The approach is interesting, but I'm not sure it works for everybody. I tried the Heisig method, but I found that while I could get good at flashcards, they didn't really stick.
Probably helps if you are also exposed to Kanji on a daily basis in their true context.
Off the top of my head: I wonder if astronauts are on lower calorie diets than usual.
Lowering calorie intake is one of the few well known ways that lifespan can be increased. Will have to see if there's any research correlating low calorie diets and telomere length.
Your pay doesn't seem massively outside current industry norms.
If I were you I'd probably do two things:
1. I'd try and save enough money for a couple of years runway in case I wanted to do my own thing/start consulting.
2. I'd look around to see if there are other jobs that might be interesting. My biggest regrets are jobs I've stayed at too long, not the ones I left too quickly. Experience at many companies is great. Now, when you can take or leave a new job, is a good low stress time to look.
We don't really understand how most of the treatments we have work. We have data, we have in many cases some ideas, but we don't know.
Take Psoriasis as an example, doctors are still prescribing coal tar based treatments. I guess they are ~100 years old. They don't work very well, and people don't really know why they should work at all.
Pretty much all Psoriasis treatments are like this, even the more recent ones. They interfere with some pathway related to the immune system... but we don't really understand why they work.
So we don't really understand "how it all fits together" for current treatments. It's still reasonable to use them if they are relatively safe, and work. Same is true of gene therapies.
Mostly we figure out that things work/are safe through experimentation. Not through totally understanding the system.
Realistically, what harm can the experiments described in the article do to the general population?
It's so hard to do anything, even design diagnostic tests, that requires FDA approval that personally I'd avoid any startup that had that on their route to revenue.
It's kind of a shame, and countries where it's easier to develop new treatments and tests are likely to take the lead.
Hmm.. this is significantly more than 100MUSD (630MUSD).
I'd love some examples of good plays in this area (that is, those that resulted not just in acquisition but viable products). This area being life science tools/diagnostics.
From the companies I've been it seems to be biased toward crazy plays that had a stack of money thrown at them. Honestly would like to hear about others, know where to read about others.
Again, just FYI, you're not a PLC (which stands for public limited company, and means you can sell shares to the general public) you're incorporated as a private limited company.
I think it possibly because they've created a few new accounts. New accounts on HN can only post so many comments before they start getting marked as [dead] automatically I guess this is to prevent spam.
To be honest, creating multiple new accounts to promote your startup is slightly spammy behavior. Even if they are owned by different employees of that startup.
Your website says your a non-profit, but you're incorporated as a private limited company.
Just FYI, in the U.K. Non-profits are generally incorporated as companies limited by guarantee. If you are really not seeking profit for shareholders, this would be a better organization type.
It possibly lies beyond their reach, and ultimately we may be fighting a losing battle.
But there are two point really:
1. I think it's worth fighting (and they have had some success).
2. May telecoms vendors have volunteered more information than required in the past, I think it's unlikely Apple would.
Moveover, just having a large company challenge these issues changes the political environment.
It possibly lies beyond their reach, and ultimately we may be fighting a losing battle.
But there are two point really:
1. I think it's worth fighting (and they have had some success).
2. May telecoms vendors have volunteered more information than required in the past, I think it's unlikely Apple would.
Moveover, just having a large company challenge these issues changes the political environment.
> Its easier to just buy a phone from a company who can't comply with such ridiculous claims from the US government.
I think there's value in challenging the US government on these issues. It also helps set the tone in general.
Also, which non-US phone would you suggest? The only real alternative is Android. While there are various vendors, the software is almost completely written by Google. And therefore open to the possibility of a backdoor (or other) requests by the US government.