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Comment · 27 days ago
>This is why the government has to pay for it and there isn't appetite in private investment to pay for this in such structures already in biotech.

But most colleges have a technology sharing agreement so that any discovery made at the college by a student or faculty becomes the property of XYZ™

Socialized costs, private gains.

Comment · 27 days ago
Every juice cocktail I've ever drank has been upfront about the juices inside.

Your hangup on dehydrated juice is weird. Like, yea, they removed all the water from the juice so all you need to do is add water and it ships better and keeps longer....

Comment · 1 month ago
Nope, just like SpaceX can't stop losing money when you take out xAI.
Comment · 1 month ago
>So why can't people do the same to Doppel?

You see, we live in a country where there are two legal systems. The one for us, and the one for them. In our legal system, we will be held to the full extent of the law for our damages committed, and will even have to pay restitution.

In their legal system, they commit wild fraud or security lapses that lead to massive harm to individuals, and have to pay a fine, and get to keep operating as usual.

Comment · 3 months ago
>If someone does not read a contract or a legal agreement, before accepting or signing, it's on them

When was the last time you read an entire EULA before installing software?

I'm going to guess the time frame is somewhere around "never."

These are nuisance contracts designed to jade people with legalese while stealing their rights to things like class action and enforcing binding arbitration.

Standard contracts sounds like the way to go.

Comment · 3 months ago
Marketplace has taken over literally all of the other reselling websites and apps.

Try finding a decent car on Craigslist today.

Comment · 4 months ago
My 8mbps DSL line is $43USD/month after everything, and the cheapest internet I have access to.

The next tier up is Starlink or 250mbps Fiber, which have the same cost. I do not wish to support Starlink. But I also can't afford to almost double my internet bill.

I live on a major national highway in a crossroads town.

Comment · 4 months ago
Shutting down in the middle of work is a common failure mode for overheating, for men and machine. Got an IR camera?
Comment · 4 months ago
Most old forums would let you toggle Flat or Tree view, but Tree view was obviously beholden to hitting "Reply" to the post you were addressing, and not just copying a bunch of people's quotes into a bigger post, which would only show as a branch off of the trunk rather than a leaf in the tree.
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh, you see, that's wind energy. No one can charge for the wind, so they don't like it. You can't build big expensive wind drilling machines and keep big vats of wind for bad days.
Comment · 5 months ago
That's not the point of fast.com

Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix.

Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.

Comment · 5 months ago
Would you rather that the 100% of bugs in those 20% of tickets never got fixed?

Linux users write highly detailed bug reports because it's the only way to get things fixed without coding the fix yourself.

Comment · 5 months ago
>Windows 7 would take minutes to boot.

Citation needed. I went from Win7 on a i5-2500k that booted in sub 15 seconds on a SATA SSD to Win10 on a 5600x that takes 45 seconds to a minute to boot an NVME drive.

Comment · 5 months ago
>search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement.

Too bad it's been completely broken by Windows 10. It can't even find the names of software I have pinned to the start menu. One of the things I miss most from 7.

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