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   by hunson_abadeer 3y ago

   The usual rule of civil lawsuits is that you sue whoever has the money.
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   by hunson_abadeer 3y ago

   Something is bound to get ya. As we get better at managing other diseases and risks, cancer - which is seldom truly curable - gets a larger share. The progress on other fronts really is staggering. Forget pre-industrial times: global chil
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   by hunson_abadeer 3y ago

   Then when they jack up prices, it creates an incentive for new companies to enter that field and make the same item for less. A better question might be: what hinders this process today? Capital disparity plays a role (a wealthy company can
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   by hunson_abadeer 3y ago

   The prevailing take on HN and most other geeky sites is that measures meant to prevent users from fully using their devices - DRM, secure boot, etc - are harmful at worst and pointless at best. We usually don't get upset about iPhone o
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   by hunson_abadeer 3y ago

   And it's some kid's science fair project, to that
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   by hunson_abadeer 3y ago

   Maybe so, but it's easy to say this after the fact. When kludges like this work, we admire "scrappy" and "ingenious" engineers who are finding ways to launch rockets or build submarines or medical devices or whateve