This solution only works for a very particular kind of childhood blindness. It doesn't affect many people, which is one reason it has to be so expensive. All the R&D money that would normally have been recouped from tens of thousands of patients (or more) has to be recouped from a few hundred. It's hardly greed to not want to lose money on a breakthrough therapy, especially for a disease that had no treatments before this.
No, you were inferring that that's what they meant - they might have been implying it, but I don't read it that way. They said why should the homeless get more say than taxpayers, not why do they get any say. Maybe the AC worded it poorly, but it seems to me like they were saying the homeless shouldn't be allowed to abuse the sidewalks and prevent taxpayers from using them, not that the homeless shouldn't be allowed to use them at all.
I'm sure you were being sarcastic, but some of the doctors in the concentration camps were good people - not many, but a few. There's documented evidence of some of them using their power to keep prisoners alive as long as possible by making up bullshit experiments that didn't harm the prisoners, making sure they got fed better, or even using their time to forge documents that helped them escape.
Which is an entirely different scenario than what we're talking about, which is people with no money leaving used needles and lounging on the sidewalk for extended periods of time, blocking others from using it.
I'd argue that the existence of two superpowers at odds with each other, who had to keep wars small for fear of nuclear annihilation, for most of the second half of the 20th century did a lot to keep casualties down. American force projection especially was fairly important. The UN almost certainly played a role, but the Pax Americana is/was a fairly good explanation as well.
Clinical trials do provide a barrier to entry, but if you think that's the main purpose of the way clinical trials are regulated - or even a large contributing factor - you're just wrong. Safety and efficacy of a new drug, device, or procedure are really important to get right.
American English isn't a pidgin language though. It fails to meet the criteria (not used as a first language, doesn't have simplified grammar used to communicate between groups that don't share a language, etc.). You could argue that it's a creole language, but even then it's not meaningfully different from British English. They're just two different dialects, and they aren't even all that different.
I think forcing self-driving cars on people is infringing on their right to travel. If I'm not in control of the car - if the company that made it, or the government, or hackers or whatever, can make it take me somewhere other than my intended destination - then you've effectively turned travel into a privilege instead of a right.
Your defense is that "everybody who makes antifa look bad is a troll"? Seriously? There are some troll accounts, to be sure, but saying the vast majority of antifa accounts are trolls is ludicrous.
Being against Nazis and fascists is a good thing; unfortunately, a lot of antifa rhetoric suggests that they think anyone further right than Bernie is a fascist or fascist enabler, and thus deserving of violence. Also, violence against fascists works great when they're large, organized, and ideally in another country. It's a shitty way to fight fascism when it's your own people - communists fighting Nazis in the streets was a huge help to the Nazis in their rise to power.
The drug is not a retrovirus. It uses adeno-associated virus (AAV) as the delivery platform; unlike a retrovirus, AAV does not integrate into the genome. Note also that despite having similar names, AAV and adenoviral vectors are very different.
Let me first start off by saying I agree with the idea that global trade is good, and that technological progress will pretty much replace most people in the workforce. However, I take issue with some of your other statements. For one, it's ridiculous to say that global trade has only benefited the advanced economies. Average living standards in underdeveloped countries have been steadily rising over at least the past 30 years, and probably longer, in large part due to globalization. Also, northern Europe isn't socialist, and socialism and a free market are mutually exclusive. If the People own the means of production, you can't set up a competitive market there. What (large parts of) Europe has is a large safety net and lots of regulations, but very little outright socialism.
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This solution only works for a very particular kind of childhood blindness. It doesn't affect many people, which is one reason it has to be so expensive. All the R&D money that would normally have been recouped from tens of thousands of patients (or more) has to be recouped from a few hundred. It's hardly greed to not want to lose money on a breakthrough therapy, especially for a disease that had no treatments before this.
The fact that California has a lot of economic output doesn't mean its government isn't one of the sillier ones in the states.
Nope, California is self reliant.
Except for water.
