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stdlib2··on This career feels like a few key hours with year-long cool-down periods
Would you mind sharing your blog(if you have one) I'm a student and have only recently begun to appreciate the art of meta-learning and i would be grateful to learn a thing or two from people wiser than me? thanks!
stdlib2··on Peter Thiel’s Origin Story
"He later collected his thinking in a book, Zero to One. It became a best seller, partly because it promised a path to Thiel-scale wealth and partly because it developed the idiosyncrasies that had been present in the college-age Thiel into a full-blown ideology. The book argues, among other things, that founders are godlike, that monarchies are more efficient than democracies, and that cults are a better organizational model than management consultancies. More than anything, it celebrates rule-breaking. Thiel bragged that of PayPal’s six founders, four had built bombs in high school"

Did they actually read Zero to One?

stdlib2··on Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with Covid-19
I would agree with your argument but maybe my naivety clouds my judgement surely someone high up in the various public systems recognizes the true cost the pandemic has had in the people both on the economic systems and directly on their health and should be trying to atleast verify or nullify the findings on a grander scale,I might be wrong but from what I've read Remdesivir isn't that effective on the SARS-Cov-2 virus ,another benifit i think Ivermecitin has is the prophylactic qualities this drug may have i read an AIIMS study on the same 1)https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/aiims-study-c... while anyone living outside india may think this is a sub par organization but it is held to the same standards say the IITs are held if the media or right people in the right places get to hear of it we can atleast have a big study that can find what the truth is and if it arms us with another tool to fight the pandemic it would be worth a lot
stdlib2··on Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with Covid-19
I don't get why only tiny sample size trials are being conducted on ivermectin, I mean this is a generic drug which can easily be produced anywhere and is known to be safe drug for humans plus the circumstantial evidence if not conclusive is definitely worth looking into 1) https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...

i think there ought to be a bigger study on this if even there are marginal benefits we should employ them against the pandemic

2)https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...

here is a podcast where doctor Kory talks about this with Eric Weinstein