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ljsprague··on Covid in pregnancy raises child's risk for developmental disorders
Are they still doing gain-of-function research on viruses?
ljsprague··on A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)
June and July used to be Quintilis and Sextilis.
ljsprague··on A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser
I imagine it would be easier for me to build the simulator than to make it do anything of interest.
ljsprague··on Realtime BART Arrival Display
How are you hiding the cable in the last photo or is it battery powered?
ljsprague··on Marble Fountain
Why isn't the top-down footprint a square?
ljsprague··on Marble Fountain
My naïve guess would be that you can't change the route of the ball without asymmetrical track pressure.
ljsprague··on Marble Fountain
Gorgeous!
ljsprague··on How to create an OS from scratch
I still don't understand what's "running" the boot sector.
ljsprague··on Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
You're on the right side of the bell curve. Marketing works best on the left side of the bell curve.
ljsprague··on A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans
Are symptoms not the sole means of diagnosis? So if girls present less symptoms then aren't they therefore less autistic? Or, alternatively, if they present different symptoms then perhaps they have something else?
ljsprague··on Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine rebuilt every 20yrs for more than a millennium
Did you know that that number can go up?
ljsprague··on Bluesky Alt Text Stream
Surprised then that so many posts are just images.
ljsprague··on Bluesky Alt Text Stream
Perhaps filter out the empty messages?
ljsprague··on Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine rebuilt every 20yrs for more than a millennium
I pretty much do on this site, for sure; it's relevant to everything political or cultural. (They've chosen potential population collapse over assured population replacement.)
ljsprague··on Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water
I also wonder about stuff like this. I think some things are just a bridge-too-far for organisms to evolve protections against. For instance, are we worried about using too much bleach? Or stepping on cockroaches?
ljsprague··on Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful
And?
ljsprague··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Don't you see how immigrants "reduce the power of labor" though? Cesar Chavez opposed immigration.
ljsprague··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
I won't claim to fully understand it but by PPP they're close.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...

ljsprague··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
This is good start but he needs to go further. After all, we're a nation; not an economic zone.
ljsprague··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Isn't Poland about to overtake Britain in per capita GDP?
ljsprague··on Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)
You're just like him!
ljsprague··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
No mas.
ljsprague··on How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says
There were a few people who got violent on January 6th. This guy didn't though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Chansley

Would you call the BLM rioting in the summer of 2020 political violence?

ljsprague··on High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)
Just don't try to have a baby up there.
ljsprague··on Models of European metro stations
So they are not renders of 3D models?
ljsprague··on Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light
Does it work on sunscreen related orange-ing? i.e. Avobenzone and iron?
ljsprague··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
People with lower intelligence don't necessarily have "bad" genes; thousands of other traits to optimize for after all.
ljsprague··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
The fact that you jumped to "eugenics" proves my point.
ljsprague··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
Race and IQ stuff.
ljsprague··on Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time
I've listened to quite a few dozens of episodes ... I'm wondering ... did they seek out experts with speech impediments.
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