I’ll be at Future Forum over the weekend. If you’re here, come and say hello. I don’t plan on scheduling a lot of meetings because I hate scheduling, but talking to people is the plan. I have a few people that I know I want to see, but mostly I’m going to be improvising, and whatever happens happens.
Zvi, I read Bob Wachter's entire thread. I find what he said to be reasonable. He does not expect or urge people to follow his protocols. On the other hand, you seem to be disparaging his choices. Why does it bother you?
I can confirm that findcovidcare.com works to get Paxlovid quickly. I used it on separate occasions for both myself and my wife. All I had to do was fill out an easy form and submit payment. Within a day, they'd sent the prescription to the pharmacy nearest me to pick up. I hesitate to call it telemedicine, because I never needed to talk to anyone.
The reason not to get more monkeypox testing done is that putting forth too much effort might cause Public Health to go berserk and ruin everyone's lives for the third year in a row. Best to ignore it completely.
I had success with getting Paxlovid through callondoc.com when a family member was sick, resting in bed, and I thought it unwise to rouse her to go visit a doctor in person.
They accepted a picture of a positive rapid test for diagnosis and didn't require a video visit. They took a few hours to deliver on the prescription, and the original pharmacy had closed by the time they sent it over. But they were flexible enough to transfer the prescription to a 24 hour pharmacy, for free.
Damn – that blog post about Jane Street is fascinating! It made me revise my (very old) estimates about how valuable working for them might have been to me. (I still suspect the time cost of working there is/are too high, both now but also years ago when I first hear/read of them.)
Today I realized covid was officially over for me when I was at the grocery store and subconsciously licked my finger to open a produce bag. Haven't done that since early 2020!
Probably a bad choice but it was exhilarating to have totally stopped thinking about covid.
> Otherwise, the desire to mimic drinking means you’re optimizing in all the wrong places.
I call bullshit.
If you don’t find the company of sweaty binge-drinking teleprompter-assisted chansonniers worthy of optimization, you live in the fog on a false summit of life for which no number of derivatives will illuminate your soul’s journey to the apex.
Put another way—if you’re sober, go out to karaoke, and obviously drink water (even if you tip very well and sing with nearly-blacked-out abandon), you’re still an outsider.
If you go to karaoke and inconspicuously drink non-alcoholic beer poured in a pint glass or sip club soda in a short glass with a tiny straw and a lime slice, you have a fighting chance of passing with the in-group.
Zvi, I read Bob Wachter's entire thread. I find what he said to be reasonable. He does not expect or urge people to follow his protocols. On the other hand, you seem to be disparaging his choices. Why does it bother you?
I can confirm that findcovidcare.com works to get Paxlovid quickly. I used it on separate occasions for both myself and my wife. All I had to do was fill out an easy form and submit payment. Within a day, they'd sent the prescription to the pharmacy nearest me to pick up. I hesitate to call it telemedicine, because I never needed to talk to anyone.
The reason not to get more monkeypox testing done is that putting forth too much effort might cause Public Health to go berserk and ruin everyone's lives for the third year in a row. Best to ignore it completely.
I had success with getting Paxlovid through callondoc.com when a family member was sick, resting in bed, and I thought it unwise to rouse her to go visit a doctor in person.
They accepted a picture of a positive rapid test for diagnosis and didn't require a video visit. They took a few hours to deliver on the prescription, and the original pharmacy had closed by the time they sent it over. But they were flexible enough to transfer the prescription to a 24 hour pharmacy, for free.
Damn – that blog post about Jane Street is fascinating! It made me revise my (very old) estimates about how valuable working for them might have been to me. (I still suspect the time cost of working there is/are too high, both now but also years ago when I first hear/read of them.)
Today I realized covid was officially over for me when I was at the grocery store and subconsciously licked my finger to open a produce bag. Haven't done that since early 2020!
Probably a bad choice but it was exhilarating to have totally stopped thinking about covid.
> Otherwise, the desire to mimic drinking means you’re optimizing in all the wrong places.
I call bullshit.
If you don’t find the company of sweaty binge-drinking teleprompter-assisted chansonniers worthy of optimization, you live in the fog on a false summit of life for which no number of derivatives will illuminate your soul’s journey to the apex.
Put another way—if you’re sober, go out to karaoke, and obviously drink water (even if you tip very well and sing with nearly-blacked-out abandon), you’re still an outsider.
If you go to karaoke and inconspicuously drink non-alcoholic beer poured in a pint glass or sip club soda in a short glass with a tiny straw and a lime slice, you have a fighting chance of passing with the in-group.
Re: Hanson, there actually are services that charge based on score improvement and provide refunds if the promised increase isn’t realized.
https://twitter.com/ageofinfovores/status/1554490035516342277?s=20&t=FJdp2RTdsb_LG1v58esYzg
Wife, who is pregnant, just tested positive for Covid. What's the latest on whether she should take Paxlovid?