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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by Ericson2314 on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:52PM (#25260076)
You've just describe why many Socialists 100 years were very skeptical of anti-trust as trying to sacrifice modernity to proper up a romanticized notion of the past as disaggregated pure-petit-bourgeois capitalism. Really not that different than the critism of the Luddites 100 years before that.

See https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-100-issue-5/all-i-rea...

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by sudosysgen on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:58PM (#25261024)
This line of argument reminds me of Haldane's point that economic planning can often work for the same reasons why large corporations and monopolies often work well too.
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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by Ericson2314 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:50AM (#25263041)
"The People’s Republic of Walmart"
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