It's likely intended for military purposes (or more precisely, an attempt to get funding to build them for military purposes).

Relative to Trump, yes 1000% absolutely. Inarguable.

We don't really know. I would bet that you are correct, and even give odds, but not long odds. Anything over 10:1 and I'd feel nervous.

IIUC, an em dash is a dash as wide as a capital "M".

I'll go with NHTSA and NASA over the "Barr Group" ambulance chasers, thank you. Barr found that it's possible if you get like a cosmic ray to flip just the right bit you could stick the throttle on (but still not make it overpower the brakes). NHTSA and NASA investigated not just the software but the actual cases. In not a single actual case that they investigated did they find that it wasn't well explained by either stuck pedals or pedal misapplication (mainly the latter).

On existing homes I get the pitch but coax on new construction is really unbelievable penny pinching in 2025. Shameful really.

Oh hi, I remember chatting with you earlier :) Sorry to hear about your back. If you're ever planning on visiting Iceland, drop me a line, I can make recommendations. :)

There's some fascinating new work on "inverse-vaccines". In the same way that antigens can be flagged as "foreign", they can also be flagged as "non-foreign" by attaching N-acetylgalactosamine (pGal) to them. The liver recognizes that tag and uses it to suppress immune activation against that antigen.

That's not the goal of a vaccine against a dormant virus (destroying B-cells), it's about developing a more capable immune reaction against the virus itself. See for example the shingles vaccine (targets dormant VZV, aka shingles / chickenpox). With a strong immune recognition of the virus, as soon as it tries to reactivate, it's immediately targeted, preventing it from becoming problematic.

Dormant viruses use a combination of (A) techniques to suppress immune recognition of them, and (B) low / no reproduction until your body's immune recognition of them has weakened. Vaccines help deal with both issues.

(BTW, if you're getting up there in age and haven't gotten your shingles vaccine, do so. It's one of the "rougher" vaccines, IMHO (both on my initial and followup doses I had "flu symptoms" for a day, when I normally have no reaction at all to vaccines), but that's *way* better than getting shingles)

The funny thing is that as soon as I saw "[condition] may be linked to a common virus" I thought, "It's Epstein-Barr, isn't it?"

Seems it causes bloody everything under the sun :P

As soon as there's even a clinical trial I can sign up for to get vaccinated against it, I'm getting it. I had mono in my late teens, so I can be expected to have dormant Epstein-Barr in me. A horrible autoimmune condition that my mother has (which leads to among other things her skin regularly feeling like it's on fire) seems to be linked to Epstein-Barr reactivation.

We don't have a second USA or planet Earth to run controls on, economics is fuzzy at best and central banks really only have a couple of tools to work with. Incompetence or not is whats up to debate, not the statement "economists say inflation good".

I'm not here to argue about deflation versus inflation, personally I can see both ends of the argument, like is a couple points of deflation in a quarter the worst thing? I can't say but your statement was not what economists say or represent so if you're going to argue with their methods you should represent them accurately or it makes it feel like we shouldn't take your argument seriously.

Exactly, they probably are because local cable monopolies demand it but how silly if new home constructions are still having coax instead of fiber connected to them.

Economists don't say this, what they say is a small amount of predictable inflation is better than deflation. That's pretty much every central bank has one of it's mission statements to maintain inflation as 1-2% YoY. They target a low number so if things swing back it doesn't go negative.

Now whether this is correct or good policy, that you can debate, but they don't just take the position of "inflation is good"

To what end? To just exist? As a financial security product? As a transaction system? All coins stable or not seem to claim to want to be all of those.

If a stablecoin want's to exist as just an open alternative to Visa/MC then great, focus on that and eschew the other parts, develop a real ecosystem. Otherwise it all feels like a scam, at least to me. The fact there are dozens of stablecoins makes me feel as they are all smuggling alternative motives (make the coin minters $$$)

Yup, public perception around your TV having a camera is pretty negative.

Also the cynic in me thinks they have microphones and can use audio processing systems to sus out details about how many people are in the room and all that data they want anyways.