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I'm all for solutions that lower drug prices in the US.

Wouldn't mass-importation from Canada encourage drug companies to raise Canada's pricing to match US levels?

That seems like something Canada wouldn't be particularly fond of.
How exactly does he make money? (sorry if I missed this in the article). As far as I could make out he is some kind of productivity guru?

Great story, but the writing has a very new age, 'will a new reality into existence' Tim Ferris productivity porn vibe to it, which makes me just a little cautious.

EDIT: added after scribing the above:

Some Googling reveals:

"Over the last decade, Jon helped build three of the most popular blogs in the world, Copy Blogger, KISSmetrics, and Boost Blog Traffic (now Smart Blogger). Collectively, they have garnered over 200 million page views, earning over $50 million in revenue.

His main passion is Smart Blogger (fomerly Boost Blog Traffic) of which he is founder and CEO."

He seems to make money from devising traffic increase strategies for blogs and training courses for bloggers (at least that is what I could make out)
This is absolutely true -- Amazon sets a high bar for customer service when it comes to returns, making things right, etc.

And yet there's this problem with fraud! Counterfeit products, Kindle Unlimited scammers, etc. I'm not totally sure how to reconcile the two. Possibly it's that the customer service mentality is very strong in the group that's responsible for saying "yes, you can return that" but not as strong in the engineering/product teams in retail?

(AWS is functionally a different organization than retail, which is probably worth remembering for these discussions.)
I was actually surprised by most sources I found online. But all top hits on Google start off at the charger and ignore any efficiency losses for generating the electricity in the first place. Some even acknowledge that fact in text, but still avoid calculations.

If we go from 46.4 MJ/kg energy in 1 liter of gasoline and apply the usual density of about 0.75kg/l, that's 34.8MJ/kg. At 3.6 MJ per kwH that's ~9.7kwH/l. A modern car uses about 6l gasoline per 100km, so 60kwH per 100km.

A Tesla Model S uses about 20kwH per 100km. So a modern ICE car is about 1/3 as efficient as a Tesla Model S.

But if we go from my argument, that we currently still burn oil to provide more electricity and adding more energy consumers to the network only delays the reduction of burning fossil fuels for electricity, we need to take into account the efficiency of fossil power plants. An oil power plant runs at about 45% efficiency. Lets ignore transport and charging losses, as transporting gasoline isn't exactly free either.

That takes the Tesla up to 45 kwH/100km. So that's actually still a 25% efficiency gain towards the ICE car, which I didn't expect. To get the full picture however, we would have to add the 65.000kwH of energy used to build a 100kwH battery pack (upscaled based on [1]). A (estimated) 10kg steel gasoline tank takes maybe 200kwH of energy to manufacture (based on 50GJ/1000kg of steel and some adds for other stuff that needs to be done). Even if I'm off by an order of magnitude on the steel tank, that's still an energy difference worth north of 100.000km (i.e. more than most cars travel in their lifetime or another at least 50% effiency loss for the EV).

I still wonder if the 25% efficiency gain outweights the cost of the battery production and the cost of adding a large scale charging network to support the broad adoption of electricle vehicles. Or, to rephrase my original argument, if we are better off taking the additional ~50% efficiency loss in converting energy to fuels and focus on expanding our carbon neutral energy production, shutting of fossil power plants and investing more in fusion energy so that might become a reality and we can create an abundance of energy to work with.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316884465_Manufactu...
I'm not surprised if it's true, but is there data showing that kids from rich families do better on the marshmallow test? I can't find it, and I'd be pretty interested to see the size of the effect.

The 2018 replication just added a single control for a whole battery of environmental factors. Family income was included (and correlates like parent's education), but it also lumped in biological factors (e.g. birth weight) and child-psychological factors (e.g. cognitive performance one year earlier). Given that, it's really hard to understand how much impact each specific element had.
If people lived closer to where they work, there would be less traffic.
> Some people truly believe in the LPs. Some people truly believe they can be used to get ahead and justify whatever actions they want to do.

