Private channel session 148

13 messages over 1h 35m, 2020-06-09 – 2020-06-09.

A “conversation” here is an activity session — a run of messages with under 60 minutes of silence inside it. The channel had no native conversation boundaries.

2020-06-09 14:41 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.65

@virushunter and metabiota have been quiet through all of this. Is he just counting his cash at home?
2020-06-09 14:43 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.65

Didn't Metabiota transition into a risk consultant for insurance companies?
2020-06-09 14:54 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.65

"Metabiota's models incorporate the latest biological, socioeconomic, political and environmental data. We have built the largest infectious disease catalog in the industry, including a 1 million-year stochastic event catalog informed byover 20 million simulations. Validated by experts in the fields of epidemiology and data science, it is the only modelof its kind to capture both high-probability and low-probability events" God, sometimes I love America.
2020-06-09 14:59 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.65

Bet he makes shedloads of cash and doesn't have to go out and pretend he is saving the world any more.
2020-06-09 15:01 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.65

Made it. [shared file(s): Power Couple.png]
2020-06-09 15:02 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.65

Can you imagine how smug he must look now?
2020-06-09 15:04 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.65

I can...
2020-06-09 15:37 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.66

"Is he just counting his cash at home?" Yes $30M IPO several years back, plus all the "PREDICT" money - subtractsome minor fraction of that to buy off whatever shares Fair "owned." Wolfe has been paying himself an executivesalary north of $1M per year since at least 2006 plus lucrative bonuses. Little known fact - Fair and Wolfe tried torecruit me back in 2008 - one of the selling points - win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross. So $3M dollar granta kool $600K bonus :parrot:. I still remember a comment Eric Lander made about this several years back. Legal maybe - ethical> you decide. IMO Meta's models are pure bunk - about like the whole Global Virome Projectsham [BTW I think that pic is pretty much as sham too - just my opinion]. But, you know that the only way that a thugmakes money is through "insurance." Ask most of the store owners in any ethnic section of any big city. It wasinevitable that Wolfe would find this path.
2020-06-09 15:38 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.66

"... win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross". Holy shit, Bob - we could have retired by now! And live in luxurythat is.
2020-06-09 15:42 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.66

Too boring - yes Nathan does have a yacht- he and his friends sail around - sounds dreadful to me.
2020-06-09 15:59 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.66

I don't need a yacht - a little house, a yard, and my Jeep and I'm a happy man. Maybe throw in a lake and a mountain too and I'm a very happy man.
2020-06-09 16:05 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.66

Good man - you get to keep doing real science - more rewarding. Just consider that COVID-19 is going to trigger huge payouts to whomever was "smart" enough to insure with Wolfe's backers in the reinsurance "business." I guessing a pretty stiff test of the Meta business model - stayed tuned.
2020-06-09 16:17 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.66

Amazing stuff that Bob. BS wins. Again. I don't need a yacht either. Happy at home with the family and the pet pangolins.