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@Same@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, we don’t really know how our drugs work (especially the older ones). We have a vague understanding of their mechanisms, but we really don’t know how they work. We don’t even have a clear idea of what the structures of most drugs look like, and how they interact with their binding sites.

  Luckily, we don’t actually have to know how they work, to know that they work. Instead we use clinical trials and real world evidence to support their use.

  (Fun fact: there’s actually a branch of drug development called phenotypic drug discovery which actually does away with the understanding of the mechanisms altogether. )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry but this is giving ‘old man yells at clouds’ energy. How is tiktok any worse than any other social media platform? They’re all echochambers filled with misinformation, it just what happens when you get a lot of people online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you can advertise to children on tiktok doesn’t mean that the platform specifically exists to cater to young children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pharma companies spend a majority of their time trying to make new unique drugs, they just fail most of the time. The ones that succeed tend to be ones that are similar to ones that succeeded in the last, which is why you get multiple drugs in the same class, but it’s not all they do. For example, we’ve essentially cured some types of cystic fibrosis, and there’s an effective vaccine for malaria now - all developed in the last 10 years.

  I don’t want to pretend that the big pharma companies aren’t evil, but they do have incentives that align with improving human health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Revenue isn’t profit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I probably would have paid for at least half the things I pirate if I had to (especially books).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has the users to sustain multiple communities. On Lemmy, it turns what could be a community into a bunch of individual people screaming into the void alone.