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by tsotha 11y ago
I don't see how Pharmaceutical companies can exist without IP protections, unless you're willing to publicly fund the entire development cycle. For the vast majority of drugs the cost of producing the tablet you take is just a few
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>The science that these drugs are based on was given to the public domain for free by scientists all around the world throughout history. Lets see if these greedy companies are willing to pay those scientists whose results they freely us
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by tsotha 11y ago
Drug companies do spend a lot of money on marketing, but not every drug is the same. The ones you see on Superbowl commercials are usually drugs you don't need , like mild pain killers and allergy medications. My suspicion is the on
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by tsotha 11y ago
>That's not a good analogy. one could make an phone that has the exact same specs as the iphone or jeans that is the exact replica of a Levi's ,without the brand and the logo on it and it would not be an iPHone or a Levi's
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Who... apparently didn't speak Spanish.
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If only Miyazaki would have had this when he named Laputa: Castle in the sky
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Wasn't the law changed so they can't do this any more?
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USAA isn't a bank, it's a credit union. It's "field of membership" is uniformed military and their families.
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Yes. The way I've seen it explained is people (particularly younger people) confuse euphoria with happiness in the same way people tend to confuse infatuation with love.
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"After mid-2014, the lion’s share of the decline in oil prices has been caused by negative oil-specific demand shocks and, to a lesser extent, by negative aggregate demand shocks. In contrast, the role of the oil supply (understood as
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by tsotha 11y ago
Whether this is bad from the environmental standpoint depends on why the price is low. The price may be low because demand is off.
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Part of the reason for that is legislatures have given them more options in that department. The money crimes that were created to give cops an oblique way to go after drug dealers apply to pretty much any crime, i.e. if you rob a bank
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, the war on drugs was a response to the rise in crime and perceived breakdown of civil norms.
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>Prosecutors don't dole out "harsh" sentences, they dole out longer or more restrictive sentences. Prosecutors "don't dole" out sentences at all. Sentencing is one of the Judge's duties. The input pro
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by tsotha 11y ago
The financial markets have patience for R&D that actually pays off. Look at how much money companies like IBM and Intel are spending on shrinking design rules. Heck, IBM does a lot of research in a lot of areas.
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They're not even announcing batteries. They're announcing the theoretical possibility of a type of battery.
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That's one of my favorite pages in all the internet.
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But this is how rockstars are made. You hire in as a minion, you work hard, learn everything you can, and after a few years you can leave a rockstar. I doubled my salary each time I moved for the first three development jobs.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Am I the only one who thinks we seem to be spending a whole lot of money on research and getting mostly infinitesimal deltas in terms of results?
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Which is fine, as long as it's deliberate.
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It's pretty normal to switch between styles of speech depending on the situation. Word and grammar choices you use with a good friend are different than those you'd use in a television interview are different than those you'
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's a great attitude to take if you're at retirement age. But in order to retire you have to save decades before you know whether or not you still enjoy what you do for a living.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Think of it from another angle, then. Would you rather be unemployed after 50 with or without enough money to retire?
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by tsotha 11y ago
The last time I went to a major game convention, board gaming was almost nonexistent. There were entire convention halls stuffed with people shuffling Magic: The Gathering cards, but if you wanted to play an old Avalon Hill war game you
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by tsotha 11y ago
The fact that you can't come to an agreement with a supplier (of anything) doesn't mean you can just rip them off. It means you pony up more cash or do without whatever it is they were selling. China is flush with dollars these
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by tsotha 11y ago
They did have more people. The problem is not everyone in the group knows the code to the same degree. Even when you have someone on station who's supposed to take care of problems, if it takes him more than about twenty minutes to
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by tsotha 11y ago
>With warehouses around the globe, my husband would get paged to fix problems in China in the middle of the night, in the UK in the wee hours of the morning, and then in the Kentucky warehouse during work hours. I worked at a company tha
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by tsotha 11y ago
On the other hand you really can get severe burns from the filling of a microwaved jelly donut even if the dough part is cool enough to hold. It's true the microwaves don't heat "from the inside out", but it's also
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Our ancestors will be a bit ripe by then. Did you mean "descendants"?
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>It does the Chinese a bit of good. Arguably, it's bad for some residents of the USA but humanity probably benefits overall. I have no sources for this claim. Like all trade, if the Chinese feel they can benefit from the fruits of f

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