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huthuthike
3y ago
I think you are looking at the cost of generic prescription drugs vs their generic OTC counterpart. When a drug is first invented it is patented, not generic. The drug company has to look at whether to apply for FDA approval as a prescripti
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huthuthike
3y ago
More like no one bothered to apply to make it OTC until a year ago. In the US there is more money to be made from selling prescription medication.
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huthuthike
3y ago
They are a self-spreading phenomenon like fire in the sense that they aren't alive. But what's different about them is they can develop varying characteristics that pass onto their progeny. The characteristics that are more succes
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huthuthike
3y ago
Even prions undergo evolution and they are just molecules bumping around into stuff. They clearly don't have feelings about whether or not they propagate, they just do.
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huthuthike
3y ago
That was a rumor that the mother has debunked. She has come out and said that she was supposed to go with her husband, but gave up her seat to her son because he really wanted to go. I'm not sure this makes it better for the mother, bu
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huthuthike
3y ago
It had one bullet left. You should consider that if you don't know these details you might not have solid footing for your opinion of the ending.
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huthuthike
3y ago
The boy offers to give the man his pistol but the man tells him to keep it. That indicates the man is not trying to trick him. Talking about odds in a fictional story is misguided. The odds are 100% whatever the writer intended.
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huthuthike
3y ago
I disagree with your interpretation of the ending. It felt to me that the family that takes in the boy are not bad people.
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3y ago
My favorite of his is As I Lay Dying. I find it much more readable than The Sound and the Fury. The latter is his most famous, and McCarthy's favorite work by Faulkner. But Faulkner himself said As I Lay Dying was his magnum opus.