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Fenweekooo t1_jdwsjdm wrote

Reply to comment by Skippyazumuni in Elon Musk's Neuralink Seeks Surgical Partner for Human Trials, Report Says | The FDA reportedly rejected the brain implant company's first human trial approval bid, but the billionaire's biotech venture has kept trying by Hrmbee

sooo whats the worst that would happen if they just did the whole "better to ask forgiveness then permission" rout and just did it anyways?

a fine that wont put a dent in their bank account?

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Gold_Sky3617 t1_jdwrktr wrote

Reply to comment by MrSrsen in Big Tech is making its stuff slower and stupider — on purpose by treetyoselfcarol

The problem is the original vision of many of these companies was always total nonsense. The only way for many of these companies to be profitable at the level investors demand is to do the things that make user experiences worse such as intrusive ads and dubious policies around user data. This pot has been boiling for a long time and it’s boiling over now because with rates going up the barrier to entry is higher now than ever. They don’t have the same risk of being replaced when the cost of startup capital is getting increasingly more expensive.

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peanutmilk t1_jdwrhza wrote

Reply to Publishers beat Internet Archive as judge rules e-book lending violates copyright by thawingSumTendies

Faith in the system restored. Blatant stealing of content like that is just not okay.

>Kahle said in a statement. “For democracy to thrive at global scale, libraries must be able to sustain their historic role in society—owning, preserving, and lending books.

Libraries already do this with physical book like they've always done. With digital is different

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BrownMan65 t1_jdwqi6h wrote

Reply to comment by Comfortable_Excuse41 in China Energy proposes $1bn floating solar farm In Zimbabwe by Wagamaga

https://data.imf.org/regular.aspx?key=61545855

You can search up Sri Lanka and find the interest rates that the IMF is charging them as well as other countries. You're literally just making up lies at this point.

https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extarr2.aspx?memberKey1=895&date1key=2018-09-30

Here's all the times the IMF lent money to Sri Lanka. The latest was in 2016 but I'm sure that's totally not predatory at all.

Also here you go again, not reading the link I sent from The Atlantic. The article even states that other countries were asked first to help build the port. A Canadian and later Danish company were even contracted to do feasibility studies. They took this information and approached the US and India to help fund the construction of the port and both said no. Eventually a Chinese construction company won the bid and a Chinese bank agreed to fund the project.

>The Canadian project failed to move forward, mostly because of the vicissitudes of Sri Lankan politics

>We reviewed a second feasibility report, produced in 2006 by the Danish engineering firm Ramboll, that made similar recommendations to the plans put forward by SNC-Lavalin

>Armed with the Ramboll report, Sri Lanka’s government approached the United States and India; both countries said no. But a Chinese construction firm, China Harbor Group, had learned about Colombo’s hopes, and lobbied hard for the project. China Eximbank agreed to fund it, and China Harbor won the contract.

All you have to do is read. I gave you all your answers and you still continue to just be completely wrong. At this point it has to be on purpose.

Here's the most important part that you should probably come to understand though.

>The Central Bank governors under both Rajapaksa and Sirisena do not agree on much, but they both told us that Hambantota, and Chinese finance in general, was not the source of the country’s financial distress.

>Before the port episode, “Sri Lanka could sink into the Indian Ocean and most of the Western world wouldn’t notice,” Subhashini Abeysinghe, research director at Verité Research, an independent Colombo-based think tank, told us. Suddenly, the island nation featured prominently in foreign-policy speeches in Washington. Pence voiced worry that Hambantota could become a “forward military base” for China.

You and every other western person only gives a shit about Sri Lanka because China helped build a port that the rest of the world refused to help them with. If the US had built that port and the exact same circumstances had happened, you wouldn't have batted an eye. You would be here blaming their government for their mismanagement of the country. Instead you're blaming China because you've bought into the bullshit propaganda about Chinese debt trap diplomacy and believe that China is out to get you.

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autotldr t1_jdwqbt9 wrote

Reply to Publishers beat Internet Archive as judge rules e-book lending violates copyright by thawingSumTendies

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

> On Friday, a US district judge ruled in favor of book publishers suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement.

> Publishers suing-Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley-had alleged that the Open Library provided a way for libraries to avoid paying e-book licensing fees that generate substantial revenue for publishers.

> In court documents, IA argued that rather than cutting into publishers' library e-book licensing revenues, the Open Library helped promote books, and that practice ended up generating more licensing revenues for publishers in recent years, as thousands of IA borrowers widely recommended books they read. IA also argued that OverDrive checkouts did not increase when IA stopped lending the disputed books in the lawsuit.

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51674 t1_jdwq98k wrote

Reply to China Energy proposes $1bn floating solar farm In Zimbabwe by Wagamaga

Its an interesting concept to install solar on lakes and rivers, i was thinking why cant they install on dry land it must be way cheaper. But this way it helps prevent water loss from evaporation, which according to the article is the original cause for massive power outages in the area due to not having enough water for hydro electric. If this concept is successful we can also do it for overly hot and dry areas that have chronic low water levels.

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Skippyazumuni t1_jdwowbw wrote

Reply to comment by Hrmbee in Elon Musk's Neuralink Seeks Surgical Partner for Human Trials, Report Says | The FDA reportedly rejected the brain implant company's first human trial approval bid, but the billionaire's biotech venture has kept trying by Hrmbee

"that have so far been denied to the company"

there is a very good reason they have been denied.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/

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