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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> This was for uBlock lite, a much lesser used plugin Sure, but it's published by the same developer and has existed for a while. It's not a brand new extension under his account, or published on a different developer account.
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> It's a lot easier to just accuse Google of acting in bad faith, and Mozilla of being their lapdogs, and ignore any possible evidence to the contrary. There are two issues at play here. Manifest V3 is, undeniably, a security improv
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> But this is not about a high profile plugin. The high profile plugin is "uBlock Origin", and this is about "uBlock Origin Lite", which is a big thing for Chrome, but not for Firefox. Why would anyone want to use uBO
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Yet another example why "HIPAA compliant" means nothing. "HIPAA compliant" doesn't mean nothing. It means a whole lot. It's just not relevant here, because - as mentioned at the beginning of the article -
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Last year, Libgen also told users that it's primarily funded through Google advertising. In the video, Libgen was warning users that while admins are difficult to unmask, "Google gets informed of every download, and if a user
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> IMO HN actually scores quite highly in terms of health/politics and so forth content because the both mainstream and fringe ideas get both shown and pushback. As someone with domain expertise here, I wholeheartedly disagree. HN is
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> Unions aren't a monopoly they're a democracy. After a democratic vote, the minority has to accept what the majority wants. OP is repeating a lot of anti-union propaganda, but this one point is true, which is evident if you lo
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> To address that last problem, I think the color display area should be much smaller, or you should be shown all hues at once and asked to position a cut-off point. If you're doing this on a phone, try holding your phone at arm&#x2
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Reddit still has a lot of adult content, but AFAIK you can't find it unless you know where it is. When Reddit made its infamous API changes over a year ago that caused many third-party apps to shut down, a less-publicized part of
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Unlocking the bootloader has long broken a lot of functionality. Play Integrity (formerly known as SafetyNet) provides three levels of checks, and increasingly apps are requiring the phone to pass the second level in order to use the app. U
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> The cost isn't so much the materials themselves as the regulatory burden imposed by them. You need to guard them indefinitely even after the plant is shut down. These are all issues for fossil fuel extraction as well, and I have b
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Containment costs and disposal costs. Containment is solved by the thousands of feet of rock and disposal is just filling in the hole with concrete and dirt. Containment and disposal is largely a red herring. It's actually more or
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Take, for example, PrEP for HIV prevention. Costs about 5,000 dollars a month - insurance is forced to cover it. Sure, you could say HIV is very expensive, but few people at risk of HIV actually get it. If it were up to insurance compa
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> It's not weird if you consider that paying for preventive care tends to be profitable for the insurance companies, because it's cheaper than paying for the problems that arise if you skip preventive care. This is often repeat
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> Just imagine, you are in a life or death scenario and your literal phone has a bug preventing you from calling help. > All other issues are minor. I cannot forgive a bug of this nature. Does that mean you will never use Verizon, AT&
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> One of the big problems with Pixel phones is their lack of thorough testing. You upgrade and suddenly you encounter strange Bluetooth issues, call problems, or other features that were working fine before but suddenly stop functioning.
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> A significant portion of the cost is the drug trials. Excedrin Extra Strength and Excedrin Migraine have identical formulations, but IIRC Bayer spent $300m on FDA approval for migraine treatment, which is why the migraine variant cont
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The $1.1 billion figure is for Truvada total, not for PrEP specifically. It’s perhaps notable that Gilead chose not to break that down, given that the original claim they were responding to was about PrEP specifically. And even then it
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Gilead claims that is false and that they spent 1.1 billion on developing Truvada. https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/company-statements/gil ... You are quoting a corporate press release that was written in
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> "A new study in 2020 estimated that the median cost of getting a new drug into the market was $985 million, and the average cost was $1.3 billion, which was much lower compared to previous studies, which have placed the average co
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
Gilead's R&D costs for Truvada as PrEP were literally almost zero. They paid none of the costs for actually conducting the trials. Their only contribution was that they donated the actual pills used in the trials - in other words,
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
See my sibling comment. GP is half-correct. They are not required to cover Descovy specifically. Covering Truvada is sufficient to comply with the law (assuming they are also covering all associated labwork and outpatient visits, and not re
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Almost all health insurance companies in the USA are required to fully cover PrEP, including Descovy. They aren't even allowed to require that you try (generic) Truvada first before trying Descovy. They are required to cover PrEP,
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The general population can't be expected to take a pill every day, what would make anyone believe people with SUD are able to? The general population does take PrEP regularly enough to be protected. You seem think that people wi
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Cost comes down over time, and more testing occurs over time, somewhat by definition. Truvada has been around for over twenty years, and generic for 4-5 years. It still costs $2000/month list price. More testing doesn't just
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The problem I think really comes down to there being a generic Truvada. Truvada has been generic for about six years now. > I recently switched insurance companies and my new one covers Truvada completely, not even a copay. It’s hon
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> This is already available via an injection every two months and is typically used in populations that can't be expected to take a pill every day (drug addicts, etc.). That is a pretty bold parenthetical statement. Not only is it
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Longer term, it is likely there will be a shift to a twice yearly injectable (Gilead’s Lenacapavir) That's debatable. Injectable PrEP has been around for years already (Lencapavir is not the first, just the most recent). Lencapavi
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Please forgive my lack of understanding. This appears to be a great achievement. Is there any risk that a Lenacapavir resistant strain would rise up in many years as a result of treating a large portion of the global at risk population
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
That's exactly it. The $20 is not an assessed value of the code; it's to establish consideration. $1 would have been legal. It's legal to make asymmetric contracts that benefit one party more than the other, just not contra

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