They can be the same people. There's an incoherence in any ethical system based on a set of values.

The false justification isn't necessarily intentional. Motivated reasoning[1] is a natural cognitive bias, so while you're cherry-picking values that support your desired ends, it doesn't feel like you're doing it.

A better way to approach the LPs is to recognize that they're smart business practices, but that they're subordinate to professional ethics, which in turn are subordinate to a moral code.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
I made a post asking why don't people just drive to Canada/Mexico to fulfill their prescription medicine and was downvoted on HN. I guess alot of people here work in the pharama industry.
I'm not sure not being able to afford a holiday away from home is such a bad thing- a staycation is much easier on the environment, not to mention the wallet. One does not need to travel away from one's home to relax and recharge, and requires no burning of fuel on trains or airplanes.
> All the customers pay for the system, and only high incomes can easily use the benefit.

All the customers who don't pay their credit card bill in full every month, yes. Do that (i.e., don't spend money you don't have) and you too can benefit.
My experiences took place in hospitals in and around the Philadelphia area, certainly not low tier.
> This is not an overburdened Electron app

And instead this is a Mac-only app. I'd take the “bloated”-but-portable version any day.

Many people actually like electron because portability matters more to them than the purity of a “truly native” app.
No, Professors Aren't Discriminating Against Conservative Students
> Not only did I get a job, but I used speech recognition software and a lip-operated mouse to start an online magazine that’s now worth millions of dollars.
This is great!

And it made me wonder if bus transport data in my city is available for everyone - we got few displays around, two services/applications that show the current position for each line...
Generic Neural Elastic Search: From Bert-as-Service and Go Way Beyond
Well, it's widely added (in small percentages) to regular diesels, mostly due to its cleaning properties. Even if you run 100% bio it still produces large amounts of PM2.5 pollution (less NOX than regular diesels, but that isn't none). And there's plenty of evidence that unless it was produced from non-food crops it's more less using food that should go to people to run your engine. I am happy to have switched from a TDI running 100% to a PHEV.
According to the article the list of prominent tech figures who socialized with Epstein includes:

Sergey Brin

Richard Branson

Jason Calacanis

Bill Gates

Reid Hoffman

Elon Musk

Nathan Myhrvold

Mark Zuckerberg

That’s an impressive list.
Converting wood to charcoal is a process that requires a lot of energy, so you'd need to keep that in mind when you make your carbon calculations.
When an artist draws with a display-less graphics tablet, the hand is in one place, but they watch and use an abstraction of it on a display, displaced in space, orientation, and scale. It can take some getting used to. Touchpads and cursors have similar non-trivial relationships. And similarly, there's no reason for your hands to be positioned at the end of your arms (as with "throwy hands"). Nor, with non-novice users, need any other physical correlation be maintained if it's useful to ignore it.

When you use office apps, there's little attempt to maintain physical-world properties like say object permanence. Delete a word, and it "goes someplace, because it can't just vanish"? That would be silly. There's no need to emulate physical paper, or pens, or rubber erasers, or cut-and-paste with an xacto knife, paper fragments, and gooey paste from a jar. It can sometimes be useful or artistically fun to do so, but that's a UX choice.

Or say you're looking at a whole-desktop "window", placed uncomfortably close and large, to be readable despite current HMD's limited angular resolution. When you turn your head, how much does it move? With what velocity profile? And with what alterations in appearance? Skeuomorphism suggests it appear as a real physical object, nailed in space. I found I preferred a quantized 2-3x displacement, to reduce head motion, and enabled it by transiently increased transparency (including "comfort mode" clipping from fov), with slightly delayed motion and added jiggle, so other visual cues could dominate wrt balance. And the shape distorted to maintain pixel alignment, because given my weak gpu, alignment was worth more than temporal antialiasing when reading small fonts. YMMV, as just what combinations of cues are fine vs intolerable varies so much among people.

