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by mgraczyk 2y ago
> I’d be a better startup founder today than I was in 2015 You should do a startup then. I think you'll be surprised how little most VCs and customers care about your personal life. No doubt the vibes worldwide are taking a dark tur
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
And polio is largely cured from this generation, and vaccines now exist that prevent diseases that once killed infants, and we have cheap and fast internet everywhere, ... This generation of "robber barons" has very clearly done m
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Strangely the original study misstates the direction of the main finding, contradicting itself directly. Is this a typo, or something more nefarious? From the abstract: Multiple regression analyses revealed that individuals with highe
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Do you think your link shows that Facebook sold user data? Did you notice that Facebook wasn't paid and that the users specifically consented?
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Yes there is. Facebook has never done anything like this and never would, that's what is preventing it.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The answer is that they didn't, and conspiracy theories like this are essentially always false. Try to imagine that it was a suicide, and then you'll realize that everything makes perfect sense.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Untrue, you can buy burnt bread at most grocery stores. Go to the bakery, look at the ends. Many will have burnt tips. Also: I've never bought this, but I just found this premade product, which is sold in my grocery store and is known
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Yes, whole grains cause cancer if you make them into bread and toast the bread. The evidence is much stronger than for Red dye No. 3. https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/acrylamid... Strawberries ar
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
This is not true in the US
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Probably not, they aren't allowed to do that and don't.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
> Meta is a terrible would-be guardian of all the data they’re requesting. Do you have any examples of Meta misusing this sort of data in the last 7 years?
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Good example. I think this is worth the tradeoff
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Your first story sounds like a good outcome. I doubt Apple employees could deduce location from the uploaded data. Having worked at FB I know that doing something like that would very quickly get you fired post 2016
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Yes, this is one of the main reasons people mostly build on web. It's very difficult to make desktop software better, and especially Linux users are hostile to patterns that would make improvements possible
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Would you mind giving an example of something bad that could happen to somebody as a result of Apple sending this data to itself? Something concrete, where the harm would be realized, for example somebody being hurt physically, emotionally,
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Yeah they are great drugs, I will probably be on a similar drug soon. And of course the patient should be allowed to take it! It just shouldn't be required that the insurer pay for anything at any price.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
They haven't been heavily tested in combination, and they should be! It just shouldn't be required for insurers to pay for exotic multimillion dollar experiments. There are far better places to be spending that money if the goal i
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
We do, and it's ongoing, and it's really really expensive and getting worse
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The combination has not been tested in a way that could show efficacy, as far as I can tell I'm not against experimenting with new drugs, I just don't think we should force insurers to pay since 99% of the time the experiments wil
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Perhaps, but it may not actually work and there are trade-offs. For example if the treatment were $1T we obviously would not do it. How do we allocate resources? Who gets to decide? These questions don't disappear when you change polic
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Right but that's not what happened in this case. In this case it wasn't "medically proven" in the right sense. I'm not an expert on Brazil but from what I just read these specific drugs would not be covered
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
I meant Prednisone is $60/year. I'm not sure that's quite right but it's very cheap, that's roughly my out of pocket cost in the US Just one of the biologics is 500k/year
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Relevant quote "In CD, the PCDT does not offer any biologic other than anti-TNF drugs. Despite being approved in Brazil, new biologics such as ustekinumab and vedolizumab are not available for these patients [28,29]."
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Where does it say "free"?
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I read it, the drugs may have worked but it's possible that one or both were not necessary, or that some other change caused it. The relevant question is bigger than "did it work", it's "was the likely causal improv
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The therapy described in the article would not be allowed in Brazil https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/7/2672
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
No, that's not how it works. Which countries work that way? Where can a doctor prescribe untested drugs and have it paid for?
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No, I've just been paying a lot for healthcare and I know where the money goes (not my insurer)
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
NHS currently does not recommend the treatment that this guy was receiving (as far as I could find): https://eastkentformulary.nhs.uk/media/1868/pr-2022-25-dual-...
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
One costs $60/year, the other is over $2M/year and not tested and not widely used outside the US

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