matheweis

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Mathew Eis https://eisbox.net/

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Comment · 4 months ago

I’m not sure that what’s happening right now in California is any better.. even Nate Silver is crying foul and this point.

Comment · 7 months ago

> Prices of things that require natural resources will go up.

This suggests a potential equilibrium sooner rather than later .. few modern technological advances have been as resource hungry as AI

Comment · 7 months ago

It’s not a free market construction issue at all, it’s a regulatory zoning and permitting issue.

Read the article and the peer comments here; Austin’s boom came about from reducing regulatory constraints.

Nationally remove the artificial restrictions and the supply side will fix itself.

Comment · 11 months ago

We should also not ignore the fact that USAID was responsible for many hundreds of millions (if not more) in fraudulently directed contracts and spending [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/usaid-...

Comment · 1 year ago

The problem is that the cancerous cells are themselves descended from healthy cells; other than the small differences that make them cancerous, they are in fact the same thing.

Many of the cutting edge immunotherapies for cancer essentially teach the immune system to target the cancerous cells.

However, in combination with an autoimmune disease like Chrons where the immune system has already learned to react to healthy cells, there is a much higher chance that an immunotherapy intended to target only cancerous cells also causes the immune system to target more healthy cells.

Comment · 1 year ago

There are at least two reasons:

First is Hanlon’s Razor; “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. It appears to be especially applicable here.

Second is that this kind of information (with far richer data) is already accessible to and used by corporations at scale; think credit bureaus, background checkers, etc.

Comment · 1 year ago

> prices double every 7 years, which is obviously not what we observe.

It’s not? The first two things that came to mind to check are almost exactly doubled:

Case-Schiller for Seattle metro area for example is almost exactly double: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SEXRNSA/

Price of eggs is almost exactly double: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

Comment · 1 year ago

If so, this shouldn’t be flagged because it would be a significant event relevant to tech

Comment · 1 year ago

I have a bunch of related questions so I will drop them all here:

* You mentioned focusing the spectrum on humans, but I have always wanted to have light that works well for both humans and plants (e.g. houseplants) as they are also beneficial for human spaces. Why not do both?

* Exposure to near IR has significant health benefits and seems like it should be included in an ideal lighting fixture that attempts to replicate the sun: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9855677/

What do you mean when you say IR can be produced in other ways more efficiently?

* How does your product compare with the Yuji Skyline?

Comment · 1 year ago

According to one of my local pharmacies (that closed in the last year), there are laws in some states preventing brick and mortar stores from imposing additional fees over online pharmacies. Reference in a sibling comment.

Comment · 1 year ago

> There is no law against a pharmacy owner from charging whatever they want.

On closing, one of my local pharmacies claimed otherwise and referenced the following:

> states have enacted legislation prohibiting certain PBM clients from imposing additional co-payments, deductibles, limitation on benefits, or other conditions (“Conditions”) on covered individuals utilizing a retail pharmacy when the same Conditions are not otherwise imposed on covered individuals utilizing home delivery pharmacies. However, the legislation requires the retail pharmacy to agree to the same reimbursement amounts and terms and conditions as are imposed on the home delivery pharmacies.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1532063/000153206318...

Comment · 1 year ago

Yea, where I live there is sometimes a 2+ hr wait at the Rite Aid.

Comment · 1 year ago

It’s not even legal for them to try to compete. Even if someone preferred to pay more for the convenience the brick and mortar shops aren’t allowed to charge a premium over the online pharmacies.

Comment · 1 year ago

Yes, pricing regulations forced brick and mortar pharmacies to sell drugs below cost. Several closed in my area in the last few years and this was one of their cited reasons why.