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This clarification is missing from many others sources (such as the AP one I saw from a local news source): https://www.wral.com/news/ap/9b8df-us-drops-the-number-of-va... . What y…

The thesis was known from the very beginning. The rest is just window dressing to justify the outcome. I still scratch my head about some no-brainer vaccines such as HPV. All upsid…

> It has a cruise speed of about 200 km/h (\(124\) mph), a payload of \(350\) kg (\(770\) lbs), and a range of approximately 300 km (\(186\) miles) While it’s a real plane, I think…

You can use a turbine to generate electricity, so yes, you are converting potential energy into electrical potential. However, no real mass produced passenger plane today can use t…

Not really. While you have a large potential energy buildup at a higher altitude, you cannot "bank it" / "save it" on descent. There is no way to store it in batteries or convert i…

Many airports (in the US, at least) make much more money from parking fees than everything else. On top of that, at least some operate their retail in a royalties model too (ie 20%…

> Reviewers can be professors, PhD students, etc. and are paid by the journal for their time. Most journals do not pay for reviewers time. There are some experiments that allow for…

It's possible they checked before (and the article suggests they had an inclination where the gene should be) but the resultant backcrosses involved a spontaneous recombination of …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr . He was a fascinating man, relatively non-famous. Probably singlehandedly contributed to more environmental damage than you can i…

* overhead - people cost a lot of money: this includes ongoing maintenance of the tech stack, including rewrites of obsolete parts, but also ops cost - preprinting can include more…

Magically using billions of federal money to hold assets to maturity is a bailout. If hypothetical JPMorgan is willing to pay for the (ie) bonds $20B, but they "support" $25B of de…

Happy to report that it actually has happened in the end.

In their defense, if the backup requires accessing archive tape drive records, long processing queues in non-scalable systems, etc - this could easily take 24 "physical" hours of t…

I've been waiting for an archive of my data for 3 days now. And my activity on Twitter is probably bottom 25%.

I think the US needs an honest assessment about the cost of such high degree of car centricity. There are layers of laws and regulations establishing car as a dominant method of tr…

Then you end up with a problem of clear cutting "useless woods" in order to install solar panels. While I don't think the French solution is flawless, it introduces an interesting …

Did he? > I paid off all my debts, bills and rent, and the cold realization hit me: I had nothing left over to show for it.

That's SBAS/WAAS! another cool thing This is trying to measure ionosphere disturbances which affect signal propagation rates via ground reference stations. The real-time model is t…

> how do you measure your own gps “accuracy”? Because GPS is way cool. First, there is the official site: https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/ I am far from being …

quoting: "A few examples of protected concerted activities are: Two or more employees addressing their employer about improving their pay. Two or more employees discussing work-rel…

It's easy to agree that number of papers published is a poor indicator of "quality" or "quantity" of raw science generated... but we hardly have anything better. Publication record…

"another major beneficiary would be the environment, specifically when operating in urban centers" But you see, they don't care. If there is no incentive for them to do it, why wou…

This is a valid point, but I think ignores amount of public health resources "spent" on trying to address vaccine hesitancy and healthcare resources addressing "unnecessary" hospit…

I think you just answered your own question ;-) .

RE: your last sentence. High dose supplementation of vitamin D should be done after consulting with your doctor (like you did). As a fat soluble vitamin, our bodies sometimes strug…