So greed and our patent system are getting in the way of saving lives.
If our patent system didn't exist, the drug would have never been developed in the first place.
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forgotmylogin2 commented on A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub saddlebackbbq.com/how-goo... · Posted by u/rmason
No, because by doing so, the delivery services are effectively injecting themselves into the middle of the relationship between the customer and the restaurant. Over time, most customers will launch the app when they're hungry in general or for a type of food, and if they don't see a specific restaurant there anymore but they do see competitors that have decent ratings, they'll just order from them.
That's a lot of businesses. The local liquor store "injects themselves" between you and Budweiser when they sell you beer. It's not inherently evil or unethical to act as a middleman, especially when you provide additional value that the original business does not.
forgotmylogin2 commented on A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub saddlebackbbq.com/how-goo... · Posted by u/rmason
These services will go out of their way to place orders against the restaurants will if they choose not to accept them. Even going as far as having employees call in phone orders while posing as regular customers.
So what? Then the restaurant doesn't have to pay a fee.
If the problem is that the delivery services are charging high fees to restaurants, then terminating the relationship with the delivery service solves that problem. If the delivery service wants to make orders like a normal customer without any discounts, that's good for the restaurants.
forgotmylogin2 commented on Think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s spectator.us/bloody-decad... · Posted by u/mstats
The number of people who believe stuff like this is vanishingly small.
Unfortunately, it's not.[1]
[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-05-0...
24% of people choosing not to get a vaccine that doesn't even exist yet is significantly different from what was alleged in the parent comment, which was:
> People think that vaccines have killed more people than they help
A lot of people would choose not get a vaccine simply because they don't like needles, not because they think the vaccine is likely to kill them.
forgotmylogin2 commented on Think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s spectator.us/bloody-decad... · Posted by u/mstats
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Haves and have notes is a divide that has existed for nearly the entirety of human history. It's not usually what people are referring to when they talk about the extent of the American divide currently. It's really more in reference to the fact that republicans and democrats rarely cross the aisle to support something that the other side is supporting. In this sense, the American divide has gotten wider because it's much rarer to find a republican and democrat willing to agree on something than it was in the past.
Here's a pretty interesting visualization that better explains the idea: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/...
forgotmylogin2 commented on Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/colinprince
https://www.wdrb.com/news/belknap-neighborhood-residents-con...
https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/google-fiber-to-pay-nearly-4-m...
Google Fiber prepares to pull the plug on Louisville customers tonight, the tech company has agreed to pay Metro government $3.84 million to fix damage to city streets, Mayor Greg Fischer’s said Monday.
The payments, to be made over 20 months, will cover removing fiber cables and sealant from roads, milling and paving streets “where needed” and removing Google’s above-ground infrastructure, according to a news release from Fischer's office.
This makes your original complaint that they were ruining streets look even sillier. They've agreed to reverse all the damage they've done. I'm not sure how you're angry about this.
Has there been any sort of research done on whether these changes have actually done anything consequential and positive?
I don't even live in Europe and these policies have still caused significant harm to me. I can only imagine it's even worse for people accessing the web from Europe.
This will change nothing, because it's so easy to avoid it. The website won't give visitors choice to agree or gtfo, they will instead give choice to agree or pay instead (i.e. same result for 99.9 % of visitors), which is sufficient to fulfil lawful obligations.
One can only hope that is the case. Otherwise, this ruling is basically a decree that journalists must give away their work for free.
Yes, I would. I would prefer that adtech as it is became unviable. People will come up with better schemes to pay for content online. Just showing ads without the ubiquitous targeting and tracking worked fine for television.
No, it didn't. It worked horrible for television. Every hour of television was filled with over 15 minutes of ads. It was horrible for the consumer.
forgotmylogin2 commented on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 techcrunch.com/2020/05/06... · Posted by u/kkcorps
I feel that delivery apps should have certification like "Fair Trade" [1], so you know that the restaurant owner receives a fair share of the money.
Restauranteurs opt-in to their relationship with Uber Eats. If they feel they aren't getting compensated fairly, they can opt-out.
It feels quite condescending that you think you need to protect restaurants from Uber when restaurants are already capable of dissociating from Uber. You're essentially saying restaurant owners are too dumb to know what's best for them, so you need to make decisions for them.