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I think Biovea is still selling...for now. Everyone I know has rushed there to stock up.
September 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I think Biovea is still selling...for now. Everyone I know has rushed there to stock up.
Gosh how to answer that in a skeet! I think AI ethics are only ever going to be as good as the humans who write them. I hope they involve people with expertise *and* lived experience in that.
August 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Gosh how to answer that in a skeet! I think AI ethics are only ever going to be as good as the humans who write them. I hope they involve people with expertise *and* lived experience in that.
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Asimov's R. Giskard Reventlov, who saves mankind from itself
August 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Asimov's R. Giskard Reventlov, who saves mankind from itself
This list made me laugh/cry so hard.
August 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This list made me laugh/cry so hard.
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AI is going to add jobs in the field of correcting AI.
July 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
AI is going to add jobs in the field of correcting AI.
That and they just don't let the female surgeons onto the training programme. Unless they are extremely good looking - and then they quit due to sexual harassment.
July 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
That and they just don't let the female surgeons onto the training programme. Unless they are extremely good looking - and then they quit due to sexual harassment.
A single woman in her twenties has around 150,000 to 300,000 eggs and in normal circumstances can go on to have many more children should she choose to. Nature does it too - 10-20% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion. Better than losing the uterus/ovaries.
July 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A single woman in her twenties has around 150,000 to 300,000 eggs and in normal circumstances can go on to have many more children should she choose to. Nature does it too - 10-20% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion. Better than losing the uterus/ovaries.
Interesting! I wonder where they got the number from? If you were in hospital, and were given that drug from the hospital supply, would the price on your invoice be the same?
July 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Interesting! I wonder where they got the number from? If you were in hospital, and were given that drug from the hospital supply, would the price on your invoice be the same?
But you said these are the retail prices in your prev post?
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
But you said these are the retail prices in your prev post?
This is from an article in the newspaper - I'm curious - who is paying the retail price then?
July 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This is from an article in the newspaper - I'm curious - who is paying the retail price then?
Between the drug company, the insurer, and the consumer the amount paid for a cheap to produce drug is sky high - far higher than our government pays the drug companies, essentially for wholesale pricing. It's not for profit, rather than for-profit pricing and winds up cheaper for all.
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Between the drug company, the insurer, and the consumer the amount paid for a cheap to produce drug is sky high - far higher than our government pays the drug companies, essentially for wholesale pricing. It's not for profit, rather than for-profit pricing and winds up cheaper for all.
In the US there is no bargaining on behalf of every American by the government, it's just the private insurers and drug companies essentially colluding on prices. So the consumer can pay anywhere from a hundred to a thousand dollars for an antibiotic, depending on who they are insured through.
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
In the US there is no bargaining on behalf of every American by the government, it's just the private insurers and drug companies essentially colluding on prices. So the consumer can pay anywhere from a hundred to a thousand dollars for an antibiotic, depending on who they are insured through.
The Australian government bargains on our behalf and gets the prices based on that bargaining agreement. We also have rules that if there is a generic we will pay for that and the drug companies have to prove enough of a benefit for a different formulation, otherwise it doesn't get approved.
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Australian government bargains on our behalf and gets the prices based on that bargaining agreement. We also have rules that if there is a generic we will pay for that and the drug companies have to prove enough of a benefit for a different formulation, otherwise it doesn't get approved.