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China Biotech's Advance Is Changing the Drug Pipeline(bloomberg.com)
1 points by melling 1y ago|1 comments
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by melling 1y ago
“The company’s market value is around $100 billion, about half what it was just 18 months ago. Nvidia, by contrast, briefly hit a market value of $4 trillion on Wednesday” Intel at $100 billion is below book value, meaning they could sell a
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by melling 1y ago
We lost Vernor Vinge last year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge We didn’t make it to the singularity but the race is on. Hope he realized we finally had a bit of a breakthrough.
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by melling 1y ago
Let’s have that discussion about manned vs unmanned space flight again. It’s been 11 years since HN thought manned was better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540279 Where’s the guy who told us crab fishing in Alaska
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by melling 1y ago
https://archive.ph/u10ol
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by melling 1y ago
Doesn’t science need to progress more before it’s economically viable? We got to the moon 50 years ago and still haven’t been back. It’s expensive to send humans into space. Let’s get those Tesla robots to Mars… and Titan
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by melling 1y ago
https://archive.ph/MU8C1
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Three Siblings, One Fatal Gene: A Family's Fight Against Early-Onset Alzheimer's(wsj.com)
2 points by melling 1y ago|1 comments
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by melling 1y ago
“Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey” That is impressive. The US is abandoning some of our clean energy goals. Both public and private: https
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by melling 1y ago
“Dementia affects more than 55 million people worldwide, with nearly 10 million new cases each year“ I checked and it’s about 500,000 new cases in the US. It’s surprising that more research isn’t done considering how prevalent it is. We can
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Big business is abandoning its climate goals(bloomberg.com)
2 points by melling 1y ago|2 comments
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by melling 1y ago
Unfortunately, chemotherapy is still the best thing to treat many cancers. We need to try harder to find other treatments. Poisoning the body is quite an unpleasant experience.
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by melling 1y ago
There has been some discussion about reprocessing and reusing it. https://e360.yale.edu/features/nuclear-waste-recycling
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We’ve had 40 years and we’re still burning all the coal Carl Sagan warned us about. https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?si=3uhneUSoiZaUKS9M So, after 40 years I’m a little tired of hearing it takes too long to build nuclear power
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by melling 1y ago
Greenpeace is likely opposed to that.
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by melling 1y ago
https://archive.ph/0UZ1W
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New York to build one of first U.S. nuclear-power plants in generation(wsj.com)
97 points by melling 1y ago|161 comments
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by melling 1y ago
Nice trick. I couldn’t stop myself from looking: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yar
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Even Bjorn Lomborg who is against most climate change policies is for a carbon tax. https://lomborg.com/news/how-avoid-political-pitfalls-carbon...
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https://archive.ph/YdLWX
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Trump Tax Bill to Boost Biden's Chip Tax Credit to 30%(bloomberg.com)
2 points by melling 1y ago|1 comments
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Intel’s CFO gave a talk at JP Morgan about a month ago. Made me feel better about Intel’s prospects. https://youtu.be/DoSb5QRdY9U?si=HPaB05nH9cJdvh6O Sounds like 18a will determine where the stock goes next.
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by melling 1y ago
Yeah, I read the comments then got to he died at 87 before I realized that can’t be Feynman.
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by melling 1y ago
Yes, and the MSN story is a week old. It is interesting to see more people reaching their late 90s. Munger, Buffett, Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Carter, Kissinger,…
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EPA to Repeal Air-Pollution Standards on Power Plants(wsj.com)
3 points by melling 1y ago|0 comments
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Tell us the ugly truth then paint a happy picture. “for one in six deaths around the world, killing nearly 10 million people a year globally and over 600,000 people a year in the US.” A lot of reduced deaths come from less smoking and early
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Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About Your Mitochondria(theatlantic.com)
4 points by melling 1y ago|0 comments
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by melling 1y ago
I can remember it from several decades ago.
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by melling 1y ago
There were a lot of Superfund sites in Silicon Valley. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-...
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It is early. “A 60-year-old male in the US can expect to live until about age 82” Pancreatic cancer usually is hard to detect until it’s reached an advanced stage. We really should invest more into research

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