Heh, back in my day we used character sequences like >*< and <*> to animate and ran the whole game on an 80x24 ASCII terminal.
Readit NewsCodeWriter23 commented on How to Draw a Space Invader muffinman.io/blog/invader... · Posted by u/abdusco
Best practical application of glue stick ever!
It was developed by Gilead Sciences, Inc. The way they can afford to make it cheap for people who can't pay is by charging high prices for insured Americans. You can see this with their earlier developed treatment for hepatitis C:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead_Sciences#Pricing
Gilead came under intense criticism for its high pricing of its patented drug sofosbuvir (sold under the brand name Sovaldi), used to treat hepatitis C. In the US, for instance, it was launched at $1,000 per pill or $84,000 for the standard 84-day course, but it was drastically cheaper in the developing world; in India, it dropped as low as $4.29 per pill.
Low priced HIV drugs for the poor is part PR and part pragmatism. Poor people can't pay the sorts of drug prices that insured Americans do, and poor countries aren't going to enforce drug patents purely for the benefit of American corporations, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicines_and_Related_Substanc...
Gilead looks gracious by preemptively embracing the situation that was going to occur anyway (poor patients aren't going to pay high prices).
> The way they can afford to make it cheap for people who can't pay is by charging high prices for insured Americans
Well, fuck that. I'm already paying $24K annually for my health care that covers about half of anything short of a catastrophe.
CodeWriter23 commented on Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router compassrouter.com... · Posted by u/camchaney
https://youtu.be/t5xDmslfzvs
It’s on the compass home page. Admittedly the Play button does blend into the background image of the router a bit.
Thanks, appreciated.
CodeWriter23 commented on Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router compassrouter.com... · Posted by u/camchaney
> You can find more info and the launch video at the listed URL.
Maybe I'm a complete dumbass but I could not find a video at any of the URLs on this post using Chrome under Sonoma.
CodeWriter23 commented on Beyond Meat fights for survival foodinstitute.com/focus/b... · Posted by u/airstrike
Maybe they should simply stop fighting against survival.
I don't get it. Even in the late 80's we had these devices called "speaker phones" that facilitated remote meetings.
FatBits was life altering for me.
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