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Many wireless and ethernet connections could ultimately network with just a few Starlink user dishes in population centers. I think the base station could be located in neighboring…

The benzene is the money-saving opportunity. Per GP it's added to avoid a costly drying process. The cost of removing the trace benzene would nullify those savings.

UBI is here (perhaps temporarily), and unevenly distributed in terms of fiscal and monetary allocation. AI is here, and in the hands of a few tax-evasive global corporations. So fa…

This tickles me. If only my comment had been artful by design, and I could say I was in on the joke!

Related: Marsh's 1994 thesis that introduced zero trust: https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/2010/1/Formalising%...

The field of virology doesn't draw a line in the sand excluding certain viruses with low transmission rates. Viruses that are more transmissible simply draw the attention of the fi…

Virality isn't a boolean property that's true for a distinct class of ideas, it's a probability of transmission. Not telling anyone your ideas is like a mountaintop hermit not spre…

It seems sufficient to acknowledge that virality is a property of ideas. We can then continue using a single term to reference the notion of an 'idea'.

For a deeper look, Trefethen's Numerical Linear Algebra starts with these ideas and applies them to matrix algorithms.

Maybe a cannula would be attached at a certain point? I think the real difficulty would be producing nutrients and mixing them into the blood. I am clearly a nonexpert. I brought t…

To avoid reliance on a living output, perhaps synthetic red blood cells would be used in such a fluid. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/...

Your description of dukkha reminds me of a concept in Stoicism. Early Stoics formalized "pneuma" as something of a "natural order" or "holy ghost". The teachings were that one coul…

This article discusses how transcendental meditation has induced nihilism and reality disconnect upon some of its vulnerable practitioners. In my ears, this lends cautionary suppor…

Given the terrible health consequences of deficiency, I think assuming racial difference in healthy vitamin D levels is a more dangerous claim that requires a burden of proof. Mela…

After referencing that paper and a couple others, the new work says "... practically all the galactic rotation models so far are based on potential theory and the circular orbit co…

That's fair. I mean that if this person's claims are truly dubious and they seem to be seeking the spotlight, then giving them the spotlight could exacerbate their derangement. Tha…

Not to mention the ethics of spreading the PII of someone who you suspect to be mentally ill (who claims to have hacked your company).

Was the building made from stacked shipping containers? Containers are such a budget-friendly and trendy structural building block these days. They even click with the software eng…

The discussion of the fat percentage misses the relevant concern. Mineral oil, unlike vegetable or animal fat, is a petroleum product and carcinogen that bioaccumulates in body fat…

It sounds like you aren't familiar with ice driving. The worst pileup in Texas occurred on one side of an arched overpass. Drivers coming from one direction couldn't see the pileup…

The half pixel offset is also a Gaussian convolution (the simplest) with filter [1/2, 1/2]. It's centered at the corners between pixels, so it's not obvious to describe it as such.…