Then you'd agree with treating that illness with the most effective method we have available, right?

Hmm, you're right, it's not "on-die". But it is part of the same chip package. Not on the motherboard. That's one of the main changes when they switched to the M series ARM processors away from Intel.

And then the elephant in the room is on-die memory, which Slashdotters hate because it's not upgradeable, but has allowed Apple to jump ahead of PC performance. It's surprising that PC manufacturers and Intel haven't come up with their own offering in the past four years.

Ah, I see you can hover over the characters in the chart to see their equivalents. Iggy is equivalent to Luigi and Kamek.

So what are the characters that differ only in appearance? I normally play as Iggy, but he doesn't appear in the article's charts, so I assume his stats are identical to some other character.

Many browsers have a reading mode which simplifies out the excessive styling. But Firefox's reading mode (F9) loses the images too.

Your Apple Watch will be obsolete in five years and perhaps the whole product category obsolete in twenty. It doesn't help much that a leather strap could last centuries.

But American users, too, would keep their freedom to choose what apps to run (including TikTok) if they could just download their own software to the iPhone. It's only Apple's control-freakery that enables this interference by governments. In 2000 the idea of banning a piece of software would have seemed unenforceable. Even if you block its main download site, anyone could download a copy from somewhere else. We live in a much less free world now, and that's mainly thanks to the efforts of companies like Apple to strip users of control over their own computing devices.

Well, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Apple has spent years building a tightly controlled walled garden and blocking any way for users to choose for themselves what software to run on their device. Only very recently (in the EU) have regulators started to push for greater openness. But of course, if Apple creates a locked-down device with total control, authoritarian governments will want to take that control for themselves -- and Apple, "obeying local laws" has no way to refuse those demands.

If your iPhone allowed you to download and install your own software, and not just as some special concession in certain markets but as the normal way it works, then it would be much harder for China or other countries to block particular apps.

And yes, there are certainly arguments in favour of a walled garden, for banking apps or for movie playback with DRM or for corporate paranoia about employee devices. And arguments against it too. It's not my intention to open a big discussion on those right now, just to note that Apple is getting a taste of its own medicine.

I'm curious, why have the Mac Mini at all? You can plug the laptop into a dock and use the same monitor and keyboard, then take it with you.

Mmm, I see the problem. I was thinking of the defined contribution style pension where, on retirement, you sell your holdings and buy an annuity with the proceeds, which then pays out a fixed sum for life. Someone managing such a fund is expected by their investors to take a long term view -- and isn't responsible for monthly payments to those who have already retired. If what you have is a single fund for both current and future retirees, then those currently drawing a pension may end up with a louder voice than those who are still working, although in principle they shouldn't.

That seems a little exaggerated. A pension fund has investors who are 30, 40, 50 years old and have many decades before they retire. Those investors want capital appreciation and for there to still be a high quality company to pay out dividends once they retire. Even a retiree aged 70 could live for many more years. The pension funds could certainly take a long term view. The trouble is that nobody really knows what that means. There isn't an easily quotable metric for it as there is for dividends or EBITDA.

Don't forget buying puts. Instead of exposing directly by shorting stock, you can buy puts to obtain a similar position for a (typically, but not always) portion of what a real position would cost. Unless you're an Ape, then you just YOLO. Honestly, after watching GameStop, I'm tempted to buy some calls, just in case a million apes decide to throw mom's savings into it.

Your right, the cells probably don't go through the placenta. They are suspected to go through the blood flowing through the umbilical cord. It's called fetomaternal transfer.

And they can cause immune reactions. Or unexpected growths. See AC's links: https://science.slashdot.org/c... or just try searching for "fetomaternal transfer" or "fetal stem cells in mother".

I thought in the USA you had the right to sell your life insurance policy if you no longer want it. The buyer keeps up the payments and collects the premium when you die. Which sounds a bit macabre, but it means you can get some value out of your policy rather than having to lose it entirely if you can't keep up payments.