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“CAR-T cell treatments”

I seen this discussed for the past several years to treat cancer. It does appear promising.

Unfortunately, it’s incredibly expensive.

Thorp is alive and in his 90s.

Here’s an interview with him from a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg?si=vR8jxJ7iBCP0uYzk

I asked Gemini AI and it says the NIH spent $7.3 billion last year.

Would it be a big deal to double that?

Why can’t we just ask our governments to spend more on research? Want some rich person to donate $100 billion on cancer research?

The US government and European governments could find that amount of money every year.

We’ve been discussing it for 30 years.

Having people making the same stupid comment after 3 decades needs to be handled more critically

Let’s go back 40 years and listen to the warning:

https://youtu.be/3NvgJ1b6JXs?si=yUKcegVwfyNGi2rC

So, you’re saying it’s an unsolvable problem?

Someone always says “merely throwing money at the problem…”

What time period was the money spent? The last 25 years?

The United States spends $1 trillion a year in debt interest. $50 billion is nothing

This again?

The test is optional. Feel free to skip it.

Tell 50 million people they’re likely to have Alzheimer’s then tell them where to donate towards a cure, or treatments to slow it by a decade.

Gosh, it seems like only yesterday we were being shamed for flying to take a vacation.

Now, along with reintroducing measles, we’re preparing to really crank up our greenhouse emissions

It’s discussed in the first few minutes. That’s basically all I watched. One of the first points she tries to make is that people claim that Feynman is one of the top physicists of all time, comparable to Einstein and Newton. She tries to set us straight.

Anyway, I’m a big Feynman fan. My Discord handle is feynman1918.

I guess you didn’t watch the video so you don’t understand the point I’m trying to address.

At any rate, this garbage doesn’t belong on HN.

People also don’t think he’s one of the greatest physicists ever.

As he said, he was just an ordinary person who worked very hard.

“The reversal targets the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which concluded that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. The finding provided the legal underpinning for the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules, which limited emissions from power plants and tightened fuel-economy standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act.”

What does it mean “if it works “?

What happened to cheap home solar with batteries?

Where are the emissions generated? Far away from the population of millions.

EVs are already cheaper to produce. That’s why the US has a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs.

I’m going to Miami next week. Time for my first WayMo ride.

A few decades ago we explained that personal responsibility isn’t the solution.

Please catch up. Why we’re having a conversation from the year 2000 now is beyond me.

I also suggest reviewing the “nuclear isn’t part of the solution. Besides it takes a decade” discussion.

I think I’d take directing big things at Google over riding a dirt bike…

I’m not actually sure what you don’t get.

I’m all for not living a lower level grind and riding a dirt bike. Most jobs simply aren’t interesting.

I forget why he’s a villain. Did he do something at Google?

He’s sort of a lesser known figure to me.

Some pretty bad traffic in Miami. Last month it took me an hour to go 10 miles on a Thursday afternoon.

Correct, you weren’t riding a bullet train.

There are these really fast trains that exist in a dozen countries.

China has 30,000 miles of high-speed rail.

He used 24 hour LA to Dubai as an example?

Why would you pick a 3 hour flight?

“ Blake’s pitch to airlines is enticing: “You’re already flying this route with a 300-seat plane where 80+ people in business class generate most of your profit. Give those passengers a supersonic plane, cut the flight time in half, and charge the same price.”

“There’s a more perfect way to fix the problem…”

Yes, there always is. 40 years later…

Global commercial aviation is about 3% of all emissions”. Reducing that 25-30% to 15-20% is significant.

“It'll take at least a hundred years for us to get to Singularity”

We’re only 37 years into the story. The woman would only be in her early 60s.

With revised estimates, The Singularity is now less than 20 years away.

China is the largest car market in the world. Almost twice as large as the United States.

The machine has been available for a couple years to treat liver tumors. It’s available in several US cities but not widely available. It uses cavitation to destroy the tumor.

https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/histotripsy-for-liver-...

“Keith Richards famously joked in 1973 that he’d had his blood changed to get off heroin, although it was later claimed he’d had some kind of blood-filtering treatment“