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16 Oct 2019
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Oct 16, 2019 · 4:51 PM UTC

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What's happening on the monitor behind the group? 👀👀👀 Roadmap?
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In the long run, people will only remember the giraffe.
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Not fully. Your strategy is different: do the research and then you decide whether it’s safe to share. Academia should be bound by different ethics: determine the risks first. Problem is: you seem to want to pursue risky results, and yet expect us to trust your judgment on them.