Probably because everyone too poor to afford these drugs simply gets given them by these pharmaceutical companies, so there simply does not exist anyone with a vested interest like there are for demonetised youtube channels.
Cancer.org lists 5 other treatments (Obliersenn, Lumiliximab, HA22, Lenalidomide, 'standard' chemotherapy) for CLL [cancer.org], and mentions dozens of drugs are in testing for CLL treatment.
Yes, some of thee countries have government provided healthcare, some of them subsidise the cost of medication. But they also just cap the cost they pay for it. They tell the pharma companies what they are willing to pay; Or allow native companies to steal their IP and clone the drug. So these companies simply do not make as much money off of non-American customers. Additionally, for the poorest sufferers they simply give it away. The second point here does not really affect anything, these people never could of afforded the drugs anyway so it is not a lost profit, and the cost of production is small so it hardly affects the price for everyone else. But having pretty much the entire rest of the world simply not paying an equal share does massively effect the available pool of money for researching new drugs.
"Americans are effectively subsidizing health systems elsewhere." - (Scientific American, How the U.S. Pays 3 Times More for Drugs)
The drug was priced that way with a very simple formula.
Number of Patients X Dosage X Cost = Development Cost + Marketing + L. Insurance + Profit
The Dev and Marketing costs are already spent, or at least mostly, and kept at an absolute minimum anyways. The Insurance is probably not going to be negotiable, and the profits are almost certainly a set industry standard. So if the dosage goes down the company either has to increase the number of patients, the cost, or quit selling the drug and just try and take the loss or declare bankruptcy.
But that is true of many other things as well. The US pays for all the medical research that the rest of the world uses for free or next to it.
That is like comparing America's expenditures on its military to France's or Japan's. France and Japan only spend so little and yet manage to not be enslaved because America has acted as their military for the last generation or two, them and half of the rest of the world besides.
Or course their exist many other countries with better and cheaper options, as their governments and their people are not paying for half the things they receive.
You can get double aids, in fact already having aids makes you super sensitive to getting a second strain of it. The HIV status is used by people trying to pretend they are being safe while having unprotected sex with strangers and "bugchasers" whose fetish includes having sex with/contracting AIDs.
Ask anyone who drives a diesel. Their fuel efficiency has tanked with the stricter regulations. A huge portion of traffic are commercial highway tractors, and they simply are no longer are the super fuel efficient beasts that they used to be, due solely to emission laws.
It's probable that these cars are just not even looking to the sides in that way. They likely do not track all pedestrians close enough to be a problem like a human driver, and just assume that anything not right in front of them can be ignored for the most part. I don't think image recognition is really at the state where a car can have a live understanding of its surroundings in this way. And predictive pathing sounds like it is probably hard enough that they just didn't want to spend the effort.
A human can see another walking in some direction and deduce what their intentions are. A car is not going to see the worn down grass path indicating a crossing point. It is not going to use predictive psychology if its sensors are turned in that direction.
It is likely closer to: if(At this time there are no obstacles in front of me) Drive
What we need is too times. Any and all single solutions simply do not work.
Daylight savings time is designed to fix a broken system, and it makes it worse. All it does it complicate matters. It means that for some businesses that take advantage of the sun, they have to change their schedules twice as often. You just start beginning work at 8am in winter and then suddenly you go back to 7am. At least for a few weeks before you are back to 8am. For people where the sun is unnecessary and irrelevant, daylight savings is just a hassle that causes thousands of people to get into car accidents and have heart attacks. For the rest of the world it just makes the entire seasonal change phenomenon takes twice as much effort to correct for.
What I am getting at is that we need to bring back local time. Half the world operates on it anyway in hacked together conversions anyways. What we need is counties/cities to have their own solar based time. The best solution would probably be to fix Dawn at a specific time so that all the farmers, fishers, construction workers, Truck Drivers to some extent, etc. can stop changing their schedules all year round. And let us not undervalue solar time, the only side effect of getting office workers to begin work at dawn is giving them the longest day time as possible, after work they have the most amount of daylight possible after work without getting them to drive to work in the dark.
