30% might well be the "biggest single factor." That study compared genes versus everything else combined.

The genetic contribution could be higher today too. That cohort was people born between 1870 and 1900, when there were a lot more environmental things that might kill you early, including two world wars.

I went hiking in Red Rock Canyon once in July and realized if I accidentally locked myself out of my car I'd probably die. Seemed fairly unhealthy.

People don't generally sell companies (in whole or in part) for what they're worth right now. They sell them for what they think they're going to be worth in the future.

Yes, and that's almost always appropriate for such a situation. The last price someone paid for a share is the best estimate of what you could sell your shares for. Your average retirement or mutual fund holder doesn't have enough shares to meaningfully move the share price.

Heat death? I'm not sure "healthy" is the right word.

Trying to remove board members so you can appoint ones you control, publicly talking about firing the chairman, and your power to fire the chairman, proposing devaluing the currency, etc.

But it doesn't matter what spin you put on it, the world is absolutely looking at it as a threat to the independence of the US Federal Reserve and therefore a threat to the stability of half the world's currency reserves.

Microsoft doesn't support hardware for any number of years, unless you mean their peripherals or tablets. They make Windows and they decide what the hardware requirements for new versions are going to be.

Windows 11 requires an 8th generation Intel processor and roughly the same for AMD. The 8th generation was released in October 2017, 8 (not 9) years ago. The 7th generation was released in August 2016, BUT, Intel kept manufacturing it until October 2020, 5 (not 9) years ago. And their various resellers kept selling them for several years after that.

Apple doesn't have a set years-of-support either. It typically provides security updates for OSes for seven to ten years, again, from first sale. But Apple doesn't typically sell the same hardware as new for four plus years like Intel does.

"TheStatsMan" doesn't think more accurate prediction helps improve things.

Note: I said "helps improve things" not "is necessary to improve things."

The stock price times number of shares isn't the value of the company, it's the valuation (or the market capitalization).

For once "valuation" isn't just some business dude adding syllables because it sounds smarter. That $200 you pay for the stock values the company at $200 * a bazillion shares. That's not the value of the company, it's what *you're* valuing it at, by paying that price for the stock. You are buying one bazillionth of the company for $200.

It's easy to calculate so it gets used as "Xcorp is worth this much," especially by people who want a big number, but you're quite right, that's not what it is. Something like the liqidation value (assets minus liabilities) is more like it, and is usually a much smaller number.

Corporate taxes are a thing already. We've even got a (most of the) world minimum.

Hue bulbs are Matter compatible.

Sounds like you're pretty solidly tied to the cloud. The "electricity" goes out and you're screwed.

Arduino supports (and has official boards) both RP2040 and ESP32. If a dual core ARM at 133 MHz or an Xtensa at 240 MHz is too slow then you're not very well trained.

Frankly, if you can't manage real time control with an ATMega then you're also not very well trained, but I guess I went to school when we had KHz and thought were were lucky.

Arduino support FreeRTOS on most (all?) of their boards.

The RP2040 is also supported by Arduino, so you could just use it. If you super absolutely must have the form factor I'm sure someone has designed one.

And its inventor won a Nobel prize. But most of the thing you're holding is a plastic case. The actual tunneling occurs on the atomic scale.

The prize this year went to a paper describing tunneling on a scale orders of magnitude larger and validating theoretical predictions for quantum mechanics at that large scale.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/p...