If Hollywood makes a movie about this, that will kill the research. No politician will allow something to continue once it has been "proven" to be recklessly dangerous by a movie.
Hollywood: AGW: Listen to the scientists. They know best. GMO: Scientists are arrogant liars. Don't trust them.
CRISPR-Cas9 is not a human invention. It was a discovery of something that already exists in nature.
If it was going to wipe out humans, it would have done so long ago.
But just for laughs, let's hypothesize that it jumps to a human. Then that human has two kids. Those kids grow up, and each has two more. Then the grandchildren do the same. So assuming 30 years per generation, after a century we have 8 people infected. Maybe by 2119 we can deal with 8 semi-sterile people (able to have sons but not daughters).
They are tropical mosquitoes. They can't survive outdoors in Italy in February. They also can't interbreed with Italian mosquitoes.
Killing Anopheles (malaria) and Aedes aegypti (yellow fever, dengue, zika) will have little environmental repercussions because other non-vector mosquitoes can fill the same niche. Furthermore, these species are invasive species in many areas, displacing native mosquitoes. So exterminating them can help to restore the natural balance. Many islands, including Hawaii, have no native mosquito species.
I don't know how effective or how many tanks use it, but I've heard of similar tech used to help protect tanks.
External airbags have been deployed on some military vehicles. They do nothing against kinetic energy weapons, such as sabot penetrators, but they disrupt Munroe-effect warheads, and can prevent some weapons with inertial fuses from detonating, including RPGs.
Documentation is often useful to users, but rarely of much use to developers. If your code doesn't make sense without a separate document to explain it, you should be fixing your code, not writing that doc.
I wonder if molecules that far out are "lost" and simply on their way out of the earth's gravitational influence
The thermal velocity of the particles will follow a Boltzmann distribution, and some of them move fast enough to escape earth's gravity. Lighter gases like hydrogen and helium will leak away much faster than N2 or O2.
The earth's atmosphere must have been much hotter in the past, because the atmosphere contains almost no neon, which is very common in the rest of the solar system. This may have happened in the aftermath of the Theia collision.
Clearly if you can afford a Nest smart thermostat you have stuff worth stealing.
Not necessarily. One reason that burglaries have become less common is that most homes don't have much worth stealing anymore. Nobody has furs or silverware. People keep less cash. Guns are more likely to be securely locked up. Jewelry is less common, and harder to resell. Used electronic devices have very little resale value. Motion sensors and cameras raise the risk of getting caught.
a unit of the donated plasma costs multiple thousands of $$$.
A donor typically gets paid about $50. So 95% of that cost is due to other factors.
The only result of paying donors is WAY more plasma available. Enough so that America can supply much of the world.
Europe's ban on payments is idiotic. They do it on health grounds, because supposedly "free" plasma is healthier (based on no evidence), but they get so few donors, that they end up buying plasma from paid donors in America. How does that make any sense?
Getting even a single microgram of alpha emitters in your lung is potentially fatal.
Getting a microgram of plutonium in your lung can kill you. Natural uranium is less radioactive than plutonium by a factor of 160,000. Also, uranium ore is typically about 0.1% U3O8. The other 99.9% is mostly harmless silicates.
1. There is no shortage of plasma. I don't know why you think there is. 2. If there is a shortage, the obvious and immediate fix is to raise the price.
Merchandising your body parts has bigger problems than simple income inequality
"Body parts"? Selling plasma is little different than selling urine. Donating is harmless.
a medically unnecessary waste of precious lifesaving bodily tissues...
This is just silly. There is no shortage of plasma. There is only a shortage of incentives for people to donate. If Peter stops his injections, it is not like that plasma is going to someone else.
paying blood donors should be illegal anyway.
Blood donors are not paid. Plasma donors are.
Payments for plasma are illegal in most of Europe. The obvious result is that they buy plasma from America where it comes from paid donors. America is, by far, the world's biggest plasma exporter.
Well, if the FDA is this quick to be adamantly against it, then it must be something good and beneficial.
Their opposition is actually pretty wishy-washy. They say the benefits "aren't proven", but there haven't been any rigorous clinical trials, so that is at best a neutral statement. Meanwhile, there are several animal trials that showed a clear benefit to the transfusions.
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If Hollywood makes a movie about this, that will kill the research. No politician will allow something to continue once it has been "proven" to be recklessly dangerous by a movie.
Hollywood:
AGW: Listen to the scientists. They know best.
GMO: Scientists are arrogant liars. Don't trust them.
CRISPR-Cas9 is not a human invention. It was a discovery of something that already exists in nature.
If it was going to wipe out humans, it would have done so long ago.
But just for laughs, let's hypothesize that it jumps to a human. Then that human has two kids. Those kids grow up, and each has two more. Then the grandchildren do the same. So assuming 30 years per generation, after a century we have 8 people infected. Maybe by 2119 we can deal with 8 semi-sterile people (able to have sons but not daughters).
They are tropical mosquitoes. They can't survive outdoors in Italy in February. They also can't interbreed with Italian mosquitoes.
Killing Anopheles (malaria) and Aedes aegypti (yellow fever, dengue, zika) will have little environmental repercussions because other non-vector mosquitoes can fill the same niche. Furthermore, these species are invasive species in many areas, displacing native mosquitoes. So exterminating them can help to restore the natural balance. Many islands, including Hawaii, have no native mosquito species.
I don't know how effective or how many tanks use it, but I've heard of similar tech used to help protect tanks.