Technology has made the conversion between different times insignificantly easy. And the perfect pair to this local time is a single global time. People can cooperate with far away people on a single time with no conversions. If a job requires offices across a continent or even globe to be synchronized and working in tandem, they can work off of global time. If your work involved the real world in anyway or is not synchronized with another team across the globe, you can get up at the optimum time either for your job or just biologically speaking.
It is not like this has not been tested, China is bigger than America and works on a single time. Does it work well? I have no idea, but I am sure that data is easily available.
An interesting article. I cannot help but compare it to humans. We have at least one subgroup that survived to modernity (the Pirahã) who cannot count.
When the price of real estate goes up 10% are they forced to give away 10% of their real estate? When their customers pay their bills, which include some percentage of profits, where do their profits go?
Why will AI never be able to handle Urban driving? And if AI will never be able to handle complex and difficult driving conditions, what legislator will ever allow them to drive on highways?
Why? No one is stopping the government from building any networks that it wants. But why prevent others from doing so? Are we afraid that the commercial sector might do so better and cheaper and put the government out of business? Would having some redundant nodes really be a bad thing?
> I don't recall that but if the service to the state is truly voluntary then that contradicts fascism. But it also implies a situation a fascist would love in the sense that it's an option that nobody takes.
Only a "small fraction" of the society ever volunteers for community service. It is stated as a small minority in general. Serving the state is only done in a minority of cases, and only a minority of those are assigned military duty.
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Probably because everyone too poor to afford these drugs simply gets given them by these pharmaceutical companies, so there simply does not exist anyone with a vested interest like there are for demonetised youtube channels.
According to another comment
Cancer.org lists 5 other treatments (Obliersenn, Lumiliximab, HA22, Lenalidomide, 'standard' chemotherapy) for CLL [cancer.org], and mentions dozens of drugs are in testing for CLL treatment.
So it appears like it has thriving competition.
Yes, some of thee countries have government provided healthcare, some of them subsidise the cost of medication. But they also just cap the cost they pay for it. They tell the pharma companies what they are willing to pay; Or allow native companies to steal their IP and clone the drug. So these companies simply do not make as much money off of non-American customers. Additionally, for the poorest sufferers they simply give it away. The second point here does not really affect anything, these people never could of afforded the drugs anyway so it is not a lost profit, and the cost of production is small so it hardly affects the price for everyone else. But having pretty much the entire rest of the world simply not paying an equal share does massively effect the available pool of money for researching new drugs.
"Americans are effectively subsidizing health systems elsewhere." - (Scientific American, How the U.S. Pays 3 Times More for Drugs)
The drug was priced that way with a very simple formula.
Number of Patients X Dosage X Cost = Development Cost + Marketing + L. Insurance + Profit
The Dev and Marketing costs are already spent, or at least mostly, and kept at an absolute minimum anyways. The Insurance is probably not going to be negotiable, and the profits are almost certainly a set industry standard. So if the dosage goes down the company either has to increase the number of patients, the cost, or quit selling the drug and just try and take the loss or declare bankruptcy.
But that is true of many other things as well. The US pays for all the medical research that the rest of the world uses for free or next to it.
That is like comparing America's expenditures on its military to France's or Japan's. France and Japan only spend so little and yet manage to not be enslaved because America has acted as their military for the last generation or two, them and half of the rest of the world besides.
Or course their exist many other countries with better and cheaper options, as their governments and their people are not paying for half the things they receive.
What does HAART have to do with using a dating app?
Super infections are common.
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You can get double aids, in fact already having aids makes you super sensitive to getting a second strain of it. The HIV status is used by people trying to pretend they are being safe while having unprotected sex with strangers and "bugchasers" whose fetish includes having sex with/contracting AIDs.
