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mellingon Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Greenpeace is likely opposed to that.

mellingon New York to build one of first U.S. nuclear-power plants in generation

https://archive.ph/0UZ1W

mellingon US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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-yarvin-in...

mellingon Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

Even Bjorn Lomborg who is against most climate change policies is for a carbon tax.

https://lomborg.com/news/how-avoid-political-pitfalls-carbon...

mellingon Trump Tax Bill to Boost Biden's Chip Tax Credit to 30%

https://archive.ph/YdLWX

mellingon Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says

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.

mellingon The Renegade Richard Foreman

Yeah, I read the comments then got to he died at 87 before I realized that can’t be Feynman.

mellingon Grandson of John Tyler, 10th President of the US, Died Last Month at Age 96

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,…

mellingon We’re secretly winning the war on cancer

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 detection. We will eventually get there but we need a lot more research.

Get a colonoscopy at 45. We are seeing a big increase in younger people.

https://www.cancerresearch.org/blog/colorectal-cancer-awaren...

mellingon Scientists Grow Human Teeth in a Lab

I can remember it from several decades ago.

mellingon Bill Atkinson has died

There were a lot of Superfund sites in Silicon Valley.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-...

mellingon Bill Atkinson has died

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

mellingon Bill Atkinson has died

Pancreatic cancer. Still quite deadly. It has been 17 years since Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture.

https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo?si=TlgWzgQ7bD3Usvu3

mellingon Intel: New products must deliver 50% gross profit to get the green light

What kind of margins does Nvidia make on silicon? AMD? I don’t think 50% is a lot in the semiconductor industry.

mellingon From No Hope to a Potential Cure for a Deadly Blood Cancer

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”

mellingon Notes on Tunisia

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-travel-services.com/en/discover-the-iconic-st...

mellingon Electric Vehicles Died a Century Ago. Could That Happen Again?

EV’s could take a hit in America but we’re only 17% of the global car market.

mellingon Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq

$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.

mellingon Paris Agreement target won't protect polar ice sheets, scientists warn

We should be reaching peak coal real soon now:

https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-platea...

mellingon The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated

Yes, everyone is interested in healthspan

mellingon Former US President Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer

It has already spread to his bones. How does this happen without being detected earlier with the best level of care in the world?

mellingon Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects

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.

mellingon Google to back three new nuclear projects

Remember that time France went from 7% to 70% nuclear energy?

https://youtu.be/1WNjyxeBsWc?si=kVa2qf0uBeFrAyYB

mellingon My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth

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.

mellingon My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth

Maybe it’ll triple again and he’ll throw in a cure for cancer(s) or Alzheimer’s.

mellingon Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects

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...

mellingon Google to back three new nuclear projects

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.

mellingon BYD Sealion 7 surpass Tesla Model Y to be Australia's best-selling electric car

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%...

mellingon June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

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 can drop out for a few years.

mellingon Intel confirms Discrete Xe3 "Celestial" GPUs are in pre-validation

Have they confirmed this? Sounds like a rumor.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-arc-xe...