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Comment · 17 hours ago
No, banks are something fundamentally different, If you loan someone else your own money, you are just a creditor. What makes banks special is they loan out other peoples money (deposits)
Comment · 18 hours ago
No, it means Trump can continue doing pretty much whatever he wants with little consequence. He certainly didn’t need Republican consent for bombing Iran or his trade wars or for cutting off Ukraine and buddying up to Putin
Comment · 1 day ago
What is the fundamental difference that you can somehow pin climate change on modern livestock

Also ruminants in general have existed for millions of years before thwn

Comment · 1 day ago
Which is why it’s common to have a “hot” key with maybe a few hundred bucks and a “cold” key with the larger deposit
Comment · 1 day ago
People have been eating meat and dairy for thousands of years …. It’s not the problem
Comment · 1 day ago
Life expectancy was low mainly due to childhood diseases

If you lived to 20 you had a pretty good chance of making it to 70

Comment · 1 day ago
Multiple independent systems. Easy to ignore a single system, but two or more ? Would have to have a death wish
Comment · 6 days ago
> The one where the law of attraction arises from being bombarded by particles from the universe (screening) was an amusing one that doesn't work due to thermal effects [2]

But isn’t that how EM actually works ?

The photon mediates the electromagnetic force

Comment · 6 days ago
Nature gives jack crap about our intuition
Comment · 6 days ago
QM is accurate at scale. This is the correspondence principle. It’s just not useful at scale
Comment · 7 days ago
For pure diagnosis, maybe.

Not for surgery, at least not yet. The robotics isn’t quite good enough

Comment · 7 days ago
The problem might be more that doctors don’t want to order expensive tests for those rare conditions .

AI might have similar reservations depending on standard of care

Comment · 7 days ago
As a consumer, if the AI was truly better why would you want to accept substandard care because younger docs need “practice” ?
Comment · 13 days ago
It’s scarce
Comment · 14 days ago
Everything fails given a long enough time span.

For solar PV it is ~30 years.

While the cell may continue to generate power, it may have diminished so greatly as to no longer justify its physical footprint

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