External airbags have been deployed on some military vehicles. They do nothing against kinetic energy weapons, such as sabot penetrators, but they disrupt Munroe-effect warheads, and can prevent some weapons with inertial fuses from detonating, including RPGs.
Better. Automatically deploy the external airbags whenever the car alarm gets triggered.
99.9% of car alarms are false positives.
I had mine disabled by the dealership. They told me a lot of people ask for that.
imagine how far it could launch a pedestrian!
An impact with an airbag will injure a pedestrian less than an impact with the bumper.
Personal car ownership is a sad thing.
External airbags would make even more sense when combined with Uber/Lyft/Taxis and/or on-demand SDCs.
The cost would be spread across more miles.
Patents cannot violate the laws of physics
High temperature superconductors don't violate the known laws of physics.
Additionally, patents last for 17 years.
Patents last for 20 years.
It seems to me that mobile apps wouldn't be a thing either if this logic was true.
For mobile devices, battery life is critical. So x86 isn't an option.
'Clever code' shouldn't be blanket banned. It should be considered and if it's worth it, commented to hell and back.
In-line comments are not the same as documentation. But even in-line documentation should not be used as a crutch for poor code.
foo(a, b); // Compute the dot product of the inputs and bias
dotProduct(inputs, bias);
Which is better?
... is undocumented code.
Documentation is often useful to users, but rarely of much use to developers. If your code doesn't make sense without a separate document to explain it, you should be fixing your code, not writing that doc.
If the person recommending the rewrite is the person who wrote the original code, they are usually right.
If the person recommending the rewrite understands the code and has years of experience with it, they are often right.
If the person recommending the rewrite is the new guy fresh out of uni, they are almost certainly wrong.
Disclaimer: I was once that new guy.
When a person accepts work for an ad company, they work as the ad company expects.
The power relationship between employer and employee is not symmetrical, so employment contracts should not be "anything goes".
Nevertheless, arbitration is a more accessible and far less expensive option for most disputes. The "right to sue" is overrated.
I wonder if molecules that far out are "lost" and simply on their way out of the earth's gravitational influence
The thermal velocity of the particles will follow a Boltzmann distribution, and some of them move fast enough to escape earth's gravity. Lighter gases like hydrogen and helium will leak away much faster than N2 or O2.
The earth's atmosphere must have been much hotter in the past, because the atmosphere contains almost no neon, which is very common in the rest of the solar system. This may have happened in the aftermath of the Theia collision.
do most companies spy for China's Communist Party?
Why do you care? What is the CCP going to do to you?
You have far more to fear from your own government.
Why does Huawei have to abide by sanctions that China isn't a party to?
They (allegedly) resold American technology to Iran in violation of the licensing contract, and in violation of American law.
Clearly if you can afford a Nest smart thermostat you have stuff worth stealing.
Not necessarily. One reason that burglaries have become less common is that most homes don't have much worth stealing anymore. Nobody has furs or silverware. People keep less cash. Guns are more likely to be securely locked up. Jewelry is less common, and harder to resell. Used electronic devices have very little resale value. Motion sensors and cameras raise the risk of getting caught.
There's all kinds of risks in taking just anyone's blood products.
For blood, yes. For plasma, no.
Blood is alive, and can harbor diseases. Plasma has no living tissue, and is sterilized before infusion.
a unit of the donated plasma costs multiple thousands of $$$ .
A donor typically gets paid about $50. So 95% of that cost is due to other factors.
The only result of paying donors is WAY more plasma available. Enough so that America can supply much of the world.
Europe's ban on payments is idiotic. They do it on health grounds, because supposedly "free" plasma is healthier (based on no evidence), but they get so few donors, that they end up buying plasma from paid donors in America. How does that make any sense?
Yes, it is anti-China propaganda. Instead of calling these "attacks", they should say "free penetration testing".
Getting even a single microgram of alpha emitters in your lung is potentially fatal.
Getting a microgram of plutonium in your lung can kill you. Natural uranium is less radioactive than plutonium by a factor of 160,000. Also, uranium ore is typically about 0.1% U3O8. The other 99.9% is mostly harmless silicates.
there are, indeed, serious risks with infusing foreign blood.
They aren't infusing blood, just plasma.
All kinds of blood-borne diseases can be transmitted
... from blood. Not from plasma.
Marketing speak for there's a plasma shortage.
1. There is no shortage of plasma. I don't know why you think there is.
2. If there is a shortage, the obvious and immediate fix is to raise the price.
Merchandising your body parts has bigger problems than simple income inequality
"Body parts"? Selling plasma is little different than selling urine. Donating is harmless.
a medically unnecessary waste of precious lifesaving bodily tissues...
This is just silly. There is no shortage of plasma. There is only a shortage of incentives for people to donate. If Peter stops his injections, it is not like that plasma is going to someone else.
paying blood donors should be illegal anyway.
Blood donors are not paid. Plasma donors are.
Payments for plasma are illegal in most of Europe. The obvious result is that they buy plasma from America where it comes from paid donors. America is, by far, the world's biggest plasma exporter.
Lesson from economics 101: Incentives work.
Well, if the FDA is this quick to be adamantly against it, then it must be something good and beneficial.
Their opposition is actually pretty wishy-washy. They say the benefits "aren't proven", but there haven't been any rigorous clinical trials, so that is at best a neutral statement. Meanwhile, there are several animal trials that showed a clear benefit to the transfusions.