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by andrewla 2y ago
Hey, thanks -- this is great stuff! I tried looking around at these links but I couldn't find the actual lawsuit itself, and I'm curious what they specifically say. There's a difference between saying that a compounding pharm
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by andrewla 2y ago
I don't think this is true. Henry's, one of the compounding pharmacies, says that they get the chemicals from legitimate licensed producers of feedstock [1]. There is a compounding loophole, but there is no loophole for patent enc
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by andrewla 2y ago
I have to admit that I'm baffled as to what is happening here. Semaglutide is still under patent protection, so anyone producing feedstock is doing so under license with Nova Nordisk. Why on earth would NN offer licensing terms that al
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Maybe ... he bought it out in 2009, which was also when Paul Blart: Mall Cop came out, which served as a eulogy for any chances of dignity for the Segway
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"high profile injuries" is a wonderful understatement. The most notable "injury" being the death of the president of the company while riding his Segway [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_He
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The free-ness of this is completely irrelevant -- it's clear that this is a valuable service that the airlines will start pricing up in order to drive down the "bottom-line" prices on search engines, like they have done with
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To whom is this "unfair"? A business has a legitimate interest in preventing customers from taking advantage of bulk discounts (committing to a long term of service in exchange for lower prices), and customers have a legitimate in
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The big difference here is that this was created by an act of Congress, not the result of a regulatory body straining at the limits of its remit. That makes it much more likely to survive administration changes or court challenges. Even now
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by andrewla 2y ago
I have a significant library with Amazon -- does this have any support for Kindle books? The Android-based ones let you run a Kindle app, which, while not ideal, at least lets me access the library. I've considered doing a sweep to dow
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I am very, very, very sad to hear this. This does match with my experience of fiddling with various Kindle competitors over the years (nook, kobo), but between generally faster processors and the increasing bloat of kindle OS, I thought may
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by andrewla 2y ago
Was there an official announcement of this? All I can find in Google is reddit threads speculating about its discontinuation.
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I'm in the same boat. Give me USB-C, page turn buttons, maybe even wireless charging and I'd upgrade almost reflexively. I've been eyeing various Android-based eReaders (like Boox Page) that have Kindle support through an app
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No update to the Oasis; I guess when I refresh I'll get a Boox or other Android-based device with page turn buttons and run the kindle app on it. I have a first generation Kindle Oasis, which is a great device, in no small part because
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by andrewla 2y ago
So yes, it "causes reduced eating". That's a hell of a crazy thing though. Someone joked on twitter that you can save a lot of money if you just eat the same amount of food that you would eat if you were on ozempic, because y
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Like many other commenters, I was unable to reproduce the behavior cited in the link. I do like that this is attempting to make explicit the specific form of "formal reasoning" that is being used here, even if I do not necessarily
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Maybe? I don't think we all know this. And some research, especially into people with unusual metabolism (but not necessarily known metabolic disorders) indicates that even with these restrictions, they need to operate at a significant
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by andrewla 2y ago
Yes? A lizard whose bite makes its prey eat less is crazy but it exists. A lizard whose bite makes its prey eat more is also crazy, but maybe it exists? The first lizard is literal, the second lizard is a stand-in for whatever mystery force
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by andrewla 2y ago
I think Ozempic is a treatment of a symptom but not the underlying condition, but unlike many of the posters here, I do not think the underlying condition is "obesity". The below is mostly speculation. Research especially into peo
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by andrewla 2y ago
I expected much more of a hit piece, but the findings of the police departments seem very well thought-out and explored. Police vehicles require extensive after-market work to meet the unique requirements of police forces, and there's
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I recall playing with FRACTINT, which was a fractal generator that existed before floating point coprocessors were common, that used fixed point math to calculate and display fractals. That was back when fractals were super cool and everyon
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The complaint [1] is very specific to TikTok and alleges specific violations of the Consumer Fraud Act on their part. While other companies may produce similar results, it would be the burden of the state to establish all elements of the cr
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Labelling a service like TikTok as "intentionally addictive" is just the height of stupidity around semantic games. It is obviously not addictive in any medical sense of the word, and insofar as we stretch the definition of "
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So we're talking about the indirect income from advertising. The article is poorly worded -- yes, advertisers spend a lot of money, but were those advertisers to disappear, other advertisers would buy those spots. So the question becom
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by andrewla 2y ago
This is a good argument against lotteries but not as good an argument against sports gambling. If you are better at sports prediction than the bookmakers, you can make money. Nobody gambles as an "average person", they gamble as t
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I think this is a misapprehension -- there is a ton of regulation around sports gambling. They may not have put the specific regulation that you think is necessary (in this case, banning advertising) but there are pretty huge barriers to en
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How do sports teams derive income from this? Is it just in the sense of increased viewership and the possibility of sponsorships from the gambling companies? As far as I understand they do not get any money from sports gambling directly and
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This is the figurative and literal inspiration for Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
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I feel like at this point they can probably do better than me. Increasingly I get CAPTCHA's that are blurry pictures of unidentifiable crap with "find all the frames with motorcycles" and I'm left wondering whether that
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There is no antimimetics division V2(qntm.org)
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As an R programmer the examples given on the landing page seem very foreign to me -- you are almost always writing vectorized code in R, so I would think that would be front and center. let x: int = 1 Is this a list of ints or a pu

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