asciilifeform: 'If Shkreli acquires Biltricide from Bayer, he plans to raise the price of the drug to $100,000 for a single-day course of treatment, according to people briefed on Turing's business plans. No other changes or improvements to the drug will be made by Turing. The extra revenue generated by Biltricide is expected to earn Turing a fast profit for its investors and help defray the cost of developing other, experimental drugs, sour
asciilifeform: ^ 'intellectual property' in one paragraph.
asciilifeform: 'bitwork' << see also 'mechanical turk'
asciilifeform personal record - 1 week. and appreciated humour perhaps too much after that. but story for another time
asciilifeform: (which were, to the extent the pathologies were actual, vs imagined, alcohol babies)
asciilifeform: see also tthe case of the wholly fictional 'crack babies'
asciilifeform: this is not the only incident of 'modern' medicine failing to factor out comorbidities correctly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the pathology arises in cases where victim - usually for reason of taking stimulator nonstop - feels no compulsion to sleep.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: kills via immune collapse
asciilifeform: which suggests that u.s. army medics were right, and meth (or other stimulator) per se doesn't poison the user
asciilifeform: there are conditions that interfere with sleep. as in, cannot - or can only rarely - sleep. eventually fatal. but before victim dies, he experiences more or less the whole gamut of 'meth addict' pathologies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to the extent i know how any other one works.
asciilifeform: if gonna lie, at least try to be believable ?
asciilifeform: there is no excuse for lying. don't say 'i wrote an os' when you rolled a linux distro like 100,000 other folks.
asciilifeform: as a general rule, piss on anyone pitching a linux distro as 'an os'
asciilifeform: unbalanced: qubes << i most certainly never suggested it. as far as i can see, it's plain 'xen' and subject to all the caveats thereof ('escapes' etc)
asciilifeform: unbalanced: the reason for this is the elementary fact that, while virtually all victims of usg ops are dumb enough to run winblows, not all of them are so exquisitely stupid as to use the install that came in the crate
asciilifeform: 'vaccinate' poor schmuck and lock him in an oubliette with a rusty razor.
asciilifeform: i can see it as a grotesque means of execution, however.
asciilifeform: (i can't picture a 'cocaine vaccine' doing anything else, if it works at all)
asciilifeform: picture autoimmune destruction of the reward centres
asciilifeform: think for a minute if the 'why' isn't obvious
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l re: cocaine vaccine. the proposed 'dope vaccines' are one of the true eldrich horrors, that, were they actually put to use, would make folks pine for herr doktor mengele and his mercies
asciilifeform bows out of this thread because realizes he has no personal experience with any of the things therein, at all, nor does he have a working theoretical model of them
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: bar is not same as pub where you live ?
asciilifeform: could be why having problem grasping the concept
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: do you drive a car? when you go to a petrol pump, do you pay them to fill your tank? or to wind your gauge to 'full' by hand ?
asciilifeform: but sure, the lizarditude of the observable universe is a bit much to fit in a man-sized bucket. sorta like the apparent limit to achievable magnetic field density..
