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There are a lot of power hungry people out there. In fact, our genome is essentially made up of the most successful conquerors and rapists. If you have a bioengineered virus in hand, you have tremendous power (through blackmail), even against powerful governments. You can also hunker down in some far away place (obviously madagascar) while the virus carries out your destruction.

The main point of the article is not a point which is widely discussed, known, or accepted. It has nothing to do with oversight/regulation. The point is that offensive biotechnology has progressed way ahead of defensive biotechnology. In other words, we know how to engineer viruses but not how to engineer the immune system. The human immune system is vastly more complicated than viruses. Therefore, the author appears to be calling for vastly more funding into defensive biotechnology. In other words, though research into dna modification technologies (such as viral engineering) is already heavily funded, resarch into therapeutic methods and immune response should be much greater than most are even considering.

My own personal opinion is that that funding should be increased orders of magnitude; a few trillion over the next decade seems judicious.

Just a technically inaccurate colloquialism. And yes I missed the sex selector, even though I had explicitly looked for it. Don't know how I missed it.

How come some very popular recent female names like hannah (~8th most popular) and isabella (~4th most popular) don't hardly show up?

You can still do a pretty similar experiment. For instance, startups 1-50 get into yc like normal. Startups 51-100, together with 50 randomly selected startups get grouped together and tagged as "the bubble group". Meaning that they were on the bubble of getting into yc. Pretty high honors. However, they don't get any access, consultation, etc. to yc itself. Then after a few months you unblind which were highly selected and which were random, to see who does better.

Your ideas are interesting. Unfortunately you've exhausted my interest in the topic. But, I still think you overstate the absolute certainty of your interpretation. I do agree that Elon is presenting the rosier interpretation of the data.

Yo pg, can you swing me some of that source code? I been thinking about accelerating it up, and me and my bro hungry pete are what you'd call pretty cool dudes. Hungry pete can attest! Get back. -Peace-

I'm also not convinced that selecting the data based on where Tesla's three fires occurred is the right why to analyze the statistics. Nor is it clear that the fires occuring in parking lots and similar areas involved solely stationary and unoccupied vehicles. In fact, all categories caused deaths at a rate similar to or greater than the fire rate except for one category, parking lots (which still caused 6% of deaths). Perhaps these fires involve someone driving too fast through a parking lot?

I looked at your prior posts and was unconvinced. From figure 1, 17% occur on highway or divided highways. However, most of the remaining categories are also types of roads.

How did DPR find the hitman? Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that once the feds had apprehended the admin, that the feds might be impersonating a hitman for said admin? It is after all widely insinuated, among certain crowds, that any hitman you hire on the internet is always a fed.

I don't know about any "face-saving ruse", whatever that means. But couldn't he have known he was just purchasing "good fakes", for future usage as threats, should he need them?

This is a common cognitive bias, overestimating familiarity with expert domains. Sometimes called the curse of knowledge, or the terminology illusion (specific to overestimating familiarity with jargon).

Unfortunately, it happens naturally and automatically, and is thus very difficult to overcome.

The west virginia->smoking->nicotine->no parkinsons link seems apparent. High lung disease though.

Social isolation? Three of the bluest states are Ca, Ny, Il, with the biggest cities.

He addresses this: "New methods like dual n-back or nootropics are ... years later discovered to ... be tantamount to training on IQ tests themselves"

It sounds like the "expected" return on litigation may be positive for small legitimate startups, so that over the long run, it might be expected to work our well for small startups. However, each individual small company may not want to risk their survival on hard-to-predict judicial idiosyncrasies.

Will fee shifting make it too risky for small companies to protect their IP?

I was able to view the article through a google search of its title.

Can you make an IC without understanding quasiparticles? Who created the knowledge that lets you do this? What equations govern EM radiation transmission? Knowledge genesis is the primary domain of knowledge creators, not employees.

Why are you limiting your test runs to 1 g? You don't need to put people in the test vehicles. Just use dummies, and accelerate at whatever.

How do shoes protect against guinea worm transmission? You get guinea worm from drinking contaminated water.

Reddit bots seem to be promoting programming to a wide audience in a way that regular software products don't. I guess it makes programming seem accessible. I wonder how many people this trend will coerce into learning to code?

Don't think so, but there are a lot of Perl options that do.

In no particular order: Gtk2::WebKit::Mechanize, Win32::IE::Mechanize, WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, WWW::Scripter, WWW::Selenium

Personally, I use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox

Just fyi, you can tab a link with the "More" link at the end of the descriptions.

Thats a lot of dogmatic statements without defense.

-On the claim of unfillable positions, "It's not bogus."

-"companies ... can't find people"

-"the mistake ... in article's reasoning is ... "

-"the reason there are open positions ... is ..."

-the writer's "put effort into saying something false" because ...

Can these statements be backed up? Is there is a metric for star programmers that companies can measure? If there is an obviously star programmer, but in some obscure language, do they get job offers? Perhaps in your capacity as startup advisor, you have inside knowledge?

I agree about the particles moving in the waves frame, but what you are talking about is drag, I think. The pressure gradient still produces a net force on the object. How big it is compared with other forces, such as drag, I have no idea.

The pressure (also density) maximum is the velocity maximum.

Shouldn't you put the front of the craft at the pressure minimum and the back of the craft at the pressure maximum? Then the wave would be pushing you along.

Perhaps the frequencies are below the audible spectrum?

In the long wavelength regime, frequency is proportional to 1/wavelength. In fact, frequency=speed/wavelength.

Perhaps, but how do you know it puts a far bigger strain? Certainly the family of the victim freaks out, but the communities stress response is unknown to me. A sudden onset illness to a close family member is also calamitous.

I'm also not saying its as easy as the numbers I threw together. Its just a ballpark estimate, until someone comes along and gives a better estimate.