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by zukzuk 1y ago
It was not a subscription when I did it a year or two ago, but I guess the one-off model may not have worked out. I work in this field and the economics of doing something like this with a D2C model in Canada are not great. People are just
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by zukzuk 1y ago
There are easily accessible direct-to-consumer startups in Canada that do this sort of testing. I did mine a while back with Nia Health. Every marker on the OP’s list was included. You will have to pay out of pocket, but the cost was not un
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by zukzuk 1y ago
We have two unavoidable necessities in life — food and healthcare (and housing, but i’ll leave that out because it’s an odd fit in this analogy). The food system is basically a free market (with some weak safety regulations). The apparent e
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by zukzuk 1y ago
I don’t know about “normal”, but I’d argue it’s pervasive. We seem to associate certain behaviours and patterns with categories of identity, and changing those behaviours in yourself implies an acceptance of that “other” identity. I remembe
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by zukzuk 1y ago
The people that use these UIs are already imprecise and non deterministic, yet that hasn’t stopped anyone from hiring them. The potential advantage of using non-deterministic AI for this is that 1) “programming” it to do what needs to be do
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by zukzuk 1y ago
This is a massive problem in healthcare, at least here in Canada. Most of the common EMRs doctors and other practitioners use either don’t have APIs, or if APIs exist they are closely guarded by the EMR vendors. And EMRs are just one of the
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by zukzuk 1y ago
Almost every sushi restaurant in North America sells “crab” that contains 0% crab. Very few people seem to make a fuss about this.
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by zukzuk 1y ago
The cost of employment is not comparable to the cost of a particular good. Employment has much more complicated implications on the economy and on society. A minimum wage is set in part to prevent a desperate race to the bottom, and to (try
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by zukzuk 1y ago
My company builds software for medical office assistants, and our clients are typically doctor-owned clinics. We have literally the same problem, but one step down the ladder. The doctors are making the purchasing decision, but MOAs are the
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by zukzuk 1y ago
In case of preauthorized charges, a closed credit card account can still be debited, and you’re ultimately liable for repayment. Yes, this is a ridiculous state of things, but such is the world we live in, here in North America anyway.
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by zukzuk 1y ago
You must be brushing up against a very different cohort than I. Sure, there are some very smart and aware gen-zs, just as there have been in every generation. But on average they are as ignorant as anyone else, with maybe a bigger than aver
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by zukzuk 1y ago
What do you have against em-dashes!?
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by zukzuk 1y ago
Norwegians seem to me, an outsider, quite cohesive as a society. Much more so than just about any place i’ve spent time in. But they also seem to allow for a fair bit of diversity in certain things, politics being one — but only within cert
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by zukzuk 2y ago
In this scenario, I am your girlfriend, and you are my boyfriend (or from my perspective you are my wife ). For what it’s worth, I’ve found that if I try to go to bed too early — as my wife often insists — I wake up in the middle of the nig
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Watching from the sidelines, I’ve always wondered why everything in the life sciences seems to assume unimodal distributions (that is, typically a normal bell curve). Multimodal distributions are everywhere, and we are losing key insights b
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Attempts at commercialization in technology seem to often happen twice. First we get the much-hyped failure, and only later we get the actual thing that was promised. So many examples come to mind… RealVideo -> YouTube, Myspace -> Fac
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by zukzuk 2y ago
A house I lived in during the pandemic had a pergola covered in wisteria vines over the south facing windows. In the summer the vines would leaf out and block most of the hot sun, and in the winter the leaves fell away and let in a ton of l
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Sagan’s Demon Haunted World was probably the reason I ended up going into the sciences!
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Okay but what's the alternative? Seems like the real problem is not the tool, but the thing the tool operates on.
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Have you considered a Garmin watch? It works well enough (for me anyway) for showing and dismissing notifications from my iPhone. The battery lasts well over a week, and the biometrics and fitness/training stuff is way ahead of anythin
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Apple was able to make it work in most "developed" countries (do we have a better term for these countries now?). I guess they're just better at the regulatory game?
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by zukzuk 2y ago
My cat has been in the feline equivalent (Solensia/frunevetmab) for about two years, and although it had a huge positive impact for the first 12 to 18 months, it seems to have suddenly completely stopped working in the last little whil
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by zukzuk 2y ago
The big catch is that vegan diets seem to be protective against the progression of Parkinson’s disease: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11516224/ As is often the case, the truth is probably a lot more nuanced than “x c
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by zukzuk 2y ago
"politics" is quite the euphemism for "military invasion, violent aggression, and war crimes"!
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by zukzuk 2y ago
A lot of “economic sense” depends on where you draw the boundaries of your externalities. If you exclude environmental impact, basic human rights, animal welfare, and social stability, a lot of really short-sighted and destructive setups su
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by zukzuk 2y ago
I'm probably prone to this, with every single predisposition you listed. I can't overstate how much getting fit helped me. I absolutely still get burned out, with the same depression, anxiety, and existential malaise, but the lows
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Or LuLu if you want a free, open alternative to Little Snitch.
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by zukzuk 2y ago
Same with Dog Strangling Vine in Europe vs North America. I volunteer every week helping with ecosystem stewardship here in Southern Ontario, and DSV is absolutely out of control in parks and forests. It spreads like wildfire and wraps itse
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Solar Storm Incoming(swpc.noaa.gov)
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by zukzuk 2y ago
We're about to get walloped. Very decent chance of seeing auroras tonight as far south as California. I can't remember seeing a solar forecast like this, at least not in the last decade: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/p

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