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by x5n1 11y ago
It works well to commercialize existing knowledge, or take some existing knowledge that is 80% complete and then do the other 20%. Business is good as capturing value, not at creating it. In terms of technology it's much the same, the
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When it comes to supporting science they have only two choices, to fund it or not to fund it. So distortions would only come from them not funding something. The other stuff, I don't know how it applies to science funding. In case of n
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Well in the name of freedom anyone can and should be able to do science. And anyone may legitimately come up with a cure. But seldom do we see that happen. Instead we usually see incremental progress on existing knowledge, which is then use
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This sort of logic does not really work for drugs or even for science. Business processes like management, cost cutting, harassment, implicit and explicit threats, don't really produce better or more accurate results. Or lead to cures
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rhetoric goes both ways. or to put it another way, fighting fire with fire.
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Theft is such a strong word. If you control the language, you control the world.
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WTO, American sanctions, American coups, CIA, to name a few. Also India actually manufacturers these drugs, and most of them should be generic because they have been around for a long time. Small nations would not be able to manufacture the
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The criticism should be directed at the concept of a corporation itself, then at making more money. It's not just the profit motive, it's the discourse and the tools that go around it that are even more of a problem. For instance
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Can't wait until a dictator uses autonomous killing machines to, you know, just take over the world.
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Mo money, mo problems.
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An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older or about one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this
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You forget that the Coolie trade of Indian indentured workers went hand in hand with the slave trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie
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Why? That does not make any sense whatsoever. Most corporations that use H1Bs have billions sitting in cash in their bank accounts. They are more than capable of paying for local workers. There is a glut of local workers looking for jobs th
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Only? Poor CEO.
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H1Bs are our century's slaves, imported to work the tech plantations. Cheaper than locals. Fewer rights. Easier to exploit. And also make their owners a lot of money. In this case they are better off for it, that much has changed.
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Whatever, I have no sympathy for employers who exploit people like these or actually any people. More reason for them to play nice.
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This is silly. That stuff is simply being refined, it was always there on the planet somewhere. The question is where that stuff goes and how we control its movement. The same is the case for nuclear waste, but if we can spend trillions of
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by x5n1 11y ago
I take the stance of my Jewish friends, when they say never again. That's what history is suppose to teach us, NEVER AGAIN! Yet we still have not worked out how to make that happen for all these government based power plays. All power
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Displaced Florida Disney Worker Details Humiliation of Training Replacements(youtube.com)
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They rebranded Tutum which they just bought Docker Cloud, or am I missing something? Are they going to do the hosting part too now?
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As someone who has suffered more than once at the border, having never done anything wrong. I think we need to fix the problem with the US government's treatment of non-US citizens at its borders. And not only that, it exports its shit
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Well it is suppose to be a representative democracy.
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All governments should extend the courtesy that US extends to their citizens to Americans entering their country. Perhaps that will encourage Americans to encourage their government to treat non-Americans better.
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Other mail services can do the same. It's funny we have not fixed the problem of free mail, i.e. any one should be able to run a mail server anywhere and expect delivery of their mail. We should just do a better job of filtering spam a
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viva la automated cars.
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If the field was sane we would not expect breakthrough results or any results all of the time. We would happily say to scientists, thanks for your continued efforts... and allow them the money and time to do real science. But this is not ho
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Don't see this as tricking, it's marketing. EIG offers hosting for next to nothing, and you get what you pay for. If you customer wants to pay for value hosting they can find it by paying more. The other players you are talking ab
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That's one aspect of it. The other aspect of it that because the developer is charging $3,000 - $5,000 they are doing something wrong that the user can do themselves for $50. This sort of mentality creates a toxic market for WP develop
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what is this "rip people off" non-sense. you mean make money. that's what everyone should be doing. hosting is a race to the bottom sort of business. if someone can create some value in it and charge money from the consumer,
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Each one of those themes nets its developer anywhere from $25,000 to $350,000. So yes it makes sense for him to sell it for $50. Then you come to me and want some customizations done. Well those customizations are going to cost you at least

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