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olddog2on Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding

This is the unitree go1 robot dog which sells for $2700. Wasnt sure whether these were shipping/in the wild but obviously they have been for at least a few months!

olddog2on How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill?

Compared to say the 70s, the 90s was pretty bleak. A bit of good grunge, a bit of good hiphop, and then it all sort of fizzled out. At least in europe/uk you had the explosion of electronic music and mdma and everyone having an amazing time. American kids growing up in the late 90s were robbed.

olddog2on How to boil great eggs 80% of the time

Dont they crack when you put room temp eggs directly into boiling water

olddog2on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)

What horror stories?

olddog2on IVF insurance startup Future Family promises a baby or your money back

Looks like a nice way to provide emotional hedging for eligible couples

The main downside would be that it would be very depressing to be uninsurable for IVF because your odds are so poor

olddog2on No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)

Also, the “blockchain not bitcoin” talking point in 2025 is cringe.

olddog2on No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)

The problem is that if btc is a once in a 200 year “creation of a global reserve currency” event, those with bitcoin exposure (even 1% of portfolio or whatever) will be minted and those without will be fighting over the scraps.

You can buy insurance to ensure you’re not left behind this very cheaply, for just 1% of your portfolio. Yes, it is coordination dilemma with ponzi characteristics. Yes, sticking to your principles may feel like the intellectually correct thing to do. But its a big coordination dilemma which so far is only going in one direction, and the risk that anyone not getting involved ends up having fun staying poor increases as btc ascends.

olddog2on Show HN: Chat with multiple LLMs: o1-high-effort, Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o, and more

Cool, but nano-gpt.com do pay per use for about 100 chat and image models including o1pro, deepseek r1 etc.

olddog2on Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

Use an aggregator like nano-gpt.com. You get access to all the top models (including o1 pro which usually requires a $200/month subscription) on a pay per use rate. Short on cash ? Use deepseek models for .1cents.

olddog2on Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations

Everything I said is equivalent to the WHO vaccination programme reconstitution and administration procedures. Vaccine clinics use multidose ampoules for up to a month. These aren’t sterile compounding pharmacies.

olddog2on Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations

People with minimal training drew up billions of doses of covid vaccines from multi-use vials and administered them intramuscularly (deeper and therefore potentially more risky than subcutaneous ozempic/mounjaro) and I never heard of anyone getting an infection from this

olddog2on Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations

It comes as lyophilized powder. You reconstitute the drug yourself and follow WHO sterility guidelines (reconstitute with bacteriostatic water, alcohol wipe ampoule top before accessing, keep it in the fridge, and throw it out if you havent finished it within 30 days). I know a dozen people doing this for the last year and none of them have had any sign of even superficial infection.

olddog2on Ozempic economics: How GLP-1s will disrupt the economy in 2025

https://glp1forum.com/

Buy your own tirzepatide from china. QSC batches all have purity tests, and cost about $200 for 400mg which will last a good year at a reasonable dose regimen

olddog2on VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles

Find the guys who usually park at expensive family homes, but occasionally visit a known brothel, then blackmail them.

We all just let surveillance haplen to us, in fact we paid for most of it

olddog2on Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect

Do americans realise how odd it is that prostitution is illegal there?

In most countries guys just quiety see a prostitute and have a great time without inflicting weird justifications for their horniness on their families.

olddog2on Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

So much knowledge in the world is locked away with empiric experimentation being the only way to unlock it, and compute can only really help that experimentation become more efficient. Something still has to run a randomized controlled trial on an intervention and that takes real time and real atoms to do.

olddog2on Bitcoin is over $100k

Look at a chart of purchasing power adjusted USD over the past 100 years and tell me its at record highs.

All fiat currencies go to zero. BTC does the opposite using number go up technology.

olddog2on Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

Plex with a couple of decent paid subscription servers ($20 a month total) is fantastic and is equivalent in usability to netflix except basically everything is available.

It is funny listening to podcasts with billionaires who have unlimited financial resources but can’t watch a show recommended to them because they haven’t downloaded or subscribed to a particular streaming service.

olddog2on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

If elon can do everything he’s done with an increasingly hostile govt, imagine what he’ll be able to so with a supportive one

olddog2on How long til we're all on Ozempic?

I’m pretty sure all the Shortages of Ozempic and mounjaro are due to injector mechanism production factors and the fact that when the drug is transported in a reconstituted fashion in the injector, it needs to be kept in cold chain storage the whole way which makes logistics much much harder

My friends and I all live outside of the USA and we can get basically unlimited ampoules of powdered Mounjaro from China. It is very simple to reconstitute with Sterile water in a no touch way and works great. We have all had significant weight loss and improvement in blood pressure and glucose levels etc.

Waiting for these companies to get their act together, especially when mounjaro is a copycat drug is not acceptable. these drugs are biochemically very simple peptides with a couple of cross linkages and very easy to make in high quantities so there is no excuse for everyone who needs them to not be on them. a large portion of the world not having access to these drugs for the patent period and continuing to suffer all the effect of obesity is not morally acceptable.