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GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB(gizmodo.com)
145 points by gumby 1mo ago|84 comments
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Scientists Say a Key Trigger for Alzheimer's Damage Isn't Even in the Brain(gizmodo.com)
3 points by gumby 1mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 1mo ago
Clay Christiansen (the “The Innovator‘s Dilemma”/disruption guy) once pointed out to me that hospitals were subject to the same disruptive pressure that kills successful companies. He gave an example (this was 25 years ago) of heart at
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Is Your City Prepared for Climate Disaster?(nytimes.com)
2 points by gumby 1mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 1mo ago
It’s explained in the article
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by gumby 1mo ago
This is the only way I’ll refer to a video, so I hope it starts to happen. I know some people like them but personally I skip them, and skip HN submissions that are obviously links. Unfortunately this was was washed through a URL. TL;DR: I
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Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
179 points by gumby 1mo ago|118 comments
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by gumby 2mo ago
Think about it this way because the issue isn’t specific to allocators: it’s pretty good in general but can often be beaten if you have special understanding of what you need to do. That’s OK. You can buy cars and trucks that are optimized
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by gumby 2mo ago
In theory we will delegate this to agents, but really companies can already do that (plenty of software does upgrade itself in backgroud (some doesn’t because the user may want to peg an older version). But really that cacophony of upgrad
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Defunct Nuclear Site Had a Meltdown in 1959. It's Still Causing Health Problems(gizmodo.com)
4 points by gumby 2mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 2mo ago
The origin of these protections in the US date back to the early decade of the general purpose credit cards. They started out for business expenses (the first one was branded “Diner’s Club”), but they were so profitable that the issuers wa
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by gumby 2mo ago
These days ppl often (usually?) simply ask an LLM to replce something rather than debugging it (or if they ask the LLM to debug they get a different snarl of code). So rather than debug a steaming pile of code you might be be able to treat
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by gumby 2mo ago
In the US you have several legal safeguards that are not provided by debit cards. Fraud liability limitations, chargebacks, and so on. You can still implement “if I can’t afford something, I don’t buy it” with a cc. I pay mine off every m
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by gumby 2mo ago
Thank you for this comment. You’re right.
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by gumby 2mo ago
On the research side, 90% (or more)/10%. Overwhelmingly there’s little money to be made beyond a few outliers. On the commercial side obviously money issues dominate (because the costs are enormous as are the commercial risks), but fr
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Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely(wpintelligence.washingtonpost.com)
38 points by gumby 2mo ago|58 comments
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by gumby 2mo ago
The better prescient reference is John Brunner’s triad of The Shockwave Rider (origin of the computer virus, too!), The Sheep Look Up , and Stand on Zanzibar . They very much foreshadow the shallow pop star president, contempt for expe
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by gumby 2mo ago
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by gumby 2mo ago
I don’t believe the plaques have been shown to be prion based, but who knows what the transmission mechanism might be. More relevantly, the etiology is still a mystery, and nobody knows if the amyloid β is a defense, cause, mechanism, or ha
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by gumby 2mo ago
I hadn’t realised that DECT is still in use. It was pretty good in its heyday so glad it’s survived.
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by gumby 2mo ago
Being poor is a lot of work, as is very well documented. When you have more money you can offload some (or in extreme cases pretty much all) of the labor.
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by gumby 2mo ago
Trains in the US are super useful…for freight. Pretty much worthless for passengers in most cases. Canada and Australia are similar. Europe puts people in trains and freight in semi-trailers. China and Japan are more like this. India ded
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by gumby 2mo ago
> One question of course is: what does society think we should do with thieves who create road accidents and who render trains inoperable? They should be liable for consequential damages.
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by gumby 2mo ago
Change x to xcancel and read it that way.
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by gumby 2mo ago
It’s just the macro perspective. Down around the Planck limit, there’s something going on all the time , everywhere, all at once!
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by gumby 2mo ago
Bill Pollock (who is nonstarch press) is a very serious editor so I would not worry about that with NSP books. Of course it’s a small operation, and so isn’t under the same pressures of a big operation. When you’re a boutique operation your
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by gumby 2mo ago
It’s convenient when people you’ll want to avoid label themselves up front
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Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves(science.org)
42 points by gumby 2mo ago|2 comments
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by gumby 2mo ago
GPL says that you can give that link to anyone you want. If someone on HN has received one of these links, feel free to post it here.
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by gumby 2mo ago
Except the article says nobody there knows how to make them these days, at least affordably.

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