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Is this like Stoop?

Is the number of people the problem or is extreme consumption and waste, particular at the top, the issue?

>It’s the same logic driving Apple’s own pursuit of subscriptions: getting users to pay continuously for services means increased revenue. Apple even went as far as to lower its 30 percent take down to 15 percent after a year for developers willing to commit to subscriptions.

I wonder how much this, vs. a more constant revenue stream, is the reason for so many apps becoming subscription services.

Assuming more and more large corporations begin to do this, is there a particular sector that can take advantage of all of these empty office buildings?

Safari page loading is fast but from my experience the actual app is slow (on the newest MBP no less). It's the only browser where I can type something into the URL bar and press enter quickly, expecting it will take me to the top history result (e.g. type 'tw' and press enter to go to twitter.com) but actually beat out the loading of the history / bookmarks results and have Safari simply google the string 'tw' instead. This happens all the time for me in Safari and never happened once in Chrome.

Not sure if this explains it because it would require ice melting enough in areas to become just water with no remaining ice underneath, but albedo of ice and water is fairly different. Snow covered ice in particular. The change in the amount of solar radiation reflected vs. absorbed as ice / snow covered ice becomes water will drastically heat up an area.

Discussed earlier here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24093044

>By Vopson's calculations, the total mass of all the information we produce in a year is far less than a single grain of rice, or about equal to one E. Coli bacterium. But it's the potential for growth that concerns Vopson. In an extreme scenario where the amount of digital information grows by 50% annually, half of our planet's mass could be literally converted to bits within 225 years.

This reminds me of some future civlizations described in the X-Men series House of X / Powers of X, where entire planets become single entities of machine intelligence, and the information density gets so high that it collapses into a black hole.

The article mentioned was discussed a few days ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108950

Phones in The Expanse as well.

>Currently we focus on breast cancer and offer two types of services: virtual office visits and Liyfe membership. For virtual office visits, patients can choose to get a treatment second opinion, talk to a doctor, nutrition coaching, and emotional support.

As someone who gets pretty bad medical anxiety, this sounds really great. I've thankfully never had anything as sever as cancer, but I know that my family doctor and hospital staff, while professional and skilled at their jobs, were not always available for things like emotional support, general questions, nutrition info, etc. I'm sure this service will be helpful to many, so good luck!

It's interesting to read through the 'Timeline of the Far Future' Wikipedia article and see the diversity in theories on how the universe can end, some in bangs and other in whimpers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future