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by melling 1y ago
Pancreatic cancer. Still quite deadly. It has been 17 years since Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture. https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo?si=TlgWzgQ7bD3Usvu3
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by melling 1y ago
What kind of margins does Nvidia make on silicon? AMD? I don’t think 50% is a lot in the semiconductor industry.
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by melling 1y ago
Immunotherapy for multiple myeloma developed in China: “The immunotherapy developed by Legend Biotech, a company founded in China, seems to have made their cancer disappear. And after five years, it still has not returned in those patients”
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by melling 1y ago
Tunisia is on my short list. In addition to a lot of Roman ruins, it has been used in movie locations. eg Tatooine in Star Wars. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/star-wars-tunisia-f... https://depart
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by melling 1y ago
EV’s could take a hit in America but we’re only 17% of the global car market.
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GM Invests in V-8 Engines as It Backpedals on EVs(wsj.com)
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by melling 1y ago
$2 trillion for that war. Next time let’s cure cancer(s). Correct, no one said it would be easy. True we would likely not have succeeded, but millions more would be cancer survivors.
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by melling 1y ago
We should be reaching peak coal real soon now: https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-platea...
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by melling 1y ago
Yes, everyone is interested in healthspan
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by melling 1y ago
It has already spread to his bones. How does this happen without being detected earlier with the best level of care in the world?
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Biden Diagnosed with Metastatic Prostate Cancer(wsj.com)
6 points by melling 1y ago|2 comments
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Trump wants coal to power AI data centers(cnbc.com)
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by melling 1y ago
Does the engineering problem have any time constraints? I suppose my sense of urgency comes from stated climate goals. An extra 50 years to solve the problem changes everything.
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by melling 1y ago
Remember that time France went from 7% to 70% nuclear energy? https://youtu.be/1WNjyxeBsWc?si=kVa2qf0uBeFrAyYB
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by melling 1y ago
The interest alone on the US debt is $1 trillion a year. He’s giving away $200 billion in the same time the US will spend $20 trillion in interest.
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by melling 1y ago
Maybe it’ll triple again and he’ll throw in a cure for cancer(s) or Alzheimer’s.
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by melling 1y ago
US Net Zero is 2050. With 25 years remaining, I think shooting for 2030 seems reasonable. We’ve just about hit peak coal. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/18/coal-use-to...
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by melling 1y ago
Do the “no nuclear, renewables are the future” people have any comments? We burned a few decades saying solar and wind are the solution. This set us back greatly in the struggle to reduce greenhouse emissions.
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by melling 1y ago
It has been 30 years since the GM EV1. The electric vehicle has finally reached a tipping point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%...
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I’m not familiar with the privileged support system in South Korea. Is it different than in the US or Europe? I believe Einstein dropped out of high school and traveled a bit through Italy. We definitely need a world where more young people
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by melling 1y ago
Have they confirmed this? Sounds like a rumor. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-arc-xe...
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by melling 1y ago
How does this affect carbon credit sales? Tesla makes a lot of money selling credits.
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House votes to block California from banning sales of gas cars by 2035(washingtonpost.com)
22 points by melling 1y ago|18 comments
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U.S. Army Plans Increase in Its Use of Drones(wsj.com)
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Trump Administration Dismisses Researchers Working on Climate-Change Report(wsj.com)
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Meta Launches Stand-Alone AI App to Compete with ChatGPT(barrons.com)
1 points by melling 1y ago|0 comments
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by melling 1y ago
“That figure is up from 200,000 in February, before Waymo opened in Austin and expanded in the San Francisco Bay Area in March” I bet they’re over a million rides a week within a year.
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Waymo reports 250k paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S.(cnbc.com)
10 points by melling 1y ago|1 comments
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Sounds like a job for AI and a HUD. We have deer in my area. I need something. I drive slowly but k owing when they’re around would be helpful.
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Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff(bloomberg.com)
50 points by melling 1y ago|5 comments

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