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by vikramkr 2y ago
parnering with these sorts of companies and providing banking services/underwriting is a complex product line of its own. The major banks aren't necessarily in that market or open for partnerships. And being big doesn't mean
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by vikramkr 2y ago
That's part of academic politics. Navigating grant funding is arguably one of the most important skills that a PHD program is supposed to teach given how important that is to the process of research. Oncology has way way way more fundi
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by vikramkr 2y ago
well, also luck. Plenty of people have a PI change which can be devastating especially on a visa, or wouldn't have gotten the recommendation for the other protocol to get it to work, and also for the current crop - giant global pandemi
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by vikramkr 2y ago
That's not really true. They don't have to finish and graduate by the time funding runs out - nearly half of students simply fail to graduate (in the us). It's also extra untrue because this author is describing running into
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by vikramkr 2y ago
It's a publication from a research group on a new approach they're working on. The more interesting question if there are any aspects of this that could make it unexpectedly easier to translate to the real world lol. The abstract
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by vikramkr 2y ago
because the need for them has spiked resulting in an unprecendented level of R&D going into them in recent years? And R&D into tons of different approaches is a good thing, actually? And because it's frankly a young field of re
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by vikramkr 2y ago
When i said buy whatever you want, i was referring to the ingredient in the drug, which you can buy or make with no issues. And when i say the prescription not being a barrier, i'm not talking about not needing a prescription to get re
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by vikramkr 2y ago
You don't have a right to buy stuff that works or that you can trust, the point is that for noncontrolled nonpatented substances, nobody can stop you from buying or synthesizing active ingredients for your own use in the US, even if lo
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by vikramkr 2y ago
for cell culture lol it's not hard to find them, even though arguably it should be because of resistance. Also this isn't advice to take them - they aren't regulated and so you shouldn't trust them lol they're for r
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by vikramkr 2y ago
pseudoephedrine - you can't buy that because the DEA has a problem with it lol. and you can buy the other stuff as reagents/third party suppliers etc, for 'research' use.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
its not about banning availability, its about making them required to prove the health claims theyre making. If you didn't have any requirements to prove your drug worked before selling it, youd take away a pretty huge market incentive
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by vikramkr 2y ago
from that same link: > There are no FDA-approved products labeled as homeopathic; this means that any product labeled as homeopathic is being marketed in the U.S. without FDA evaluation for safety or effectiveness.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
It's not illegal and its not in violation of FDA rules. That disclaimer text is from a specific law that gives them exemption from those rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_... It&#x
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by vikramkr 2y ago
It's the other way around, the 'FDA has not evaluated' text is indicating that these products are different and part of a special loophole created just for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supp
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by vikramkr 2y ago
lobbying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Because prescribing a placebo while saying it's a medicine involves lying to the patient, which is controversial when ethical standards usually involve informed consent and a belief in patient autonomy. > I just can’t fathom that t
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I think that while a large majority of people do think about things like this when buying a car, those people tend to end up with toyotas or hondas or a car with a 10 year warranty, and not a rando new startup ev lol. Given the other option
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by vikramkr 2y ago
My confusion is - unless i'm missing something I don't see anything about the owners being surprised or not knowing there's a potential to be worthless, it's about the effort they're going to in order to be able to
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Am I missing something about people being surprised or concerned about finances? The article seems to be about the owners being concerned about and working on finding ways to keep their cars running after the company is gone, honestly doesn
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I don't think the parent comment was implying any sort of voluntary decision making agency on the part of the person taking the fall
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by vikramkr 2y ago
The first sentence of the wired article linked should help with understanding. There are concerns about the need for software updates and the lack of replacement parts/maintenance, meaning it goes from collectible to paperweight
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Also, we are talking about mitigating a large tangible downside risk to a sudden breakthrough in the space - all the secrets stop being secret. "Reasonable" timeline estimates for how far away we are matter for thinks like if&#x2F
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Iirc even if the Boeing capsule was no good for return they'd be able to send up a dragon or have extra folks pack into another capsule for emergency measures right? It's not like even the worst case is "stranded"
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Regulation helped cause the deaths by driving people to more dangerous sources. You're 'forgetting,' however, that the oxycontin and prescribed pills were the source of those addictions in the first place. The regulations did
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by vikramkr 2y ago
That's not the settlement. The settlement is that purdue pays 8+ bn and shuts down, but the sacklers are immune personally. The supreme court threw out that deal saying that the sacklers can't be given immunity as a part of the de
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by vikramkr 2y ago
The danger there is that the phenomenon of throwing up roadblocks that are purely motivated by greed but are claimed to be for good reasons is common enough that we've got a phrase for it - regulatory capture. If the belief is that the
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by vikramkr 2y ago
If they're assuming they're lying, and then the good thing doesn't happen proving they've lied, then that might be exhausting, but they'd also be correct lol. You're allowed to be angry at things that suck abou
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Calling something virtue signaling is not a dismissal of people caring about things other than profit. It's a statement of belief that they don't actually care about things other than profit and are just pretending that they do. T
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by vikramkr 2y ago
It's impossible to tell how that argument is aging since we don't have the counterfactual.
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by vikramkr 2y ago
(don't 100% buy this take but don't think it's completely invalid either lol) Arguably, that problem is worse in countries with poor landfill/trash collection infrastructure, the US isn't in the top ten for example

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