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Comment Re: So (Score 1) 117

Then you should love instant. It's the purest concentration of coffe out there, and you can put as little - or as much - in your cup as you like.

I admit it, I drink Tasters Choice. It's good, I'm telling you! At a restaurant of cafe I sometimes get coffee I like more, but just as often I like it less!

Comment Re:only use less gasoline if you actually charge t (Score 1) 64

I suppose people are more likely to charge the easier and more affordable it is. Assuming that is the case, it would follow that the existing plugin-hybrid cars will be charged more often in the future than they are today, because charging infrastructure will improve during the lifetime of the car.

Comment Re:Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest! (Score 2) 53

I wouldn't say this research depends strictly on the amyloid hypothesis. From the story: "We think it works like a cascade: when toxic species such as amyloid-beta accumulate, disease progresses. But once the vasculature is able to function again, it starts clearing amyloid-beta and other harmful molecules, allowing the whole system to recover its balance."

So the hypothesis is the underlying cause is circulatory malfunction, which could cause lots of issues. Amyloid-beta accumulation is one of them, but it doesn't matter whether that turns out to be the key one.

Comment Re:Capitalism (Score 2) 233

I don't believe luddism was ever a tenet of communism. The Soviets certainly didn't think so when they were winning the space race, neither did China when it totally committed to the Great Leap Forward. The classic commies always envisioned a glorious shining high-tech future in which nature was subdued in the name of economic output.

Comment Re:Curious catch 22 (Score 2) 233

That's what happened in agriculture, which used to be the main source of employment (for centuries). During the 20th century in the US, the labor required dropped by more than 90% as industrialization took over. And it was hugely disruptive. The resulting overproduction of goods that people were not making enough money to buy caused the great depression.

Comment Re:"Lean NASA" failed in the 90's. (Score 1) 60

Maybe offloading the more risky development part to SpaceX is the way to go. SpaceX is blowing up quite a few Starships, and it does draw ridicule from some quarters. But those people don't have a say in what SpaceX decides to do, and Musk doesn't care what they say. And it's working.

Then after SpaceX gets it working, NASA came come along and do noble things with it.

Comment Re:Given the Anthropic lawsuit (Score 1) 31

The Anthropic ruling was only against the use of pirated copies. For IP obtained legally and trained on, that was deemed fair use, as creating a model from it is "a highly transformative use." That includes books scanned into a database and then used for training, which seems particularly pertinent for making a comic book illustrator. If the output looks distinctly like any copyright comic, then I suppose it would not be sufficiently transformative in that case.

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