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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I have no clue where most drug research or drug development takes place. Right now the discussion tends to end up with US companies saying they charge so much for new medications to recoup the costs of ideas that didn’t pan out. Since only
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I think this is what I remember reading (or perhaps a first draft that turned into this): https://www.wired.com/2004/02/stop-making-pills-political-pr... . It was written before those drugs actually were made avai
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
Lawrence Lessig had a blog post about this before he ran for president: drug prices are lower in places like Africa because they’re higher in the US. The rich US consumers (or insurance companies) subsidize the poorer African purchases. F
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
In the US, at least, food regulations (and food packaging regulations) are relatively recent. And when they started, instead of requiring everybody prove that everything they’d been doing was safe, they came up with the idea of identifying
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
In .Net, use CancellationToken ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threadin... , https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threadin... ). The two bi
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I thought so. If I were to develop a retail product, when it came time to put a price on the package, you can be sure that I would collect data to see how much people were willing to pay for the product. That’s hardly “stop-the-presses!” he
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
In the US, there’s a concern that some alcohol company will start claiming their drinks are healthier than the others, so alcohol packaging isn’t required to say anything about the number of calories in the drink ( https://www.ea
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
I’m honestly surprised I didn’t get any “how dare you say it’s all about feeling bad if we don’t do what Stallman says?” comments. I was trying to play it as straight as I could, without sounding like a crank. I’m not always successful.
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by maxlybbert 2y ago
You clearly aren’t familiar with GNU or the Free Software Foundation. There’s nothing wrong with that: everybody starts out without being familiar with anything. In a nutshell, Richard Stallman worked in MIT’s AI lab in the 1970s. The lab h
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by maxlybbert 3y ago
I don’t think anybody is surprised that college tuition has increased. They’re surprised it’s increased faster than the prices for almost every other service. So have health care costs. And in both cases, the system is designed to make it d
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by maxlybbert 3y ago
In the US, insider trading also requires a breach of fiduciary duty ( https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/01/18/insider-trading-l... ).
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by maxlybbert 3y ago
It’s material and nonoublic, but did he get it in violation of a fiduciary duty ( https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/01/18/insider-trading-l... )?
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by maxlybbert 3y ago
Insider trading requires material nonpublic information, but it also requires somebody violate a fiduciary duty. From the page you linked to (emphasis added): > Illegal insider trading refers generally to buying or selling a security,
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by maxlybbert 3y ago
In the US, insider trading requires material nonpublic information, but it officially also requires that somebody break a fiduciary duty to the company involved. So, in your hypothetical, the person breaking cryptography algorithms knows so
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by maxlybbert 3y ago
I would have said it the way you did: Christians took pagan traditions, put a Christian veneer on them, and then acted like they had something new. I think the original quote was trying to portray something different: that Christians tried
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
My understanding is that book publishers didn’t want the headache of knowing which printers were licensed for specific fonts, so they got a specific carveout for the shape of letters. So when they sell a book, they don’t have to worry about
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
There are plenty of laws about, say, attempted murder. Also, it’s possible for somebody to be convicted of shoplifting even if they’re nabbed before they leave the store if it’s clear that they were in the process of stealing items ( https
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
That’s the official goal, but it’s not necessarily what happens (“while many communities include buybacks in their overall gun violence prevention strategies, most research shows these events are ineffective at reducing homicides and suicid
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
I’m sure they’ll eventually make those available on gnu.org. This doesn’t look like an announcement that the book is generally ready, but that the first draft is ready enough for people to make suggestions. I’m sure they’ll have PDFs and we
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
I have the “Primer of Algol 60 Programming” by Dijkstra. It was created ten years before K&R, so of course it doesn’t start with “Hello World.” But that fact surprised me a little the first time I read it.
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
I’m sure they’ll eventually make a PDF and HTML pages easily available on their site, like they have for plenty of other manuals. This announcement is more along the lines of “if you want to help us with the finishing touches, here’s where
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
But courts have repeatedly held that child porn is outside the protection of free speech, along with fraud, false advertising, threats, defamation, and some other kinds of speech.
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
I’m sure the idea is to take advantage of joint and several liability ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/joint_and_several_liability ). If Pornhub and Visa are declared to be severally liable, the woman will be able to
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
But verifying users doesn’t require publishing their names on their profile page.
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
Musk’s offer explicitly didn’t demand this kind of data. I assume he figured that Twitter’s statements about its finances, number of users, growth, etc. were reliable and he didn’t need to do any additional due diligence. I thought it was r
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
> Everyone is nuts to talk about 'shareholders' - who cares? As a 'consumer' - I want a good service and cheap (i.e. free) with no ads. I have zero interest in 'shareholders' of a company I'm not a shar
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by maxlybbert 4y ago
I also believe that Musk will walk away and the stock will tank. Musk’s recent stock purchase and discussion about joining the board made the price jump significantly. You’re right that there’s no obvious reason that his involvement should
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by maxlybbert 5y ago
> By your argument, you're okay with these sorts of requests for basically any crime. It seems to me that this kind of sweeping surveillance should only be used in extreme cases. I’m not familiar with how police departments and pros
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by maxlybbert 5y ago
The New York Federal Reserve has a model in Julia at https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE . The Federal Reserve has two models ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/us-models-about.htm and https:/&#x
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by maxlybbert 5y ago
The parent said > UB problems happen only when compilers detect it, understand it is an opportunity for optimization, because they are allowed to do anything, then do that optimization. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the comment, but

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