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When free market doesn't work, free market advocates have their solution : there wasn't enough free market, so we need MORE free market.

The question the HN community should ask itself is: What can be done to improve the sustainability of the scihub project, for example to make it more decentralised?

So why are we paying 10 times the production price since this product has been payed by public funds ?

LifeProTips : Don't ever use a Q-tips while walking ... you'll understand why when you'll hit a wall or a door with your elbow.

> Isn't the US the #1 medical care quality country?

It depends which indicator you choose ... if you choose life expectancy, the #1 rank turns to #36 :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

> It's a war crime to attack hospitals

Bombing an hospital is a war crime. Letting some malware find it's way into misconfigured Microsoft computers is not.

What's strikes me is that the cost of operating a nuclear plant during its lifetime is actually unknown, making it the expensivest energy source. Why it is still in use : obviously because it serves as base technology and knowledge to build weapons.

Some example of hidden costs not included in nuclear kwh price :

- Cost of managing waste: How can you evaluate cost of managing basically forever (at the human scale) dangerous wastes ?

- Risk prime to insure huge damage that could arise from accident or future leaks in storage area : Again this amount is so big, that this externality has to be socialized.

- Cost of dismantling a plant : Beside one or two exceptions, no plant has been successfully dismantled. All the planning and costs for the currently plan in dismantling are exploding and will take years and tons of capital ... leaving more unmanageable wastes and unusable lands.

All those aspects will become increasingly difficult to manage in countries that made the (bad) choice of going full nuclear a few years ago, like France.

Such kind of text base note wiki with graph showing links can be done use tiddlywiki and http://tiddlymap.org/ addon.

Works like a charm, open source, self hosted

Perfect use case for Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit.

Why the BBC chose to quote the alarming word ? In my opinion, quote usage have the effects to minimize something (= strong decline in insect population) that is quite well established by facts.

> Usually, I work 6 month per year for taxes.

Having worked as freelance in switzerland, that sound weird and make me thing : "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

Please note that the labour market is regulated in Switzerland and that, depending on where you come from (especially outside EU), it may be difficult or impossible to obtain a work permit.

Can we agree to flag all those sick health insurance stories with a [US] prefix in the title ?

Have you ever wondered what you would bring to the community you plan to move to?

Bin Laden has obviously succeeded removing freedom that american citizens were enjoying not so long ago.

Thanks for this post. It was mind opening for me.

I witnesses the death of my dad two years ago, and experienced overleming emotions since then and depression like symptoms.

I choose to stick to "Won't never talk about what I saw", but this seems really not the good path.