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Der_Einzige on Sept 15, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

You deserve mass downvotes for implying that a cure for diabetes or obesity isn’t “needed”.

Techno optimism will always refer to Star Trek (realistically the ds9 version), not whatever crap Anderson tried to make up with that term.

rglullis on Sept 15, 2024 [–]

> a cure for diabetes or obesity isn't "needed"

A pill that people need to take forever and whose formula is patented and can not be produced without bringing profits to any of the pharma labs that developed it is not a "cure".

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