Hacker News: jseliger

New comment by jseliger in "The Business World's Favorite Laptop Has Barely Changed in 30 Years"

jseliger — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:18:11 +0000

https://archive.ph/Jx0vF

Empty Credentialism Is Hurting Medicine

jseliger — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:17:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.persuasion.community/p/empty-credentialism-is-hurting-medicine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41185635

Points: 9

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China is stockpiling – we must do the same

jseliger — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 04:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/china-is-stockpiling-we-must-do-the-same-02sgc8529

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178321

Points: 43

# Comments: 27

Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit?

jseliger — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:30:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91166562/us-transit-exceptionalism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166844

Points: 50

# Comments: 138

Everybody gets a star: Yelp's effect on restaurants and reviews

jseliger — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eater.com/24200672/yelp-effect-on-restaurants-culture-review-everything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166719

Points: 36

# Comments: 65

New comment by jseliger in "Starting Hospice"

jseliger — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:38:10 +0000

I hope too to accomplish at least two concrete ends:

1. Help and educate other people who are suddenly facing the opaque clinical-trial system: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/please-be-dying-but-not-...

2. Ultimately, reform and speed FDA approval for fatal diseases like recurrent / metastatic head and neck cancers: https://jakeseliger.com/2024/01/29/the-dead-and-dying-at-the.... A drug like petosemtamab (MCLA-158), which I was on from Sept. 27 2023 to March 29 2024, should already be approved, instead of continuing to wander around in clinical trials.

In large urban metros, the number of children under 5 is in a free fall

jseliger — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:11:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/the-urban-family-exodus-is-a-warning-for-progressives/679350/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41162645

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by jseliger in "Starting Hospice"

jseliger — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 04:24:12 +0000

Hacker News, thank you for all the links and all the great reading. Now I have to say goodbye.

I’m with my wife Bess (https://bessstillman.substack.com/) and my brother Sam, and crying, but it is okay. At the end of Lord of the Rings Gandalf says to the hobbits, "Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” And that is how I feel now. Ending prematurely hurts, but all things must end, and my time to end is upon me.