Remember "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli?

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  1. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    He just wants his Wuhan Clan CD back...

    *runs*
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    It's been sold.
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    I guess it's appropriate that it was bought by cryptobros.
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    Such a shame, I would fucking love to hear this album
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    That is 90% gibberish. I feel bad for reporters on tech/crypto beats.
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    You should feel worse for general assignment reporters who get stuck with a story like that. :brood:
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    Rimjob Bob Sue Collini always gets the weenie

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    That's a start. Now when is the rest of big pharma gonna answer for its greed?
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    They put him in the allenwood country club? 7 years of golf, tennis lessons, and back massages. The conjugal visit rooms are better than expensive hotel rooms.

    The father of a friend of mine went there after embezzlement charges and I drove his mother there occasionally for some decent cash when I was young.
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    He's now into blockchain.
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    It’s pretty hand-wavy from the description and I’d want to see a white paper, but it’s not the worst use I’ve heard of for (presumably) Ethereum. Still probably inefficient compared to a more traditional distributed system like Folding@Home, except for the payments part, which could be completely automated. It’d be impressive if Shkreli is the worst thing about this idea, but I’d say it’s not completely out of the realm of possibility that he is.
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    Also, is that true that drug discovery computation is done on the cloud? That’s insane if you need that dense computing power. It’s much more cost-effective to lease or often buy it if you have any capability to physically store and power it. Maybe if my current venture falls apart, I’ll start a compute center in a box business. Cause damn.
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