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nooop
15y ago
Yeah America makes the whole medical R&D, right. Seriously.
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nooop
15y ago
In a way this can happen (though i'm far from being sure it actually does...): the medical area is one where the prices are the most regulated. In the public sector the prices for an MRI are probably very largely fixed by the government (an
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nooop
15y ago
Yeah but 2% of a very high cost is higher than it would be if the cost is lower (obviously). Of course you won't cut the costs much by targeting those 2% at first, but if you ever get to reasonable prices those 2% would transform in 7% and
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nooop
15y ago
Except that this is comparing apples to carrots. Scientist includes "computer scientist". At a certain level of competency "programmer" is comparable to "electrical engineer", and while "electrical engineer" does not defined which project y
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nooop
15y ago
On the other hand, I am a generalist programmer with an engineering degree that right at the moment is working on different project in various fields and in each of this project on various layers of technology => the result is that i'm
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nooop
15y ago
You are borderline to the false dichotomy. Of course "well-behaved doesn't equate to better", (except if all other things are being equal), but having well-behaved children don't preclude them from being creative and so over. Agitated is no
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nooop
15y ago
Reading the description, i agree this seemed to kind of suck. But I'm French and also wanted to say; it wasn't like that when I grow up in the 80/90s, and it also not at all like that now. Children are treated like children not miniature ad