Data-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite techbro class (i.e. the kinds of people who write comments like these), who are scared of the middle class. I wish the US had better constitutional protections for people who want to protect their quality of life and their jobs in spite of short-sighted or malicious billionaire opposition.
I'm not looking for a job (run my own firm), but I noticed a few days back that LinkedIn has blocked my account, one that I haven't logged in to since 3 years or so, and won't let me log in unless I submit a government ID through Persona.
It depends - if someone uses the same compound but provably for a different indication (like maybe anti-periodontic diseases or something) or for a different intake mechanism, they could get another patent and proceed with trials.
Granted, it's not going to be easy because the original patent has expired so it's going to be very easy for an upstart Indian company to conduct basic clinical trials, use part of the data of the second patent's holder to prove equivalency (they did this test so we don't need to do this test), and then get approved through an accelerated pathway in the FDA. Which is why even well-capitalized players will shy away from what could be a cash cow.
Anti-periodontic diseases are highly irrelevant compared to cavities. Not even the original cavity application did manage to get enough funding at the time. So there will be no Indian upstart, there is and likely will be nobody who invests the money into ultra expensive trials. The ship has sailed.
It's even more wasteful when you realize that the USG is trying to force governments around the world to buy Californian almonds, even in places where almonds are traditionally grown and harvested.
And then there's the matter of Saudis coaxing farmers to grow alfalfa which is then exported to Saudi Arabia to feed cows there (!).
Precisely my point. The US grows an unsustainable amount and then pushes it to places it was grown in traditionally like the Mediterranean, Western Asia and the Middle East.
The USA produces the lion's share thanks to USG subsidies, then the USG comes over to the old world countries and the commerce reps start faulting the countries for a.) blocking American agricultural imports or b.) subsidizing their own local agriculture.
Since the American almonds are also produced at a much larger scale, they can also underprice the locally produced almonds ridiculously, which further disincentivizes local farmers from growing almonds and forces them to grow something else.
Well he didn't take it lightly and was very upset. They apparently did a pre-recorded version of his answers that the producers of that segment specifically told the night shift to air online, but the night shift didn't, which further exasperated him.
I mean, that 7 billion USD amount also includes some of us on the other side of the pond placing bets based on the very obvious shitpost patterns of your highly stable president.
These are outlier trades by size alone placed minutes before news broke.
This isn't just people betting on TACO or NACHO or pathological lying and whatnot. These are ultra, ultra high-conviction bets literally large enough to move commodities markets placed minutes before news that, astoundingly, moved the market in exactly the right direction!
Their loss if they don't move to regional pricing. AI will continue to remain an upper-management luxury then, and won't reach the mass adoption required to justify their outsized valuations.
Regional pricing makes sense for products that don’t have ongoing costs or where most of the input cost can be offset by local labor. You’re not buying server racks nor electricity at 1/3 of the price to serve poorer markets
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