So let the rich pay for the development costs and then in 15-20 years everyone will get the treatment at roughly production cost. In the meantime, companies will still offer their drug to economically disadvantaged people - both for public relations and because they didn't fall asleep during the price discrimination part of Econ class. That's pretty much how the system is meant to work - your idea of how it should work is almost certainly worse.
Right, because when Edison invented the lightbulb, he first invented glass, evacuated glass bulbs, electricity, wires, insulation, etc.
All inventions are built from existing parts. Android was not discovered, it was built - and he built the first one, which makes him the inventor. Use the word "creator" if it bothers you so much.
Yeah, get into a fight with MS - "I don't know why Windows performs so poorly on your newest, highest-margin chip. Maybe because we had to disable certain compiler options that infringed on your patents. Everything works full-speed on the AMD chips, though. Weird."
The problem with your argument is that those people could sabotage a plane right now, so simply adding more automation does nothing to help or hurt that scenario.
Isn't this only true if you include the older 737 models from last century, from before the A320 was available? I think they are both remarkably safe planes, probably without enough statistical data to differentiate their safety records.
I can counter that with a suicidal pilot - something that machines don't yet aspire to. I'm betting that if we sat here all night posting examples of human vs. machine errors in aviation, you'd run out of material first unless we go waaaay back.
Just 'cause I made a joke, don't take that to mean it can't be valuable to certain people. But by definition you have to pick and choose what you take from it. Some things are gold and revolutionary (e.g. turn the other cheek), and others are garbage (e.g. don't be a homo). I'm glad you found it helpful, and I have nothing against religion up until the point where it impacts me or my family. Unfortunately, in the US that is more than it should given our supposed separation of church and state.
Thank you. I made many deliberate theological errors in an attempt at absurdist humor. And also because I didn't feel like firing up Leviticus to see exactly what kind of bird needs to be sacrificed and in what fashion. Christians don't even really obey anything in the Old Testament - except when they do.
That's the problem right there - if it were just me and my wife, no problem - $500 saved.
But it's not. It's the schools and the camps and the... you get the idea. Everyone knows how to use an Epi-Pen, and so that's what we buy. Arrrr mayteee.
This is pretty far down on my outrage scale. State schools have entire departments dedicated to studying classic literature. People are actually getting subsidized degrees in it. Sometimes learning can be for learning's sake - and I'm pretty sure "where did we come from" has very broad appeal.
Definitely The Bible. Doesn't matter which version. I was well into my 30s before I started sacrificing chickens after accidentally touching women during menstruation.
Oh stop with the left/right garbage. Democrats are just as responsible for ghettos as Republicans. Ghettos are deliberate policy, not an intractable problem that no one can figure out how to solve.
Must be a downward-sloping demand curve for the firms output.
Firm must be able to identify consumers willing to pay more
Firm must be able to prevent low-price customers from reselling to high-price customers
I think it's safe to say that if they dropped the price of Prime, more people would join - so they meet the first criteria. They definitely have the means to identify consumers willing to pay more. And prime would be hard for low-price customers to resell.
I think there might be value in patents in so much as it dissuades companies from taking the "trade secret" route. Taking the long view, a decade or so is not really that long to wait and it seems to drive innovation compared to other historical eras.
I get them for my daughter because everyone is familiar with them. I use the coupon from their site that covers my co-pay so my cost is "free" to me - no idea what the negotiated price with CVS/Caremark is.
Yeah, but the analogy only can take you so far. If your identity is "white", then there are several places (including in the US) where you can go and have a nearly homogeneous experience. The same is not true of Jews, who have only Israel - and even that is technically not majority-Jewish when you include the occupied areas. Add to this that Jews have both an ancient and recent history of being driven out of or killed outright in places they have settled, and it's little wonder that they desire a place to call home. With that said, they need to find a solution that does not include apartheid.
their differences are fundamentally irreconcilable.
Only because both sides (as well as the neighbors) are behaving poorly. Neither side seems to want to depart from the status quo short of total victory, so at the moment, screw 'em. I find the implementation of what is essentially apartheid as a means to preserve the demographics of the Jewish state to be fairly far into the "distasteful" range. On the other hand, if I were an Israeli I'd probably be a lot meaner than they have been when it comes to security - terrorism is also really far over on my "distasteful" scale. The goal of artificially maintaining an area's demographics through force is a failed concept. So is the idea of terrorizing your way to statehood.
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So let the rich pay for the development costs and then in 15-20 years everyone will get the treatment at roughly production cost. In the meantime, companies will still offer their drug to economically disadvantaged people - both for public relations and because they didn't fall asleep during the price discrimination part of Econ class. That's pretty much how the system is meant to work - your idea of how it should work is almost certainly worse.
