There is public interest in having public lands kept as wildernesses or parks. Not everything has to be for the benefit of profit, ranchers, or miners.
And there is public interest in making public land private. Note that the majority of public land in the US is not currently kept as wilderness or parks. Where's the public interest in keeping that land public?
So up to 99.5% of clinically diagnosed cases of measles may be something else.
Just because a test is conducted doesn't imply that there was a clinical diagnosis of measles. Another explanation in today's litigious world is that these doctors were CYA. A measles test is just another insurance-covered fee. Missing an actual case of measles could boost malpractice insurance rates or even cost the doctor their license to operate.
And what does this have to do with your alleged current underdiagnosis of measles since it supposedly errs strongly in the overdiagnosis of measles by a couple orders of magnitude?
And really, you are still ignoring the ethics of testing with controls. It means you're deliberately infecting people with a dangerous and infectious disease. What is the justification for this harm? Instead, it's a generally accepted practice to suspend controls in testing when the proposed cure is effective enough
Have they finally left that #=pound silliness behind?
I can see him over there. But how am I supposed to throw a net on him and beat him with a stick? This internet thing misses some vital functionality!
Doing it on TV he should have been arrested immediately after and maybe allowed to negotiate a low jail term and fine.
Against a well-funded defense? More likely, the law would have been ruled unconstitutional.
I don't know why you are so convinced that something can't matter just because the data is missing
Data is not "missing". It just is of a slightly lesser quality than you would like.
Is Thiel planning to have a navy as well?
Sounds like he'll lean on some developed world navies. But if he's planning to go it alone, yes. They could always just not put these things right off the coast of Somalia or North Korea. Pirates aren't found everywhere. Don't put them next to poor people or authoritarian states. That leaves a lot of ocean.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
So what? You could always just not do that.
People with that much money store it at the bank and the money just lies there.
Right. What's the interest rate of a bank account again? And even if they really do dump it in a bank, what does the bank do with that money again?
Ah, the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" myth. Who knows -- perhaps once the majority of Africans have overthrown brutal despots, eradicated malaria and other diseases, and found reliable clean water they'll be able to start working on that.
Well, there we go. Another Slashdot solution. What's the next problem in the queue?
Dynamically binding, you realize the magic. Statically binding, you see only the hierarchy.
