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New comment by myfavoritetings in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:01:41 +0000

How much would it save if you account for the fact that half of congress would sabotage it in to oblivion?

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating"

myfavoritetings — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:25:00 +0000

After reading “The Making Of The Atomic Bomb” I came away with the impression that development of nuclear bombs was 100% inevitable after 1938 when the German scientists proved splitting uranium isotope could sustain a chain reaction. All of the top physicists in the world instantly knew this could be used to create a super weapon. Every power in WWII had a nuclear program but only 1 had the resources to execute on it. Being the only country with a nuke is basically a checkmate on the world order and game theory demands it be created once it was known it was possible

New comment by myfavoritetings in "The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:29:40 +0000

I encourage you to try sitting in a wooden chair for 8 hours a day every day and reconsider

New comment by myfavoritetings in "[dead]"

myfavoritetings — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:27:51 +0000

Kind of a dramatic title. If you're so concerned about it, couldn't you just make another proton email and link them to each other as recoveries?

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:28:11 +0000

I didn't, the comment I responded to did "poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated"

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Nvidia gets 20% weighting, more investor demand; Apple demoted in major techfund"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:06:53 +0000

Factually incorrect. If Nvidia dropped TSMC, TSMC could still sell to apple, AMD and others. If TSMC dropped Nvidia, Nvidia would literally have no other options for cutting edge nodes.

New comment by myfavoritetings in "How to test without mocking"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:57:24 +0000

isn't that just mocking with extra steps?

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Wells Fargo Bet on a Flashy Rent Credit Card. It Is Costing the Bank Dearly"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:18:45 +0000

It is simple really, there are more suckers paying high credit card interest than there are people collecting credit card rewards. As someone who always pays your bill off every month any rewards you collect are essentially paid for by people with interest payments

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:14:49 +0000

"Isn't the more parsimonious explanation that our culture is now composed of poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated, lack sophistication and nuance, and accordingly have terrible taste?"

Hasn't this always been true though? Widespread public education systems did not exist for 99.9999% of human history. How could it be that education is more present in the world than it has ever been in history yet we somehow have worse critical thinking skills? Blaming the ills of society on education doesn't make much sense when we've had societies much longer than we've had public education.

New comment by myfavoritetings in "How The Economist’s presidential forecast works"

myfavoritetings — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:34:16 +0000

I think what they're saying is an 82 year old is more likely to make it to 83 than an 81 year old is

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors"

myfavoritetings — Fri, 10 May 2024 19:09:16 +0000

AI is a lot more than LLMs just because they don't have a public LLM doesn't mean they don't have competent AI strategy. Most of their advancements are around image and video. A lot of companies that are "leaders" in AI right now have no path to profitability for their features because they're not actually that useful

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Source Code for Area 51 (2005) by Midway Studios Austin Found at Garage Sale"

myfavoritetings — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:58:20 +0000

FWIW, most games before early 2000s built all their tooling from scratch as there wasn't off the shelf engines to use. Unreal engine came out in 98 and Source in 2004

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017)"

myfavoritetings — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:26:35 +0000

I wonder if this was the inspiration for the name of the creator of DotA mod, icefrog

New comment by myfavoritetings in "SpaceX will do a propellant transfer demo on their next Starship test"

myfavoritetings — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:14:52 +0000

I think technically they do not need to reach orbit just 0g which can happen on a ballistic trajectory. This test is between two tanks in the same vessel. But yeah orbit would be ideal as it gives more time in 0g

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest relatives"

myfavoritetings — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:07:02 +0000

Mitochondria are self replicating. When the cell splits some of the mitochondria are present in each new cell.

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Ask HN: I want to explore/fund a videogame idea, where do I start?"

myfavoritetings — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:49:32 +0000

Whether a game idea is feasible doesn't matter so much on whether its 2d/3d/isometric etc., its the mechanics. For example, nintendo showed that they prototyped many mechanics that would wind up in breath of the wild in a version of the original zelda game and found it to be fun.

I think the answer to the question is already in your post. You said noita is pretty close so why not just play that? That's where you start.

Now, if you want some unsolicited financial advise do not dare spending 50k-2000k on a game development project if you don't have the skills/desire to work on it yourself

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Goldman Sachs regrets Apple Card, and is trying to escape the deal"

myfavoritetings — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:26:26 +0000

I don't think this really says anything about Apple like you claim. The reality is Apple and GS made a deal and GS may have got the short end of the stick. That's their fault for making the deal that way.

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Passive Solar Water Desalination"

myfavoritetings — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:02:28 +0000

That's 500 for one acre so multiply by 300-400 for a typical farm and it cuts into already fairly small margins on farming

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight"

myfavoritetings — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:43:38 +0000

Whether you are being pushed or pulled by a rocket doesn't really matter. From the inside would feel very similar.

New comment by myfavoritetings in "Jazz Comping (2021)"

myfavoritetings — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:56:04 +0000

I don't understand this comment