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fraserharris commented on Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/saikatsg
tima101 · a month ago
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx6649

A small molecule inhibitor of 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase causes cartilage regeneration. I hope they fast-track it to human trials.

fraserharris · a month ago
"Phase 1 clinical trials of a 15-PGDH inhibitor for muscle weakness have shown that it is safe and active in healthy volunteers. Our hope is that a similar trial will be launched soon to test its effect in cartilage regeneration" - Helen Blau, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology & the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professorship
fraserharris commented on Guideline has been acquired by Gusto   help.guideline.com/en/art... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
lotsofpulp · 3 months ago
Not using Fidelity for HSA and Vanguard/Fidelity for 401k is a sign of bad leadership. I have to assume management is getting paid off some way to subject themselves to an inferior and more expensive custodian.
fraserharris · 3 months ago
I recently had to select a 401(k) plan for our small startup. For a startup, the _employee_ fees was significantly better on Guideline (0.15 - 0.3%) than Fidelity (0.5% + $100 bookkeeping fee). The _employer_ fees were slightly more expensive with Guideline ($1,778 on Enterprise plan for Guideline vs $1,200 for Fidelity) but offered more features.

Important for founders in the US to know: you can put up to $70k annually into your 401k using profit sharing, which only some 401k plans offer. Your startup does not need to be making a profit to do 401k profit sharing. Employees may also be able to negotiate this!

fraserharris commented on Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S.   wsj.com/business/sharpie-... · Posted by u/impish9208
2OEH8eoCRo0 · 4 months ago
Sharpie is special and can make one thing essentially forever.
fraserharris · 4 months ago
It was a surprise learning how applicable your statement is when I was selling technology products into consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Consumer preference is very hard to change once it is established, and leading CPG companies spend an enormous amount establishing that preference.
fraserharris commented on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly   mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11525... · Posted by u/bertman
dh2022 · 5 months ago
Interesting take. What is the market-serving product you mentioned?
fraserharris · 5 months ago
Whatever fills the void for people. ie: instead of bowling leagues, people watch TV or play video games. It's arguably a worse product because it doesn't fulfill the socialization or exercise needs of people, but it does fill the same block of time.
fraserharris commented on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly   mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11525... · Posted by u/bertman
fraserharris · 5 months ago
Small organizations exist largely because volunteers will them to exist by donating their time. From our elementary school, it's clear the people who have time to volunteer are the stay-at-home parents. The dominance of two-income households eroded the small organizations, which created a market (distributing the costs over many more people) for large organizations to fill the void with a worse but market-serving product.
fraserharris commented on I should have loved electrical engineering   blog.tdhttt.com/post/love... · Posted by u/tdhttt
fraserharris · 5 months ago
I majored in Engineering Physics with an EE focus. Our classes were scheduled so we took the dependent math courses a semester before the relevant EE topics (ie: learned Laplace & Fourier transformations before circuit analysis). The EE majors all took the related math & EE courses simultaneously and visibly struggled, with every class we took together having a bimodal grade distribution.
fraserharris commented on AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America   forbes.com/sites/thomasbr... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
fraserharris · 5 months ago
Paraphrasing from an Oakland police officer reflecting on the spike in crime 3 years ago to today: "Flock has been a game changer. The officers who use it are getting results. Criminals will steal a car, drive through a neighborhood and rob someone. Pretty quickly we can look up 'black BMWs driving around this location'. Maybe 10 come back, you figure out which is the likely one, and then can see where it shows up in the next few hours. Then you have officers on patrol in that area look out for it. The criminals get a police car tailing them & they ditch the vehicle. Instead of doing 5 or 6 robberies with a stolen car, they can do 1 or 2. That makes it much less worth it to do the crimes."
fraserharris commented on Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated   asteriskmag.com/issues/10... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
rsync · 10 months ago
One issue with "CA HSR" is that it isn't even "high speed".

We may have happily referred to is as "high speed rail" 30 or 40 years ago but, given a possible completion date of 2035 (or whatever) the 2:40 travel time from SF <-> LA is unimpressive ... and even that will not be achieved:

"California legislative overseers do not expect the 2 hr 40 min target will be achieved."[1]

The simple fact is that the I-5 corridor is the spine of California and should be leveraged for all additional infrastructure build-out ... which would yield economies of scale and network effects for rail, network lines, water transmission, electrical distribution and (eventually) autonomous trucking.

Instead we're spending billions to build a slow, circuitous route to Fresno.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

fraserharris · 10 months ago
Fresno / Central Valley is not the circuitous route, which is quite close to the I-5 near Bakersfield. The true circuitous detour is between Bakersfield and LA, where the route is planned to go East through the Antelope Valley with a station at Palmdale.
fraserharris commented on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage   cnn.com/2025/03/20/travel... · Posted by u/dfine
rchaud · a year ago
Sounds like a cost center. Heathrow is privately owned. Would the board approve?
fraserharris · a year ago
Business continuity planning & investment is an important part of running an enterprise.
fraserharris commented on Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?   cleantechnica.com/2025/03... · Posted by u/guerby
AtlasBarfed · a year ago
I'm not going to dispute your numbers with diesel versus EV reliability, but I have to think the simplicity of an EV drivetrain will win that battle in the next version or two.
fraserharris · a year ago
The reliability speaks to the technology immaturity. I agree with the inevitability of the EV drivetrain + charging off the existing distribution network being more reliable than competing technologies.

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