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jsprogrammeron Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M

The article says Mylan had $1.3 billion in US government EpiPen revenue just from 2011-2015.

jsprogrammeron Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M

If Mylan truly believes they did no wrong, they would say so and not settle. If the government believed the same, it would not be pursuing the case.

Mylan made claims that were false.

Edit: the alternative is that the $465M payment is a bribe

jsprogrammeron Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]

takes selfie with virtual selfie stick cam and posts it to facebook

"we can do anything we want"

Does anyone know if there are any other demos/applications available?

jsprogrammeron Facebook is talking to the White House about giving away ‘free’ Internet

If you're good, you can still get your information through.

jsprogrammeron Facebook is talking to the White House about giving away ‘free’ Internet

A news service, such as a newsfeed, has a duty to be impartial by virtue of naming itself news unless there is a real contract with the user stating alternative duties.

jsprogrammeron Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators

>That's the key, is consistently trying to do it.

Laziness is a virtue; at least among programmers. "Writers" just use different language.

Writing to say you write is just creating needless noise at best, and perhaps a kind of technical debt at the worser ends.

If you have something to write, write it. If you don't, you don't (because you are doing something else).

jsprogrammeron Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter

It's also one of very few changes I've seen (one of which was changing the icon and word for the favorite/like action [which was a breaking change as far as I'm concerned; it changed the semantics of past discussions and eliminated the personal bookmarking aspect]).

I cannot imagine what Twitter is spending its time doing.

jsprogrammeron Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter

I believe that even when you dismiss the recent tweets box, the tweets still don't return to your timeline.

It's baffling bad.

jsprogrammeron Texas Banker’s Game Plan: Ditch Branches, Prosper

We can start with the first sentence:

> A Texas banker who was so frustrated with regulators in 2011 that he gave up his banking charter and sold off his branches is now overseeing the sale of the rest of the company to Warburg Pincus LLC for about $300 million.

The title should at least get a year parenthetical on the Banker (who is not a banker [0]) claim, or maybe you can show me Depping's new charter?

[0] at the nonbank

Also, I now get the impression that this game plan is not so much a plan any more, but an operating enterprise since 2011.

jsprogrammeron Texas Banker’s Game Plan: Ditch Branches, Prosper

All I can do is tap!

jsprogrammeron Texas Banker’s Game Plan: Ditch Branches, Prosper

Will clickbait to paywalls continue to be voted up?

A nonbank seems to be an independent loan counter, likely backed by multiple banks.

So, they create some money at one bank, then sell it to another bank (while doing the work required); essentially.

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

I'll just leave this here.

>CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION

>ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

>SEC. 2. (a) Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of this right. A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press.

jsprogrammeron Twitter Is Expected to Field Bids This Week

Were the APIs taken away?

jsprogrammeron What's the Longest Humans Can Live?

Couldn't samples have been taken and stored to be sequenced later, when it was cheaper?

jsprogrammeron Twitter Is Expected to Field Bids This Week

Reality. That is the reality.

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

Restricting speech is restricting speech and UC is not allowed to do it.

jsprogrammeron Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence

Weren't high level officials communicating over Yahoo! mail?

Was Yahoo given a contract, or otherwise compensated?

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

The California Constitution is extremely clear. No one may restrict the freeness of anyone's speech and especially not any law.

If UC uses its lawful property ownership powers (or any other) to restrict someone's speech, it has acted contrary to the CA Constitution.

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

UC cannot restrict speech, so the fact that something is its property is merely the formality of the public's ownership.

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

Yes.

What is the purpose of that wall of text you pasted?

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

Check out Article 9, Section 9: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_9

I'm not sure of any court decisions. Someone would need to be restricted by the University and challenge it to produce a case. I don't know if that has happened yet.

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

How can they transfer rights they do not have?

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

Copyright is a restriction on both speech and press. And, it would be occurring by a Trust established by the CA Constitution if UC ever enforced such a restriction.

Which is prohibited.

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

I'm not familiar with the case, but UC has acted outside the Constitution in the past.

jsprogrammeron UC Berkeley's Lawyers Blocking RISC-V in GCC

UC does not really have IP rights under the CA Constitution. At least, not any right that prevents a person from speaking freely.

UC cannot enforce copyright, NDAs, or other restrictions of speech. I think there is a very good argument that UC is unable to enforce (or even hold) a patent.

> Article 1, Section 2 (a). Sentence 2 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_1

jsprogrammeron A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it

Are shootings and murder common in all neighborhoods? Isn't it correct to strongly associate a neighborhood with shootings and murder if you are repeatedly visiting the neighborhood due to a shooting and/or murder?

jsprogrammeron Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?

I think this solves most of your problems: only accept bitcoin. You can convert them to dollars when you want and the taxes on that are extremely simple.

jsprogrammeron Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?

They may not have listed every piece of code they wrote since they were 10 years old.

jsprogrammeron Why Are People into Event Sourcing?

Only issue with building it is that it probably already exists somewhere (though, we may not be able to access it).

jsprogrammeron Pentagon Paid for Fake ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos

The Trojan horse story has existed for millennia, yet someone still used CDs.