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by melling 3y ago
Any recommendations on what is good to read in science, math, etc books meant for a general audience. For example, Song of the Cell was recently mentioned to me: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Song-of-the-C
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by melling 3y ago
Cool narrative. Unfortunately, it’s all made up noise that has nothing to do with the actual story. Soon we will be drowning in similar responses from large language models
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by melling 3y ago
He died from pancreatic cancer. Anytime, I read someone dying from this particular cancer, I think of Randy Pausch and the Last Lecture. https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo HN discussion from 2008: https://news.ycombina
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by melling 3y ago
“ I just don't think society currently has an appetite for a $3000” Yep, that’s an easy one. Guess what. It’s not for general use. I have no idea where AR/VR is going. However, I’m all for Apple spending part of its large cash
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by melling 3y ago
“ (1) Invasion is very unlikely” Says some person on the Internet. “(2)...” But if that person is wrong, they believe… Remember when Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons because it thought they would be protected? https://www.np
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by melling 3y ago
3 hours to go 400 miles in France vs 6 hours in the US? The United States sat out the HSR revolution. China built 26,000 miles in the past 20 years. The US has essentially nothing. Personally, I think the creation of China’s subway system
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by melling 3y ago
All? The problem is being addressed. TSMC is building a second factory in the US, for example. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/tsmc-to-up-arizona-investmen... “Since the beginning of the 2020s, TSMC has expa
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by melling 3y ago
Of course it matters… It’s completely absurd to think it doesn’t matter …or are you being flippant again. I don’t have time to burn so say what you mean. If you really don’t understand, I can explain the obvious advantages to not placing
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by melling 3y ago
China has the second largest economy with the second largest military budget. The world is definitely a lot different than it was 50 years ago. Taking an island 100 miles offshore is definitely doable
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by melling 3y ago
Not sure how they come up with the numbers for tourism. 100,000 flights a day, every day of the year add up to 2-2.5% of emissions for example. I suppose if you take a gas powered taxi, stay in a hotel that gets energy from fossil fuels, b
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by melling 3y ago
I’ve been debunking that one for a long time. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-Obamas-buy-a-large-house-o...
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by melling 3y ago
That’s a glass has some water in it point of view. There are 1.5 billion cars in the world, and people keep them for over 10 years on average. 1.5C is inevitable this decade, and we’ve known about the problem for half a century. I’d say we
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by melling 3y ago
Yes, natural gas is pushing coal out in the United States. Of course, I said “globally “ where those market forces aren’t the same. https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-count...
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by melling 3y ago
Can someone provide more context? The United States already produces a lot of electricity so the “new” electricity is likely a small fraction of the existing amount. That’s why it’s always the feel good headline of “new electricity” https
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by melling 3y ago
This was posted 4 days ago. Unfortunately, people didn’t have much to say then either. The idea that math can effectively be used to “beat the market” seems like a fascinating subject where few want to divulge the secrets. Math has been u
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Gilbert Strang’s Final 18.06 Lecture (Live)(youtube.com)
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by melling 3y ago
“ “Our data suggested that the mortality related to the virus itself is relatively low, but other things that happen during the ICU stay, like secondary bacterial pneumonia, offset that.”
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by melling 3y ago
Science requires that you supply the facts not make up a story and say “what else can it be” What will it take to purge this sort of ignorance from HN? https://theconversation.com/pakistan-floods-what-role-did-cl...
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by melling 3y ago
“linked to climate change” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods Are we linking every weather event to climate change? Can we tighten up our science a little? Somewhere I read that the Pakistan issue was
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by melling 3y ago
What’s an even worse idea is to waste so much time with these inane discussions. Every day there’s some other opinion. Can we get these people to work on the actual problem rather than bike shed?
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by melling 3y ago
Not to worry, it’ll be 1000x cheaper in 10 years.
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by melling 3y ago
I’ve been hoping for several years now that one day HN would decide markets are not efficient and we could have some interesting discussions. One thing I have noticed is that when a stock is down people start whining about companies (e.g Go
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by melling 3y ago
“I just don't understand who wants…” I’ve heard so many people make this comment about a variety of things. I recommend paying closer attention and learning. The best response is to let people figure out for themselves what they don’t
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by melling 3y ago
Choose death or run a 3 hour 33 minute Boston Marathon https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a43631575/jeann... We really need to reevaluate “old age”. We’re not all runners but being decrepit at 80 seems a
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by melling 3y ago
Waiting for billionaires to solve our problems again? The US economy is $23 trillion a year. It makes no sense that we don’t double medical research tomorrow. We’re either going to have a similar fate, or will personally know someone who wi
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by melling 3y ago
As a layman, I’ve always wondered why we don’t fund more medical research to cure , or treat, common diseases sooner. A lot of pain and suffering could have been avoided if we discovered a cure 20 years ago. The investment probably doesn’t
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by melling 3y ago
“Researchers say certain strains of gut bacteria are the likely cause of Parkinson's disease” This means we need to screen people then give people an antibiotic? This is a costly disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm
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by melling 3y ago
10,000 trips in electric vehicles. Self-driving EV’s in all major cities would be a big win for the climate and the air quality.
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by melling 3y ago
Does anyone have any accurate numbers for emissions of various sectors? Seems like the energy sector is by far the biggest problem: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1288181/greenhouse-gas-e... On an absolute sc
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by melling 3y ago
Very few Americans died over the 20 year war in Afghanistan. In comparison, over 60,000 died in Vietnam. The military did its job. If a country can’t stand on its own, the military can’t fix that. “There were 2,402 United States military de

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