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Couldn't resist cracking open my @neurosity Notion DK1 brain-computer headset! The engineering is impressive, especially considering this is a dev kit. Looking forward to digging in on the software side. Love the silkscreen note @andrewjaykeller @castillo__io 👋
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
I want to be very clear that no one is SUGGESTING that people will die because Johnson & Johnson is trying to immorally extend their patent on bedaquline an additional 4 years after its 20-year term.
Instead, people are STATING THE FACT that people will die because of Johnson & Johnson trying to immorally extend their patent on bedaquiline an additional 4 years after its 20-year term.
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.
In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023: social.jnj.com/3XSgjRZ
In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future.
Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.
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J&J continue to limit a lower pricing of $1,200 for 20 months to the Global Drug Facility. Only South Africa has been granted access to this pricing outside the GDF.
Researchers suggest that Bedaquiline could still be sold at profit for as little as 25 cents per day.
msfaccess.org/jj-can-you-hea…
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
What J&J has to understand is that John has spent a full year making Tuberculosis /his thing/ in a way that has been clearly a net negative for the amount of attention he receives but a huge net positive for the amount of attention TB receives.
This isn't some whim.
Hey @NotionHQ, I've been running a @NotionAPI integration I built to help me with daily tasks and reminders, but at some point over the past week I stopped getting push notifications for @ mentions in the page created by the API. Did something change on your end?
Also, any idea when the @NotionAPI will get the ability to add reminders to date blocks? That would be my preferred method of setting this up, and I was using @ mentioning myself as a workaround.
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
Why a relentless focus on reducing developer friction pays off in team productivity, and some ways to do this.
blog.ceejbot.com/posts/reduc…
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
I don’t believe you have to have passion to be a programmer, and was a bit sick of hearing the argument.
So I spent some time unpacking with research how flow state is the reason that this is not a requirement and everyone is welcome in tech!
leaddev.com/culture-engageme…
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
The ratio of “internal tooling” or “developer productivity” engineers to others is too low in most companies.
If you have 50 devs and have room to improve productivity at least 1% a quarter, you have budget for 1-2 dedicated DX engineers. Not even counting intangible benefits.
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
All adult Americans will be eligible to get the vaccine no later than May 1.
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
I’M TRYING TO GO TO SPACE & you can help me get there!
If you retweet this video, I’ll print your name on a shirt and wear it in space in your honor ☄️
#inspiration4contest #sendsimonetospace
sendsimoneto.space/
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
🔥 BLITZ.JS IS NOW IN BETA!
✅ Rails-like Fullstack Framework
✅ Built on Next.js
✅ Zero-API data layer abstraction eliminates need for REST/GraphQL
🚀 Ready to start building production apps at the speed of ⚡️
🎨 And we just launched our new website!
Blitzjs.com
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
✍️ Just published a post on API Gateway access logs that should cover just about everything you need to know on the subject, including:
- A deep dive on the fields to log;
- Going from APIGW request --> Lambda function logs;
- Avoiding common pitfalls
alexdebrie.com/posts/api-gat…
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of @timnitGebru publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says.
Thank you to @emilymbender who coauthored the work for sending it my way.
technologyreview.com/2020/12…
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
Reminder that if you go down 33% and up 33% you’re still down 11%.
Brandon Vandegrift 📌 NYC retweeted
Hello gamers!!
I am doing a giveaway of an epic Rust themed gaming chair as well as some Rust in-game items!!
To enter the giveaway like and retweet!!
I will pick a winner in 2 days, and make sure you are following me so I can DM you!! 😎👍
More info: bit.ly/35uVZvr
My favorite kind of mischief
I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine
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