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Any thoughts about how the difference in telomere length in lab-mice vs non-lab-mice might also play a role?

Hiwi group (hunter gatherers) in Papa New Guinea homicide rate: 1018 murders per 100,0000 population.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=YtwSz2A12e8C&q=153&redir_es...

But.... so what?

Exactly - Houston probably needs that interchange with their big population.

And not so for a city of 50K like Siena, right?

The whole thing is pointless, that's my point.

GDP:

Houston, Texas = ~$500B/yr

Siena, Tuscany = ~$11B/yr

Hey, have you heard of "books"? over 1 million new books are published every year, and people have been writing them for like a really long long time.

FYI: 12 Monkeys was not a documentary.

Or maybe it's just a cynical oversimplification?

Am I a product of the Oracle DBs behind the websites I use for free?

How about credit cards? Isn't the merchant and issuing bank the customer there? As long as I pay off my monthly balance, it's free for me.

My Facebook data is worthless. ONLY in aggregate is FB data valuable, and only if it is kept mostly secret from their customers (advertisers).

The more FB data you're using, the less you know about me.

So the I'm a "product" of Wikipedia? WordPress? Blender? Linux? mySQL?

For comparison, what kinds of diseases are not metabolic?

60% of Amazon stock is owned by mutual funds & other institutional investors (like pension funds).

77% of Google is owned by mutual funds & other institutional investors.

62% of Apple is owned my mutual funds & other institutional investors.

79% of Facebook is owned by mutual funds & other institutional investors.

"in the case of Apple, the company’s strategy was doomed right up until it was illegal, or so it seems with the App Store."

Ben Thompson (https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-epic-and-the-app-store/)

LOL

Napster pitched a $10/month all-you-can-eat subscription, and the Music industry said NO WAY!

Then they were crushed by reality and we got multiple suppliers of Napster's $10/month-for-all-music offer.

Imagine if Napster had got what it wanted and became the only supplier of music? I doubt they'd still be seen as the good guy.

I wonder if it's more than the dramatic savings we've gained by moving from desktops to mobile devices?

I'm reminded of JBP quote “The fact that automobiles pollute only becomes a problem of sufficient magnitude to attract public attention when the far worse problems that the internal combustion engine solves vanished from view.”

I dont know but I'd like to. How does that work?

Have they been absorbed, as in reacted to create novel compounds? If the plastic does not react with the organic molecules in our body, isn't this a little like worrying WiFi will cause cancer (non-ionizing EM)?

Imagine all the micro-petrochemicals in human tissue from the hundreds of thousands of years of inhaling volatile compounds in fire and coal smoke.

Could we not argue that we have evolved under consistent exposure to petrochemical volatiles?

Or are these microplastics different? They seem extremely stable if they're so persistent in the environment, couldn't that suggests they do not react much at all (at least much much less than coal smoke) and are therefore pretty benign?

It's not about just eye contact, but a whole lot of body language that we are totally blind to with a just video of someone who's not even looking at you. This body language is a very important part of communicating and can be mediated with VR.

This blindless in webcam meetings make everyone something like socially "autistic", and is a big part of what can make them much more draining than in-person meetings.

You can deliver a complete VR experience with just a normal webcam?

Just added a video explaining one approach being taken - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y

And that's over a year ago...

It will (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y), and VR already conveys MUCH more of the micro-interactions of being with people that we are unknowingly blind to in Zoom meetings, which is one reason Zoom meetings are so draining.

Why worry about better horse bridles (Webcams) when the automobile is beginning to roll out ($300 PC-free VR)?

Eric Weinstein talks about the DISC - Distributed Idea Suppression Complex.

I had a friend get tenure at a university, and her stories added fuel to the fire in my mind that the DISC is very real, and everywhere.

Ah nice thx!

“When you mix politics and science, you get politics.” — John M. Barry

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Influenza

First thing that came to my mind was..

"Guys, guys, Galileo wasn't actually cancelled. He just found out that free speech has consequences." @KonstantinKisin

Good luck!

look to the law MAKERS, not the law followers.

UBI is interesting and may very well play some kind of a role in the future, but I can't help but think:

Everybody gets equal UBI in the game Monopoly, and that never works out well.

just "machines", or a key EUV machine that only ASML makes?

The question required to justify a merger instead of partnership: Why would merging make things greater than the sum of the parts? If it doesn't, partner.

I dont see any reason why a GM-Tesla merger makes any sense. But would be happy to hear some.

extracted? As in not through voluntary agreement?

I think you're talking about taxes, and missing the point entirely.