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by vikramkr 6y ago
You sound like you've never heard of boycotting. Yes, that what you described is how boycotting works. It's a very common thing. It ranges from civil rights activists boycotting segregated buses to religious conservatives boycotti
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Well actually, the only patent prescription drug is a bit elastic since insurance/PBMs negotiate on price. In referring to the particular case of a formerly on patent brand name drug that goes off patent that spikes in price. You'
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by vikramkr 6y ago
A better example is brand name prescription drugs. State substitution laws end up meaning that when generics come on market, a lot of consumers become proce sensitive by law since the pharmacy must fill the prescription with the lower pri
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Bioengineered means a specific thing in this context. I dont like using the term "genetically modified" because, well, everything is genetically modified, thats how agriculture works. Bioengineering narrows down what's being
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by vikramkr 6y ago
For plant patents, it actually involves recognizing something. If a branch of your Apple tree mutates nd produces good tasting fruit, then by law, you can patent a plant that exists in only one instance in the wild prior to you recognizin
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Even those will tend to bear more fruit when cross pollinated, and considering how common apples and crabapples are across the US, you granny Smith or golden delicious tree is still likely to get cross pollinated by a local decorative flowe
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Those aren't plant patents, those are DNA patents, completely different from the plant patents being discussed here. The patent there is on the dna sequence, not the plant. If you took that dma sequence, cloned it into yeast, amd start
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by vikramkr 6y ago
IIRC it has something to do with tubers also being the part of the plant that is used as food[0]. Why is that considered an exception while something cinnamon, where the bark of the plant is eaten and also used in asexual propagation, is no
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by vikramkr 6y ago
If its propagated by seeds its not patentable - so I don't think it's possible for that sort of scenario to rise. If you asexually propagated a plant and let a neighbor take a cutting, then I'm not sure. I'm not a lawyer
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Well, tubers can't be patented, so rest easy. As long as we have a patent system, patenting plants (especially with the heavy restrictions on plant patent eligibility) is a reasonable extension. Since the origin of agriculture, you&#x2
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by vikramkr 6y ago
While GMO regulation is a tough issue, this post has nothing to do with GMOs - the grapes in the post are under a standard plant patent and are non bioengineered.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Thats because plant patents cover varieties that won't really propagated themselves asexually naturally (or won't come true from seed). Tubers will keep propagating by themselves - you cant call out someone for infringing a patent
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by vikramkr 6y ago
So the question you ask in parenthesis is different from the question you ask int he first paragraph. If you prove the plant exist ed widespread in the wild before the patent holder tried to apply for the patent, then yes, the plant is not
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by vikramkr 6y ago
To clarify, the reason you are likely ending up with a wild apple phenotype is not because that is intrinsic to the nature of apples. Otherwise, new varieties could never be developed. Crabapples are used as pollinators for farmed apples si
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Apple trees aren't inbred - the seeds will not grow into the same variety as the parent. Usually, store bought apples will have seeds that produce inferior fruit since crabapples are used as a pollinator (apples aren't really all
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by vikramkr 6y ago
As a biologist, I assure you not any tissue or plant can be casually tissue cultured. Maybe in theory, but in practice I wouldn't want to be asked to try and turn a bit of woody apple fruit stem or sepal tissue into a viable clone!* Fa
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Other than the part about reproducing from seeds, this is a pretty standard plant patent situation in the US. There are all sorts of restrictions on what you can patent, and the plant patent landscape is quite reasonable (unlike software pa
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Cotton candy grapes are definitely patented. They've got another 10 years of patent life left IIRC
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Its a plant patent - a very standard type of patent in the US that will hold up perfectly fine in court
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Cotton candy grapes aren't bioengineered - this is referring to a plant patent which protects the grape variety.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Yes, it is rational, because of the other 50% chance. Welcome to finance. If you think a 50% chance of going to zero is bad, well, wait till you find out about some of the derivatives people trade. And hey, at least the value of this asset
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Well, you'd also have to have 100% risk tolerance for that to make sense. Something like 50% chance of 0 and 50% chance of 100 billion might be more realistic for a binary outcome valuation like that.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Are they really saints? Nadella has done a lot more good by changing microsoft's business model from the inside from EEE to one that embraces open source and collaboration than he could have if he quit. Even while he was at Microsoft h
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The other people's reactions were also odd - the first reaction to hearing someone say they'll pay for a hotel instead of buy a house with a guest room is discuss the cost of the hotel? Is that just a Canadian thing I don't
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by vikramkr 6y ago
If the asshole says they've changed because they got their brain swapped out with someone else and is now literally a different person, then yes, I'd give them some more leeway. Satya Nadella is not Steve Ballamer. Humans don&#x27
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Of course the driving force is money, thats what makes it possible to trust some companies. Its a simple motive to understand. There are a lot of ways to make money. If the company is making money through a strategy that creates incentives
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Companies change more than people do. Am I supposed to trust Google blindly with all my data now because they used to say they wouldn't be evil? Am I supposed to continue trusting boeing because they used to be an engineering driven cu
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Buy a cheaper used minivan The guest bedroom makes for a decent storage space A yard has aesthetic value and you might be living in an area like greater NY metro area where land is worth more than the house built on it, so it's going t
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by vikramkr 6y ago
We gave them this power by using their platform. They earned it from us. If they'd been given this power by a government agency or something I'd be more concerned, but at the end of the day, we the people directly decided that fac
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Sure, but I think you're looking at CRTs with rose tinted glasses if you think the thickness, size, and weight of those monitors was not a problem. I physically couldn't fit a couple of extra monitors on my desk, and a vertical mo

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