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stivatronon Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

Its always the caste lobbying for regulations "for the good of all" that break countries apart. My country's (Argentina) largest political party lives on by heavy corporativism, otherwise they would have been booted a long time ago.

stivatronon Epidurals are a miracle technology

Here in Argentina the nurses discourage you to seek it, then they blame the anesthesiologist is not available. We have had 2 with cesarian and one friend was in so much pain that she had to ask for a cesarian too.

stivatronon How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?

Western Blot is a hideous technique

stivatronon The New Dark Ages

> We are seeing the collapse of the global economy due to high government debt. Politicians don't have incentives to fix the situation since they will lose support if they try to do anything

Well, that might not be necessarily the case, watch Milei slashing a lot of bloat in Argentina and still remaining popular.

stivatronon Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

Happened as such on my home as well. And, although i wasn't expecting it, cut off lots of money on booze and beer.

stivatronon Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers

That's very good, props to Bose.

stivatronon Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)

hahaha.

stivatronon Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

hahaha! very funny.

stivatronon Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?

DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEM

stivatronon Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty

No. Freedom is valuable.

stivatronon Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k

how the hell is that possible. Why isn't someone taking economical advantage of offering lower prices. Costs can't be that high.

stivatronon Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate

They have to follow the law of the country as tyrannical as it is like they did in Brazil. I hope one day they say fuck it.

stivatronon How well does the money laundering control system work?

I wholeheartedly hope it fails and continues to fail forever.

stivatronon Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study

Watch out, there is no reliable Mouse Model for Alzheimer's. I was deeply involved with mouse models at some point before quitting my phd in neuroscience and I quite remember that.

stivatronon Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study

Watch out, there's no reliable Alzheimer's mouse model.