Chipotle researchers have found a way to imprint the giardia genome into customers' credit card strips. This can cause it to jump to rival restaurants.
If the FDA had to approve all these devices, even at the cost of making the price of everything exorbitant, their rigorous testing would ensure that the firmware wouldn't be riddled with all these bugs.
So when we apply this process to recapture the CO2 and send it down deep wells, what happens to the cost advantage of natural gas over all other sources?
The impact factor of a journal is supposedly the moving average over the latest two years of the number of citations to papers published in it. Is the IF of web journals and open publication sites counted in this ranking, or is this still another private club for the legacy journals?
I call bullshit on the whole "pharmaceutical grade bicarb is so spesh-ul" argument. If you're in medicine in the UK, guess where you can order this grade, and at what price?
Note the big red caution that no supplier will ship this product to the US. Since the bloodstreams of British [patients are going to be the same as US patients, the reason for this is that US pharma is setting us up for another Daraprim.
If they get away with this one, we might as well fill our bathtubs for when pharma engineers a shortage of water.
If we observed a series of very regular dimmings, that would be a better point in favor of the alien hypothesis. If the pattern of dimmings were consistent with an orbiting ring around the star whose orbital plane shifted through our line of sight over time, that would be better still.
A modern grid is no longer distinguishing between base load and midrange load, facepalm. Half of our "base load" comes from wind.
Is that why your largest industrial users have to get a governmental exemption from the renewable energy requirement so they can use whatever combination of lignite and French nuclear that they can bargain for? You know, the baseload.
At least real estate was, you know, real. You might have paid too much for that California house, but you could still live in it and grill in the backyard. What happens when we get tired of tracking down ransomware scammers and kidnapping for untraceable ransom comes back into style, so Congress has the NSA poof the cryptocurrency exchanges?
The problem is that medical services may require economies-of-scale such that having say 7 competitors in a given market, especially rural areas, is just not realistic. Medical services are just not the same market profile as manufacturing light-bulbs.
Personnel are not even so much the problem. Medical salaries are only a small percentage of total costs, and if a real shortage develops we could always turn on the H-1B spigot.
It's more about the total opaqueness of all pricing: nobody knows what anything costs. Pharma keeps insisting that "nobody actually pays $120,000 for Harvoni." My brother didn't, for example - but what did his insurance plan actually pay for it, and why aren't we allowed to find out? And if nobody actually pays it, why is that the advertised price?
We expect higher prices for newly branded compounds, but how can the supply of generic drugs, which anyone can make, be monopolized? What can't we have our prescriptions filled on the world market, through Amazon?
Is this shortage happening in countries with "socialized medicine", or just in free market America?
We don't have a free market medical system. We have a cronyist monopoly enforced by laws written by hospitals and pharma company. If the medical system produced computers, a PC would cost about the same as a Lamborghini.
Let's rephrase the question: What exactly makes pharmaceutical grade bicarbonate better than this chem lab reagent grade sodium bicarbonate, besides millions of dollars and a years-long grind of FDA approval? https://www.fishersci.com/shop...
"Can you give an example of a contemporary society that clings to truth?"
A society's commitment to "truth" can of course be in many different areas, but because this is a science thread, I'm talking about respect for science and what it can be applied to. Because the scientific method, with its criteria of reproducibility and peer review is a mechanism that always eventually finds truth even in cases where the people who use it are herd-followers (the epicycle hypothesis of celestial mechanics), faddish (phrenology), corrupt (tobacco industry apologists), or coerced by dictatorial politics (Lysenkoism), it makes a better test of truth than all the measures which are culturally defined. Technology, the application of science to practical problems, is an even better truth filter. If you pursued bad science in implementing your application, your bridge will fall, your airplane will crash, your patient will die.
An example: this is why China is eating America's lunch and Europe's dinner. I'm sure there are Chinese who hate GMOs or believe in 'chemtrails', but they have no influence on public policy, Chinese industry produces more solar cells and wind turbines than any other country by far, but unlike parts of Europe you won't see them closing nuclear plants in favor of strip-mining more coal.
This article cites coal as persisting for decades longer than intended, with enormous new strip mines like Garzweiler and Heimbach still opening up despite heavy protests from the same people who, having shut down nuclear, are finding out that coal is far worse. German even tried subsidizing its anthracite mines to maintain quality of output, but the last of them will be worked out in 2018. This leaves only lignite, which has the energy and pollution content of damp firewood. Enjoy! https://www.scientificamerican...
No Swiss dams were demolished. The hydro fraction went down because of the nuclear building program. This allowed industry to keep on developing around the Rhine lowlands, so yes, consumption has increased despite all the initiatives to save household electricity use.
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Chipotle researchers have found a way to imprint the giardia genome into customers' credit card strips. This can cause it to jump to rival restaurants.
If the FDA had to approve all these devices, even at the cost of making the price of everything exorbitant, their rigorous testing would ensure that the firmware wouldn't be riddled with all these bugs.
Oh, wait --
When you start thinking of socialism as a tool of corporate monopoly.
So when we apply this process to recapture the CO2 and send it down deep wells, what happens to the cost advantage of natural gas over all other sources?
The impact factor of a journal is supposedly the moving average over the latest two years of the number of citations to papers published in it. Is the IF of web journals and open publication sites counted in this ranking, or is this still another private club for the legacy journals?
