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The speed of detonation also matters, a meteorite detonation is surely slower than a nuclear bomb which releases the energy in milliseconds.

We should be able to find the impact geological records and build a probability model.

Except that for decades REP MOVS/STOS were avoided on x86 because they were much slower than hand written assembly. This only changed recently.

Since there were so many TLS security bugs due to it's complexity, is there any push to replace it with something simpler and with less choices and attack surface? Google gave us H…

Which is why we need "intelligent design" to "help" the virus jump over this combinatorial problem. For example we can try spikes from different related viruses, or pick and choose…

> I have no idea how challenging that is. Technically it's easy, Moderna already has multi target vaccines (for other diseases), one with 7 different targets. It can be as easy as …

> should prove exceptionally difficult for the virus to overcome through evolutionary pressure Which is why we need gain of function experiments to accelerate this process and get …

The main purpose of the submarine is to deliver nuclear missiles from near the enemy shore, so arguably it's most important feature would be to remain undetected. It's unclear if m…

One article said that the France contract was about 7 bil per diesel sub, while the new one will be 4 bil per nuclear sub. I can't imagine how you can justify 7 bil for a diesel su…

Taleb favours "street smarts" vs "intellectual yet idiot". In this context "street smarts" probably means being a one boxer.

Do not talk about the basilisk.

Germany had a N95 mask mandate (called FFP2 in Europe), nothing else was allowed, and yet had a very similar infection curve to Sweeden (according to article picture) which had no …

> Russia can't ask US service to deny making business with US citizen (for example). It's completely outside of their territory. Not sure what US citizens have got to do with this.…

While the article does have a point, it's too soon to conclude why some places had more or less covid infections/deaths. If you look at the overall global picture - location, clima…

Just as the gov required google to remove the app they can also require the big email providers to block all emails with links to it. 99% of the people are on the big email provide…

I hope they use some of that money for a study regarding the nutritional value of Gatorade fed plants.