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Comment Re:Apple sell h/w, chosen by customers due to s/w (Score 1) 26

Apple seems to understand that software makes hardware run and vice versa. To the vast majority of people the distinction is not just academic but nerdy academic.

They are not a hardware or a software company. They make computers in a few different shapes and sizes. Computers that you don't have to go buying a bunch of other bits so they actually do something.

Comment Re:Soylent gold is billionaires! (Score 2) 109

Karp created a money management company, befriended Peter Thiel, and then created a company that makes some database query software used mostly by governments for surveillance.

Zamiska seems to have created this book and presumably the corporate affairs department at said database query company.

I bet some imagination was involved, but maybe not the kind that you'd like us to think you're talking about. I'm not sure either have much claim to "making the world better" either.

Comment Re:The Biden admin (Score 1) 92

The president would still be elected by the states. A "compact" is an agreement by the states involved that they'll vote in a particular way. Some states already have laws that require them to vote the way their states' own popular vote indicates. Others don't.

A pedantic distinction? Not really. Agreements like that, or even most of the state-level laws, can be changed pretty much any time. It's a band-aid fix because the real fix is too hard to implement. And even the band-aid hasn't been successful even after decades.

Comment Re:corrupt (Score 1) 92

The American public imposed an illegal tax that it now has to refund to the entities that paid it. Using the money to distribute cheques to that same public isn't a good solution.

Don't like it? Don't vote for criminals or the people who let them get away with their crimes. You didn't in the first place? Welcome to being part of a society.

Comment Re:Neat! But it's gonna have a tough time (Score 1) 136

I suspect that Windows, being more common on business machines administered by IT departments, doesn't bother too much with not corrupting itself because IT never met a problem that a good format and restore from image (remotely over the network) couldn't fix. When an important portion of your users don't have a BOFH ready to nuke it from orbit at the slightest provocation, reliability is worth a bit more effort.

Comment Re:We keep 60 to 70% of our population (Score 1) 229

There's nothing about an electric vehicle that requires it be "serviced at certain places." The kids are rewinding Tesla motors and building their own drivers for more power. If anything its easier to do that than it is for an EV than for internal combustion where you're mostly limited to bolting on parts somebody else made, unless you want to get into metal casting and CNC.

Comment Re:KRAS off the shelf (Score 1) 17

Sure. A few hundred dollars to have it synthesized. Another hundred bucks for sequencing the tumor genome.

Most of the cost of these things is typically the clinical trials, and covering the costs of all the trials for other drugs that fail. To make stuff like this fully personalized they'll have to validate the procedure for going from genome to vaccine rather than each specific formulation. There's precedent for that though, e.g. the flu vaccine. Also, the bar is much lower for something you're giving to people who are already sick.

Comment Re:Auto Mechanic doesn't like latest symphony (Score 1) 162

Nuclear war, not nuclear weapons. If you want a yield calculation he can probably do it, although he'd have to look up the formula because he's not a nuclear physicist, never mind a weapons engineer. But the story is about the chances of nuclear war, which is mostly a political thing. He thinks 1% per year kinda feels too low, so make it 2% and proceed to extrapolate.

Never mind that a nuclear war wouldn't end humankind anyway.

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