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This happened to me once, and it ended up taking about 6 weeks before they back got to me. It was a similar “just wait” response the whole time until then. It turned out to be a ve…

18 cases. I'm not sure I understand your point about breakthrough infections in other groups; do you mean that a significant percentage of vaccinated individuals are getting infect…

No, there were plenty of cases in the control group, it's just that there were zero cases in the experimental group. So they know it's very effective, but they were unable to measu…

At current difficulty, 2 hashes/second gives about 614 trillion years to find one block. Not quite the heat death of the universe, but wikipedia says all stars in the universe will…

I guess I misinterpreted your question as, "What's the use of all that money?" Philanthropy is one use. There are many others.

I'm sure to a philanthropist it matters. How much would it cost to eradicate malaria? $100B?

We all have different tastes, I guess. Humarsúpa, kjötsúpa, and plokkfiskur are some of the most delicious things I've ever tasted.

To understand what is going on here, note that List(()).toSet() returns true. The "apply" method in Set introduces tricky issues for little benefit. It should have just been left a…

Actually, in popular music I'd expect I6/4 not to resolve normally to V in a lot of cases, since that's a cadence that sounds characteristically old. I'd expect to a lot of I6/4 st…

Apple already rejects apps that switch out to mobile safari for payments.

If your name comes from eta reduction, shouldn't it be "H Reduce", not "N Reduce"?

One thing would be to try to measure entropy in a different way, e.g. run gzip on it. Right now FJFJFJFJ has the same entropy as FJGJFJGJ.

FJFJFJFJ takes "centuries"? Probably needs a little more tweaking.

Exxon (which has a similar market cap) has revenues per employee of 5.6M: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=exxon

Yes, I think a "Cartesian" quine would be pretty tough to create, because you're going from a symbolic representation to an inefficient visual representation. Could a more efficien…

That trick always seemed incomplete to me because the output only contains part of the formula; it's missing the constant that actually encodes most of the information. Has anyone …

Portland and Austin seem to be quite the standouts.