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_craft··on Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought
How much of that goes to the actual researchers vs the school?
_craft··on Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought
Thanks for the informative response! Do you know how expensive clinical trials would be for this kind of drug?
_craft··on Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought
The nytimes article mentions:

"The research was paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the German government (some co-authors work at the University of Bonn). Northeastern University holds a patent on the method of producing drugs and licensed the patent to a private company, NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, Mass., which owns the rights to any compounds produced. Dr. Lewis is a paid consultant to the company."

If the research was paid for by the National Institutes of Health, why is the patent privately owned? This does not seem fair to taxpayers.

_craft··on The Secret to the Uber Economy Is Wealth Inequality
Income equality helps businesses and the economy grow. Consider the extreme case of inequality where all the wealth is concentrated in just a few people... there'd be no market for Uber.
_craft··on The Secret to the Uber Economy Is Wealth Inequality
This is bogus. Imagine how much more valuable Uber would be if 100% of people could afford to ride them on a regular basis.
_craft··on Burn Baby Burn
Where's the data?
_craft··on NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work
Yes, or maybe something like a plasma actuator.
_craft··on Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus
And 3 nurses died from the same treatment center a few days ago.
_craft··on YC Portfolio Stats
Crunchbase isn't the most reliable, so I was wondering if they surveyed their companies, etc.
_craft··on What Problems to Solve
I hear this a lot, but I'm not convinced that most successful companies pivot. Is there any data to back this up?
_craft··on Ask HN: How come so many of you know about stocks/finance ?
How did you (yummyfajitas too) find these funds? I'd love to find a small algo shop but don't know where to start looking.