Autonomous self driving cars could be a kind of public transport network. Bonus points if the cars can hover or fly.

Send them a link to this wired article. It references some studies, but is one of the few apolitical, unbiased articles I've seen that doesn't try to rewrite history to make some political point.

In this case the authorities seriously fucked up and some pro-authority types are trying to whitewash it as the natural process of science, but that is not what it was. It was pure politics. Their anti-mask positions had zero basis in science.

There is really only one kind of nerd. Just like there is really only one kind of intelligence and it isn't "emotional intelligence". The other categories of people you mention are not nerds. Although I can never tell if your posts are sarcasm.

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May I see the evidence you have that a vaccine will only work on one strain? Because it sounds like you have some.

One of those "challenges" may even be death.

And it is important to remember that people die from heart damage. Even if it does not kill you immediately it may do so within 5 years. It seems inescapable that there is going to be a massive wave of deaths caused by various heart problems eventually particularly in those over the age of 50. If we are able to connect these deaths to earlier covid infections we may find the disease has a higher fatality rate than MERS or is even comparable to the fictional virus in Contagion. Because of the delay we may just be blissfully unaware of how scary the virus is.

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MCAS crashed the planes, but all they had to do to save themselves was lower the slats and keep them lowered to disable MCAS.

Or they could probably have fought against the MCAS nose downs with electric trim nose ups as the Lion Air pilot managed to do for a while and then cutoff the auto trim switches during level flight and neutral trim before MCAS engaged again. Or they may have been able to throttle down the engine and slow down and do some roller coastering to make the manual trim wheels usable. Or they may have been able to just turn off the trim switches early enough like the Lion Air guest pilot did the night before the crash.

The Lion Air pilot fucked up by not turning off the trim switches after correcting MCAS with the electric trim. It is a mystery why he seemed to give up on his fight against the mystery trim adjustments. What he was doing was working, but then he just stopped and the Murder Crash Assistance System aimed the plane almost straight down probably with a sense of great satisfaction. The Ethiopian pilot basically went straight for the textbook runaway trim procedure which does not factor in the problem of airspeed pressure on the screw making the manual wheels immovable. If they had been going slower it may have worked. By the time he went back to trying to get back to fighting MCAS with electric trim it was too little too late.

Another thing that would probably have saved them was an auto trim disable switch like the 737 NG has. In both cases they probably would have just turned off the auto trim and used the electric trim buttons to retrim. In the case of the Ethiopian pilots there is some evidence they knew about the Lion Air crash and maybe even the air worthiness directive that followed it and that directive actually mentions using the auto trim switch first to get neutral trim before doing the runaway trim procedure. Maybe there were language or translation issues or he did not read the whole thing.

That is a massive undertaking and there are already two projects trying to save Firefox from being just a slightly different version of Chrome. Unfortunately it is a really big job and web sites tend to have problems sometimes with low market share browsers like Waterfox and soon Firefox itself because no one bothers to test their site with browsers that almost no one actually uses.

And when they install Firefox instead of Chrome how will they know they are using it? Will they have to go to Help -> About or maybe they will have to go to about:config.isthischrome.

If both programs had the same launcher icon they would never be able to distinguish between them except that Firefox will probably crash more often because it now has such a tiny marketshare that web developers may not even test with it anymore.

Firefox used to have a niche: the customizable browser that let you change its look and had the largest selection of useful extensions and was the only browser with multirow tabs.

Some of the reasons Mozilla had for killing all of that and just cloning Chrome from Google who pays their bills and no doubt highly approved of the suicidal death spiral make sense, but some people also have excellent reasons for suicide. Those good reasons don't make them any less dead after they put a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger. Mozilla succeeded in creating a browser that only Chrome fans would want, but they already had a browser. Maybe an infinitesimal market share was exactly what Mozilla wanted all along.

No one was a bigger fan of Firefox than me, but even I am typing this into a Chrome browser window for various reasons. I hate Chrome, but Firefox is so similar to Chrome now that it is barely worth the trouble to install since I need Chrome anyway.

Good examples because that is way beyond what I could afford. That is close to my monthly income. Almost no one in the country where I live could afford those vaccines. Given the global emergency and massive demand I would expect to see at least double those prices if not more.

I don't have health insurance. I live on the other side of the world from the US. I could afford $30 I suppose, but I think it is going to cost a lot more than that. This has a higher value than a mere flu vaccine that only works about 50% of the time anyway. I wouldn't expect them to set a similar price, but I guess we will see what sort of price they set. If it's $999 per dose I would not be too terribly surprised. Especially since most Americans have health insurance. So for the employed it is usually only the insurance companies that would have to pay that price directly.

Do you have a citation for this 'plenty of data'?

I suspect the Chinese or Russian vaccines will be the only ones I could have any chance of being able to afford. Pity since they will probably turn one into something like a giant bioluminescent land-squid with a life span of only 1 year.