The common thread is aphysicallity. Skeuomorphism can be useful when onboarding novices, but is later often largely abandoned. As with phones. With the current focus on immersive games and novices, that second part tends to be neglected. I joke that while I use XR hardware, I'm not doing XR, because being focused on non-game non-novice UX, and using a custom non-gaming stack, I've no allegiance to the "R", to Reality. Resemblance to reality as UX design smell.
Color me stupid, and maybe this isn't even in my wheel-house (or near my hobby horse), but isn't it important to find out what is demonstrably true?

What good is a theory (or "theory") if it doesn't bang up against reality and have the potential to die and be forgotten? Is there some clade of humans that just regurgitate theory back and forth to each other? Or is this entertainment?

I'm probably missing something. I'm probably thinking at the wrong level of analysis. I'm lost. Help?
> Languages don't die; people do.

that's a weird sentiment. it's even hard to respond to, because it's not even clear what your point is. languages dying is a metaphor and not a literal statement. they certainly do "die off". it seems to me that people who speak the language dying would affect the language, but it doesn't address why the language is not passed down to younger generations or other people. the answer to that question is more about the overall culture being removed. language is not just communication. it is a representation of culture. i would imagine that everywhere there is a dying language, there is also a dying culture and not just people dying.
Drug companies only have any kind of exclusivity or advantage at the pleasure of governments. They can't go too long playing hardball or countries will just start ignoring their patents.
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Given these start at £150, I know which route I'd rather take.
7 miles? Why didn’t you go by bike?
Huh? Really, "office wanking"? I don't recall anywhere that was OK. Although I won't claim that I never did it. Or office (in my case, lab) sex, either. But always at night, when very few were working.
Well, I'd say anybody that can't find a fun vacation staying at a hostel in Europe and walking around the middle of pretty much any city must surely have no imagination and/or also hate life in general.
I did some math on this, and if all the countries in the advanced world planted fast growing trees alongside all paved and unpaved roads, over 40 years, that could potentially be enough to sequester half of all carbon emitted by humans.

Given that carbon has a half life of between 20-200 years, and that we appear to be reaching peak emissions, and that a lot of estimates say our emissions should drop by 70% just given how often we replace power plants and how completive renewables are right now and are projected to be in the future -- it seems like planting trees really could be enough.
Frankly, a number of them sound as if they are already distanced. "Talked to the guy at a fundraiser" or "discussed investing" are pretty slim connections.
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Hey I just had a quick question.

I have been looking at building a project on Balena OS and raspberry pi 0 W. I want to deploy it in a hard to get to place and don't want to have to replace the SD card for a good amount of time.

I was wondering if Balena OS with Balena cloud managing it puts more or less strain the the sd card write cycles than Raspbian.

Chris's application seems to write little or nothing to the sd card so in your experience how would it last? A couple years?
Not at all - it's a poor graph with an unlabelled axis.
Yep, that's kind of the point of upvotes or karma: You present your content and try to get people to buy it. Not sure where you get the negative sales page aspect though. I made no judgement on the presentation technique or quality, just that open source or not, they are still selling something.
Pro tip: add 2 in the end and it's fine again ;)
are you specifically targeting hospitals and working with them? or is this just a plug for some random startup that does art for other startups
No one in their right mind would expect them to mention the possibility of no-deal - it's the idiotic option to be avoided. Mentioning it or threatening it in negotiations is brinkmanship of the worst kind, as a no-deal is more damaging for us than the EU.

Moderate and immoderate are well known and defined political positions completely unrelated to how you are attempting to redefine them.
Or conversely, "Nearly 72% of Europeans can afford a week long away vacation, up from only 60% six years ago."

In the US I suspect it's more like "[some percentage] of Americans can't afford to miss a week of work."

