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Comment Re: Better data leaks! (Score 1) 43

Comment Re:For those wondering (Score 1) 83

A raw carrot
Pringles
Soy sauce

Are all foods for sale tested before they can go on sale? I don't think so but how about this is introduced? Manufacturers of things intended to be ingested (let's not go so far as to say 'food') could pay a nominal fee which is a function of the number and quality of ingredients.

Then, on some random schedule, a random selection of foods is collected from random sales locations and a random proportion of those tested by a party other than the one collecting the items - to ensure against an emissionsgate-type scam (i.e. quality is good on submission for testing but reverts back to shady-low-quality ingredients for everyone else) or collaboration between the collector and the producer.

Voila! Food manufacturers are incentivised to provide good-quality food.

Comment Re: Popular mod - disconnect cars (Score 1) 54

Perhaps there's an incentive for manufacturers to detail how they're exploiting customers but I'm not aware of it - perhaps one day when openness is valued above profit-resulting-from-obscurity?

I suppose if, instead of issuing free-floating (essentially-)PDF contracts, manufacturers registered their contract terms with a system of some sort (trying to avoid the old-think 'centralised' but some system which is universally reachable) in a common language, it could be data-mined by anyone to extract new insights.

Comment Re: Estimates based on conjecture (Score 1) 176

People's reputation dot dot dot the survivability of their genes depends on their body of work yes?

Its not clear that everyone playing the game of science can overpower their instinct to win by any means necessary, in service of the purity of the scientific method.

Just look at certain people who've thrust themselves into power by corrupt means to see what I mean.

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