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Rural counties are conservative, urban counties are liberal, and never the twain shall meet. I posit that there will always be this conflict until cities have a blue federation sup…

Did you even read my comment?

Finance is always gambling, ponzis, and fraud. But hey, that's not a bad thing. Gamblers add liquidity, which is better for society than them hiding in a basement playing cards. St…

Yup, but at least they're better than the black market alternative. :)

Since the curated boutique App Store idea got perverted, perhaps the cure is to go back to Steve Jobs' original plan to use PWAs.

It's a simple model - make a genetically engineered S. mutans that slightly out-competes the existing, but without generating the lactic acid waste products that softens tooth enam…

But will the drug approval agencies allow genetically engineered therapies for anything disruptive? For example, they've been blocking the caries vaccine for decades.

Same goes for myopia and crooked teeth. I've asked my optometrists and orthodontists what cause these problems and just got shrugs and big bills.

Where's the disaster menu?

The only problem with YouTube is that it's not organized. It's not indexable or printable. Videos are on Google's servers - here today and gone tomorrow. Videos are GREAT for stuff…

I love this! Is there a larger technologist wiki from which you can learn the principles of how to actually build everything from raw materials and generic tools? Examples: casting…

Honestly, it was corruption. The FDA simply made the requirements for human trials so restrictive as to be impossible.

Life is a series of realizations that you were playing the wrong game.

Political theory: The study of how to maximize the knowledge of decision-makers while minimizing their conflict of interest.

I doubt their state education system is full of literature teachers who encourage a lot of looking past the surface narrative of things.

If you push down the front of the learning curve, the back gets steeper.

I'd say the unit cost of running a proper streaming-rental service is about the same as burning a copy of a DVD (20 cents per movie). There's way more to it than just bandwidth. Su…

I used to help out a video rental store, which closed this month. I made them a mail-order rental catalogue ( https://rent.leosvideos.ca/ ) and looked into this whole fiasco. When …

Amazing! Thanks! We need this for YouTube as well, though the blacklist would be extremely large. In fact, I wonder if this could be implemented as a filter list for uBlock Origin?…

Weren't there single-button ones that would continuously drive forward unless you pressed the remote control button, which would switch it to reverse-left? So to "stop" you had to …

The UI design of calculators is fascinating. Where do you put the buttons? TI and friends have a randomish layout, let alone the TERRIBLE mobile calculator apps. (Self-promotion) I…

Fine. Not garlic. But that's not my point.

I'm not suggesting trying to cure or prevent the disease, but to promote its symptoms to emerge in asymptomatic carriers so that they can self-isolate.

I lieu of adequate testing, I wonder if we could use mild proinflammatory immune response as a way for carriers to self-detect - i.e. so that they feel more sick, quicker, rather t…