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Overheard: "I'm not sure where you get architectural pretzels."

🤨 Is curing patients a sustainable business model?

“In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”

From a 2018 Goldman Sachs report.

cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-as

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #PublicHealth

Komi is 0.5 and each player has captured one stone. Who wins?

UnityHub is also broken. It asks me to sign in, and when I do, the website claims it's launching Unity Hub. Nothing happens after that. I don't see any way to proceed.

I tried

apt-get check

and got:

$ apt-get check
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

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Seriously, how do I fix this? There's an additional warning icon in the bar at the top of the screen, which says:

An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu* or apt-get in a terminal** to see what is wrong. The error message was: ' Error: BrokenCount > 0'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies.

*There is no such entry in the menu I get when I right click on the desktop.

**apt-get wants command-line arguments, and of course no clue has been offered as to what they should be.

Help!

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D'oh! I (black) won this game, but it counted as a loss because we failed to mark the five white stones in the upper center dead.

This is why I’m on social media 😂

some of you are taking the weighted blanket thing too far

Did you know half of Americans think Trump should suspend his campaign after becoming a felon? They do.

#USpol #election #trump #president #politics

A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister.

For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.

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