Ask anyone who drives a diesel. Their fuel efficiency has tanked with the stricter regulations. A huge portion of traffic are commercial highway tractors, and they simply are no longer are the super fuel efficient beasts that they used to be, due solely to emission laws.
It's probable that these cars are just not even looking to the sides in that way. They likely do not track all pedestrians close enough to be a problem like a human driver, and just assume that anything not right in front of them can be ignored for the most part. I don't think image recognition is really at the state where a car can have a live understanding of its surroundings in this way. And predictive pathing sounds like it is probably hard enough that they just didn't want to spend the effort.
A human can see another walking in some direction and deduce what their intentions are. A car is not going to see the worn down grass path indicating a crossing point. It is not going to use predictive psychology if its sensors are turned in that direction.
It is likely closer to: if(At this time there are no obstacles in front of me) Drive
They are either orders of magnitude better at encoding than everyone else on the face of the planet, of their quality must be shit.
I understand wanting to do away with DLS time, but why do they want to change time zones?
What we need is too times. Any and all single solutions simply do not work.
Daylight savings time is designed to fix a broken system, and it makes it worse. All it does it complicate matters. It means that for some businesses that take advantage of the sun, they have to change their schedules twice as often. You just start beginning work at 8am in winter and then suddenly you go back to 7am. At least for a few weeks before you are back to 8am. For people where the sun is unnecessary and irrelevant, daylight savings is just a hassle that causes thousands of people to get into car accidents and have heart attacks. For the rest of the world it just makes the entire seasonal change phenomenon takes twice as much effort to correct for.
What I am getting at is that we need to bring back local time. Half the world operates on it anyway in hacked together conversions anyways. What we need is counties/cities to have their own solar based time. The best solution would probably be to fix Dawn at a specific time so that all the farmers, fishers, construction workers, Truck Drivers to some extent, etc. can stop changing their schedules all year round. And let us not undervalue solar time, the only side effect of getting office workers to begin work at dawn is giving them the longest day time as possible, after work they have the most amount of daylight possible after work without getting them to drive to work in the dark.
Technology has made the conversion between different times insignificantly easy. And the perfect pair to this local time is a single global time. People can cooperate with far away people on a single time with no conversions. If a job requires offices across a continent or even globe to be synchronized and working in tandem, they can work off of global time. If your work involved the real world in anyway or is not synchronized with another team across the globe, you can get up at the optimum time either for your job or just biologically speaking.
It is not like this has not been tested, China is bigger than America and works on a single time. Does it work well? I have no idea, but I am sure that data is easily available.
This sounds like something someone with no training in economics, politics, engineering, or logic would think up.
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That explains it.
An interesting article. I cannot help but compare it to humans. We have at least one subgroup that survived to modernity (the Pirahã) who cannot count.
When the price of real estate goes up 10% are they forced to give away 10% of their real estate? When their customers pay their bills, which include some percentage of profits, where do their profits go?
They are much simpler until something unexpected happens. How do you completely prevent anything unexpected happening on these highways?
Why will AI never be able to handle Urban driving? And if AI will never be able to handle complex and difficult driving conditions, what legislator will ever allow them to drive on highways?
Tor, the browser for pedophiles and murders, but Republicans stay out!
It's almost like monopolies are bad and produce horribly expensive and shitty service?
If NASA is so great why does spacex exist and why does it make NASA look like a bunch of hobbyists?
Why? No one is stopping the government from building any networks that it wants. But why prevent others from doing so? Are we afraid that the commercial sector might do so better and cheaper and put the government out of business? Would having some redundant nodes really be a bad thing?
If you changed that "HUNDRED" to a "THOUSAND" you would probably be closer to the mark.
> I don't recall that but if the service to the state is truly voluntary then that contradicts fascism. But it also implies a situation a fascist would love in the sense that it's an option that nobody takes.
Only a "small fraction" of the society ever volunteers for community service. It is stated as a small minority in general. Serving the state is only done in a minority of cases, and only a minority of those are assigned military duty.