octaane

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by octaane 1mo ago
If I give you 10 dollars, and then you put it in your pocket, and then you take it out again and give me 10 dollars back - no actual economic growth occurred. It's simply shuffling money around; the amount stays the same.
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by octaane 1mo ago
I would argue that it is not underfunded, as most big pharma companies with oncology products have dumped enormous amounts of money into research pipelines and clinical trials. Immunotherapies like nivolumab or ipilimumab or pembrolizumab h
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by octaane 1mo ago
Ask the oncologist directly. Also, try contacting Revolution Medicines directly (the manufacturer), and/or go through their early access page: https://www.revmed.com/expanded-access-policy/
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by octaane 1mo ago
> Four years after that, he contacted his father to share what he’d been told and Prince Laurent agreed to a DNA test. “We went to the hospital together and I remember him saying, ‘I’ll go first so you’re feeling at ease,’” Vandenkerckh
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by octaane 3mo ago
Link to the reason for his ban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noti...
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by octaane 4mo ago
Yeah, no shit. As a non-tech person who has tried to use it for non-tech stuff: Having the compulsively-lying, halluciating POS algorithm that everyone thinks is the second coming of Christ burn an obscene amount of non-renewable energy to
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by octaane 4mo ago
Science fiction beat the author of this article to the punch re: novel cooling solutions in space. The author proposes squirting oil from one arm, through open vacuum, to another arm - the oil droplets radiate the heat en route from arm 1 t
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by octaane 4mo ago
My take is also a missile, but as an interceptor, not offensive purposes. North Korea has shown that they can deliver a payload to Japan if they want. If the NKs do decide to launch something at Japan, it's not going to be tipped with
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by octaane 5mo ago
Long-time ebay seller here. I'm seeing comments floating towards the top that are essentially positing that the physical GameStop locations can be used as hubs where people can buy or sell their stuff in general (especially items that
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by octaane 9mo ago
This is an unconfirmed rumor. This should not be posted here.
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by octaane 9mo ago
His comics were often funny, and bleakly real. His politics and opinions were unfortunate. Bye Scott.
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by octaane 9mo ago
> They paid a total of 2 people $50,000 (edit: in 2016 dollars). That doesn't seem like enough to entirely shape worldwide discourse around nutrition and sugar. You would be astonished at how little it takes to bribe, I mean donate,
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by octaane 9mo ago
You are absolutely bonkers. This post and the rationale behind it are beyond insane. We do not understand these ecosystems beyond their extreme fragility and low entropy conditions. This is an incredibly destructive and expensive manner of
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by octaane 10mo ago
Keytruda, pembrolizumab, (what he probably received) can only do so much. If it was in his GI tract it was also elsewhere in multiple places. The PD-L1 drugs at this point have more than 400k patients treated, with decent efficacy. I'm
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by octaane 10mo ago
Sorry, as someone in this field, this is bullshit. It is in mice. Several things trigger my bullshit meter. Quote: "This dramatically surpasses the therapeutic efficacy of current standard treatments, including immune checkpoint inhibi
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by octaane 10mo ago
I feel like many of the comments are focused on the trees and not on the forest. The new head of Facebook AI is 28 years old? That's not OK, that's too young. Too inexperienced and not worldwise enough by a long shot. No shit they
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by octaane 10mo ago
The only benefit as I perceive it re: orbital data center hardware is regulatory avoidance. Think...DDOS machines that can't be shut off; or financial hosting services for unsavory individuals. However, it's very expensive by all
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by octaane 10mo ago
Good to know they have multiple backup clocks across the continental US.
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by octaane 10mo ago
https://www.tsunami.gov/?p=PHEB/2025/12/08/25342050/2/WEPA40 Shouldn't be too bad; USGS forecasts up to 1 meter tsunami.
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by octaane 10mo ago
So, I'm going to chip in with a different perspective from that of some other commentators on here. The overwhelming majority of computers in the entire world, used by our entire species, have windows as their OS. While I applaud the u
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by octaane 10mo ago
It's probably my ignorance about this sector, but I do find it impressive that they are getting that much storage capacity in a small area: > "This latest project will use locally available natural sand, held in a container 14m
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by octaane 10mo ago
There have been several proposals. This paper proposes a feasable mechanism[1]: -"a SBH could be artificially created by firing a huge number of gamma rays from a spherically converging laser. The idea is to pack so much energy into su
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by octaane 10mo ago
I disagree. It has everything to do with ideologies. He seig heiled on TV twice; that's not something they will ignore.
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by octaane 10mo ago
Europeans have still not forgotten the impact of WW2. Musk sieg heiling on live TV (twice!!!) is not something they take lightly. Tesla sales of cratered over there, rightfully so, because of his completely unforced error.
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by octaane 10mo ago
There's plenty of resources to be extracted from space. Metals, for one. Also, zero-G drug development and manufacturing is promising too.
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by octaane 10mo ago
My response to the money aspect of this it's just like any other business: money needs to be invested, and then a return will be realized. Resource extraction (i.e, asteroid mining) is one obvious example. The human compatibility issue
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by octaane 10mo ago
It wasn't intended for a communications relay, but it was intended to have 2-way communication. I went down a rabbit hole reading ArXiv papers about it. Despite their tiny size, the probes could phone home with a smaller laser - accord
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by octaane 10mo ago
Notably though, Deepmind is based in London, UK - not the EU.
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by octaane 10mo ago
This, on the surface, makes logistical sense. Chitose (the proposed location) is the international airport for and largest airport in Hokkaido (New Chitose Airport). Setting up a fab and related facilities right next to this location would
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by octaane 11mo ago
Yeah, this is exactly the lens that I was reading their release through. Seemed like a bunch of careful weasel word phrases.

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