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Comment Re:Poor choice. (Score 1) 75

At best, X could contest the cancellation and registration request with the USPTO, but it's again going to be hard as X/Musk have done a lot of disavow Twitter.

Did you not read my post?

“Many users continue to refer to X as ‘Twitter’ and posts on X as ‘tweets,’ which demonstrates continued association and strengthens the case for residual goodwill,” [Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University School of Law] says.

But just for you, I'll throw in this:

Intellectual property attorney Douglas Masters says he is doubtful that Operation Bluebird’s claims will be successful. “I don’t know that the record ultimately will show that even though they [X Corp.] switched to X, that they intended to give up all of their commercial use and rights in the word Twitter,” Masters tells The Verge.

But hey, I'm sure you know more about trademark law than some legal professor or a practicing lawyer. /s

Comment Re: AI: Humanity's Worst Invention (Score 1) 83

You don't need more than one guy to have a corporation. I have one. But that's really a modern legal and tax thing. Corporations were invented to make it easier for groups of people to act together.

I suspect the "replace the corporation" thing is just dumbassery, but it does potentially have a real meaning as above. You're also correct, other technology has also had that effect. There are lots of one-person operations, incorporated or not, that previously would have required the pooled resources of a group. Automation of all kinds does that. We also have a tendency to just dream bigger, which I'm sure will happen this time around too. And we also have a tendency to invent more bullshit jobs to fill in too.

Comment Poor choice. (Score 4, Informative) 75

“Many users continue to refer to X as ‘Twitter’ and posts on X as ‘tweets,’ which demonstrates continued association and strengthens the case for residual goodwill,” [Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University School of Law] says. She points to a 2020 case where a party attempted to register “Aunt Jemima” for breakfast foods, but was rejected “based on a likelihood of confusion” with Quaker Oats’ Aunt Jemima marks, even though the company had announced earlier that year that it was discontinuing the name and logo.

Beyond this, X has the resources to keep Operation Bluebird in court longer than Operation Bluebird can afford legal representation.

Comment Re:Sounds like an export tax. (Score 1) 95

Only if NVidia chooses to make such a case.

Greed is never satiated.

But they won't, because 1) NVidia gets to sell stuff that previously they couldn't,

After exports start, they will have established the basis that their product is not a threat to national security. This will give them all the leverage they need to file a suit against the US government.

2) Huang (like the whole tech sector) is such best buds with the President these days.

No because greed is never satiated.

Comment Re:Science moving forward...country moving backwar (Score 1) 38

The big difference is the profit motive in the absence of a truly free market.

The big difference is the requirement to test them to make sure they work. It's expensive, and most candidates fail.

This is potentially the biggest strenth of a vaccine approach. According to the Internet the flu vaccine costs my government an average of $5.43 cents. Individuals can get it for under $100 in most parts of the world where you have to pay the full cost. The reason it's not stupid expensive, being a new drug with novel components most years, is because the procedure for making flu vaccines is well known and has a special type of approval that lets new variations be used without extensive trials.

Comment Re: Science moving forward...country moving backwa (Score 2) 38

It's not particularly difficult to determine the protein that a bit of DNA codes for. It's more difficult to figure out which of those are going to be reasonable antigens to target, but you don't really have to. Cancer cells aren't unknown pathogens, they're regular old human cells with mutations.

You don't need to do that either though. Cancer mutations aren't infinitely diverse. "Personalized medicine" sounds like a treatment just for you and you alone, and maybe in a Star Trek future it will be, but in the meantime it means a targeted treatment. You'd identify something that occurs in 10% or 1% or 0.01% of a particular type of cancers, make a treatment, and sell that along with a test for that mutation. We've already got several of those based on more traditional immunotherapy. RNA vaccines just make it a lot easier so we'll have lot more options, including ones that target the 1% and 0.01% instead of just the 10%.

Comment Re: AI: Humanity's Worst Invention (Score 1) 83

A corporation is a legal concept that lets a group of people own property and act together. Many people are expecting AI to replace corporations, especially in software development because one guy with an idea will be able to do what now requires a bunch of shareholders to pool their resources and hire a bunch of specialists.

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