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There is already a practical (but unsightly) solution to mosquitos - bug nets. There is nothing stopping people from wearing bug nets covering their entire body if they feel disease carrying mosquitos are a grave danger. It is irresponsible to waste the resources that treating mosquitos as the second biggest policy issue facing the world would require, and it could also cause serious consequences to the ecosystem if we get an eradication solution wrong.

https://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/xl/netsmen-wearable-mosqui...

Dams are literally terrible in terms of ecological impact. The sooner they are all gone the better.

I live 60 miles from san francisco and can't even get DSL - Satellite and cell only, cell is no service 40% of the time, 1 bar 60%

Agreed. To do this correctly would take long term planning on the scale of decades most likely; growing the faculty from within and providing the necesarry resources to develop them. But it is possible and the elite universities should be moving this way.

There are many people who are 4+ year graduates in other disciplines who would like to learn coding to enhance their abilities. I really don't see why having self-taught pathways available to these folks (or simply those who can't afford college) is a bad thing.

Also terrible with mental health from what I hear.

I have a feeling most of these sentiments are coming from a European point of view . Continents like South America, Asia, and Africa all have many places dirtier than the US. Don't get me wrong, I hate how dirty our cities are in the US and wish people actually cared enough to take care of their waste, but what I've seen in developing countries makes the US look like Disneyland.

Are you talking about outside of crosswalks? Because in all of California the pedestrian has the right of way at any crosswalk and even at unmarked intersections.

Definitely could have been it.

The e-waste on those early generation electric clunkers could end up being just as big of a problem as gas cars as far as I can see. I would love to be proven wrong, but until they start making the heavy metals and REE containing components much more recyclable (and actually recycling them) we are doing pretty environmentally irresponsible mining and manufacturing to make these disposable vehicles.

Saw a similar looking Tesla modified into a truck being trailered in Windsor, CA last week. Tried to grab a photo but couldn't get a good one. Anyone else seen it?

See the references in the wikipedia article. Article came first it appears.

No, I saw a an ebike blow out of golden gate park against a red and cause a 3 car accident in SF a few weeks back, despite only spending a few days in SF each year. At least one or more of the cars were likely totalled and would contribute much more significantly to waste/emissions. I also saw a lot of people on bikes/scooters using sidewalks and crosswalks like their personal fast lines and ignoring signs and signals repeatedly as well.

Also much, much easier to solve, and more than possible with existing technology. May require more clean energy but it can be solved.

I don't care how much education they have, the minds who are focused on developing ways to capture people's increasingly fractured attention are disqualified from being considered the top minds of our generation.

Seen this too, literally leaving a company's production in shambles then takes a promotion to work at a competitor.

I can easily notice the difference between 20 and 40 ms in FPS games. I have gotten out of FPS's due to keeping up with the hardware requirements, but a streaming service like this could make it possible. That being said, if they cant stay below 50ms I probably wouldn't waste my time.

They have disability accommodations for that (which are abused by the wealthy apparently). I learned from the recent scandal news.

I mention this all the time to coworkers who blindly believe solar is a perfect technology. It is really, really bad - especially the old stuff with all these REE's and extremely low efficiency. I am pretty upset that California now REQUIRES solar for new construction. It really feels we should have waited for the efficiency/cleanliness/recycling to mature a lot before that.

I don't see how coding is any different than being an auto mechanic in the long run. The only skills that will truly bring value long term it feels are project management and the ability to motivate a wide variety of individuals to work together efficiently.

Its literally just to protect privacy of someone close, nothing more. Shouldn't be interesting anyways but you never know how far doxxers will go.

Airbnb is making this a distinct possibility. I regularly run into people in my small, tourism based town who own 2 or more properties they sit on and rent through airbnb. The most frustrating was a guy who after receiving inheritance is doing exclusively this. Meanwhile the city is spending money buying run down apartments above market rate, competing with these investors who bring little value, to meet the demands of the community to protect the tenants from being forced out.

It is wildly inefficient and would not exist if airbnb followed local laws. If this is allowed to continue, I could easily see airbnb units exceeding the number of hotel units we have in town, where the total number of rooms is nearing 10% of the towns population.

AFOAF went through a tough time basically between the end of high school and a year out of college. Family stuff that was so hard to emotionally grasp and make sense of it absolutely paralyzed her. She went through many different forms of therapy; from affordable counselors, to a professor at her college (don't try that, they usually just want you to pay to be in a study), to a relatively average psychologist (~150/hr) who made her feel better able to cope with her mental state but did not provide her any tools to go beyond it.

Finally, when we moved to a larger area she found a first-rate CBT practitioner and the results were nothing short of outstanding. In less than 4 months she went from being completely dependant - afraid to drive a car, visit stores, or pretty much leave the house alone - to regaining her independence and returning to the person she was before everything happened. The downside was she had to wait 3 months for an opening and I believe sessions were in the neighborhood of 300$ and needed to be 2x a week at first if I remember correctly. Regardless it is the absolute best money she had ever spent, and was so much cheaper than the years of seeing a different psychologist who didn't help her move forward.

I guess the moral is if you are in a situation where you are incredibly anxious or depressed to the point where you feel it is irrationally preventing you from making progress or following through on things you want to do, CBT (from the right place) can change things you may have never thought possible.

This affects some of my family directly and has a very noticeable impact on local businesses who had become accustomed to and were investing pretty significantly in attracting Chinese interest in their products (California wine industry). While the industry existed for a long time before the Chinese market became a factor, starting in the recession their was definitely a push to attract Chinese individuals to california wine, to the point where many major tasting rooms were recruiting people who speak mandarin, and some folks I know regularly had relatively wealthy recent Chinese college graduates working harvest jobs. I have not been aware of a Chinese intern in our circle for years, and also haven't seen a listing looking for Mandarin in months if not longer.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-wine...

I imagine the situation is similar for many other non-essential exports to China.

"At the high end of the electromagnetic spectrum, signals travel over a band of 10 million trillion Hz (that is, 10^22Hz). This end of the spectrum has phenomenal bandwidth, but it has its own set of problems. The wave forms are so miniscule that they're highly distorted by any type of interference, particularly environmental interference such as precipitation. Furthermore, higher-frequency wave forms such as x-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays are not very good to human physiology and therefore aren't available for us to use for communication at this point."

Not the best analysis but I'm working. Basically like any other metric, as the frequency increases the space between peaks and valleys decreases and it becomes harder to determine/separate from others 30hz to 230hz is much easier to tell the difference than 15khz to 15.2khz if you want to listen to audio tones. Once you get to microwaves this becomes of course much more difficult.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=24687&seqNum...

I haven't heard of others with connectivity that is even close. The fact that the airpods simply work, even long distances from my charging phone in the office, make them very valuable to me.

Im pretty sure the problem is that a sensor failure is causing it to believe it is at a higher angle of attack than it actually is, but I'm only skimming.

Sounds like owning a winery around these parts.

Yeah, I was soldering little kits at a pretty young age. With proper supervision it feels you might as well have the kid really go for it, or have them direct the parent and lead them through the soldering process, while the parent performs the actual connection, showing proper technique and safety, including ventilation etc.

My undergrad is in Materials Science and I am very uninformed on the NN/AI stuff, but I completely agree that the term AI seems to be applied to all sorts of techniques with zero relation to true intelligence, seems more to be just working with patterns that have been fed into them.