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Similar situation. I ended up paying a few bucks for an extension/guest access pass at the local university. I just started auditing lectures in any and all departments, 20+ hrs/we…

Wouldn't it be prudent for them to ask for 11 fabs in 11 states, and get 11x more politicians lobbying for them?

Is there a set of standard open-source textbooks for k-12 levels? If not, can we make it happen?

Boudin is junk, no local would eat there. there are so many better local bakeries. Gharardelli, Pier 39/Fisherman's Wharf, and Union Square are touristy. There's nothing you can't …

it does seem very plausible that undetected cases are several times higher than confirmed/symptomatic cases. and/or, perhaps when things start to spike locally people begin to take…

I worked for a solar co in the US for a while, 10yrs ago or so. It was a very interesting time, the hardware (solar panels, inverters) part of our Cost of Goods Sold fell considera…

I'm sure they have plenty of other data points to help them get a pretty good idea of who the phone belongs to

perhaps OP has aphantasia? Seems fairly common among engineers (and even some artists) -- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/apr/...

I'm sure the data is still there on a server somewhere for legal/marketing reasons, but now the show_history_to_user field is just set to FALSE.

One reads stories of pork/etc carcasses that aren't being processed right now, perhaps we could ship those onto barges and into the ocean and dump them overboard to seed new pocket…

Perhaps they can retool and crank out ventilator/etc parts

Do human doctors have a better rate? And at what cost/throughput?

And with the other hand... unzips

Perhaps Amazon should manufacture masks/sanitizer/etc via its house brand, and churn them out by the billion.

I'd wager a large percentage have ;) it can be mind-bending for sure, it's hard to describe. You might have profound ideas, or not, it's hard to predict; and not all of these will …

Hang in there, you'll figure it out.

from a marketer's perspective, it's one of the most lucrative life events, along with weddings and buying a house and falling ill -- huge amounts of money being spent on goods and …

I don't know, I think I have a pretty good natural instinct for science...

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Having been to Burning Man and various parties/raves/festivals of all sorts, AND several of the aforementioned 'Clambakes' in the article, these are different than usual. Some over…

Imagine you're looking at a ball rolling around on a complicated curved surface defined by differential (non-linear) equations, which can be a tricky system to analyze. If the ball…

instead of (perhaps illegally) recruiting for people of a certain age group, why not just search for people who liked (for example) Fortnite or Harry Potter or similar categories? …

as if we don't have our own Wag-the-Dog-ish distractions also?

Is it not assumed/expected that if you're using android then google has access to all your phone's data/sensors?

also, you are the product, of course -- https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/05/moviepass-ceo-proudly-says... kinda crappy business model... but kudos to them for being transparent about…