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by melling 3y ago
“Microsoft needs to think hard how hostile they want to be to its competitors” They did decades ago in the last century. Embrace, extend, extinguish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
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Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s treatment donanemab slowed disease progression in trials(cnbc.com)
3 points by melling 3y ago|0 comments
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by melling 3y ago
I think the bigger problem might be many banks can’t handle the rates moving up so quickly. I didn’t understand all the details but some banks were taking short term money and locking in long term commitments at what is now not a very good
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by melling 3y ago
There are a lot of land mines in Ukraine. Maybe self-driving technology can be put to use to find the mines. It could take decades to find them all. https://www.wired.com/story/russian-landmines-ukraine-psycho...
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by melling 3y ago
I feel like you have completely wasted everyone’s time. When people get it wrong, there should be consequences. You are no longer a reliable source. There’s so many people out there who just keep throwing shit against the wall. “Oh well, I
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by melling 3y ago
He didn’t say that. We’re doing that thing where we make sharp turns into the weeds. “Yeah but…” The person simply claimed that he was a historical influential person. We’ve got another person complaining about America’s historical figures
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by melling 3y ago
“I can give up/reduce flying, and that's what I am doing” That’s completely meaningless. It accomplishes absolutely nothing. Climate change isn’t slowed. This is one of those problems where we need to fix the big problems. And
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by melling 3y ago
Climate change doesn’t care if there are 15% more people, etc. Fill up the atmosphere with greenhouse gases and we have a problem. We’ve had over 40 years to adapt. That’s 400 years of aviation in terms of coal usage.
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by melling 3y ago
“Coal is the foundation of the economic engine” We’ve had 40 years to not be in that situation in 2023. Now we need to line up a bunch of miracles by 2050
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by melling 3y ago
No, coal usage is reaching all-time highs of https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-s-coal-consumption-is-set... 10 years of coal is 100 years of aviation. Maybe we solve coal immediately and worry about aviation in 100 ye
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by melling 3y ago
100,000 flights a day, every day of the year is 2% of all emissions. Burning all that coal to make electricity is 20-25% of emissions. When will we fix the big problems? If we’d started 40 years ago, we’d likely be worrying about aviation
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by melling 3y ago
The article mentions that but … “ side effects can be serious, and most doctors are wary of prescribing it off-label.” “6mg of the drug a week“ That’s a pretty low dosage?
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Can a kidney transplant drug keep you from aging?(wsj.com)
22 points by melling 3y ago|6 comments
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by melling 3y ago
Yes, the age old debate of knowing versus not knowing. I think I’ll skip it because it’s not productive. However, I will point out that your average billionaire with a few decades of advanced notice might be willing to fund research: https
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by melling 3y ago
And he played 39 for the Last Crusade in 1989 (shot in 1988?). Ford was born in 1942 so the de-aging puts him at the same age as the Last Crusade.
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by melling 3y ago
They keep referring to Indiana Jones being in his 30’s but the character was supposedly born in 1899 so that puts him at 45 in 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_(character)#:~:t... ). “Mangold would &quo
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by melling 4y ago
That’ll be a lot of countries soon. “By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. At this time the share of the population aged 60 years and over will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. By 2050, the world’
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by melling 4y ago
Well, we either have to raise taxes or keep increasing the debt, paying even more interest. That doesn’t sound like an efficient use of capital.
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by melling 4y ago
Can you believe the budget for Fast and Furious 10 is $340 million? Here comes the classic …“Oh wait”, … someone is once again complaining because we are spending money on “superficial” healthcare (e.g. hair loss, grey hair, aging etc) Spen
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by melling 4y ago
A couple million people fly between the 2 cities every year. It’s a big market https://thepointsguy.com/guide/travel-between-los-angeles-an... Really a shame they didn’t build that HSR 50 years ago when they talked abo
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by melling 4y ago
Second settlement this week. There was this other conspiracy theory: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/fox-news-venezue... Of course, these sort of things have happened before: https:/&#x
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by melling 4y ago
“China's economic tentacles are so engained[sic] in our lives that we are left powerless” To be clear, we did that to ourselves. Hope everyone enjoyed cheaper stuff for the past couple of decades. By the way, military spending as a per
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by melling 4y ago
"Death should be an option therefore I demand that you die" No one said that. People are arguing against immortality and in favor of death. People who believe that can still choose death
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by melling 4y ago
Yeah, I know. We’ve been having this inane conversation for a long time. I blogged about it 6 years ago. https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/stories-that-should-...
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, we should always leave death as an option. Conversation over.
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by melling 4y ago
Sorry about any lecturing. We should skip the Apple vs Microsoft debate. It has no value. We all vote with our money.
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by melling 4y ago
Isn’t there a tool that lets you get the updates? I can’t get the latest Xcode either. Other than that, my 10 year old MBP runs great. I’m holding out for the M3 chip.
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by melling 4y ago
Only 1.4 million people bought an iPhone in 2007. 20 million in 2009. Over 200 million in 2015. Now the numbers won’t nearly be the same but hopefully it’s enough to end this silly conversation. Here are some Tesla numbers that go back 7 y
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by melling 4y ago
It’s a little unclear why his theory about the universe being reborn can’t be a possibility. It all just started 13.5 billion years ago? We simply don’t know.
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by melling 4y ago
Nope. That logic might be correct if Apple’s profits were 100% from the Mac. There’s this smaller device called the iPhone…

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