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Wouldn't car parts be a much more accurate analogy, though? Apple isn't suing anyone for not using Apple-branded electricity to power their phone.

You'd be surprised. Heart disease, for example, is one of the deadliest age-related diseases, but it's by no means exclusive to the wealthy. See for example the World Health Organi…

The email sent out to alumni (closing paragraphs elided, in consideration of the character count): "I am reaching out to let you know of some very sad news. After considering all o…

The Buck Institute [0], featured in this article, is a pretty outstanding organization -- they're unique in being a sizable research center devoted to researching aging. I'm excite…

I've personally gotten a lot of value out of the CSS-Tricks flexbox guide [0]. It's visual, and sufficiently comprehensive. 0 - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexb…

A similar article about Hoffman was posted on HN in April, with quite a bit of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588698

Surely the projections cited in this article aren't accurate. > Already operating in 191 countries and 34,000 cities, analysts at financial services company Cowen & Co predict that…

Much of this article (and all of the images) was taken from a WWDC 2015 talk [0]. If you're interested in typography, that video is definitely worth a watch. [0] https://developer.…

This was also on the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208792

There are some wild 404 pages outside of campaigns, too: Bloomberg ( http://www.bloomberg.com/404 ) has a pretty nutty one.

A few years back, Bill Gates said that he'd be working in biology if he were still a teenager [0]. There's a lot of exciting work happening in the field, and if anyone finds this s…

In contrast, I believe that reversing aging would likely also improve a person's quality of death. Death by aging can be a horrifically prolonged and painful process. In the case o…

So, supposing for the sake of argument that scientists had discovered a way to allow humans to live healthily and happily until the age 200, how would your position change? Surely …

San Francisco/San Jose/Bay Area, Full-time HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, Ruby/Rails, Python, PHP Resume at http://www.danielkimbel.com/documents/Daniel%20Kimbel%20Resu... Email - …

There are a lot of ethical arguments happening in this thread, and I'm concerned that most of them are missing the point. They tend to center on the idea that these technologies wi…

Aubrey's reaction piece is listed on the front page of Time's website, and can be seen here: http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/18/finally-the-war-on-aging-ha...

Affording proper care is definitely a problem, but the diseases of aging are the greatest causes of death globally, not infectious diseases or other health problems [1]. Taking car…