Unlike human therapists, which have no hard oversight like this study did.
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Novo lawyers messed up, didn't renew the patent filing over a payment dispute. Hilarity is ensuing.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/hims-hers-generic-semaglutid...
And once generics for GLP-1s are going in Canada, Section 804 of the FD&C act becomes VERY interesting: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/reports/importation-program-un...
Reimports of generics from Canada into the US here. we. go.
Want empty parking at a Dodger game? Use the ICE app.
Also a great honeypot to query out all the users of this app and schedule them for a visit.
1 - Microsoft investing 3bn USD in India-based developers: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-invest-3-bln-ex...
2 - Microsoft having 4700 H1B filings for fiscal 2025: https://www.myvisajobs.com/employer/microsoft/
Utterly predictable behavior by Satya Nadella.
Super happy with it. No bullshit upgrades that break your way of working. Utilitarian approach to everything, the basics just work. Still has some rough edges, but in a workhorse kind of way.
Endorse.
Statistics are amazing.
Even crime stats are "down". Don't report, don't convict - done.
Facts have a clear racist bias.
https://www.banffjaspercollection.com/attractions/columbia-i...
They drive out tourists on to the ice (as long as it is still there, couple decades left).
I did it, very cool.
So good it has its own Wikipedia page!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT/Muenchian_grouping
I mean, talk about hacker cred.
It wiped the best and the brightest, from a small population. Russia sent serfs into the grinder.
“See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.”
“Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. “And in Morocco —”
“That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.”
“General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.”
“No, he didn’t — he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
I got the scale 10 questions before I had a badly herniated disc and never knew what to say.
Now I can tell you that a 10 is when you're begging for mercy. Hearing yourself whimpering. Having panic from making another move, another step.
To be clear, it is not just the amount of pain itself - it's also a function of duration and consistency. Once pain always fires, in any position, and no remedy (besides a Fentanyl infusion) provides even temporary pause, you get in a spiral that kills quite a lot of people.
Sometimes called Chronic Pain, it is easily dismissed but so damn hard to comprehend until you experience it. Like Tinnitus, just with the rawest brain signal that triggers fight or flight.
Coming back to measuring pain - that time axis is critical.
LinkedIn's value is that everyone is on it. Even super secretive Apple employees - Apple couldn't force them to delete their stuff. Talk about a powerful network effect. Just start browsing, see for yourself: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apple/people/
LI's value is not in the UI, not in the features. Just like FB, YT, WhatsApp, etc - they took off while no one else did, not because better tech, but by hitting a virality inflection point.
This is a hard problem to solve, people like Nikita Bier are the equivalent to rocket scientists in that area. And while they can launch a viral app for teenagers, the "easiest" early adopter group, repeatedly and flip it for cash - they can't figure out how to crack LinkedIn.
Think of it as a virus/pandemic problem. Who are the super spreaders that pull in the rest of the normies? What is the initial value for THEM to join in the first place? I can tell you that a special social network for Doctors, publicly listed now, had to give their initial cohort of docs STOCK in the company to be on the platform. Talk about dilution...
So, sorry, forget about the shiny UI. How do you infect and take over the LinkedIn host? They fight scraping left and right.
Personally I am so happy to work in enterprise SaaS...so much easier than the above :)
Volkswagen was founded by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront in 1937, the organized labor organization of the NSDAP.
Literal Nazis.
Don't google any other car makers.
European carmakers? The core of German industry? Stellantis? Anyone?
Same for the Koreans and Japanese. Nothing.
I get the en vogue Tesla hate, Wrestling keyfabe is fun. China going after the "industry of industries" (Drucker, 1946) is quite something though.
Black ICE, netrunners and rogue AIs will soon be added to the mix.
Off to re-read Neuromancer, so far ahead of its time.
The artificial price point for GMail, GDocs, GMeet has killed so much competition.
Try pricing something against this insane dumping price Google sets - there is no TAM, the M does not payback enough to justify the effort.
The cross-financing with Ads would finally stop and fair pricing would come.
If you stop moving, you die.
A ton of biomechanics at play, but walking is the baseline of all human activity. Not running, not swimming.
It's why the 10k steps thing is both a myth and absolutely true.
Death and destruction is the outcome of age, on a molecular, cellular and mental level. The foundational issue addressed by religion, because how else to deal with the unfathomable dread of "nothing gets really better, ever".
Take solace in the fact that this is true for most of your fellow creatures.
The concept of a happy ending, living happily ever after is a dangerous illusion. The best part is likely in the middle, or not at all. The end is pretty much always shit.
Zen, Stoicism, Rebirth ... so many concepts to cope with this simple, basic fact. You get born, you grow up - and then you start dying.
All calorie/portion numbers on packaged food are off by 10-20%. I set MyFitnessTracker to 1.5k calories (deficit for my build) and for weeks nothing would budge - even with strict portion control and weighing everything, plus 800 extra cals spent through exercise.
Once I went to "1250" calories, I started losing weight. Went from to 205 to 175 pounds.
With packaged food I mean anything like cream cheese, various sides, etc. - not pre-built meals (I assume those would be off by 50%).
What weighing your food really does, is reveal how shockingly little you actually should be eating. I switched to small plates for all meals, as using the normal large ones was pointless and slightly de-motivating.
But yeah, it's just calories. No matter what you eat.
Opened Image Playground on the iPhone, every prompt error'ed out. Deleted the app.
5min later I get a notification - Image Playground is now operational! Like what the heck!?
Also turned off every summary function. I need to see the latest update on an email thread, not the start. Whoever designed this one...omg.
Bad or good for consumers?
Does it matter if you need to drive 8 or 11 miles (non-desert vs. desert) to buy boxed cereals and processed food?
CostCo rides the same dynamic, at scale. CostCo deserts?
Want to fix it, HN-style? Create a startup! But more regulation? Ffs.
Sorry that clear observations violate decorum.
As Gabe says, they didn't fulfill their obligation towards their customer and fan base to complete the story. Alyx is cool, but niche.
Oh well, Half Life 3 not confirmed, yet again.
Started as a Roman settlement, Vindobona, it has been strategically important for a very long time.
Paris without the Seine would equally be irrelevant. London too.
There are famous groups/chats that allowed the creation of stupendously important software.
Would be a fascinating study to have Long Covid patients drop LSD and see for effects.