Is Berkshire Hathaway able to monitize the output of government funded research as effectively?
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The 'risk' here is often carried by publicly funded research. ~6.2 billion for glp
The private 'investment' comes in manufacturing, scale and marketing.
Novo Nordisk has spent 41% more on shareholder enrichment (buybacks and dividends) than on R&D over the past five years.
My wife was a victim of two of these.
I posted about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037474
Yes. I've filed.
My therapist believes she may have late onset schizophrenia.
We have 4 children under age 13.
She already had a name when I married her.
Where did you go after Skype?
Looking at lottery winners not great long term.
See
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html
2008 Classified Cable describing potential future
Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.
Odd description of intervening in a civil war manufactured by western war mongers to support ethnic Russians.
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Blessed be the fruit.
Champlain Towers South in Surfside was only 30 years old when it collapsed.
Is it the catching or the imprisoning NYC and many other cities are struggling with in current year?
Decades?
There's been 11,000+ years of warming since the end of the last glacial period.
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Guns in bulk are smuggled south, guns come north with criminals. You can see this in the seizure stats.
In the context of banning guns, any movement north is too much.
The criminal element largely responsible for gun crime would criminally ignore the ban. They're already shooting people.
The US shares a 3,145 kilometer long border with Mexico, unfortunately there are at best 1,044 km of border 'barriers' in place. People, guns, money and drugs are smuggled across the border daily.
Sutter's Mill, Sutter's Fort, and the Railroad Museum were popular Elementary School Field trip destinations in the 80's.
The list of 'approved' software vendors doesn't say it's because their billion dollar companies, but if it's from a company on the list that's enough. No further vetting required.
NIH is probably already funding it somewhere. What were they studying at the biolabs in the Ukraine?
No they don't enter public school during adulthood, but if none of the interventions move the needle by the time their adults, what's the point?
Have inflation-adjusted salaries for other industries? They're not great either. Look at average attorney starting salaries.
Average and dim usually seem pretty fixed by adulthood.
Were teachers better in previous generations? I remember the majority of mine being excellent. Might it be more unattractive now than 30 - 40 years ago?
Because that's the system that built the modern world?
Send the best and brightest to thow themselves against the dull and dim because the best students will be fine with no teacher.
The best and brightest should be challenged and pushed to excel at academicly rigorous programs. The dim and dull should managed through a course of study that has more achievable standards.
What's the advantage to having the best and brightest teachers if they're in a room of average and dim students?
Both teachers and students should be tracked by ability. Best teachers for the best students. Mid teachers for mid students.
They're worn in theater to prevent the surgical team from contaminating the sterile field they're all huddled together around.
In this instance their customers are the advertisers / ad buyers not chrome users.
If you could provide similar functionality / workloads as the old MS Small Business Server isn't there a MSP / reseller market opportunity? Self hosting for businesses that are < 25 users. They still tend to be serviced by small MSP. They've gone cloud because that's where their vendors went. Many hate it.
You'd need
* Directory/Authenticaion
* Shared Folders
* Wiki / Web something
If there were options for adding IM, PBX, CRM it could be a compelling offering for resellers.
Did yours read any assigned novels in school in the 4th grade? Ours didn't, they don't do that anymore.
Not much writing either, because so much is online.
My wife is homeschooling next year.
You mean like being on the board of Theranos?