I am not sure how to feel about this.
On one hand, it seems awfully petty in one sense when our ecological fate rests on going green as fast as possible.
On the other, I absolutely appreciate the importance of not letting domestic production get completely swamped by foreign markets.
Lol. I mean, I get the reason that surrogacy can be exploitative. But considering the literal foundation of the religion... 'Nuance? Never heard of her.' says the Catholic Church.
Sorry, you're quite right - I misread it to begin with.
This paper suggests you're spot on that they're not as profitable as other large companies, but they're still making an awful lot of money on top of the necessary costs.
Great explanation (including the pre-edit bit ha) - thank you!
When you say the cypher puzzle wouldn't be much fun - why not? Surely you could have a set of puzzles through the game that each yield a keyword (seemingly plot relevant, but still pretty random when combined with the others) and the player has to combine all of them via clues in game in the correct order to yield the correct key. That doesn't sound unfun on the surface?
Ah I'm so sorry - thanks for the TIL.
Yes, I very much agree with your idea then.
Edit: I also like what @Womble@lemmy.world suggested of retaining 1/3 of seats for cross-party selected experts. Especially with sortition, it's important to have the expertise to inform discussion.
I apologise as I know next to nothing about how this all works - so ELI5 please:
Based on what you explained here, could the game designed in theory put those 256 bits of key into 256 puzzles - with several hundred more puzzle pieces being red herrings?
But were you making the point the data miner could just then target the thing that accepts those puzzle pieces and reads the key from them?
I'd like for it to be people with previous careers as well though, not career politicians. Which is what it would end up being if open to anyone standing.
Except as highlighted, if the drug didn't make a return on investment it wouldn't be made. That can be true for government funded research, it's not necessary to have a profit margin on top.
Based on my tumbles with the apex predator that is my wife, yes - we tall people are very vulnerable to attack.
Cool.