Exactly - you made me curious enough to look this all up.
The US may be on top of the list, but Bill Gates contributes over 10%.....BTW the top national contributors to the WHO are:
Germany
Japan
United States of America
European Commission
Australia
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
New Zealand

..and they each are well above $100 million.

Given the difference in population between Japan and the US, the per capita amount is more appropriate to consider.

Insulin is one of the most needed drugs in the world, after its discovery, the patent was sold to the University of Toronto for $1 by Fred Banting...most Americans would certainly be paying more for many drugs if wasn't for Canadian research, but also the Canadian opinion that drugs are worth more than just getting shareholders of some giant pharmacorp rich.

This is the most ridiculous story on slashdot yet - who cares about an incomplete ban on something legal completely unrelated to tech by a single city in the US? News for nerds indeed...

Let's change it to: Toronto becomes first city to bargain away 800 acres of waterfront land for development by Google.

Forbes article

Globe and mail article

I'm honestly surprised that there's this story about global warming and a story about SF banning e-cigarettes on the front page of slashdot. How is this news for nerds?

Anyway, more interesting news is Google/Sidewalk Labs new proposal for what they're planning to do to the Toronto Waterfront. There's something that might have been very interesting to get slashdot readers' views about.

Since we're talking about changing the status quo of urban development: Google is proposing that buildings in one more entire neighborhood will be built entirely out of timber...so obviously Google's millions of dollars of research think the value of using concrete is fading, and wood is where it's at.

Here's Forbes' article about the Google proposal - a lot more interesting than this nonsense.

Sometime soon, Adobe is will let PS and the rest of their software either go subscription or the way of Flash...They don't really care much. Adobe is very much a (scary) data analytics company from now into the foreseeable future...

Ok - the previous 4 comments, and usually all that relate to cryptocurrency on /., are negative and/or pessimistic.
Just an open "Ask Slashdot" since there aren't that many posts here for everyone: "Does everyone here really think BitCoin, Ethereum or Ripple are that bad?"

I have some of all of them, and obviously the sketchier ones (like bezop) are riskier, it seems like the ones above are destined for something, maybe not in the next couple of months, but certainly the next decade.

some info:
- Pfizer, AMD and Ernst & Young have joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- Samsung announced that they are manufacturing ASIC processing chips for Bitcoin (specialized mining hardware)
- RobinHood announced the addition of cryptocurrencies to their trading app. Over 1,000,000 people are now on the waiting list
- The Canadian government launched a trial to use Ethereum for the transparent administration of government contracts

Just curious to see what people think, if we're talking about losing money in cryptocurrency and there's nothing but these negative comments.

Intel stock is up 50% in the last 12 months (to $50) and they made about $63 billion dollars in 2017.

I think they're doing okay.

I've been going back on forth on this for years. Bought at $1000 and sold 90% of everything last week. Nice gain, but I'm very concerned about the logic of everything...

The problem I see is where all the bitcoins are currently - as I can tell by research, China has been mining them for years, and their computational capacity sure outweighs the solar-powered PC in some guy's backyard. This MUST preclude the US government introducing any federal acceptance of bitcoins as legal tender, simply because the US government doesn't have any...or is that why Trump was elected president? Based on the idea that his cold, hard cash is enough to allow a movement of government assets to bitcoin in a way that doesn't involve the printing of millions of US dollar bills to make up for the government's failure to get a position in bitcoin.

It's not like tulips, because when the value of a tulip bulb was finally assessed, it sure was a lot less than what people were saying. With bitcoin, people have accepted that it has no intrinsic value, and can't be used for anything, but it is the future of a currency that will work in the same way that the internet supplanted things like a $60-dollar home phone line and easy digital has replaced (for the most part) VCRs and vinyl.

What it's like is the Euro. No one thought that would last. Sure, it doesn't have a basic use, but everyone's agreed to switch over, so if you don't, you don't get to play with all the new kids, whether it's european countries, or the new net-based industries that have changed the world in the same way amazon and facebook have.

Likely this will be framed in a way that will appeal to the regular chrome user, allowing Google to " reverse" profile everyone:

Chrome/Google: Would you like to block ads? click the following categories that you don't want to see:

All of a sudden, Google knows a lot more about your preference in operating systems, car buying and takeout than they knew based on what you type into a search box.