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167 points thisismytest | 5 comments | 17 Nov 24 03:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source

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ixaxaar ◴[17 Nov 24 04:45 UTC] No.42162021[source]▶

What a sad fucking world. I like what China does in the regard to patents. That is exactly what patents deserve.

levocardia ◴[17 Nov 24 05:15 UTC] No.42162150[source]▶

...steal them from the Americans?

1. mattigames ◴[17 Nov 24 07:21 UTC] No.42162535[source]▶

What would be the world if we hadn't "stolen" so many discoveries from China, specifically where would be the USA (gunpowder, print, et al)

2. portaouflop ◴[17 Nov 24 07:32 UTC] No.42162580[source]▶

I would say not dramatically different, since most of these fundamental discoveries were found by multiple people around the world.

3. j16sdiz ◴[17 Nov 24 08:40 UTC] No.42162861[source]▶

bullshit.

movable type are not used in china until oil based ink and metal casting technology mature in Europe.

4. thebeardisred ◴[17 Nov 24 08:57 UTC] No.42162918[source]▶

I assure you. We waited 25 years after the invention of gunpowder before co-opting it.

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5. thaumasiotes ◴[17 Nov 24 09:46 UTC] No.42163118[source]▶

More like 350 years.

Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe