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by amrocha 3y ago
The pandemic where governments in the global south were fleeced by pharma companies, while the global north enforced patents and let millions of people die? Which, by the way, is still happening in a lot of poor countries that just don&#x27
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by amrocha 3y ago
Aren't these results mostly luck driven though? Lee and Kim were lucky to go to that university in Korea, lucky that their professor researched superconductor theory, and lucky that the professor's theory was correct. At the same
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by amrocha 3y ago
Inventions are still subject to patents. If you make a handheld MRI then others shouldn't be able to steal it from you unless they design their own. The material itself is what shouldn't have a patent on it. Reading comprehension
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by amrocha 3y ago
Ok, so private companies should be happy to compete freely without having to pay licensing fees. Win win.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Well then, I'm glad we don't have any emergencies at hand that will be too late to do anything about in 20 years.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Bullshit, science isn't driven by patents or funded by private industry.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Never said it was the only thing
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by amrocha 3y ago
Just to be clear: you're arguing that it's actually a good thing to deliberately slow down application of a revolutionary technology, so that people can make money?
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by amrocha 3y ago
Sure, and millions of people die of preventable diseases in the global south every year because pharmaceutical companies deem it profitable to let them die, and because the global north enforces their patents. You don't know how it&#x2
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by amrocha 3y ago
Long, hard labor should be rewarded. And it is. They're receiving a salary, and now fame. That's more than enough.
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by amrocha 3y ago
I hope they're as weak as possible. The worst possible outcome of a room temp superconductor being discovered is stifling innovation to make money off it
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by amrocha 3y ago
There's plenty of high density in certain corridors of North America. Vancouver -> Seattle -> Portland, potentially extending down to California. Geography is not an excuse. Japan and China have horrible geography too.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Alright, that's a fair opinion. It's ads all the way down with the large tech companies.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Yeah I think so, although I think they're both very good. I feel like Google has already established how they use data, whereas I'm not so sure with Apple.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Right, I think that's a fair criticism, but I don't see how it relates to their data privacy policies.
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by amrocha 3y ago
The Google hate crowd is so strange to me. I just don't understand it when Google are probably the best data stewards in the current landscape. I trust Google more than I trust my own government with my data. I guess their support is b
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by amrocha 3y ago
If you don't think you can do that with 300K per year then idk what to tell you, your accounting looks very different from mine
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by amrocha 3y ago
That's not a "fundamental problem", that's just the way it works. Unless you're already popular somewhere else, or your content is very good, strangers don't care about what you have to say. On Twitter or irl o
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by amrocha 3y ago
I used to that for the most part already on a third of the income (for a 2 bedroom apartment and no kids to be fair). Biweekly maid service where they clean the dishes, the house, and do laundry. It wouldn't be much more expensive to c
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by amrocha 3y ago
"Saving" a business isn't really a lifestyle thing, that's more of an investment really. Realistically, your life isn't meaningfully worse if you find a new restaurant to go to. Paying for friends to vacation with y
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by amrocha 3y ago
I don't disagree with you, but at some point the number stops mattering. What's the difference in lifestyle between 300K and 500K? 500K and 1M? And even if there is a difference, is that worth the opportunity cost of paying everyo
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by amrocha 3y ago
Because if you don't live in a swing state, even if you are fully on board it makes very little difference if you vote or not. And yes, you're right about the second part too. That's another reason the original post was wrong
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by amrocha 3y ago
You can't make the voter turnout argument because the US election system is awful, and people know when their vote doesn't matter, or when it's being suppressed, and choose not to vote
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by amrocha 3y ago
It's not that easy, because: - not all jobs can be automated - manual laborers make less money If you see immigrants all around you doing great, while you clean toilets and struggle to feed yourself, that breeds resentment of your gove
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by amrocha 3y ago
I'm not saying Europeans don't consume. I'm saying no one except USians would say "I consume more than you, therefore my quality of life is higher".
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by amrocha 3y ago
No, because then you have no one to do manual jobs because the native well educated youth won't take those.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Consumption is a terrible proxy for quality of life. It's also terribly USAian of you.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Yep it sucks. Even in "better" places cars still find a way to ruin things though, so it's a constant battle.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Funny how these supposedly unsafe vehicles come from a country with way less traffic deaths than the safer USA
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by amrocha 3y ago
They are statistically not doing pickup truck things. Pickup truck owners haul stuff once per year on average. That's the difference that you're not seeing. You think that the problem is those "bro-dozers", and everyone

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