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by busyant 13y ago
Your scenario would be a helluva shakeup on how things are done now. It would be interesting to see if your scenario would end up doing a better or worse job with respect to drug development.
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by busyant 13y ago
Put yourself in their shoes. It's going to cost you $50MM-500MM just to test if a drug is effective and safe for treating a disease. You sink all of that money in, with the hopes that your drug gets approved. And then, once you'
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by busyant 13y ago
It depends on what you want to get out of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it's the opposite. Since it costs so much $ to fund clinical trials and apply for regulatory approval, the lack of patents would stifle innovation because
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by busyant 13y ago
Absolutely correct. I used to work in this industry, and one of the 1st questions asked when we were thinking about testing a drug to treat a disease was "Does someone else 'own' this drug or do we?" If someone else &#x2
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by busyant 13y ago
This doesn't really make any sense. If the soap can go in, it can get out. If the soap can go in, it's going to kill the overwhelming majority of the microbes ensconced in whatever matrix the 3d printer material is built from. This is a non
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by busyant 13y ago
why can't you wash the items with soap?
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by busyant 13y ago
> Incidentally, does anyone know if mergers like these affect which drugs get offered by a company? I think the FTC can (and does) block pharma mergers which severely reduce competition -- they will either block a merger or force spin-o
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by busyant 14y ago
Does anyone know what the specific metric is that they are using to compare Wat son to doctors? What does it mean that doctors make the correct treatment decision 50% of the time? I don't doubt that Watson is better at this task, but it's d
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by busyant 14y ago
Krugman says precisely what you have said: "Ah, you ask, but what about the people? Very good question. Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce the demand for people — including smart people. So we could be looking at a
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by busyant 14y ago
I think you're ignoring a wealth of research just because it doesn't fit with your world-view. There is a fair amount of evidence indicating both genetic and epigenetic contributions to obesity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12574619
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by busyant 14y ago
> biological evolution strike anyone else as rather irrelevant, now? Depends. I can envision a lot of scenarios where infectious disease wreaks havoc on our species. Random mutation might have a significant impact on who would survive s
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by busyant 14y ago
It's not iron-clad proof that the contents of the article are truthful. However, if the contents were not truthful, I think you would also expect the Chinese government to forcefully deny them. There is no mention of a denial in the refer
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by busyant 14y ago
> I truly believe that we are entering an age where human labor will become obsolete. It may take a while but, its going to happen. I think you're correct. For me, what's difficult is to understand what happens to us at that point...and
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by busyant 14y ago
> we will need to do a better job at educating them to prepare them for more high skilled labor. What about people who can't be educated for high-skilled labor? Seems like a taboo subject, but there are a lot of people like this in the
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by busyant 14y ago
All of what you mention may be true (I don't really know if it is), but spending 8 days in line for a phone (even a great one) seems out of proportion even when taking into consideration all of the superlatives you mention. I think that's w
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by busyant 14y ago
Can you give me an example of a country that does it "right"? I'm genuinely curious, but I also suspect that twenty different people here would give twenty different answers to this question.
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by busyant 14y ago
To use ajross's term, Ping wasn't a "downgrade". Ping was more of a lead zeppelin.
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by busyant 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "gamechanging" What games has Wolfram really changed out there in the real world? Wolfram seems kind of nerdy cool, but for me it's mostly been like bar-trivia crossed with nice mathematical function plotting.
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by busyant 14y ago
That's a cheap shot. The medical and science articles in wikipedia that I've read in areas where I have expertise are remarkably good. Why not use a powerful, free and fast resource, as long as you're cognizant of its limitations?
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by busyant 14y ago
Agree. I worked at a biotech startup where our CFO had to fire an employee. He went in soft and the fired employee showed up the next day wondering why his fob wouldn't open the door. Theres no need to be cruel, but clarity is key.
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by busyant 14y ago
agreed. that little nugget of information begs to be fleshed out.
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by busyant 14y ago
The only person who seems to have been able to do this on a grand scale even when he matured was Jobs.
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by busyant 14y ago
Agreed. But the experts that have told me this have been both "plaintiff's experts" and "defense experts" (this is in pharmaceutical product liability) and they maintain this opinion about their juries irrespective of winning or losing. *ed
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by busyant 14y ago
I know several expert witnesses who agree. They say the jury never understands their testimony, and they just side with whoever is more charismatic. Several experts have told me this in various forms.
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by busyant 15y ago
"To be fair, a company wouldn't stalk and kill me, whereas an individual person 'just might'." "Who's being naive, Kay?" -Michael Corleone, The Godfather
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by busyant 15y ago
Here's the relevant data (bottom paragraph). Note that the results are not "stat sig". http://investors.galenabiopharma.com/releasedetail.cfm?Relea... I'm surprised this story is being upvoted here. The original article seems like a puff
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by busyant 15y ago
For me, the best way to use Facebook is to "mute" everyone . Family, friends--everyone. It has the following advantages: - No one knows that I've muted them. - I'm still on Facebook, so if people need to contact me through that medium,
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by busyant 15y ago
Just an FYI: the General Exam is the qualifying exam used to determine whether a graduate student (usually in his/her 2nd year) can continue on and complete his/her Ph.D. thesis. It's designed to test general knowledge (hence the name) in y
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by busyant 15y ago
This cancer vaccine is already on the market and it already works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipuleucel-T The study mentioned in the i09.com article is just public relations -- in particular, b/c mouse cancer models are often not predi
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by busyant 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "clustered". Where are you looking at the clustering?

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