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>Gardasil 9 seems to be the best available HPV vaccine. Only in high income countries. The 4-valent version is still the dominant version available worldwide.

Not just gut flora. High levels of circulating xylitol (and erythritol for that matter) have been shown in both mouse models and humans to be associated with increased platelet rea…

You could, but getting it from pigments in a chitinous matrix produced by genetically engineered brewer's yeast is just a little bit cooler.

The mushroom smell isn't from either the substrate or respiration. That distinct odor is 1-octen-3-ol. Biochemists call it "mushroom alcohol." It's caused by enzymatic breakdown of…

The claim in the article that saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) naturally produced the deep blue color in the butterfly example is not actually true, although it's a gorgeo…

>Now in turn people are worried that the Apple TV adaptation of Neuromancer will feel derivative because so many subsequent works are its hereditary kin. Neuromancer is particularl…

Literally "wine-faced" or "wine-eyed", yes. The problem with the literal wine-faced/wine-eyed is it doesn't convey luminosity/depth to readers, so it kind of misses the point. The …

"wine dark sea" is the best example of this. It's a poetic/literary leap by Chapman and Pope that then became a functional convention in most subsequent translations. The alternati…

>Civil breach of contract. Anthropic's TOS explicitly say you can't do what Kimi is alleged to have done. This is true, but Kimi also has a variety of defenses. Kimi can't raise un…

>Cohere (HQd in Toronto) Cohere keeps changing their story about where they're headquartered. From 2019-2020 they were HQed in Toronto. Then from early 2020 to 2026 they billed the…

I disagree with this being flagged. I'd be interested in seeing more data of this type, despite how "preposterous" it is from a tech perspective. I've long speculated that in Canad…

Did the parents grow up with Lego? The "each set stays in its own bag" thing was what my wife wanted to do for the longest time, not having grown up with the beautiful chaos of a g…

There were also two 20-in-1 sets recently, both very reasonably priced. Those were huge hits in my house.

That's presumably why so many professors are banding together for this letter. 600 professors is a fairly significant chunk of the faculty.

Most of the soul ideas that eventually made their way into Judaism (and many years later becoming heavily influential in sects like the one founded by Baal Shem Tov) originally cam…

Antigravity CLI was only announced yesterday, so pretty much no one realizes it's different from Antigravity IDE yet, but I agree with your overall point. This kind of branding is …

>he claims that the concept of "soul" is something that the wasn't really present in the Jewish worldview of Jesus' time That's a broadly accepted take among religious historians, …

C3P is not staffed by parents who have lost their kids. I've had some professional interactions with one person who works for the org, and she came across in a very negative way. I…

I'm in the middle. I have some sympathy for the Canadian intelligence community's perspective here; in recent years, much intelligence potentially preventing major criminal public …

It's a confluence of two things: (i) Canada's government policy community tends to be heavily influenced by legislative trends in the UK/Aus/NZ; this particular one is almost a dir…

It's not yet easy to buy BYD vehicles in Canada either. The first quota of 49,000 vehicles was only recently announced, and that's to be shared across all Chinese vendors.

Unfortunately CIE standards like the JTC22 (D8/D1) work here tend not to be released for free. Eventually the mathematical curves should be adopted by open source implementations. …

Does anyone have link to a deeper technical dive on the limitations of CIE 1931 that Apple CMF tries to address? The CIE's JTC22 (D8/D1): Optimized Colour Matching Functions for Di…

New York's definition is one of the most detailed. The Australian definition on the other hand probably includes Hacker News because it includes both "a logged-in feature" and "end…

In the US, yes, but Huawei has been gaining ground selling its SuperPod/Ascend turnkey solutions internationally, with some major recent wins in Thailand, Brazil, Egypt and Morocco…