Right, because when Edison invented the lightbulb, he first invented glass, evacuated glass bulbs, electricity, wires, insulation, etc.
All inventions are built from existing parts. Android was not discovered, it was built - and he built the first one, which makes him the inventor. Use the word "creator" if it bothers you so much.
Yeah, get into a fight with MS - "I don't know why Windows performs so poorly on your newest, highest-margin chip. Maybe because we had to disable certain compiler options that infringed on your patents. Everything works full-speed on the AMD chips, though. Weird."
Yeah, well, welcome to Slashdot.
disgruntled technicians/engineers/hackers
The problem with your argument is that those people could sabotage a plane right now, so simply adding more automation does nothing to help or hurt that scenario.
The Airbus A320 is safer than a 737
Isn't this only true if you include the older 737 models from last century, from before the A320 was available? I think they are both remarkably safe planes, probably without enough statistical data to differentiate their safety records.
I can counter that with a suicidal pilot - something that machines don't yet aspire to. I'm betting that if we sat here all night posting examples of human vs. machine errors in aviation, you'd run out of material first unless we go waaaay back.
Behold! The future!
Just 'cause I made a joke, don't take that to mean it can't be valuable to certain people. But by definition you have to pick and choose what you take from it. Some things are gold and revolutionary (e.g. turn the other cheek), and others are garbage (e.g. don't be a homo). I'm glad you found it helpful, and I have nothing against religion up until the point where it impacts me or my family. Unfortunately, in the US that is more than it should given our supposed separation of church and state.
I tried to read that and it's all squiggly.
Thank you. I made many deliberate theological errors in an attempt at absurdist humor. And also because I didn't feel like firing up Leviticus to see exactly what kind of bird needs to be sacrificed and in what fashion. Christians don't even really obey anything in the Old Testament - except when they do.
So you admit to touching unclean women?
minus a little practice and time
That's the problem right there - if it were just me and my wife, no problem - $500 saved.
But it's not. It's the schools and the camps and the... you get the idea. Everyone knows how to use an Epi-Pen, and so that's what we buy. Arrrr mayteee.
This is pretty far down on my outrage scale. State schools have entire departments dedicated to studying classic literature. People are actually getting subsidized degrees in it. Sometimes learning can be for learning's sake - and I'm pretty sure "where did we come from" has very broad appeal.
Your $goodGod and $evilGod variables need to be able to handle arrays.
Definitely The Bible. Doesn't matter which version. I was well into my 30s before I started sacrificing chickens after accidentally touching women during menstruation.
Awww, I'm sorry - did I interrupt your partisan spamming? Please, get right back to not solving the problem.
Oh stop with the left/right garbage. Democrats are just as responsible for ghettos as Republicans. Ghettos are deliberate policy, not an intractable problem that no one can figure out how to solve.
To be successful, the classic requirements are:
I think it's safe to say that if they dropped the price of Prime, more people would join - so they meet the first criteria. They definitely have the means to identify consumers willing to pay more. And prime would be hard for low-price customers to resell.
I think there might be value in patents in so much as it dissuades companies from taking the "trade secret" route. Taking the long view, a decade or so is not really that long to wait and it seems to drive innovation compared to other historical eras.
I get them for my daughter because everyone is familiar with them. I use the coupon from their site that covers my co-pay so my cost is "free" to me - no idea what the negotiated price with CVS/Caremark is.
Yeah, but the analogy only can take you so far. If your identity is "white", then there are several places (including in the US) where you can go and have a nearly homogeneous experience. The same is not true of Jews, who have only Israel - and even that is technically not majority-Jewish when you include the occupied areas. Add to this that Jews have both an ancient and recent history of being driven out of or killed outright in places they have settled, and it's little wonder that they desire a place to call home. With that said, they need to find a solution that does not include apartheid.
It's also good business from Econ 101, where you adjust your price based on the ability to pay. Do a find on "price discrimination".
I find it pretty far fetched that this research would lead to us having a new type of semiconductor for example.
But that's a problem with your lack of imagination, not a problem with people trying to advance human understanding of the natural world.
their differences are fundamentally irreconcilable.
Only because both sides (as well as the neighbors) are behaving poorly. Neither side seems to want to depart from the status quo short of total victory, so at the moment, screw 'em. I find the implementation of what is essentially apartheid as a means to preserve the demographics of the Jewish state to be fairly far into the "distasteful" range. On the other hand, if I were an Israeli I'd probably be a lot meaner than they have been when it comes to security - terrorism is also really far over on my "distasteful" scale. The goal of artificially maintaining an area's demographics through force is a failed concept. So is the idea of terrorizing your way to statehood.