maxerickson

Are you arguing that the larger market should make things cheaper?

Maybe IP law was a subsidy all along.

$84,000 for a (likely) cure is a huge improvement over ~$300,000 for a liver transplant. This is partly how they established the pricing, they knew that insurers would go for the cost savings.

It's fascinating that "fair" ends up being that the drug developer has to capture the correct amount of the value they are providing the patient, and the patient gets the rest.

There certainly is rent seeking, but you also have a wealthy market where people are free to pay for treatments that have low returns.

As an example, rich people getting lots of testing done increases spending, but it's driven by their wealth as much as it is by doctors enthusiastic to increase revenues. And if they are healthy, it isn't going to provide them much value.

Couple this with the attempts to centrally plan capacity and you get a cost spiral.

Eliminating any unneeded manual steps adds reliability. The load done thing goes off when the load is done, you don't forget to start it.

Smart plugs are cheap enough where it doesn't take a lot of convenience to justify it.

I don't think we should underestimate how poor their grasp of technical reality might be.

Isn't it just a clear statement that they aren't going to give commercial users support for free?

I know you are saying it isn't clear, but your quote literally includes the statement "While the source code is freely available under the terms of the LICENSE".

Oh? And what would they have been without a change in the law this year?

The current tax rate for 2026?

If the baseline is whatever you say it is, what's the point of discussing it with you?

It's more fun to think that it's the deficit that is going to the interest payments.

A feature goal for this deployment was that the tiles would update continuously, keeping up with changes that people are making to the OpenStreetMap database.

Providing that feedback is one of the main purposes of the site.

We readily metabolize small amounts of formaldehyde (it's a step in normal metabolic pathways).

It wasn't that centralized (many many independent newspapers and such).

And then "information" is doing a lot of work when you start talking about social media.

Sure. The mitochondrial donor can be treated as a source of tissue and you are all done.

I think the execution is probably difficult, but in principle you can make the requirement that the voter marks a valid ballot by themself.

Interacts badly with mail in and lots of other issues of course.

Expecting people that don't exist to take jobs that are lower value than working at McDonalds is not "a plan".

Plenty of US manufacturing already pays close to retail wages and these geniuses want to reshore stuff with much lower value add. It's delusional.

Alternatively, Trump is extremely transactional and actually thinks that trade deficits represent other countries taking advantage of the US.

For example, tariffs on agricultural products that won't grow in the US do not fit into any sort of rational model.

Also, pro wrestling is real.

That's not responsive to my point.

I didn't say I don't want them to read them. I said I don't want them to provide me evidence that they read them.

So how do we people that don't like it get the restaurant to recognize that reacting to our Twitter is making the experience worse for us?

The defense is that it's to make the experience better, the reaction is that it won't...

Uh, the culprit isn't turmeric, it's lead chromate that farmers were putting on turmeric.

For most readers of English, it is not an expected fact that someone would be intentionally adding lead to food.

In the article, the turmeric related lead poisonings were due to turmeric bought at Bangladeshi markets, not processed, packaged spices bought from a grocer.

The county it is located in is about 290,000 acres.

Indiana is about 23 million acres.

Fusion.

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

In the US, 3DEP is driving towards high coverage of extremely accurate elevation data, in areas where it has coverage you wouldn't need to use a distance metric really.

News to me too. Pineapple contains an enzyme that breaks down proteins:

https://www.thespruceeats.com/flesh-eating-enzymes-of-pineap...

Most staples wind pollinate (corn, wheat, etc). Bees are needed for a lot of fruit and nut production though.

Median student loan debt is about $25,000 dollars.

That's a lot, but not so much that it wouldn't be covered by a very modest increase in lifetime earnings.

The mean is closer to $40,000, which is still going to be covered by a modest improvement in earnings.

I think we should be working on changing things so that students graduate with less debt, and working on ensuring that time spent studying is worthwhile to the individual, but it's weird to treat extreme cases as if they are universal.

The expectation that other people follow some basic rules of decorum is foundational to a functioning society.

If you say that petty anti-social behavior is off limits because there are bigger problems, you are ceding the decisions about how society functions to people that make bad, anti-social choices.

You seem to think that it would be impossible to instruct Comcast to implement on/off for the feature? That's the sort of thing that the legal system is for.