The time to market for a new vaccine is mostly not in the development, it is in the necessary safety testing before deploying it.
Readit NewsPurchasing from data brokers in order to avoid getting a search warrant is just unambiguously against the Fourth Amendment, right? It’s amazing to me that this hasn’t been stopped by the courts.
The courts have a third party doctrine. If you willingly give your data to a third party (the airlines) it's not a violation for the government to also use it.
> In San Francisco, self-driving cars are now more of a tourist attraction than cable cars
You can't actually ride one as a tourist, since it requires a USA-based Apple Store account and local credit card.
Hard to believe an Alphabet company doesn't support Android.
I wonder if a water only fast would also work.
The problem with developing new antibiotics is that pharma wants to sell them at a high price to recover research costs. But older antibiotics are out of patent an are dirt cheap. So the new antibiotics only make sense in the limited cases where no old antibiotic works. So pharma finds itself selling into a small market that is hard to sell to, because antibiotic resistance is unpredictable. That's why there's a perennial problem of no new antibiotics. The problem isn't the science, it's the economic system of our system of medicine.
jinpa_zangpo commented on 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate blog.google/products/tran... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Disappointed that Tibetan is still not available. It's not clear how the decision of what languages to add was made.
jinpa_zangpo commented on Ramanujan's lost notebook en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram... · Posted by u/benbreen
Is that not the same logically in every language?
No, in Spanish double negations are not positive statements.
jinpa_zangpo commented on The Link Between Birth Control Pills and Sex Drive nytimes.com/2024/01/23/we... · Posted by u/yeknoda
In the powerlifting community, it was a pretty well known fact. None of my women friends that competed (that weren't on anabolic steroids) would be on hormonal birth control because it would affect their training.
I'm surprised the article mentions it's not known by doctors.
I'm also surprised that male birth control pills don't exist yet. In my mind it is the easiest thing ever, exogenous testosterone basically solves the problem. We know it's fairly reversible because lifters go on that stuff for years and then still manage to have kids.
It's "just" a matter of figuring out the correct dosages and figuring out how long before it becomes effective.
I suspect significantly more men would be willing to take birth control pills if it was making them "jacked".
There are two problems. The first is while testosterone reduces fertility, it does not reduce it sufficiently without another steroid like progestin. The second is that testosterone must be injected or reliable birth control and self-injection is a problem for many men.
Why?
Among other errors they overestimated the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine, said it stopped transmission when it didn't, didn't consider measures to mitigate the risk of myocarditis in young people, and claimed contracting Covid didn't provide immunity equivalent to vaccination.
About Artanis itself... It looks really cool! Scheme is such a nice language to code and hack with; but, how safe would it be to expose it directly?
I see they are dogfooding on the Guix packages website, so... I'm guessing it's pretty well tested.
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees,
—Those dying generations—at their song