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Just think of all the good it's brought and how underfunded it is
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#22Eliminating "poor" as an adjective for humans.
If we must commercialise it, more people with money = more customers.. Apple, Amazon, etc.. there's billions of potential iPhone and Alexa users out there long term if you set something up to help them now. What, you don't think you'll be around long enough?
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#23Renewable energy.
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#24Elderly care... in fact this pandemic showed precisely the opposite: our elders were neglected, converted into a statistic that dies more then young people. A complete lack of humanity in a lot of developed countries. This is the example we gave to the upcoming generations, we're fucked when it's our turn lol. I've been reflecting a lot on this, and thinking of ways to solve this, but it's not easy - it's bigger than…
Truth be old, as a rule the marginalized didn't fare well with Covid. Minorities, specifically Afro Americans, continue to remain on the wrong side of the healthcare tracks.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-...
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#25Large-scale seawater desalination.
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#26Open source printers
Why do you say that?
Most printer companies make their money off of the ink/toner for consumer products. The printers themselves are usually close to break even prices. That doesn't leave much room for open source competitors.
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#28Real news and true unbiased, truth seeking, fact checking journalism.
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#29Uncensorable publishing.
This is interesting. What mechanisms do you see enabling this?
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#30We’ve got a very limited understanding of biology. Ask any kind of researcher and they’ll tell you we need more data, i.e. more experiments. Also, there’s Illumina monopoly in sequencing market, we desperately need competition for genetics to become accessible to general population.