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Comment Self-care for cancer patients (Score 2) 53

What feeds cancer is sugar and glutamine. You can clamp down on sugar but glutamine is very hard to shut down -- ketogenic diet, periodic water fasting helps, and some hard to obtain pharmaceuticals help with managing glutamine levels to fight cancer. Dr. Thomas Seyfried is an authority in this area and his interventions have helped real cancer patients

This article describes methods to help your body heal cancer, in cooperation with standard medical care: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenconsed.blogspot.com%2F...

Comment Highlander (Score 2) 55

How to make companies leaner, faster, more profitable? Why, simply fire the low-performers every year! What remain are the high performers.

But don't risk rehiring low performers. Instead, rely on AI to replace the people you sacked. Then go sack some more - you always can do better. Stack, rank and yank! Rinse bloodstains and repeat.

As your employee headcount gets smaller so does your wage bill. But lo, what superstars remain! What cold blooded killers! Each one capable of maintaining a thousand spreadsheets. Of selling container-ships of ice to the Inuit. Of gutting entire divisions in a day. Of skillfully pitting one AI chatbot against another.

So eventually, there two employees left. You and that other guy. But don't stop Highlander. There can only be one!

Then, there's you. You're the company. "L'entreprise, c'est moi".

Well, technically you're not the company: there's no one to keep you company. You're the singularity.

Comment India does something right to US IP rights (Score 1) 148

India doesn't handle US patents the deference they expect. Which is probably a good thing given the ridiculous state of the US patent system

Among other concerns, the potential threat of patent revocations and the procedural and discretionary invocation of patentability criteria under the Indian Patents Act impact companies across different sectors. Moreover, patent applicants generally continue to confront long waiting periods to receive patent grants and excessive reporting requirements

Comment Re: He's correct (Score 1) 174

I think he simply made an error. From the customer's perspective, innovation must be novel, useful *and* accessible to have meaning.

  That usually means multiple competing offerings - not a single firm that captured the market.

A CRISPR-based gene therapy is hardly innovative to a poor African villager who cannot access it However, insulin injections are a meaningful innovation mainly because they are accessible -- an outcome directly related to the discoverer of insulin choosing to forgo patent protection in the hopes of helping the most people possible. Ditto with seatbelts, the internet and the world wide web.

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