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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Can you elaborate on how other countries are free riders? It's not like the board at Novo has a board meeting where they decide "we hate the US so lets charge them more for our products" The simple fact is that the US has hig
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I think that's difficult to implement. There's a risk that companies might end up not launching new products on the US market There's several factors that impact US drug prices. For instance FDA approvals are significantly mo
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Completely agree. That's part of why Ozempic is cheaper in Europe. I actually worked for the company who negotiates drug purchases for all hospitals here in Denmark (Amgros), so I'm somewhat familiar with the process There's
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I do get that point, but I'm not sure it would actually work Drug prices in the US are, in part, higher because FDA requirements are much, much stricter so it's more difficult to actually get a drug approved. It's simply more
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
If I remember correctly that cost is also only the price of developing a successful drug Several drug developments are halted before they reach market. Novo for instance lost a lot of money on their bet to develop inhalable insulin 15 years
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I get that point, but given that Ozempic sells for significantly less in other countries I think it's worth considering why it's that much more expensive in the US
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Their market cap is also bigger than the GDP of their home country (Denmark) As a Dane that's pretty terrifying to me (see Nokia and Nortel)
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I think the complexity of the issue isn't really reflected by the article. The most obvious points that are missing are the risks associated with developing a new drug, the costs of research, and the regulatory requirements from the FD
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Postgres can now auto-generate uuidv7, so you can define it in your schema and don't have to add the ID on the client side when doing an insert
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Really nice idea, but I'm having an issue with the date-picker; can't change the month, so it's stuck in October (I'm using brave browser on android)
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Here you go https://nitter.net/paulk139/status/1550532282288508929
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Yes. The Fairphone wins hands down. The cheapest iPhone has six years of remaining software updates and cost approximately $590 where I live. Thats a little more than $98 per year Apple care+ is approximately $40 per year plus another $80
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
For that price you also get 4x the storage of the cheapest iPhone SE. For comparable storage the iPhone is €749 Comparing the cheapest iPhone with the FP5, the latter is still cheaper per year, even if I never have to replace anything (such
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
- Price wise it's still competitive if looking at the cost per year - I don't want to spend time and energy having to figure out which phone I should replace it with when the shitty phone dies after 12 months - I care about the wo
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I need a phone to be able to perform every day things like 2fa for my banking, just like I need other things like a fridge for my food I want to the keep the cost per year for these things as low as possible while fulfilling my base require
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Sure, if your use-case requires a lot of computational power it might be a bad fit, but as I also wrote in my post, my requirements are pretty light, in which case this phone is closer to perfect than any other I've come across
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
The lowest cost iPhone SE 3rd gen I can find on Apple's website is €549 with 7 years of software updates The fp5 on Fairphones website is €529 with at least 8 years of software updates Even if iPhones were marginally cheaper, they carr
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
As far as I can recall the fp3 was sold with a promise of five years of software updates and parts. I think they're still honouring that and haven't backtracked on any such promises for any of their models, so their track record i
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I think it's still hard to say which policies would be effective. I think CO2-equivalent emission taxes are a good starting point It might also be possible to put a recycling fee on each produced device based on the retail price and th
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I'm getting one. I'm currently on a galaxy note 9, which hasn't received updates for a year. The hardware is still plenty fast for what I use my phone for, but since I have my banking app on the phone, I don't feel comfo
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
There were some prototypes like phonebloks (later named project Ara) ten years ago, which sadly was cancelled Interchangeable parts between models is really hard, since your support burden kind of explodes when you have to support several p
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Agreed. Though I'm personally more in favour of adding the cost at the other end. I think companies should be taxed for the cost of restoring the damage their products cause to the environment, as this would encourage competition towar
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
It's sad that the Fairphone 3 is losing support already, though I think that's much more down to upstream vendors of the hardware not providing support for the chipset, not Fairphone themselves In terms of the release schedule I t
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I understand why some people don't want to pay this amount of money upfront based on the specs alone. From a "per year" cost I still think it's competitive If they really manage to support this device for 10 years, that&
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
Completely agree with your comment. What makes me annoyed about statements like "this will reduce the amount of child labour used to produce X" is that they're almost never followed up with an explanation on how to deal with
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
They mention that this will limit the amount of child labour used in cotton farming. What worries me, is what those kids will then do instead. They're working because their family needs the income, so these children will be pushed into
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I was not aware of this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention Do you know whether it's the organisation representing the artists (Coda here in Denmark) or the labels/movie studios that end up being the beneficiaries of the tax?
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I think there still is a price scaling based on regional purchasing power. No doubt that people in Denmark have much more dispensable income on average, but for students and low-income households renting a movie online is a luxury That&#x27
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
There's an additional tax on all storage media, be it harddrives, usb sticks, burnable CDs. If you can write data to it, the tax is applied. The tax is used to compensate rights holders. I don't know exactly how it's distribu
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by Scandiravian 3y ago
I studied law for a few years in Denmark and I remember the insane amount of money required to purchase all the books on the curriculum Most of them were written by the professors who taught the course and every year or two, they'd res

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