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Google234··on Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
Q. Why can't we test all beef for BSE safety?

A. BSE tests are not conducted on cuts of meat, but involve taking samples from the brain of a dead animal to see if the infectious agent is present. We know that the earliest point at which current tests can accurately detect BSE is 2-to-3 months before the animal begins to show symptoms. The time between initial infection and the appearance of symptoms is about 5 years. Since most cattle that go to slaughter in the United States are both young and clinically normal, testing all slaughter cattle for BSE might offer misleading assurances of safety to the public.

The BSE surveillance program is not for the purposes of determining food safety. Rather, it is an animal health surveillance program. USDA's BSE surveillance program allows USDA to detect the disease if it exists at very low levels in the U.S. cattle population and provides assurances to consumers and our international trading partners that the interlocking system of safeguards in place to prevent BSE are working.

Google234··on Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
A similar thing seems to happen in alzeimers (protein conglomerates)
Google234··on Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
Didn’t a huge number of cows get infected back then with only a small number of cases?
Google234··on Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
Don’t we know already? In the UK weren’t millions of cows infected and eaten for years with only a few hundred human transmissions?
Google234··on A Hybrid Approach to Work
That meeting room looks super uncomfortable and awkward. Why can’t they just use some simple criteria for coming back to work: if you have two vaccine shots + time for second shot you can come in to work (unless you have a medical/religious reason not to).

Also, if everyone is vaccines can we do away with mask requirements?

Google234··on Havana syndrome: NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks since 90s
Yeah, it actually looks like you can buy them on Amazon for about 30$. I don’t want to doubt but this seems so simple to test that the lack of any direct evidence makes me suspicious.

https://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Radiation-5HZ-3500MHz...

Google234··on Havana syndrome: NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks since 90s
Why don’t they install detectors inside all the embassies at risk to prove or disprove this? Why didn’t they do this earlier? I’m pretty sure there are many places that could be contracted to make a detector in a few weeks - this isn’t new technology. This seems really easy to test... so why are we still speculating.
Google234··on List of apps people pay for but have low rating
How dare they!
Google234··on Apple runs App Store with 78% profit margin, according to court testimony
Please never do that. PWA are 99.999% spam. See Firefox’s research on the topic. I hate every time I visit a new site and there’s some dumb pop up on my browser asking me to enable push notifications. Sometimes I miss click and end up having to go through the annoying process of removing them.

Fortunately, Apple cares about its users and won’t enable a feature that is only abused for spam.

Google234··on List of apps people pay for but have low rating
How can they know without looking? Again, you could also use the webmasters tools to block it...
Google234··on It's your device, you should be able to repair it
A 10 year old device can barely render a webpage now and has a shitty screen and is generally inferior and every way to a new one. No one wants to use a flip phone now.
Google234··on It's your device, you should be able to repair it
Why are you looking at Apple? They do the great job providing updates.
Google234··on It's your device, you should be able to repair it
You need to sleep sometimes... just charge your phone then
Google234··on Police Kill Too Many People–White and Black (2016)
Here’s a video with a few people In x group doing a horrible thing and celebrating. This proves that x group is terrible.
Google234··on Avoiding Leetcode Anxiety
- Read well-established repos and type the code, for example, I’m currently going through all of the React source and typing everything up as I read it

How is this useful at all? If you want to learn you should actually start contributing to a project and get feedback that way. You don’t learn how to do math problems by copying solutions.

Google234··on San Francisco’s tech fiefdom is dying
I think the next wave of companies will be smart and avoid SF. SF is completely dysfunctional and crime ridden. Housing is brutally expensive too.
Google234··on Lambda School lays off 65 employees
I’m not sure how lambda could help with the jump to mid level engineer. That’s up to you once you start at a job... the main issue I see is that one has to compete with actually scientists (PhDs) that have many years of formal education and work on addressing hard problems.

Also, exceeding the max number of credit hours while at university is a mistake. Classes should only be a part of a university experience. Good students takes advantage of the other opportunities such and internships and working in research groups. If you want more education then go to grad school.

Google234··on The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
Sorry, but a 50$ a month subscription does not entitle you to speak with network engineers.
Google234··on Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home
Why do you live 2 hours away?
Google234··on The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
I don’t think the city network engineer would want to deal with your problem to be honest. They have bigger things to worry about.
Google234··on OPNsense and HardenedBSD are parting ways
Open bsd is targeted and does get CVEs though... the question is about the amount of attention compared to other platforms
Google234··on Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade
What’s the chance this story gets flagged? It always seems like the people in favor of forced equality try to hide their actions.
Google234··on Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure
Most of the people in the US support deportation. Most of the people in Japan too. Should they be worried?
Google234··on Chdir to cwd: permission denied
It’s bad. I find it very hard to read
Google234··on Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
There is something called personal responsibility that most people believe in. We aren’t children. You could ask that question about literally anything that you buy that could potential kill you.
Google234··on Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
Nope.
Google234··on Corrupt Signal DB issue crashing App and losing data
You could literally google this and get 10 answers.
Google234··on Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (2012)
Would you be happier if FB censored every negative post on their site? I’m sure there would be less unhappiness but would it be “better”?
Google234··on Nobody is joining Google's FLoC
If that happens many many websites won’t be able to operate for free like they do now.
Google234··on Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged
Yep and you pay <20% more for that privilege. There’s no free lunch
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