I intentionally avoided the 40% stat tempting because of the assorted '$400 unexpected expense' stories because as Bloomberg and others note it's partially due to sloppy reading of statistics. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...
The problem is there is a difference in bias. Ostensibly a journalist is interested in following what leads to facts while suppressing any personal bias. Activists seek facts which support their biases (as well intended as they may be).
Depending on where you live, driving to Canada/Mexico is onerous (costly, time-consuming), and ultimately unnecessary. Definitely not a solution.

That being said, some do drive to Canada to fulfill their prescriptions
Based on the high level of regulatory capture in the mining and telecom industries in Canada, it doesn't seem like it would be particularly expensive for drug companies to lobby the federal government for stricter export restrictions on drugs.
and which magazine 'worth millions of dollars' is this exactly?

EDIT: see edit in the GP post. I think 'magazine' means 'blog'.
Northern Mexico is super dangerous so realistically you would have to fly. And I don't think the TSA will like you carrying a multi year supply of meds back to US
Although some programming languages truly die - as in nobody uses them - a lot many simply lose developer 'mindshare'. Those languages are no longer the topic of online conversations (other than in niche spaces), and fewer and fewer people write tutorials or books about that language. The language is still in use, but it's time in the limelight has passed.

Note: This does not mean the language is bad or inadequate. Anyone in this profession knows that language popularity has no correlation to the quality of the language. In fact, it's a great shame so many interesting ideas from programming history are so easily forgotten (sometimes to be re-discovered again in new languages).

I don't think any of the languages you listed will truly die, but eventually their popularity and time in the limelight will also pass. I guess for some developers (perhaps many) that's equivalent to being a dead language.
> I guess alot of people here work in the pharama industry.

No.. you're being downvoted that's a completely unrealistic proposal for people to follow.

People should not need to drive across the border to get medicine. Also not everyone has the luxury of having the time to do that.
It helps to have a job you hate. Then, assuming you're doing something that might eventually allow you to quit your job, allow yourself to dwell on how bad it is at work whenever you're about to give up.
I have considered this. While many people worship regulations, I'm willing to take the "risk" of using foreign medication.

I wish I could take the same risk when I get hydrocortisone, but instead I need to pay a physician for a prescription, a pharmacist to fill, and the clinic that stores everything.

Lots of middlemen for something that should be sold on Amazon.
It's naive to think that high capital, high knowledge required industries would suddenly be in a neat price competition market if we only just stopped regulating the patents or enforcing manufacturing quality standards.

Expired patents didn't keep generics manufacturers from raising prices on US consumers. And even allegedly colluding on price fixing.

And removal of manufacturing QA is a recipe for flooding the market with counterfeit and ineffective drugs. Imagine if you didn't know if your cancer drug actually had sufficient active ingredients in it or any active ingredients for that matter. Individual testing at scale for something as complex as drugs is massively more expensive and fraught with distributing all sorts of failures.

That is not to say we shouldn't fight for efficient regulation, and against regulatory capture.
Unblinded (somewhat unavoidable), informal randomisation, n=26, the sole author is an interior designer with no scientific training. Paper states an "average" difference in birth times of 2.1 hours (not clear if mean or median), no SDs or p-value stated. Published in Optics & Laser Technology for some reason; the editorial board appears to be entirely comprised of engineers.
there's a phone right next to it that could do the same thing
I've read the cliff-notes version of first break all the rules. (its floating around the web).
It has the list - and also interesting discussion of talent and having employees in positions where their talents are used.
IIRC - it also suggests never trying to change people - which I've taken to heart in both work and personal aspects of my life.
Pretty cool. When I took the train to work I made a simple stop-light with transit data. Trains ran every 10 minutes and it took me a few minutes to walk to the station. Green meant I could definitely catch the next train. Yellow meant I'd make it if I walked fast, and red meant I'd miss this train and need to wait for the next one.
The Scoble post he linked to in the above is now located here: https://scobleizer.blog/2006/03/30/three-audiences-three-dif...
George W Bush vastly expanded the use of executive orders. Libs like myself complained about that to no end.

