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Would you recommend any particular brand of said injection molding machines?

Does anyone know the etymology of "black box"?

Does anyone understand why a third dose of the same vaccine improves immunity to Omicron? I'm willing to believe the empirical evidence that boosters make a meaningful difference, …

This article briefly mentions SARS-CoV-2, but at length it discusses Ebola and others quite a bit more. This article isn't about what happened with COVID-19, but about whether we s…

I didn't realize how much metal was in these converters. I always thought it would be milligrams at most.

I think it currently stores energy in a spring, hence helping the user go up and recovering energy on the way down. I was just suggesting that if the energy can be stored in a batt…

I do understand having skin in the game, but at the same time it pushes away candidates, particularly during this labor shortage[1]. And it has disparate racial impact, because opp…

1. I think you call an able bodied relative? 2. Looks like it. I think it's just a racheting system, so I think there are infinite "lock points"

I love this idea, particularly empowering people to move without feeling like they need electrical assistance. If this is to become a widespread product, I think it needs to addres…

Legally, I think there's not a problem with even the strictest interpretation of "you need this, but we aren't paying for it". In many small business manufacturing settings, the ty…

Why do you feel bad about it? Sounds like you're reducing overall CO2 emissions. I understand that you are the "reader" in this article, but if you did start heating your own apart…

I think they often benefit one specific person in the company, who happens to be the decision maker, and don't hurt the overall company obviously enough that anyone stops them.

> need[ing] to monitor people’s unrelated web browsing and links they click Does this require some kind of vulnerability exploit? I would hope that apps can't extract this kind of …

Personally I think we are turning discoveries into products pretty fast, at the least faster than any time in history. My thought was that we need more fundamental discoveries (e.g…

> overproduction of physics PhDs relative to academic positions available Why are positions researching physics so closely tied to academic positions? We probably don't need too ma…

I think income-diversity is a valid and very appropriate criticism of MIT and other schools. I agree that not enough able but poor students are admitted. Without diminishing MIT's …

Clarification: when you say "reader", do you mean the reader of this linked article, or the reader of the chaplain's statement?

> Third, intellectual ability and achievement are the principal requirements for admission as a student or faculty member to any university. This is the crux of the issue as I see …

This is a much better idea than the one I had.

For the Fed, this doesn't seem enough. Their policy has a predictable effect on the whole market, so I think they should not be trading in the couple of weeks leading up to a Fed a…

Sometimes I wonder why we pay for insurance (to cover unpredictable accidents) when insurance policies specifically don't cover many unpredictable accidents...

> "Ultimately, Instagram is just a vicious messenger. But the cesspool of content fueling it? That comes from us." I don't particularly like that this article tries to absolve Face…

Yikes, I didn't know that. Seems like I need to make my fidelity password 6 times longer. Does this also mean they probably store passwords in clear text? Because there's no way to…

What does the median even mean in this context? The whole point of a median is taking the element that is greater than 50% of other elements in a strictly-ordered set, but since wh…