That's entirely possible, and a complete disaster for the US defence industry. (View Post)

To be fair, massive gross margins are an inevitable consequence of a world where it costs $20bn to bring a drug to market, and your patent only lasts ten years. You need to look at this holistically,… (View Post)

This is a very astute post. The thing about totalitarian regimes is that nothing shows, but when a crack appears in the regime it can travel very fast. Right now, millions of Russians (probably many … (View Post)

Sadly, my understanding is that there's now a trainline through Southern occupied Ukraine, so the Kerch bridge is less essential to keeping Crimea supplied than it was. (View Post)

Okay, there are a couple of technical inaccuracies in what was generally an interesting video. For a start, there are various different types of 'artifical lift' that are used to bring oil to the sur… (View Post)