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by sdinsn 6y ago
> Who's supposed to fund this? The government- Schmidt is making a recommendation to Congress. > Is this to be a real college, with accreditation Yes
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by sdinsn 6y ago
If anyone from TileDB is reading this thread, the link for "Geospatial" under Applications in the main page's footer points to the wrong link.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Single payer healthcare is a separate issue from pharmaceutical companies. In a single payer system, there will just be a single buyer- and a single buyer, AKA a monopsony, is illegal under monopoly laws in the US.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Taxpayers paid for only some of the research. Gilead spent billions of their own to develop it.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> what would be a per-unit price you would consider too high? If the price is too high, then no one will purchase it. Therefore, Gilead makes no money. Obviously, Gilead wants to make money. So they will decrease the price to attract cus
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> Everyone want to know why a 33-year old was chosen? Because he can be controlled. Full stop. Huh? That's an ageist comment, and should not be acceptable.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Which percentage of non-gamers can?
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> "None of the military branches or Twitch would comment on paid promotion or how branches might qualify for prominent placement on Twitch’s homepage" It's money. Literally just money. There is nothing nefarious on Twitch&
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by sdinsn 6y ago
I think this is great- much better than the long-standing recruitment methods of military band concerts / color guard events / etc.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> Wow, baiting 13 year olds into signing up for the military Submitting this form is not "signing up for the military".
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Yes. And?
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by sdinsn 6y ago
"The taxpayers"? I'm a tax payer, and I want no such thing. Speak only for yourself please.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> This is classic example of monopoly pricing. No, it's a classic example of a expensive product (due to R&D costs) that has a monopoly because no one has developed anything close to it, partly because of Gilead's knowledge
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by sdinsn 6y ago
How many lives are we willing to sacrifice if we remove any reason for people to develop treatments? Profit is motivation for innovation.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> How much of that first vial was paid for by taxpayers? How does being funded by the taxpayers mean anything?
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> The majority of new drug development is the result of publicly funded research. Drug companies mine that research Isn't the entire point of publicly funded research to spur scientific and economic development? Are you proposing t
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Note that the government giving companies money doesn't mean the government magically owns any rights to the medication.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
And what was the R&D cost? And what were the regulatory costs? Most medication, aside from medication that uses radioactive isotopes, is very cheap to manufacture. R&D and regulations are not cheap.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Misleading title. Mention of blood levels are few, and the authors say it's uncertain and needs further research anyway...
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by sdinsn 6y ago
There is nothing obvious about this. It's the kind of baseless speculation that belongs in fringe conspiracy forums, not here
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Politicians holding stock and the government itself holding stock are two very different things.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> If it is true, it is insider trading. No, it's only insider trading if the information is based on insider (AKA private) information. Anything that can be derived from public information, even with a stretch, is also considered pu
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> At the same time, the low barrier of entry and hype has resulted in a huge amount of people downloading Keras, copying a bunch of code, tuning a few parameters, and then putting their result on arXiv so they can put AI research on thei
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by sdinsn 6y ago
No.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
From your link, Toyota got the most awards this year, with Nissan and Lexus (Lexus is owned by Toyota) getting 2 awards.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> A shrinking, aging population would fix this problem. The demand for labor will go up, the supply will go down. In the short term, absolutely. But after a generation, the old working population has retired and the smaller new working p
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by sdinsn 6y ago
If hacking is an act of war, we should have nuked Iran years ago...
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by sdinsn 6y ago
> How any of these attacks are useful though? It just gives them an excuse to retaliate. You could say that to the other side as well.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
If landlords need money, they can always sell their properties. Lowering the cost of living would be the best thing for the average person.
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by sdinsn 6y ago
Aneurysms are not related to blood clots, strokes, etc.

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