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> 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


What’s the link to the csv tool?


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


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.


Thanks, I stand corrected. I guess at 35 times latest earnings it's more reasonably valued. Nvidia's growth in just the past year was stronger than I expected. At this level we need more nuanced arguments.

The next thing to explain the discrepancy between Nvidia's valuation and OpenAI's would be that Nvidia's monopoly position effective eats into the profits of the AI startups for the foreseeable future. Had OpenAI already been profitable, its valuation would have exceeded 86B.


> I guess at 35 times latest earnings it's more reasonably valued

If you are willing to just take quarterly revenue which I think is reasonable for NVidia, it is valued at around 40 times the current estimated earnings for this quarter which isn't too overvalued.

The bigger thing I worry about NVidia is not current earnings but the possibility that the earning won't last when either AI wave fades off or competitors enter the market leading to loss in margin.


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


Sadly it is 2024 now. Very few vehicles qualify for the tax credit now. The ones that do qualify tend to be the high end models that are hard to keep under the price cap—you need to special order the no-options model and hope there aren’t too many dealer fees. Good news for Chevy is that the Bolt qualifies. Bad news is that they stopped making it and no other Chevy made the cut.


We're talking about the 2023 Q4 earnings report.


Isolation during corona/covid prevented the transmission of disease.


This, but also because Covid is far more easily transmitted than the flu, measures like masks, hand washing, etc were actually highly effective at stopping the spread of the flu.


...to the point of extinction, for at least one strain.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/covid-may-have-pushe...


Probably also the fact that Covid wiped out much of the target demographic.

In the US, a bad flu kills around 1K people per week during the winter. Covid killed 5K people per week even during the summer, for 2 years.

If Covid deaths continue to drop, next winter might finally be comparable to that "just a bad flu".


The low hanging fruit can't be picked twice.

That, and how many unhealthy/vulnerable people just die on average week for no particular reason? Seems like at least some of those individuals should be cases of a flu/virus taking the credit for something that may have happened on its own regardless. Reminds me of these uncommon 'horror stories' of young people dying the first time they did a bump of cocaine - all of them had very serious underlying issues that they were unaware of to begin with.


Entirely? Could you point to some sources on this?

I have heard this theory, would like to know more information.


I’m curious why you’re interpreting it as transmission was stopped entirely. Clearly that’s not what was meant given that the weekly deaths still were above zero.


I'm curious as to why you're interpreting the "entirely" as stopping transmission.

I meant, is it entirely the cause of the massive drop (to near nil) that year?

You didn't answer the main point of my post with any information.

You just deflected on the first word, which you interpreted wrong in the first place.

Still haven't seen a source on this claim, noone has in this thread.

So link please?


> I'm curious as to why you're interpreting the "entirely" as stopping transmission.

You were replying to:

> Isolation during corona/covid prevented the transmission of disease.

Because transmission was the singular subject of the parent comment. You failed to include the necessary context to make your point clear.

> So link please?

Yeah, I’m not inclined to go find something like that for a claim I didn’t make. What I will offer is an analogy for why I have no problem accepting the claim to be quite convincing. If we were to put a filter in an air stream and observe that the concentration of 5 micron particles has been significantly reduced downstream of the filter, would we really need to be skeptical of a claim that the filter was responsible for nearly completely eliminating 20 micron particles downstream? While the effectiveness of this analogy is of course going to hinge on how well the arbitrary numbers line up with reality, I find the explanation far more likely than the alternative of some combination of gross, universal incompetence and conspiracy.


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


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


I'm a bit concerned about my privacy but the condition is herpes virus infection of the eye. The similar condition is Thygeson's disease. The drug in question (that I could not get) is called Viroptic which for some reason helps with both conditions (despite them not being related). Thygeson's is thought to be more of an immune system issue.

So if you've been diagnosed with herpes, and anti-virals don't seem to help, maybe you don't have herpes. If you do have herpes of the eye there are good drugs approved in Europe but not in the North America (though there are likely some approved drugs in the US which will still help - it's complicated).


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


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


I'm working on comparisons between redis and SQLite for object caching. So far things look favorable.

I did this project for WordPress, because object caching helps performance (and therefore carbon footprint) a lot and cheezy hosting services don't offer redis. But most of them have SQLite.

Oddly enough, SQLite is really slow on the one BSD hosting service I've tried.


Why use redis at all if you don't need shared cache?


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