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Nivek

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  1. how much is Luigi's bail?
  2. sounds like you need a blinky envelope...
  3. Well, I think my example pushes the costs an order of magnitude higher. ~$7k is strictly for recouping the investment and research of $11 billion, assuming that is all purely company sponsored internally (cash) and not financed through debt/equity or offset by research grants. The cost of manufacturing should also be included but I have no idea where to even start with numbers here. But it does seem to indicate that if the costs per treatment were $80k/treatment than that would be pretty absurd in a vacuum. I suppose the question is the cost of failures (those never made it out of trial/research) and possibly offsetting costs for research into other diseases which have far fewer patients to spread the costs among. I simply do not know enough about this industry to give a credible and honest critique. But like you, I do suspect the industry which also gave us the opioid epidemic might not be so benevolent across the board.
  4. Just look at pre injury QE offense this year. Note the difference there too.
  5. I think the challenge with @chainsaw's approach is that it doesn't reflect the complexity of finance well enough. A better way would be to calculate the net present value and split the research costs across 10 years, add a discount rate (say 7%) and projected cashflow rate from the sale in years 10-30 (assuming patent protected and monopoly) and then a generic alternative for years 30-40. If you only generated $1 billion for years 10-30, and .5 billion for years 30-40, you end up with a total revenue of $25 billion on an $11 billion investment. However, the NPV is negative, meaning you will be in the hole about $2.5 billion. The IRR for this project is ~5%. So if the investors only required 5% return, then this is a coin flip of a project. Now this excludes the foreign markets were price controls and approvals will vary. In that case, those 4 million US souls will pay $26 billion over the course of 30 years of being on the market to company X, which works out to about $6500 (very quick and dirty estimate) per treatment. Assuming no new people get sick. No inflation is assumed as well. This is also overly simplistic, with numbers, strategy, and distribution of costs all pulled from a hat.
  6. The fucking guy's software was directly used by bad actors to create a genocidal event based on fake news John Pym style.
  7. As a geologist, the only surprise was how ignorant the people were that this would happen. It isn't and if situation. Nice to see someone offer to help us out. We should fuck them over.
  8. I am confused, I thought they were supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and the most dangerous words were "I am from the government and I am here to help." Or was that different?
  9. My guess is the The Acolyte seems to have caused Disney to shy away from spending money to advertise it, and so they are going to Solo/Firefly this series despite of the viewers enjoying it. If they were smart they would keep it going and let it build momentum, heck even release the first few episodes online for free on YouTube to help it get going. My daughter likes Time Bandits on Apple+, but they fucked that program over with zero advertising of its existence and we just accidentally stumbled upon it. So I heard it is not picked up for a second series.
  10. Staff is pretty good, but might benefit from an OC to take on some of the responsibilities during the game or Sark can demote himself and hire a HC game manager? The prevent defense has failed all year for the past few years. Not sure why or how they thought that toss was the best option when they were at the half yard on second down. Wild cat it to Gibson or QB sneak? Run and I-formation and put in Collins as the back or to hit/push the RB/QB forward.
  11. Nivek

    Gunnar Helm

    Oh, I get that, I just think it is stupid. Right now, the penalty for intentionally hitting a someone late, out of bounds, or trying to injure someone is 15 yards, the same as a simple hand gesture. The first 3 are often not even called correctly or as consistently and they are way more fucking dangerous than a horn's down or a finger point.
  12. He isnt the functioning ceo of shit. All he does is steal credit from someone else’s work.
  13. Nivek

    Gunnar Helm

    In no way, shape, or form should a finger point = a late hit cheap shot.
  14. I know quite a few diabetics that all voted for him. I hope they fucking raise the price of insulin 5x.
  15. So Sark and PK fuck up and gift 21 points.
  16. Probably didn’t try to get cute and do incredibly stupid shit when having an opportunity to score.
  17. He does that way too often. He really needs someone to tell him no from time to time.
  18. So much holding. Just start holding the refs now.
  19. There have been lots of penalties. Some called.
  20. Sure it was, it prevented anyone from making a play.
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