basch

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by basch 4y ago
I dont mean to be dismissive or elitist. There is enough wrong with the medical system, that if somebody loses coverage and needs to see a doctor to get their prescription changed, that change alone becomes insurmountable, behavioral change
932.
by basch 4y ago
Traditional insulin is cheap in the US. The price has not changed in a decade. Nobody wants it, it is a product of last resort. Modern insulin is protected by moats, two of which are intellectual property and regulatory approval. Modern
933.
by basch 4y ago
And it was invented there? When I say create I mean discovered not manufactured. The R&D. And the answer/solution is somewhere in the realm of a public/private hybrid, where the government is funding short term expensive, lo
934.
by basch 4y ago
>insulin glargine, are off patent now. In the U.S.A. is expected to expire on 2027-07-05. How did something invented in 1994/2000, get patented in 2009? https://patents.google.com/patent/US8048854B2/en%3C&#
935.
by basch 4y ago
I assume when you say 1996, you mean Humalog/insulin lispro? That falls in the rapid category, but I feel like most of the conversation about people wanting cheap modern insulin is the long acting right? The primary quality of life i
936.
by basch 4y ago
Fix it at the rendering level. My device should default to not rendering a website the way the developer asks it to, but the way my defaults are set. Load a minimum viable site, ask my permission to execute more.
937.
by basch 4y ago
Id rather the web have less javascript than my phone be faster.
938.
by basch 4y ago
Novolin 70/30 ReliOn vial (10 mL; 100 iU/mL) has had a flat price since 2014. The Novolin 70/30 ReliOn FlexPen (3 mL; 100 iU/mL) pen has been the same price as the vial since mid 2018 when it came out. The price of thes
939.
by basch 4y ago
Which is what the conversation should be, and how it should be framed. The press writing "life saving insulin" headlines takes away from the ability to discuss that: within the last decade or two, modern improvements made the proc
940.
by basch 4y ago
Rapid (minutes) being modern insulin. Short acting (takes 30 minutes) being traditional insulin. Rapid for the most part being an additional technology and convenience over short acting traditional. But yes, I didn't leave a complete
941.
by basch 4y ago
Which would be covered by traditional mixed, short and intermediate insulin, right? The price of Novolin 70/30 (mixed), Novolin R (rapid) and Novolin N (intermediate) insulin have remained flat since 2014. (Short acting and Rapid are
942.
by basch 4y ago
So we make a law that says a product's intellectual property is protected and cant be copied. Someone in another country copies it, without paying. Then it's legal to import it? Seems like a very roundabout way when we could jus
943.
by basch 4y ago
Insulin is cheap. Long acting insulin is not. They are different products, and the formers patent being free has nothing to do with the later innovations being locked down.
944.
by basch 4y ago
Long acting insulin is exactly what this entire debate has always been about. Generic standard insulin has been cheap at walmart forever. They even sell cheap rapid acting ReliOn. People want long acting insulin cheap. (short-, intermedi
945.
by basch 4y ago
People dont want insulin (traditional insulin.) They want fancy insulin (modern insulin), because it is convenient. They want modern rapid and long acting insulin. They want pens. Maybe people want the inhalable powder. Those innovations
946.
by basch 4y ago
Just because it doesnt solve the garbage in problem, doesnt mean it doesnt solve other problems in the realm of usability.
947.
by basch 4y ago
And yet, when I google something, am I landing on an experts page, or a seoptimizer who's day job it is to write expert like looking content? Search is absolutely like asking a random person right now. Whether I get raw hyperlinks bac
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by basch 4y ago
Just in general, as a way we interact with data, being able to type all my filters into a sentence without syntax, absolutely kills any sort of existing filter system. Think about clothing websites, where you click a filter and the page ha
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by basch 4y ago
Click on his substack, he writes about a lot more than basketball. He has a wise elder statesman vibe. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/kareem-abdu...
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by basch 4y ago
And lets look at the natural evolution/expectation from a corporation like Microsoft. They will sell this as a service to businesses. It is again, like Vista and others, an enterprise product being beta tested on consumers Joe Public
951.
by basch 4y ago
Exactly. Unfortunately, I think the "chat" aspect is obscuring what is actually happening here, and distracting from the achievement. First, the human input is extremely flexible, but can include instructions. It is natural lang
952.
by basch 4y ago
It appears to be a popular word in styleguides. It has been adopted by journalists, thus you mostly see it from people with authoritative voices.
953.
by basch 4y ago
That pronunciation is for lack of a better word, the minority. https://twitter.com/REMEZCLA/status/958714776615620609?ref_s... In other news, x is supposed to be pronounced either sh or h(j). Don Quishote or Mehi
954.
by basch 4y ago
I don't agree. You start whitelisting good content manually. If babygearlab is the best result for baby gear, you start hardcoding it. If seriouseats is the best result for recipes, you hard code it. If someone better comes along,
955.
by basch 4y ago
Some form of paralysis. They dont have a single leader who has taken responsibility for it and corrected it. CEO/SVP has too many pots on the stove. Im legitimately asking, who is responsible for Search at Google? Prabhakar Raghavan
956.
by basch 4y ago
Trust but verify
957.
by basch 4y ago
It depends on how state works. If I say "show me the best winter gloves, and only from sites that you can verify actually product tested" and it follows the instruction (ignoring sites that just have a list of popular search resul
958.
by basch 4y ago
Spam masquerading as the answer to my question is WORSE than off topic returns, because it is a trick vs being something I can easily disregard. Before the results would just not match what I was looking for. Now they do match what I was l
959.
by basch 4y ago
Exactly. Every time someone with a business says "I want to get to the top of google" the person they are asking for help will respond with some jargony version of "you gotta constantly write content." It is the ONLY a
960.
by basch 4y ago
Their giant teams are an organizational failure then. Product reviews alone, whether it is enterprise software or sports clothing should be something that they can easily comb through by hand, as humans, and uprank sites that are putting ou

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