The concept is cool and it seems like it should be a no brainer, but it hasn’t proven more effective in practice commercially. Three companies have tried and failed to make air-launched rockets for placing satellites in orbit for commerical use.

Military is another ballgame though. Money doesn’t mean much against a military objective.

The article is mostly about the difficulties of government run public health systems in smaller countries being strained under the costs of the most expensive medicine on the market (pembrolizumab).

I got curious as to why the medicine was so expensive. Its a deep rabbit hole. In short, some of the high expense is justified because not only was it crazy expensive to develop and test, but even after that production is not easy. Its a monoclonal antibody product.

The good news is the primary patents expire in Europe in 2028, and there are already five companies working “biosimilars” .

There’s absolutely some predatory behavior from the drug maker Merck. This includes trying to reformulate to extend patent protection. A new behavior I hadn’t heard of was Merck has patented the dosage instructions of what is effective so to access that information you’d have to ask Merck for each patient. One clinical trial in India found they got similar pretty good patient outcomes by using a 2mg does instead of the perscribed 200mg dose.

So all of this suggests much more cost effective ways to create and administer the treatment in the next couple of years.

I wonder how quickly he’ll flee to Minsk or Moscow as soon as the details of his deeds in office are uncovered by the new administration.

Well, I’m running Asahi Linux on a Macbook which can’t boot from USB even if I wanted to.

However, if you’re really worried about state-level threat actors, like FBI or CIA, I don’t believe there is much you could do to protect yourself anyway. They likely have entire catalogs of unpublished and undisclosed side-band attack exploits they could draw from to gain access to your machine and execute a privilege escalation to install whatever they want.

I don’t disagree. I’d say a majority of policy positions should generally be the go-to definition. What, in your opinion, are all the policy positions of the Democratic leadership that would represent the majority of their policies to arrive at calling them far-right?

As bad as the Democratic leadership can be sometimes, I don’t see them as bad as Le Pen or the AfD, which I’d both consider far-right. I also don’t see the USA Democrats being cozy with Putin. Those positions would be where the USA Republicans are, and hence they are far-right.

“United 172 heavy, you are cleared for takeoff on runway 2 left…bitch”

So… if he if he is a US citizen. Doesn’t that mean Mexico could deport him right back? 🤔

If he goes to the USA border from Mexico and is denied entry into the USA when he is a USA citizen, that’s the whole ballgame. Then citizenship means nothing.

Not that I give trump credit for any kind of forward thinking, but could this plan been made by someone smarter than him to bulldoze the current bunker so that he could claim that taxpayers need to build a bunker at MaraLago?

centre-right challenger Peter Magyar ​

Would that make his policy positions about on-par with the Democratic leadership in the USA?

SpaceX gets away with it and I honestly don’t know why

For the same reason all private spaceflight companies (like Firefly, Rocketlab, and Blue Origin) “get away with it”. Blown up rockets aren’t paid for by tax dollars. Private spaceflight customers, and yes, the government, only pays for successful launches.

bcz their contracts have been all government until pretty recently.

The contracts are for successful flights. If a SpaceX rocket blows up that was paid for by the government, the government (taxpayers) don’t pay for that launch.

Commercial spaceflight launches are much MUCH better finanical deal for taxpayers than the traditional NASA “cost-plus” contracts, SLS being the most recent example.

For some reason its very popular in Asia, according to my partner who is Thai and 23 years old.

Facebook subsidized mobile internet access specifically to facebook properties for a decade or so in many parts of the world. If you went to Google.com you’d get charged for mobile data. if you went to any Facebook company sites, it was free data. This is also why Whatapp is so embedded in many parts of the world. Text messages were charged, while Whatapp messages were free.

“Frodo, the wedding ring I’ll be wearing is a family heirloom. It belonged to my ancestor Isildur and I have to thank you for finding it after it was lost so long ago.”

I don’t know much about him but it looks like he was a whistleblower on the corruption of his former party and took firm legal action against it and those that were perpetuating the corruption.

Blowing up rockets gets people really upset when they think it’s their tax dollars.

I love spaceflight and what the Artemis II accomplished, but it came with an absolutely staggering price tag. It cost a bit more than $50 Billion to design including both the rocket and the Orion capsule. It costs $1Billion each time it launches too. We only bought enough parts for 4 flights of the rocket, and we’ve now used 2 of those.

artemis (boeing)

Just for the clarity of the record:

• the 1st stage tank of the SLS rocket is Boeing
• the 2nd stage is ULA (a joint Boeing/Lockheed company)
• the 1st and 2nd stage engines are Aerojet Rockdyne (which is now a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies)
• the solid rocket boosters on the side are Northrop Grumman
• the service module is Airbus Defense and Space along with Thales
• the capsule is Lockheed

So you’ve got four giant American defense contractors, and two European defense contractors owned by French, German, Spain, and Italy.

Maybe the communal part is the community of western defense contractors.

Even India assassinated a Canadian on Canadian soil. .

For ARM Linux comparison, I ran the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark the author uses on my daily driver Macbook Air M2 (24GB RAM) running Asahi Linux Fedora Remix 42 (KDE). I used FF 149 which is just what I had installed. It scored 22.0 which apparently was better than this Zenbook and even beat out several Ryzen 7 and Core i7 offerings:

A used M2 Air with my spec mine (24GB RAM 2TB SSD) is $800-$900, which is a fraction of the $1600 Asus wants for their slower unit new, but the Asus does have more RAM.

I like seeing more ARM based Linux laptops.

They are shitting out what you feed them. If you feed them garbage, you get garbage in return.

This is the missing conceptual understanding that probably 90% of LLM users lack. They really don’t know how LLMs work, and treat them like AGI. Sadly this includes adult policy makers in our society too. Efforts like those of these these researchers act to educate the public. I’m hopeful this will spark some critical thinking on the part of regular, otherwise ignorant, LLM users.