In general, it is not easy to see why a pharmaceutical company would need a monopoly as an additional incentive to enter into such a risk-free deal. It is even more difficult to understand why this exclusivity should also extend to countries which are too poor for doing any business in the first place. What remains is, once again, ideology: waiving patent protection would have all sorts of disruptive effects and do all sorts of damage to the credibility of the system! Which is probably true, but it’s not entirely self-evident that a bit of disruption would necessarily be a bad thing, is it?
The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript (via javascriptweekly.com).
const object = {
get data() {
const actualData = someExpensiveComputation();
Object.defineProperty(this, "data", {
value: actualData,
writable: false,
configurable: false,
enumerable: false
});
return actualData;
}
};
The ancestor of Yunohost and Freedombox.
Framasoft is a not-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipatory digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!
Relevant: De-google-ify Internet.
A French resistance fighter reluctantly revisits her past in this Oscar-winning portrait.
In this short documentary, (Colette; ed.) Marin-Catherine faces her trauma with the support of a history student named Lucie Fouble – only 17 years old herself. For the first time in her life, and with Fouble ever by her side, Marin-Catherine travels from France to Germany to visit the camp where some 20,000 Nazi prisoners including her brother died.
Great movie, too btw.
All probability theory is grounded in the concept of infinity, yet all our gaming experiences are finite.
Women who write about their pain suffer a double shaming: once for getting injured, twice for their act of self-exposure
The patriot paradox.
The world needs nations to do good things, such as reduce carbon emissions and stop treating stateless people as less human. To do good things, nations have to be good. But the condition for the existence of good nations is other good nations doing good things for each other – and for those who’ve had their homes taken away because their nations haven’t been good. Why not start there in the quest for new stories of nations for a new global age?