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It is a lot better. And I think that that's also where... These things, I'm not in opposition of it. I'm glad the cloud thing happened. I really am. I think it moved the ball forward in a lot of ways of how to understand how to run things. Some of the conceptual models, the pets versus cattle, the declarative setups, all that stuff worked. We owe to the cloud.

It is a lot better. And I think that that's also where... These things, I'm not in opposition of it. I'm glad the cloud thing happened. I really am. I think it moved the ball forward in a lot of ways of how to understand how to run things. Some of the conceptual models, the pets versus cattle, the declarative setups, all that stuff worked. We owe to the cloud.

We owe to the billions and billions and billions of dollars that got pushed into it. But we don't have to stay there, right? I like to think of it a little bit sometimes big pharma. So someone puts in a billion dollars to develop a new drug. We should be thankful as humanity for that to happen. It is really expensive to do the R&D. Lots of the R&D doesn't work.

We owe to the billions and billions and billions of dollars that got pushed into it. But we don't have to stay there, right? I like to think of it a little bit sometimes big pharma. So someone puts in a billion dollars to develop a new drug. We should be thankful as humanity for that to happen. It is really expensive to do the R&D. Lots of the R&D doesn't work.

Even when the R&D does work, it goes through all these clinical trials. They cost absolutes. Absolutely astounding sums of money to do requires investors to underwrite all of that. And those investors will only do it if they occasionally get a slam dunk to pay it all off, right? Incredible. Equally incredible, the fact that patents expire after 19 years, 18 years, and then shit goes generic.

Even when the R&D does work, it goes through all these clinical trials. They cost absolutes. Absolutely astounding sums of money to do requires investors to underwrite all of that. And those investors will only do it if they occasionally get a slam dunk to pay it all off, right? Incredible. Equally incredible, the fact that patents expire after 19 years, 18 years, and then shit goes generic.

And after it's gone generic, the price goes to essentially what it costs to produce the compounds, which is usually nothing, right? Like, I mean, I guess I can get as riled up as anyone about the state of the American healthcare system, but I can't get that riled up about the idea that like a pill costs more than the chemical compounds it takes to produce it because that's not the expense, right?

And after it's gone generic, the price goes to essentially what it costs to produce the compounds, which is usually nothing, right? Like, I mean, I guess I can get as riled up as anyone about the state of the American healthcare system, but I can't get that riled up about the idea that like a pill costs more than the chemical compounds it takes to produce it because that's not the expense, right?

Like the expense is developing the drug that works and is safe and could be rolled out. And America, just for whatever reason, Peculiar reasons. It's a bankrolling the whole world on this, right? Like Americans pay through the nose for their medication and that's why we have all this medication.

Like the expense is developing the drug that works and is safe and could be rolled out. And America, just for whatever reason, Peculiar reasons. It's a bankrolling the whole world on this, right? Like Americans pay through the nose for their medication and that's why we have all this medication.

Anyway, so when all that happens, it's also amazing that we have the forcing function of the generic threat, right? Like first of all, it means that these pharmaceutical companies can't just develop a drug and then the next 200 years milk it like Mickey Mouse. Things will actually expire and they have to come up with new shit or they'll go out of business.

Anyway, so when all that happens, it's also amazing that we have the forcing function of the generic threat, right? Like first of all, it means that these pharmaceutical companies can't just develop a drug and then the next 200 years milk it like Mickey Mouse. Things will actually expire and they have to come up with new shit or they'll go out of business.

And just as importantly, the advances for humanity accrue to all at zero cost once shit goes generic. That's the model we should think about with commercial software development and cloud development. The cloud was on a patent for quite a while and it developed a bunch of cool new shit and that's great and we should be grateful for it and I'm grateful for it, but also now it's time to go generic.

And just as importantly, the advances for humanity accrue to all at zero cost once shit goes generic. That's the model we should think about with commercial software development and cloud development. The cloud was on a patent for quite a while and it developed a bunch of cool new shit and that's great and we should be grateful for it and I'm grateful for it, but also now it's time to go generic.

Now it's time for these advantages in developer ergonomics and deployment and containerization and of the wazoo to go generic so we don't have to pay rental fees until the end of fucking time. The internet today exists the way it does because of open source software.

Now it's time for these advantages in developer ergonomics and deployment and containerization and of the wazoo to go generic so we don't have to pay rental fees until the end of fucking time. The internet today exists the way it does because of open source software.

There wouldn't be – and I owed as many businesses if every goddamn vendor wanted a per CPU license charge as though you were buying Oracle in 1998, right? Like that was just going to seriously curb the dynamism of the entire economy. So we need to –

There wouldn't be – and I owed as many businesses if every goddamn vendor wanted a per CPU license charge as though you were buying Oracle in 1998, right? Like that was just going to seriously curb the dynamism of the entire economy. So we need to –

Respect the fact that the capitalist forces are pushing these things forward at the frontier and that's amazing and I'm a capitalist in that regard very much so. And I'm also a goddamn communist when it comes to open source software and like that it all should be free and we should be fighting to move more things generic and so forth.

Respect the fact that the capitalist forces are pushing these things forward at the frontier and that's amazing and I'm a capitalist in that regard very much so. And I'm also a goddamn communist when it comes to open source software and like that it all should be free and we should be fighting to move more things generic and so forth.