Then Obama came in and did it even more!

So yes, we've already seen this problem escalate from one president to the next. My history isn't deep enough know for sure, but it might even go back to the Vietnam Police Action. It wasn't a war since congress didn't authorize it you know.

Edit: Looks like I was bamboozled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_... thanks ambicapter.
This reads like a moral justification of usury.
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"Drive to the suburban forest in your SUV, plant 100 trees that will inevitably be cut down long before they have a carbon negative impact, come home and run your AC. You're still running 1000/1 in negative C02 balance."

So do 1000 times that, and don't plant them in a suburban forest but one that will stay around longer. Or contribute money to tree planting initiatives who do it right.
I think some people actually don't understand what southern California is like.

Sure, there are some walkable neighborhoods, but most people don't live in one of them. And even if you do, almost everyone needs to commute out of it or leave regularly for activities or socialization. And if you need to do that, 95% of the time the trolley is not anywhere near it, and a bus could take an extra hour and a half and is occupied almost exclusively by poor people and children in most areas.

It's like this because everything is sprawled out over a very large area. San Diego is like a 500 square mile area and stuff can happen all over it. And there are freeways everywhere rather than trains (which could not cover the area) because the whole thing is designed for cars.

I actually lived in San Diego without a car for years. But I was one of very very few people who go without a vehicle and are not homeless. And the only reason I could do that was because I only took 100% remote jobs and literally had zero social life.

I mean it is great that they are taking some kind of action on housing. It's still going to cost $1400 for an apartment in the ghetto though. Which is why I moved to TJ and live on the beach for half of that.
>away from home

I guess finding a nice location away from home is a lot easier for europeans, the continent is filled with holiday-grade spots.

I'm four hours apart from the next nice city in my country (talking about traveling by car).
For many government matters, Trump just made obnoxious and visible what was quietly being done already.
It's hard for me to believe (3) could be worth it. Do any cards give more than 2% in cashback?
Ruby and JS only. That’s fairly low coverage.

This hook here will provide much better cover for your team:

https://github.com/kvz/ochtra

Edit: Misunderstood the writing on the page, which in fairness is not very clear on what it covers and how.
San Diegan here. Why is it that companies only want to be in UTC, downtown, or maybe Carlsbad? Part of the problem is that we don't distribute where people work like we do where they live. Enticing more businesses to operate outside of these 3 locations could do wonders. Even for facilitating public transit.

SD's public transportation issue is that SD is just so spread out and public transportation is typically slower than cars due to stops, waiting, etc. Oceanside to downtown (~38 miles) takes ~75 minutes, or just over 30 mph. The only places where public trans works well is when people don't have to travel that far.
How is this news? Every hospital I have been in recently has art on the walls, some lots, some not so much but it's there.

Even the dismally badly designed, and laughably misnamed, Great Western Hospital in Swindon has pictures on the walls, unfortunately few of them are where the patients spend the most time.
Nice estimate. And not surprising, given that it uses relays. Not even vacuum tubes.
> Teach people to cook and value the experience.

I'm not so sure about this.

I very much value healthy eating, but I'm not so sure how effective I am at doing so, and I've never been a "foodie". Some people deeply care about food -- about the taste, about the culture behind it, about the social experience of eating it. They get excited about going to new restaurants, and will talk about the food while they're ordering and eating it. (I tend to find these conversations a bit mystifying, and not have anything to contribute.) And, they tend to enjoy cooking.

Personally, this is not something that has captured my imagination; I regard cooking as a chore. If I have a lot of energy after work, then I'd rather go out than stay in cooking.

Perhaps, one day, I will "see the light" and become a devoted foodie. Until then, I imagine there is room for a startup to sell to me.
So is it fair to say "the percentage of Europeans who can't afford a 1 week annual holiday is steadily dropping and most recently sits at a low of 28%?"