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So does this mean that the mRNA vaccines are probably going to be like flu vaccines, where they have to predict which variant will dominate each season and adjust the doses accordi…

Agencies like ICE and the TSA appear to be jobs programs for people who would otherwise have difficulty finding work. It's just a shame that the makework mostly involves harassing …

I disagree. Regulatory capture is a clear and present danger to the United States, and it is contributing to a breakdown in accountability across all sectors of the nation's econom…

Many American regulatory institutions have crumbled in the past few decades, the FAA being a particularly jarring example. In some cases it seems like peoples' trust in those regul…

We're also very good at not thinking about certain things, though. And I doubt anybody would make a system of immortality that didn't have an escape hatch. Alpha Centauri is presci…

We need a new mark of quality to account for environmental ruggedness. "Designed in Chennai and Winnipeg."

>Back at the Base I was furious to hear of discussions of the possibility that the atmosphere might be detonated. This possibility had been discussed at Los Alamos and had been qua…

I agree in principle, and so did I, but there's no denying that it puts a major crimp on your social life. It's wrong that people are forced to decide between accepting predatory t…

People like you and I didn't decide that it was what we wanted. We just have no other options, because the companies which impose the terms aggressively snuff out or buy up their c…

Don't leave without a concrete goal and a timeline. What do you want to work on, with who, and why? Don't give up the pay and benefits until you can answer that, and make sure that…

Anecdotally, these findings mesh with my experience in a US city which had a vocational school; I wish these sorts of programs were more popular outside of Europe. Apparently it's …

Give people more rights, and enforce violations. It won't happen, because the sort of rights that we need would obviate a huge swath of the economy. But put simply, I think that we…

Very cool. It's interesting that they are planning to start with Vulkan support, followed by OpenGL/DX/etc. I guess it makes sense; the RISC-V crowd might possibly skew towards ear…

You might be misunderstanding the US capitol outrage. It wasn't that people brandished weapons or killed each other - that's bad, and everyone wants it to stop, but it does sometim…

If you think about it, a lot of Google and Apple's power comes from their dominance of the smartphone market. I hope that mobile computing follows the path of desktop computing, an…

The revolution always devours its children. One of my favorite aphorisms is: >Don't put your faith in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revoluti…

I have one question for Tesla customers who trust the company to deliver full FSD. How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understan…