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Stolen in the same sense someone would steal your credit card number
by 0-_-0 6y ago
Stolen in the same sense someone would steal your credit card number
- grishka 6y agoExcept a credit card number is a piece of information that protects your real money that the word "steal" could definitely be used in relation to. It's like copying a key to a safe. This one however?
- ethanbond 6y agoPharma IP is both zero sum and way more valuable than your real money.
- feoren 6y agoPharma IP is literally the textbook definition of non-zero-sum. You think Fleming's refusal (or inability, or whatever) to patent penicillin resulted in the discovery being zero-sum? It's hard to imagine an example of anything more positive-sum than pharmaceutical knowledge.
- ethanbond 6y agoA molecule will generally only be approved for a given indication once (until it goes generic). If one company releases it, the second one to discover it can’t.