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Now is a good time to mention:

costplusdrugs.com

I have no affiliation. If anyone wants a domestic alternative to low cost pharmaceuticals this is a good one. Also sometimes GoodRx is worth checking out. Don’t hesitate to ask a pharmacist for a discount if you’re not using insurance. Sometimes that is the best price.

Isn’t this Nintendo? Pretty sure they’ve proven that you don’t need the latest in graphics (always a generation behind) to make engaging games.
Re:The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @09:31PM (#48654044)
Not medical advice.

You probably need to take vitamin d3 with k2 to avoid the calcium issues.

Edited to add link https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5613455/

Re:Doing Hard Things on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:48PM (#44596695)
> But I think there’s a quiet dignity in the almost [success] stories too.

The last line hit hard. Need to remind myself of this sometimes

What’s the link to the csv tool?
This is actually a VERY good question that should be further investigated. I hope the researchers are already looking into this, but adding it my list of things to bug medical professionals about just in case
Re:OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:20PM (#39437683)
I’m pretty sure you’re looking at trailing PE. If you look at forward PE it’s only about 35. If you tripled profit, we’d be looking at about 12.

Using trailing PE shows an inaccurate picture for a high growth company so it makes more sense to just take the last quarter and project forwards.

Re:Tesla Q4 2023 Earnings Report [pdf] on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:16PM (#39123953)
Not true in 2023. In 2023 every version of the model 3 qualifies for the 7500 tax credit in the US
Re:Flu deaths in the US (2017-2023) per week on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:21AM (#38760064)
Isolation during corona/covid prevented the transmission of disease.
Re:Cancer’s Cloaking Device Revealed on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:20PM (#37044119)
They do have adaptive pressure. 100s of millions of years of single cell evolutionary instincts live within our cells and the desire to survive. Being a multicellular organism is a relatively new learned behavior, and a human cell returning to that old mindset is basically cancer.

The only problem is that these individually minded (cancer) cells have every ability of your healthy cells and have basically stopped caring about the greater whole and care about themselves. Then they evolve at a micro level for their survival to fend off chemo, immune system, radiation etc. All it takes is one adapted/surviving cell to come back strong.

The sophisticated mechanisms for evasion exist because they have all the methods of evading your immune system that healthy multicellular organisms need to function and they multiply and increase their mutation rate to try new methods to survive and thrive.

I view cancer cells as single cells to understand their behavior with the adaptations of all the healthy cells returning to their “baser instincts”.

Source: Caretaker of a cancer patient and former cell bio major

PS: Take all the above with a grain of salt

Fuck Cancer

If you're okay with it, could you expand/name the condition you thought you had, the actual one, and the medication(s)? Never know, might help someone else out
Wave http://waveapps.com/ Also use it to process payments

I also have it linked to my mercury business account. Trying to find another free business checking account that works with zelle but this will do for now

Re:Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020 on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:12PM (#35747758)
I wonder how this compares to using redis for key value caching purposes?

Definitely reduces the need for another dependency if that’s your thing and it fits your needs

Re:Flu vaccine lowers risk of stroke on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:30AM (#34185876)
Another variable that causes issues in the results is the effectiveness of the vaccine and the evolution of the virus over years with retained immunity.

For example:

A flu shot from years ago can protect against a flu from this year or in the future. So even if the flu vaccine isn’t effective in its current year, the immunity lasts for many years to those antigens. The strain of flu that’s currently dominant can fluctuate to newer or older variants. Controlling for this is even more confusing

A guess this year could help in future years

Re:Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at? on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:11PM (#33083409)
Would you be willing to share your coping mechanisms? Or is there a way I could reach out and ask?
Re:Why is inflammation a dangerous necessity? on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:35PM (#31117607)
Sounds like exercise or maybe a dry sauna would be a cost effective non pharmaceutical way, short term increase in inflammation that results in a long term decrease in inflammation. Same thing with injuries and fractures but that’s more unrelated.
I think you misread the article. Tesla produced over 930,000 vehicles last year (2021). The link you sited was for the first 8 months of the year.

Source: https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q4-2021-vehicle-pro...

What supplement/brand/company do you use?
Re:Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:30PM (#19743546)
Have you considered increasing your exposure to sunlight? It should help with the lowering of blood pressure through an increase in nitric oxide levels among other things.

Linking an article to with a brief overview, but there are many studies that can be found online.

[1] https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

What is the state of nanotech?

By nanotech I also mean biological capabilities (crispr, etc). I'm curious if the community here could tell shed some light on some of the latest research and applications being worked on.

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