TIL that Reddit viewers are only in it for the flamewars.They have no interest in a kinder and gentler version.
Fellow tomato oddball here: raw tomatoes bad, cooked, sun dried or in sauces good.
Can you splice Tobacco genes in too and create Tomacco?
I suppose you could, but now try keeping the stuff lit.
So is the flat-Earth lobby buying the idea that gen editing is not UGGA BOOGA OMG ZOMBIE GMO?
"There is also a long ugly history of even scientists ignoring scientific findings that are socially unacceptable."
Totally understandable when you consider that researchers need to get funded somehow.
But now United credits you with miles for the distance they drag you.
I call bullshit on the whole "pharmaceutical grade bicarb is so spesh-ul" argument. If you're in medicine in the UK, guess where you can order this grade, and at what price?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sodiu...
Note the big red caution that no supplier will ship this product to the US. Since the bloodstreams of British [patients are going to be the same as US patients, the reason for this is that US pharma is setting us up for another Daraprim.
If they get away with this one, we might as well fill our bathtubs for when pharma engineers a shortage of water.
Our best hope for constructing advanced neutrino detectors is to send a message to Tabby's Star asking them for assistance in this matter.
So it would be like airline customer service, then.
If we observed a series of very regular dimmings, that would be a better point in favor of the alien hypothesis. If the pattern of dimmings were consistent with an orbiting ring around the star whose orbital plane shifted through our line of sight over time, that would be better still.
A modern grid is no longer distinguishing between base load and midrange load, facepalm. Half of our "base load" comes from wind.
Is that why your largest industrial users have to get a governmental exemption from the renewable energy requirement so they can use whatever combination of lignite and French nuclear that they can bargain for? You know, the baseload.
The ordinary Walmart product is pure enough for human consumption, as a tooth powder and stomach remedy. My example is chemical reagent purity.
At least real estate was, you know, real. You might have paid too much for that California house, but you could still live in it and grill in the backyard. What happens when we get tired of tracking down ransomware scammers and kidnapping for untraceable ransom comes back into style, so Congress has the NSA poof the cryptocurrency exchanges?
The problem is that medical services may require economies-of-scale such that having say 7 competitors in a given market, especially rural areas, is just not realistic. Medical services are just not the same market profile as manufacturing light-bulbs.
Personnel are not even so much the problem. Medical salaries are only a small percentage of total costs, and if a real shortage develops we could always turn on the H-1B spigot.
It's more about the total opaqueness of all pricing: nobody knows what anything costs. Pharma keeps insisting that "nobody actually pays $120,000 for Harvoni." My brother didn't, for example - but what did his insurance plan actually pay for it, and why aren't we allowed to find out? And if nobody actually pays it, why is that the advertised price?
We expect higher prices for newly branded compounds, but how can the supply of generic drugs, which anyone can make, be monopolized? What can't we have our prescriptions filled on the world market, through Amazon?
Is this shortage happening in countries with "socialized medicine", or just in free market America?
We don't have a free market medical system. We have a cronyist monopoly enforced by laws written by hospitals and pharma company. If the medical system produced computers, a PC would cost about the same as a Lamborghini.
Let's rephrase the question: What exactly makes pharmaceutical grade bicarbonate better than this chem lab reagent grade sodium bicarbonate, besides millions of dollars and a years-long grind of FDA approval?
https://www.fishersci.com/shop...
"Can you give an example of a contemporary society that clings to truth?"
A society's commitment to "truth" can of course be in many different areas, but because this is a science thread, I'm talking about respect for science and what it can be applied to. Because the scientific method, with its criteria of reproducibility and peer review is a mechanism that always eventually finds truth even in cases where the people who use it are herd-followers (the epicycle hypothesis of celestial mechanics), faddish (phrenology), corrupt (tobacco industry apologists), or coerced by dictatorial politics (Lysenkoism), it makes a better test of truth than all the measures which are culturally defined. Technology, the application of science to practical problems, is an even better truth filter. If you pursued bad science in implementing your application, your bridge will fall, your airplane will crash, your patient will die.
An example: this is why China is eating America's lunch and Europe's dinner. I'm sure there are Chinese who hate GMOs or believe in 'chemtrails', but they have no influence on public policy, Chinese industry produces more solar cells and wind turbines than any other country by far, but unlike parts of Europe you won't see them closing nuclear plants in favor of strip-mining more coal.
This article cites coal as persisting for decades longer than intended, with enormous new strip mines like Garzweiler and Heimbach still opening up despite heavy protests from the same people who, having shut down nuclear, are finding out that coal is far worse. German even tried subsidizing its anthracite mines to maintain quality of output, but the last of them will be worked out in 2018. This leaves only lignite, which has the energy and pollution content of damp firewood. Enjoy!
https://www.scientificamerican...
No Swiss dams were demolished. The hydro fraction went down because of the nuclear building program. This allowed industry to keep on developing around the Rhine lowlands, so yes, consumption has increased despite all the initiatives to save household electricity use.
This crazy lady actually seems to think social science is a real science.
She's not so crazy: she is speaking the language the non-STEM academic crowd understands, and uses to attract the attention of lawyers.
"We are living in a post truth world, where opinions and offended feelings dictate our social policy rather than objective, dispassionate analysis."
Fortunately, societies that cling to truth always win out over post-truth societies.