Maybe it's time for the FDA to just do quality checks but otherwise screw off. I'm tired of having to order 100% safe drugs from Indian pharmacies. No question they are colluding with Big Pharma. Is there any reason the "Farmacia" model of Latin American countries, where you go in and pay per-pill for whatever you want wouldn't work here?
The plant in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state produced eyedrops that have been linked to 68 bacterial infections in the U.S., including three deaths and eight cases of vision loss. Four people have had their eyeballs surgically removed due to infection. The drops were recalled in February by two U.S. distributors, EzriCare and Delsam Phama.
If you have ever lived in, been to, or even seen videos of life in India, then this would not be shocking.
The people living there, and especially working the low paid jobs in these factories and whatnot, have bigger risks to worry about than safety in drug manufacturing.
> Is there any reason the "Farmacia" model of Latin American countries, where you go in and pay per-pill for whatever you want wouldn't work here?
It seems that, at least in Mexico, this model leads to massive overuse of antibiotics as people self medicate colds/flu and other things that don’t need them.*
Facing increased antibiotic resistance, letting people decide for themselves when they need antibiotics seems like a mistake, especially given that many Americans already “shop” between doctors until one will prescribe the antibiotics they think they need (prompted in some cases through the perverse incentives of patient satisfaction surveys).
Never mind the decision making around which specific medication may be most effective for a particular condition in light of potential side effects that the average person may not know much about, for example the potential for long term disabling damage from fluoroquinolones–see people preemptively asking their doctor for a Cipro prescription “just in case” they get diarrhea while traveling.
Sunscreen! Korea and Japan have great sunscreens that don't feel oily or icky on your skin because they're able to use more modern ingredients. The FDA hasn't approved new sunscreen ingredients since 1999.
This is important for people (commonly women) who regularly use skincare treatments that make their skin extra sensitive to the sun. They want daily facial sunscreen that doesn't feel greasy. We end up buying it on eBay because it's not allowed to be sold in the US.
For the longest time, something as simple as Voltarin was not available OTC in the US, but could easily be obtained from other countries. It's an anti-inflamatory cream used for joint pain that you don't have to eat, so lower risk of side-effects to stomach, liver, and kidneys.
I dont know what "Famarcia" model you refer to, but in Argentina isn't like that, but the contrary. You need a prescription from your doctor to buy most of the meds. Last time I was in NYC, I was surprised by the meds section, a lot of choices without prescription. I wish we had something like that in here, the only thing that doesn't need a prescription is ibuprofen*
In Mexico, Colombia and Peru I have bought individual pills, exactly as many as needed. I’ve done this for stomach issues and antibiotics (yes, I had a bacterial infection). In Mexico, I saw a doctor in the same building as the pharmacy after a 10 minute wait to get a prescription for something else.
Yup. It's literally a green status page that no one would give a second glance. That unreadable white on green? Oh. It's a deprecation message. It even has a subscribe link so that people would immediately and completely dismiss it as an ad due to ad/banner blindness.
Edit 2: Someone replied in the thread and added more context for the absolute lack of communication.
The fact their headquarters are in the US isn't the relevant bit - it's the fact that they operate in Europe that's important. Figma and Adobe could withdraw their offerings from Europe and they'd be free to do what they want, but that's not very likely.
If you want to operate globally you have to accept the laws of the places where you do business. You can't just say "but HQ is in 'merica so screw you" and expect to continue trading in those countries.
Have there been any examples of this? I'd be really interested to know what happens in practice if the EU say "No acquisition" and Adobe just goes ahead with the acquisition. Do Adobe's products get pulled off the shelf? Do they face a monetary fine? What happens 10 years down the road when Figma is completely integrated into Adobe and Adobe still aren't operating in the EU at what point does the EU say "Hey, you're allowed back"?
Because they both operate in the EU, have customers in the EU, make money in the EU, and have legal presences in the EU. Generally, any merger of large multinational corporations will require multinational approval - the US and EU at a bare minimum, often also the UK, Japan, China, and any other countries with strong regulatory regimes where one of the companies has a major/critical presence.
Any one of these countries can block a merger if they see an antitrust issue; Qualcomm and NXP found this out the hard way with China a few years ago, and Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are finding that out with the UK right now. Of course, these companies could flip off China or the UK and just merge anyway, but then they'd risk being subject to crippling fines, having their local assets seized, and even being barred from doing business in that market altogether.
