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New comment by dashmeet in "Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less"

dashmeet — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:50:40 +0000

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.

New comment by dashmeet in "45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC"

dashmeet — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:28:24 +0000

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.

New comment by dashmeet in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

dashmeet — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:31:45 +0000

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/

New comment by dashmeet in "On doing hard things"

dashmeet — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:48:21 +0000

> 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

New comment by dashmeet in "Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?"

dashmeet — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 06:39:36 +0000

What’s the link to the csv tool?

New comment by dashmeet in "Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading"

dashmeet — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:28:22 +0000

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

New comment by dashmeet in "OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation"

dashmeet — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:20:10 +0000

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.

New comment by dashmeet in "Tesla Q4 2023 Earnings Report [pdf]"

dashmeet — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:16:04 +0000

Not true in 2023. In 2023 every version of the model 3 qualifies for the 7500 tax credit in the US

New comment by dashmeet in "Flu deaths in the US (2017-2023) per week"

dashmeet — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:21:19 +0000

Isolation during corona/covid prevented the transmission of disease.

New comment by dashmeet in "Malignant melanoma deploys elegant molecular mechanism to evade immune responses"

dashmeet — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 03:20:38 +0000

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

New comment by dashmeet in "I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach"

dashmeet — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:25:36 +0000

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

New comment by dashmeet in "Ask HN: Self-employed people, what are you using for accounting software?"

dashmeet — Wed, 10 May 2023 19:15:14 +0000

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

New comment by dashmeet in "Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020"

dashmeet — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:12:32 +0000

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

New comment by dashmeet in "Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada"

dashmeet — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:30:15 +0000

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

New comment by dashmeet in "Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?"

dashmeet — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:11:26 +0000

Would you be willing to share your coping mechanisms? Or is there a way I could reach out and ask?

New comment by dashmeet in "Why is inflammation a dangerous necessity?"

dashmeet — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 02:35:18 +0000

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.

New comment by dashmeet in "Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis"

dashmeet — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:16:20 +0000

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...

New comment by dashmeet in "Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders"

dashmeet — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:51:14 +0000

What supplement/brand/company do you use?

New comment by dashmeet in "Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease"

dashmeet — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:30:19 +0000

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?

dashmeet — Sun, 20 May 2018 22:11:44 +0000

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.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115030

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