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by tertius 9y ago
Many cameras have had GPS modules and none have suffered from this problem. It's easily solved by polling infrequently (you don't move a lot when taking photos) and only polling when you're actually using your camera.
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by tertius 9y ago
This is business in general. The big ones buy up the small generic producers and single new drug companies and get slightly bigger. The ones who can't pass trials fail. That's business, especially in R&D.
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by tertius 9y ago
This is constantly done... Find some new discoveries in basic science. Get finding. Develop a drug. Test and redevelop. Market. Profit.
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by tertius 9y ago
Drug development is expensive.
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by tertius 9y ago
Drugs are cheapest in India. Let's normalize. I.e. far end of the pricing bell curve. But the answer is still, yes, there is profitability. Just not as much as with the hyper inflated prices in the US. In short: Does the extreme cost f
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by tertius 9y ago
South Africa has the highest population of AIDS sufferers. That's why they're a good example.
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by tertius 9y ago
> Almost got it right: Drugs elsewhere are cheaper and largely subsidized by USA citizens. * Correction, by U.S. government (through law). > Those drugs cost a fortune to make and the companies make their money in USA. Yes R&D is
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by tertius 9y ago
Drugs are cheaper and largely subsidized by governments with high incidence of HIV. *I'm South African, antiretrovirals are free.
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by tertius 9y ago
> and require a certain amount of real political coverage in the media "Require" and "free press" don't go together unfortunately.
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by tertius 9y ago
They're also very expensive products. I'd look at numbers sold over 5 years. And yes, I guess tiny is not a good word, still very small.
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by tertius 9y ago
I think we agree here on the importance of the Mac. I don't know how real the difference between Jobs and Cook is regarding the product line. They worked together for a long time and what you're saying seems like the romantic appl
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by tertius 9y ago
The sales numbers compared to their main products is tiny. > You mean the platform where iOS development happens? Yes, that one. I doubt "iOS developers" can keep Apple alive.
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by tertius 9y ago
At this point? The Mac has not been one of their main products for almost a decade.
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by tertius 9y ago
I think it matters if those wanting to be sovereign make the claim.
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by tertius 9y ago
If it's so clear, what's the big deal?
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by tertius 9y ago
Then refute it. That's how speech works. Saying "it's wrong" is meaningless.
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by tertius 9y ago
You should explain this in a main comment that hopefully gets upvoted to the top.
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by tertius 9y ago
Look up what Medicare pays out.
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by tertius 9y ago
Bonkers. If you're a christian you could lower that considerably. Medishare.
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by tertius 9y ago
Or lower costs. Hospitals charge an order of magnitude too much.
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by tertius 9y ago
Rest of his comment. > In fact the increase in wages could be used to fund a basic preventative care plan (read not full on single payer) for all Americans.
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by tertius 9y ago
Our costs are disproportionately higher. Let's fix that before we get the government to foot the bill.
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by tertius 9y ago
> Doctors/hospitals might earn less No, they HAVE to earn less. Also, if the exact same medicare that pays out today is replicated to the whole population the medical industry will go broke overnight.
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by tertius 9y ago
We agree mostly. I don't think that the public should be able to get a device which they can, using rudimentary skills, turn into a proverbial nuclear weapon. I.e. buy cheap drug, make it better, die. > There is only one party invol
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by tertius 9y ago
I think he merely means the difference between an organism silencing/expressing or losing genetic material or an organism gaining genetic material. Both can alter function. One is observed the other not (according to those who argue mi
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by tertius 9y ago
Why should we limit it by age? Also, you say that "I think x,y,z." But you do not say why. Do you have some expertise that informs your decision on safety or is your opinion purely philosophical (based on personal freedom or even
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by tertius 9y ago
> This is pretty basic privacy and body autonomy rights. There are more than one party involved here. You think plain heroin is toxic, wait until you see the engineered drugs that are created by big pharma in comparison. Do you think I s
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by tertius 9y ago
Even if this is true, it seems it's still better than not drinking coffee. And I agree with you, at least anecdotally, that this happens.
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by tertius 9y ago
> do we really want to regulate self-harm? In the worst cases we do: Euthanasia. Drinking under 21: We do. Marijuana use under 25: We should.
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by tertius 9y ago
What is the margin of error for democracies? What is the margin of error for "scientific consensus"?

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