Does mholt consider it a mistake? I'm aware that it was reverted (https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/1866) and that mholt found the whole thing difficult (which is my attempt to neutrally summarize https://caddy.community/t/the-realities-of-being-a-foss-main... accurately), but that is a somewhat different statement. If so, then yes, it's unkind and unhelpful to keep bringing it up, but if no then it's useful to keep previous behavior in mind when evaluating the product.
Yes, it was a mistake. (Source: I'm a Caddy maintainer, and it comes up in our discussions from time to time.) The reason it was done was because Caddy needed some source of revenue since Matt made it his full time job, and he assumed the sponsors thought they would appreciate the extra promotion (and as you can see at the bottom of that github link, he tried to alert them but received no feedback). Of course, thinking that no feedback was an implicit "sure" was a lapse in judgment, but we're all human.
Remember, this was six years ago. That's an eternity in this industry. Caddy is a very different project than it was then, and Matt has a different and more stable revenue stream than he did then. We can promise we'll never attempt the same thing again.
But seriously, this comes up in like one in ten HN threads where Matt comments, it's exhausting to keep telling people "okay can you please forget what you remember from 6 years ago and look at the project for what it is now?"
Yes, I understand the reasons why caddy did all the things I objected to; money is actually important, telemetry can be useful to devs, and the early (non) packaging decisions were clearly meant to optimize the on-ramp. But just because I understand a decision doesn't mean I agree, and doesn't mean I'm not going to include that information in my own decision to avoid a program.
> Remember, this was six years ago. That's an eternity in this industry. Caddy is a very different project than it was then, and Matt has a different and more stable revenue stream than he did then. We can promise we'll never attempt the same thing again.
I think this was meant to be reassuring, but it really makes it sounds more like it was purely a pragmatic thing. Okay, so now Caddy has stable cash flow, so no adware. Next year the economy lurches and the money goes away; is caddy going to start making awkward decisions again?
> But seriously, this comes up in like one in ten HN threads where Matt comments, it's exhausting to keep telling people "okay can you please forget what you remember from 6 years ago and look at the project for what it is now?"
You know that line about how people will forget what you do, but not how you made them feel? I remember exactly how I felt when the wonderful server software I was using decided to start shipping adware. And now, having backed off but never actually apologized, you want people to just forget about the whole thing? That's not how it works. Edit: Now that we've had this exchange, and at least you have called it a mistake and said it won't happen again, I can update my evaluation based on that. I would suggest that saying that six years ago in the announcements channel would have reduced the number of times you needed to have this conversation.
Edit2: Realized there was a much more succinct way of answering: If someone feels that you wronged them, you don't get to choose when they get over it. A lot of users felt that caddy treated them poorly. And honestly, even if the project had said then what you're saying now, some of them would still remember that.
Interesting. Linux desktop really suffers from not having something slick as RDP on Windows. VNC isn't performant enough, I've found the open source RDP servers to be buggy and reattaching to a session sometimes doesn't work and can cause crashes (at least on my Fedora install). VNC can do the same sometimes attaching to an existing session.
At the moment I use Windows as a jump box to do remote sessions to my Linux development VM, which is on the same local network.
Something that works well over a decent internet connection and can reliably re-connect to an existing session would be great.
I use NoMachine for Linux to Linux remote desktop, which feels almost as good as RDP for Windows on LAN and workable, but not quite as slick as RDP over lower bandwidth internet.
I've tried VNC, x2go, xpra, and NoMachine has been the best experience. NoMachine also has a free Windows client-only installation hidden somewhere on their website.
I've tested the bulit-in VNC between two MacBooks, and it was an extremely high quality image, extremely fast and extremely responsive. To me the performance was completely unexpected. In what uses is VNC lacking?
No, they are constrained by the laws that authorize their existence and activity.
Better to look those up and call your congress rep if you don't like it than make random unfounded "govmnt bad" accusations, but those do seem to be all the rage these days.
I tried setting up one of the open source servers and it was an awful experience. I dug around and it seems like most providers are using proprietary implementations or proprietary forks of servers that are no longer maintained. I was interested at the time in understanding how the big guys like Giganews and so on set up nntp, peering, storage, etc. Didn't get very far.