No, you were inferring that that's what they meant - they might have been implying it, but I don't read it that way. They said why should the homeless get more say than taxpayers, not why do they get any say. Maybe the AC worded it poorly, but it seems to me like they were saying the homeless shouldn't be allowed to abuse the sidewalks and prevent taxpayers from using them, not that the homeless shouldn't be allowed to use them at all.
I'm sure you were being sarcastic, but some of the doctors in the concentration camps were good people - not many, but a few. There's documented evidence of some of them using their power to keep prisoners alive as long as possible by making up bullshit experiments that didn't harm the prisoners, making sure they got fed better, or even using their time to forge documents that helped them escape.
Comparing armed forces of two different nations fighting each other to some idiot punks attacking other idiot punks is kind of silly, don't you think?
Which is an entirely different scenario than what we're talking about, which is people with no money leaving used needles and lounging on the sidewalk for extended periods of time, blocking others from using it.
I'd argue that the existence of two superpowers at odds with each other, who had to keep wars small for fear of nuclear annihilation, for most of the second half of the 20th century did a lot to keep casualties down. American force projection especially was fairly important. The UN almost certainly played a role, but the Pax Americana is/was a fairly good explanation as well.
Clinical trials do provide a barrier to entry, but if you think that's the main purpose of the way clinical trials are regulated - or even a large contributing factor - you're just wrong. Safety and efficacy of a new drug, device, or procedure are really important to get right.
Depends on their union contract, probably.
Well sure, I just wondered if they had some extra insane "explanation" for it.
How does buoyancy work without gravity?
American English isn't a pidgin language though. It fails to meet the criteria (not used as a first language, doesn't have simplified grammar used to communicate between groups that don't share a language, etc.). You could argue that it's a creole language, but even then it's not meaningfully different from British English. They're just two different dialects, and they aren't even all that different.
Yep, cold states have intense mosquito seasons, but not with the species they're targeting in this article.
Oh no, not an invasive mosquito species going extinct. Whatever will we do?
And they were wrong.
if you are doing an apples-to-apples comparison on the hardware
I think you should be doing an Apple-to-Windows comparison, personally.
Why should my tax dollars subsidize your hobby?
I think forcing self-driving cars on people is infringing on their right to travel. If I'm not in control of the car - if the company that made it, or the government, or hackers or whatever, can make it take me somewhere other than my intended destination - then you've effectively turned travel into a privilege instead of a right.
You're conflating a legal obligation and a moral one. People have a moral obligation to support free speech, even if they aren't legally obligated to.
Your defense is that "everybody who makes antifa look bad is a troll"? Seriously? There are some troll accounts, to be sure, but saying the vast majority of antifa accounts are trolls is ludicrous.
Being against Nazis and fascists is a good thing; unfortunately, a lot of antifa rhetoric suggests that they think anyone further right than Bernie is a fascist or fascist enabler, and thus deserving of violence. Also, violence against fascists works great when they're large, organized, and ideally in another country. It's a shitty way to fight fascism when it's your own people - communists fighting Nazis in the streets was a huge help to the Nazis in their rise to power.
The drug is not a retrovirus. It uses adeno-associated virus (AAV) as the delivery platform; unlike a retrovirus, AAV does not integrate into the genome. Note also that despite having similar names, AAV and adenoviral vectors are very different.
Well, the developers explicitly granted permission on their website for streamers to play their game and make money from streams, so...
Let me first start off by saying I agree with the idea that global trade is good, and that technological progress will pretty much replace most people in the workforce. However, I take issue with some of your other statements. For one, it's ridiculous to say that global trade has only benefited the advanced economies. Average living standards in underdeveloped countries have been steadily rising over at least the past 30 years, and probably longer, in large part due to globalization. Also, northern Europe isn't socialist, and socialism and a free market are mutually exclusive. If the People own the means of production, you can't set up a competitive market there. What (large parts of) Europe has is a large safety net and lots of regulations, but very little outright socialism.
And you know this about the HGP how, exactly?