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And another factor should be put into consideration is that wasted plastics in developed country actually can be recycled. But low quality plastic produced in developing country using those recycled plastics are very unlikely to be recycled again due to high cost.

Anyway exporting, burning and landfills are not real solutions. The highly developed countries published some so called models for the purpose of blaming poor countries for those messes.

The pointing fingers kind of behaves like those are not good strategies to let everyone work together and fix things. But only to make someone feels better about himself and do nothing.

Oh, thanks.

That simplified R&D cost calculation. $11B for $3.5 m persons in U.S. and 90% successful rate means R&D cost(merge cost) definitely less than $4k per person.

If you are talking about a virus only affect small amount of population, I can understand this marketing strategy.

But Hepatitis C. is a virus infects 143 million, which means it even with a $10k profit margin for one in ten here should be at least $1 Trillion profits. A company like BMS do expanding like $20 billion annually. For me all most like they could afford to operate like half of century for just one drug. No way it is sold for almost $100k price for just breaking even.

Correct: Sorry it was Gilead Science developed Harvoni. So $22B revenue minus $8 operating incoming.

Those techniques described here were pioneered by Facebook and Google. Basically they are (automatic) CAPTCHA.

I still remember the news articles refering a patent Facebook filed about audio fingerprinting as the evidence of Facebook eavesdropping on the people.

Also technologically with some encryption argorithms, a company can claim that they are not capable to identify user with the fingerprint. But in theory given enough data they still can.

For the first woman, she can try to start a legal action against her former employer, force later to make a late payment for her social security. maybe about 50k-100k CNY for her 5 years. Or she can stay for another 5 years and continue to pay on her own to make sure she can retrieve the full benefits.

If she'd chose to close her account, I think she can retrieve about CNY 100-200k one time.

For the second one, House saving fund is a totally different thing. It is not mandatory nationally, for some employees they preferred to pay a minimum so they can negotiate for a higher wage in cash. It is very rare to see a migrate worker choose to pay housing saving funds instead of more cash.

Anyway normally you can try to get some help from government provided legal aid and local media in this situation, but the foreign medias and NGOs is a big no-no.