time.
nickgrosvenor··on How well will Covid-19 vaccines work?
How can I get past the paywall?
nickgrosvenor··on Nouriel Roubini: ‘Tether is a criminal enterprise,’ SEC should probe Musk tweets
When are people gonna understand that almost everything this guy's saying about crypto is correct.
nickgrosvenor··on Miami Mayor Pushes Crypto with Offer to Pay Workers in Bitcoin
WTF is the problem with paying people with the US dollar? These trendy comments about crypto by government officials won't age well.
nickgrosvenor··on Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin
So true.
nickgrosvenor··on Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin
I always wondered what will happen when the environmentalists find out about the energy consumption requirements of Bitcoin.
nickgrosvenor··on GameStop stock up 92.7% today
Total Value stock. Lot's of runway to make a lot of money. Physical video game cartridges have more staying power than the California redwoods. More profitable than Apple soon. Will change the physical video game space more than Pets.com or Yahoo Hotjobs! ever did. Super excited things are this conservative.
nickgrosvenor··on How Bad Is Your Spotify?
I don’t know about logging into Spotify on a random site
nickgrosvenor··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
I read today, they’re saying between this and the Pfizer vaccine. They’ll be 40 million doses available this year. Enough for 20 million people. Because we only have a month and a half left of this year, when were these vaccines going to come online? And where? Obviously it’ll go to at risk people, but when exactly will it start to roll out if it’s already Nov 15th?
nickgrosvenor··on The tectonic turn of the news media away from advertising
Future of the internet is a walled garden where you have to pay per view, or pay a subscription to access good content, and all the free stuff will mostly be spam ridden, inconsistent, or hard to find.

It's unfortunate.

nickgrosvenor··on Randomized Controlled Trials of Early Ambulatory Hydroxychloroquine
These results make sense since HCQ is a drug normally used in auto immune situations to keep your immune system from acting up, therefore this drug would probably effectively keep people’s immune system in check, and keep Covid from becoming something that triggers an overactive immune response that ends up killing you.

TLDR results, reduces regular hospitalized patients from entering the ICU by about 50 percent, but once in ICU, treatment is not effective at all.

nickgrosvenor··on Trump reportedly considers fast tracking AstraZeneca vaccine before election
Why is the president making vaccine decisions? I thought he was the commander and chief of the armed forces?
nickgrosvenor··on Florida mosquitoes: 750M genetically modified insects to be released
It's so funny people are against the idea without realizing the mosquito species they're trying to eradicate is an invasive species and shouldn't be there anyway.

Number 1 killer animal of Humans in the world: Mosquitoes, by far.

nickgrosvenor··on Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a Molotov cocktail
Life hack: don’t throw Molotov cocktails at police cars.
nickgrosvenor··on Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity
I do not have this gene
nickgrosvenor··on TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work
All the TikTok people are gonna move to Triller
nickgrosvenor··on Everlane’s Promise of ‘Radical Transparency’ Unravels
I was in a meeting once and a VP used the term "give back component" in a way that made me realize that the actually giving back was irrelevant, it was now just a marketing gimmick.

"Radical transparency" seems the same

nickgrosvenor··on When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
Best article I've read in a long long time.
nickgrosvenor··on 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
Things like twitter have unwittingly become Orwellian. A log of everything you've ever said and thought for the rest of the world to see.

This is why the future of the internet is going to be a closed end internet.

Something that isn't accessible by everyone.

Whether through paid entry, invitation, or geography, the future of the internet is going be more closed end than it is now.

The open ended internet of today will become a junk yard of spam and identity thieves in the future.

Early adopters and rich people were the first to get on the internet and they'll be the fist to get off of it too.

For something more private.

nickgrosvenor··on Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
Good for him
nickgrosvenor··on Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
It could become a success later.

Two mistakes it made in hindsight.

Launched without allowing you to watch on your computer or TV which just severely dampens network effects from happening.

Launched only with celebrities, paid at high prices, which burned way more cash than they needed to, didn’t get lots of people’s best, because lots of times they were only their for a paycheck. Would have probably made better content if they scoured Instagram and YouTube and offered some talented creators a chance to make something special.

They’d save money and have more shots to have a hit.

Which would have had everyone needing to pay the monthly subscription fee to be part of the zeitgeist

nickgrosvenor··on Gas stove cooking routinely generates unsafe levels of indoor air pollution
That’s the irony of microwave cooking, it’s actually safer than gas stoves because of the air quality issue.
nickgrosvenor··on WHO warns that coronavirus cases have jumped in countries that eased lockdowns
It'd only be surprising if cases didn't jump tbh
nickgrosvenor··on Asia's 'murder hornet' will arrive on East Coast, are 'here to stay' experts say
This is the one. Asian tiger mosquito. Needs to be wiped out with generic engineering
nickgrosvenor··on Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education
They should outlaw hiring practices with required college degrees for all but the most regulated careers like doctors, lawyers etc.

To require a BS or BA for a sales job is insane and just creates servitude dynamics for no reason.

nickgrosvenor··on [dead]
This is absolutely the stupidest story ever. The journalists that are promoting it are doing Trump a favor because it’s this type of deceptive journalism that gives trump and his supporters carte blanche to disregard actual journalism.

This story is about a couple that drank fucking aquarium cleaner.

Not prescription drugs.

It’s a joke.

nickgrosvenor··on The Coronavirus Isn't Going Away – Interview with Harvard Epidemiologist
So sketchy! As they say in this podcast, hard to wrap your head around
nickgrosvenor··on Welcome to the Era of Fake Products
Amazon products are barely more official than eBay at this point. I tell my wife to never buy soaps, makeup, or anything liquid-based from amazon.
nickgrosvenor··on China confirms coronavirus is airborne
Doesn't sound good.
nickgrosvenor··on US State Department Travel Advisory: Do Not Travel to China Due to Coronavirus
I mean, this whole situation may turn out to be no big deal, relatively speaking, but at what point does everyone agree this is a really serious situation? Because it keeps ticking the boxes.

The economic consequences will probably turn out to be a bigger issue than the health ones.

Either way, this is escalating. :|

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