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Is there a particulate size where a respirator becomes necessary in woodworking vs a dust mask? Like, above 120 grit you should really have a respirator on? I'm probably not as concerned about wood dust as I should be, so this is interesting to me.

Worse than having it forced on you from fifty small poorly calibrated TV's in the seat-backs of fellow airplane passengers who are too lazy, ignorant or oblivious to turn them off while you're trying to sleep on the first of two red-eye flights before your layover in O'Hare International Airport before work the next day?

This thread has been worth is just to learn about explainshell. I'm so happy that exists.

Yep. I got to say to my boss recently "you know those 2-4 servers I requested? You can forgot about that now, I optimized some things and we have plenty of capacity now on the one machine we've been using." That's an easy conversation to have.

The anti-vax crowd is pretty well split actually, political extremism seems to influence those belief more than left vs right[0]. But those on the right are more likely to resist vaccination efforts.

A quote from the article: "As to whether liberals or conservatives are now more likely to be opposed to vaccination, some researchers have suggested that, while anti-vaccination beliefs have spread to libertarians on the right, the anti-vaccination movement originates and finds its strongest support in the political left. A later article by the same researchers similarly argues that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) evidence shows that states that voted for Obama in 2012 have higher rates of nonmedical vaccination exemptions.

Yet, other research suggests that it is in fact conservatives who are more likely to believe that vaccines cause autism, that it is liberals who are more likely to endorse pro-vaccination statements and that the more strongly someone identifies with the Republican Party, the more likely he or she is to have a negative opinion of vaccination."

[0] http://theconversation.com/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-fol...

Missed Connections remains. All the solicitation will move there in a thinly veiled manner, most likely.

That was a failure of fact-checking, not fake news as it's typically understood. It has happened occasionally in otherwise-respectable publications. The network fired a number of people involved including Dan Rather not because they intentionally crafted a false narrative but because they claimed they had done fact-checking when they hadn't.

"Fake news", as typically understood, is news that is known to be fake by the publisher.

Atreides battle-language, better yet. The signal is encoded in subtle gestures to generate adversarial examples for the language detector.

I've been joking for at least a year that Uber's motto is "move fast and break people". I'm saddened that this has come to pass but not surprised.

You're suggesting that self-driving cars may have to drive slowly and carefully in cities. I don't really see a problem with that. Pedestrians aren't frequently in the immediate vicinity of roads with limits higher than 35mph in my experience. Any human driver has to drive cautiously in the vicinity of pedestrians anyway, if they don't want to risk manslaughter. I'd want SDVs to do that too.

What tax advantages? I'm going to get exactly zero benefit this year for all the mortgage interest I've paid; I'm probably going to take the newly increased standard deduction whereas last year I saved thousands by itemizing.

You really think drivers have carte blanche to run down people in the road as long as they have right of way? That drivers have no responsibility to avoid killing people as long as those people aren't on crosswalks? That's what you seem to be saying here.

Well net neutrality was repealed. Without title 2 there is really no net neutrality until some other law or regulation puts it back into place.

OTOH if they're just trying to get from California to Florida they don't need full orbital velocity.

This is OT, but perhaps you could join a structured exercise or sports group, like an ultimate Frisbee team or CrossFit. Having a regular group you can meet up with is usually pretty feasible without Facebook. It's good for you (don't go overboard and hurt yourself) and good for making friends.

Misleading comment. You're talking about murder but this only involved embryos. Many/most people don't consider that murder any more than the spilling of seed is. If you want to push a political view don't couch it as a systemic complaint.

What about the other sensor data? Did the police watch the LIDAR pointclouds and the RADAR maps too? Or are they basing their judgement on only one sense input? Seems to be the latter which means they're spouting off without knowing what they're talking about.

True. But if there was no crosswalk within 100m (per the article) and it wasn't a highway (only 35mph limit) it's reasonable to cross without a crosswalk. Still a pedestrian shouldn't put themselves in harm's way, but I don't think crossing off the crosswalk should be help against someone in this circumstance.

I've seen people charged with a misdemeanor for going 5 over the limit where noone was harmed. If a human can be held to that standard I think a self-driving car should in the case of a fatal collision.

If someone saves you a billion, what's $100m?

With Uber's reputation, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to write an app to falsify black box telemetry in the event of a crash to put the liability on the victim. Maybe they'll call it "grey box" or "black mirror".

Does the NTSB have regulation on how black boxes are allowed to function?

You're taking the mean consensus prediction as gospel. There is a smaller but still very much possible chance of much more catastrophic consequences than that. It would be irresponsible for the IPCC to present only the most dire predictions, but I think it's also unwise for us to ignore them.

That's an obscene amount of polystyrene. Ugh. OT but I wish the stuff were never used.

IMHO utilities need to realize that their business model of the future is to provide load balancing services and backup power to customers as much as it is to sell electricity. If they wait too long to start acting and keep fighting decentralized generation, they risk losing their value proposition as more people install batteries at home.

If that happens I could see them setting themselves up for a big political fight against their customers as they try to maintain their business by force/law.

I disagree completely. Psychopaths are as psychopaths do. If anything I expect we'll get better at diagnosing/detecting them and perhaps discovering sub-classes of them, of which perhaps some are problematic and some are not. We'll most likely continue to call the problematic ones psychopaths since we'll need a label to discuss people lacking in empathy who commit terrible crimes or make people's lives hell for fun and profit. Maybe some of the people we now call psychopaths will be called something else and redeemed in the popular imagination. But as long as the worst people we now call psychopaths continue to exist I think there will be no strong drive to retire or sanitize the word.

Well, consider the counterfactual of what would have happened to the astronaut's DNA if he hadn't gone to space. We don't know how it would have changed, so we can't compare it directly. Since we needed to do the experiment I'm guessing our knowledge DNA was not sufficient to predict that, so it makes sense to use a twin to get the closest proxy to the counterfactual that we can.

Yes but maybe larger and angle to present an oblique surface to earth based and perhaps orbital radar and telescopes. Although I suspect this world be harder than it sounds due to the number of such radars likely in orbit.

One could perhaps build a large flat reflector to shield it from the sun's rays and angle it in such a way to not reflect sunlight or radar signals back to earth-based receivers. But I don't know the extent of space radar systems, maybe there are transmitters and receivers spread around widely enough that that would not work.

Out of curiosity, why do you take colistin regularly?

Ozone in the high atmosphere is a good thing though - the ozone layer. It's only at ground level that it can act as a health hazard.