Re:Making Vaccine
by xxpor on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:48PM
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It's kind of funny, pharmaceuticals have similar economics to software now that I think about it: extremely high upfront fixed costs, minimal marginal costs.
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Yes; there are similar risks. Working on something for years that might not work, or not pass clinical trials or whatever.
The only difference is that the researcher's limit for not understanding the code might be 150,000 lines, but only 50 atoms for not understanding the molecule. :)