They've already done most of the work. The enormous risk is behind them, as are the expensive human trials. Most of the marketing is too; Ozempic is a household name. All that's left is pulling in the profits to recoup all those expenses.

Public health care systems around the world provide good value for money. Private ones do too. The US system is a weird mix of private and hamstrung public that makes it an outlier on the bad side of the price/performance line. I doubt governments buying patents would improve that situation. Just negotiate group purchases like everyone else.

It is 1.5 percentile. I.e. 1.5% of humans who took the test scored better than it. I.e. it scored better than 98.5% of humans who took the test. Thus the sneaky summary "suggests the hype about large language models beating elite human coders is premature."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

(sorry, other reply was to the wrong post)

It is 1.5 percentile. I.e. 1.5% of humans who took the test scored better than it. I.e. it scored better than 98.5% of humans who took the test. Thus the sneaky summary "suggests the hype about large language models beating elite human coders is premature."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

From TFA:

Pocket is something I never used and had disabled in my "user.js" file -- and it seems many people apparently did the same. I also have a *bunch* of other things disabled; maybe that helps with performance and stability? In fact, first thing I do when a new version is released is see what new "features" I have to disable. Not a ringing endorsement of Mozilla's development efforts/direction, but at least I (still) have the option of disabling many (most?) things, unlike in Chrome/Edge.

Can't speak to any speed difference between Firefox and Chrome as I don't use Chrome (or Edge), but haven't personally noticed any performance issues. I'll note that I don't keep many tabs open and close the browser when I'm not using it; your use-case and mileage may vary ... The add-ons/extensions I use, like uBO, seem to be better supported in Firefox and browsing w/o then, and especially uBO, seems unthinkable.

I rarely have an issue loading the sites I visit, but the few times it was either a HW acceleration issue, which I could disable, and was corrected based on a Bugzilla report I filed and helped work through; or because I needed to re-enable something in Firefox that a site started using, like Web Assembly -- notably, my bank and USPS.com. Personally, I'd like to be able to whitelist Wasm usage rather than it be just off/on for everyone.

Not sure about all the privacy whinging, but guessing anything in Firefox is better than in Chrome/Edge.

Um, I should have "invested" in $TRUMP coin instead? :-)

That seems like a *you* problem, not the password's. :-)

... $45.47 would have lost him $1.98/month/line.

Oops! I inverter the sign. It's a+b >> c+d, not the other way around.

It might be worth it when a government factors in: a) the costs of treating obesity-related illnesses in public healthcare networks for countries with universal healthcare, which are most of them, and b) the reduced productivity caused by obesity, which leads to a non-insignificant reduction on GDP and in taxes collected, versus c) the cost of the buying the patent outright, plus d) the cost of manufacturing it in great enough quantity to, again in universal healthcare countries, distribute it for free to the population.

If a+b << c+d, it'd make "National Interests" levels of economic sense. And even more so if that was done by an international organization backed by several such governments.

I wonder how they'll feel if a president gets Seal Team 6 to assassinate one of them, to install someone else ... Oops! too late. /cynical-conspiracy-theories

(Noting that Trump's lawyer asserted that a scenario like this would be legal and immune and SCOTUS didn't contradict it.)

Adding: Passwords also work in the dark.

The only time either of my Windows 10 or Linux (Ubuntu, now Mint) systems have ever crashed was due to a hardware issue and I can count on one hand the number of times that's happened across both systems over the last 10+ years. Whatever is going on with your systems isn't the norm.

I get unlimited talk/text for $10/month with 5G data at $5/GB using the Ting Mobile Flex plan.
I've never used more than ~ 100 MB data/month, so my bill is $17.24/month.
My service is over T-Mobile, but Ting supports Verizon too...

Anything with this guy is probably going to cost more than elsewhere -- there has to be something to skim off. Grifters gonna grift...

From TFA:

Yuk.