Well thanks for the compliments.

None of the literature you posted says anything about permanent changes or anything else that contradicts my refutation of your statements. Did you actually read beyond the tags (which include "scary" terms like "gene editing" that your rude brain might have misinterpreted)?

I'm not arguing with crackpots until I respond to a reply from the crackpot, which I probably won't do. Until then, I'm just informing /. readers.

Sorry but that's bullshit.

mRNA is not gene editing nor is it more permanent than any other vaccine. mRNA is the intermediate step used in your cells to make proteins from DNA. In your cells, mRNA is continuously created based on DNA, which is then transferred to the "protein factories" (ribosomes) that create proteins based on the blueprint provided by mRNA. That's what the m in mRNA is about: it is a messenger that takes the blueprint from the DNA to the factory. After a few days, the mRNA will have fallen apart so there's nothing permanent about mRNA, whether created by your own body or in a vaccine factory. That's also why the storage requirements for such vaccines are extremely stringent.

So mRNA vaccines are using your body's protein factories to create proteins that with traditional vaccines would be injected directly, often as part of a different virus or a disabled virus. There's nothing permanent or scary about this. It's just a more directed approach, where traditional vaccines take more of a scrap heap challenge approach.

I believe it's easier with traditional vaccines to deliver many more proteins, making such vaccines potentially more effective against mutations. But it's also much easier to create a new mRNA-vaccine because it it much less trial and error than the scrap heap challenge approach; it's basically selecting a part of the virus DNA that creates proteins that are easily recognizable by your immune system and are essential to the virus and creating mRNA for them.

I expect many more vaccines to be replaced by mRNA vaccines in the near future, including custom individual vaccines for treating cancer, which was what mRNA vaccine manufacturers were focusing on before COVID-19 came around. We're at the beginning of a vaccine revolution and COVID-19 happened to coincide with it.

Oh I won't forget that. But it's irrelevant. Blue Origin is probably going nowhere. Their personnel is going places, though :p

They are working on that with New Glenn but they seem to be suffering from a bad case of strategic understeer in which the marketing department has overtaken the engineering department so as a company they now no longer comply to rocket rule number one: pointy end up, flamey end down :p

That list lists traditional countries. It's a bit nonsensical from a business perspective; why would California not be in it while Germany is? From a business perspective, all countries in the EU are one. When taking that into account, the UK remains at the 5th place but it's economy is a mere 20% of the smallest economy from the top 3: the EU. Outside of the top 3, the only place where Intel has a fab site is in Israel.

Within the EU there may be an additional factor, and that's ASML, which totally dominates the lithography machines industry and probably is Intels' most important supplier; it might make sense for Intel to have a fab site near ASML, which is in the Netherlands.

So does the Netherlands; we have similar financial benefits, the highest charger density of the world and a country fits well within the range of the typical electric car yet still only about 1 in 6 newly sold cars is electric. Also, Dutch people drive about the same distance per capita as Norwegians so that's not it either. Those Norwegians must be doing something else right. Probably being the second most prosperous country in the world is one of those things.

That's hardly an issue anymore. Where I live, about half of all plastic waste is recycled and a large part of what we don't recycle is due to people putting it in the wrong bin or plastics that are not recyclable (e.g. aluminium coated plastics). Waste separation technologies have come a *very* long way thanks to AI waste classification. What also helps a lot is education of the public and regulation of the packaging industry.

I'm not 100% certain, but likely it's only cheaper because we don't charge a reasonable price for the pollution resulting from the production of new plastic. Not factoring in costs carried by the general public makes a lot of things look cheap while they aren't.

The cost of a metric ton of CO2 emissions is typically assumed to be a bit over $50. More thorough research puts that number at $3000, though (link below).

However, in general and with the exception of that, you and your chemistry professor are right: if things are cheaper, they probably are also better for the environment.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

That's a stupid insult. Expect the response you got. All of this is unnecessary, though, if you just said what you meant to say, namely this:

But that's not what you said. Stop insulting autistic people; living with them is not a horror show though in specific cases it can be really hard.

No, fuck you.

Stop making stupid assumptions based on stupid long outdated stereotypes.

Synthesizing enough kerosine to replace all fossil kerosine would require an area about the size of France or Texas to grow the required feedstock. That's ridiculously large but also it's only about 1.5% of the area in use for meat production.

The problem here is setting priorities. A lot of that clever code you're talking about is the direct result of people trying to adhere to other rules such as code duplication being bad, configurability being good, magic values being bad etc. These things are almost without exception solved by making things more generic/abstract/configurable. So instead of Firing an Employee, they're now Deactivating an Agent and instead of creating an employee, they now need to create an AgentFactoryFactory that will yield a PersonFactory that can then be used to instantiate an Employee. But there's no code duplication so it's great!

It's a matter of priorities. And priority number one should be: write code that idiots can understand because we're all idiots.

The problem isn't chip availability, it's car manufacturers failing to upgrade their designs. They want chip makers to keep producing outdated chip designs from decades ago but chip manufacturers aren't interested in keeping factories around to make those.

So instead of switching to hacks, they could just use modern chips...

If their database is large enough and the actual author made more paintings that are still around today, their AI should not only be able to tell who probably didn't paint it but also who probably did.

That's what people like to make you believe but in reality, even if we work at a ridiculous pace, it will take many decades to replace our energy production with solar and wind. Sure, one wind turbine is quick to build but the millions we need will take forever and will require such ridiculous amounts of resources and space that that'll be a major bottleneck. We'll be much too late to prevent runaway warming if we don't accept that we need nuclear and lots of it.