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by gotocake 8y ago
A pandemic flu really wouldnt be something we could cope with. The combination of a long contagious latent period and high R0 would be devastating, and we need to bat perfectly every time to stop it. Sure, we can stop things like MERS and S
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by gotocake 8y ago
We live in a tiny bubble of time that could change at any moment. Our recent ancestors struggled with smallpox outbreaks, measles, and of course the horror that is polio. My mother knew a man who lived in an iron lung! We’re just part of on
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by gotocake 8y ago
10-22 minutes of flight time doesn’t seem like it has commuter applications. I’d guess that for regulatory and safety purposes you wouldn’t be allowed to overfly a city, and you’d probably need to take off and land somewhere safe as well. T
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by gotocake 8y ago
Such a parachute would be prohibitive in term of weight, so no. I suppose the pilot could wear a personal parachute, and hope to ditch far from people or property, but I think the odds are... "In the very unlikely event that all four
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by gotocake 8y ago
"Are you willing to risk your life to improve this" is a leading question. What I think you meant to ask is something more like "are you willing to improve safety with your daily risk or not". I am already risking my li
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by gotocake 8y ago
I think self-driving technology is worth the risk and worth the large amount of property damage and human injury that comes with it. I’m guessing you don’t see your property or life as being worth sacrificing for this “noble” goal, right?
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by gotocake 8y ago
Yep, if you’re a big drinker Utah can be a little rough, although personally when I was there on business I never had a problem. From my perspective as a non-religious person and a non-Christian I also don’t find Mormonism any stranger than
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by gotocake 8y ago
Outside of a few issues there isn’t much influence, unless you’re in the church. One nice thing about Mormons is that at least outside of a missionary context abroad, they take “no” for an answer with grace. I wouldn’t want to join their cl
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by gotocake 8y ago
It really is, but it can be helpful to do more than just claim something, and rather back it up a bit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_... In 1979, the information director of the FDA said,
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What Violent Acts Get Defined as Terrorism(daily.jstor.org)
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by gotocake 8y ago
It is a great book, and one of the best tools to teach kids in a fun way I’ve come across. He has a new book coming out later this year too which describes absurdly overengineered ways to solve simple problems. I’m preordered. :)
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by gotocake 8y ago
It does seem weird, and the fact that they’re closing stores they opened only months ago is a bad sign I think. The one in Dallas mentioned in the article was only opened in December, now it’s closed. That reeks of desperate cash-flow manag
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by gotocake 8y ago
For the same reason we don’t utilize fission in other areas, people are ignorant and terrified of it, politicians are trying to be re-elected, and as a result real problems such as distributed rather than centralized storage of waste emerge
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by gotocake 8y ago
Man I wish that I could disagree with you, but... yeah. At least the long overdue “come to Jesus” moment is slowly arriving for theoreticians. Maybe we’ll see another golden age of experimentalism, that would be nice! Slow and solid is afte
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by gotocake 8y ago
I was thinking of American Scientist and Physics World. I’m not really familiar with New Scientist, sorry!
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Apple will repair iPhones with third-party batteries(engadget.com)
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by gotocake 8y ago
Scientific American hasn’t been a science magazine for years. At best it’s a “science communication” magazine, at worst it’s a mix of incompetence and agendas, even if they are often agendas I agree with. It’s not worth the read anymore, an
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by gotocake 8y ago
It’s not eliminated, it’s bicameral. Dolphins do sleep, they just do so one half of their brain at a time, which is... so cool.
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by gotocake 8y ago
I live quite a few states away, and in fact Uber has a terrible reputation here too.
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by gotocake 8y ago
It may not, if any such system is very energetically taxing, or would confer a host of other issues. Such a system would, downsides taken into account, have to confer a net advantage. It may be that sleep in some form is best system with th
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Corning is working on truly foldable Gorilla Glass(engadget.com)
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by gotocake 8y ago
I’d take Japan’s rate of mass killings and average casualties per incident over ours any day of the week, wouldn’t you?
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by gotocake 8y ago
Murdering someone is never the correct use for a gun. Killing in self defense or under circumstances of war is another matter. You just moved the goalposts from what I said, killing , to murder. I never once used the word murder, and I d
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by gotocake 8y ago
I realize that you’re getting slammed for a pat, trite, or unhelpful answer to a complex problem, but it also happens to be the only answer. It’s an answer with real consequences, but when weighed against giving your privacy over to FB wh
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by gotocake 8y ago
Police and for that matter anyone in law enforcement are trained to draw and aim only when they intent to use the gun. Using a gun for anything other than shooting is how you either escalate a situation or how people are (too often) shot wi
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by gotocake 8y ago
Athletes and entertainers being paid insane amounts isn’t as new as you might think, although fashions do wax and wane. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Appuleius_Diocles Gaius Appuleius Diocles was born in appro
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by gotocake 8y ago
A gun is a tool. Anybody can use a tool correctly and anybody can use a tool incorrectly. Any tool can be bought legally and illegally. People who do not follow laws will have an advantage against those who do in terms of available tools.
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by gotocake 8y ago
How exactly would someone like, for example, Jared Lee Laughner have wounded and killed so many without a gun? How many would the Vegas shooter have killed? It’s interesting that harm reduction is fine for some things, but when we’re talkin
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by gotocake 8y ago
The most common cause of traveler’s diarrhea is E.Coli, and antibiotics are quite helpful. Many doctors will Rx them if you’re a frequent traveler to areas with known outbreaks and sketchy quality control on their pharmaceuticals.
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by gotocake 8y ago
A cartel head is going to be in a prison without such ammenities, and surely doesn’t need to be in general population with people who sold some street level drugs or burglarized someone. El Chapomfor example is going to lovely ADX Florence,

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