Why is this modded "Troll?" The comment is entirely correct. Here in Pittsburgh our largest healthcare provider, UPMC, developed their own Covid test internally in early March, but they were initially not allowed to use it (not allowed to report the results to patients) because the FDA had not approved it. The FDA did finally do this, and faster than their usual process, but precious days (4+) were lost, not due to science, but to regulations. (The FDA did nothing to assess the sensitivity and specificity of their test when they did finally allow it.) This information comes from a doctor who is fairly senior at UPMC.

This Supreme Court ruling is bad news for Burning Man: the Bureau of land management has said that they may hire private security firms to do warrantless searches on persons and vehicles at all entry points to the event. If the security companies find contraband, they will be directed to report those to police . I have done some research, and there seems to be no Supreme Court rulings that exactly apply to this, until now. I was able to findrulings from two state Supreme Courts, one in Hawaii and one in Illinois, But neither exactly matched what BLM has threatened to do. Although this Supreme Court ruling deals with the First Amendment, and burning man's situation deals with the fourth amendment, the cases are virtually identical.

What about monsters that occasionally drop a rare item? What if those monsters occur as part of paid downloadable content? What if the monster is not that hard to kill?

So they've charged them with various crimes, and a jury may or may not convict them. But the trial hasn't happened yet - what right does the government have to take down their website and business just in case they get a conviction? Isn't the whole point of "innocent until proven guilty" that you get your day in court before any punishment happens?

I take this to mean that Google will release their own cryptocurrency in about 6 months.

I'd like a language that is almost purely functional. Think about how much of programming is spent designing data structures for efficient lookup of intermediate results. If computers were infinitely fast, you would just compute everything from scratch based on the original input.

For a graphics engine, this would mean taking the art as the artists originally created it and doing all the processing needed to display it, every frame.

For a web browser, you would re-render starting with the HTML every frame, simply discarding what isn't in the window.

AI would become easier: For a given problem, iterate through all topologies of neural network up to some constant size, train each one, and see which is the smallest that produces the 100% correct results on the training data set. That's likely to be the correct generalization of the problem.

How do you pronounce it? "OL-tuh-BAH?" "AL-TAB-uh?"

...then as a good atheist-Jew, I will certainly register.

If the summary is correct, to make a single barrel of oil you must process 34B*365/30M=413,666 gallons of sewage? Hard to imagine this being remotely cost effective.

Most of the people in Austin are in favor of Uber and Lyft operating there, right? So I would think that it would be extremely difficult to convict anyone of these "crimes" in a jury trial. Even if the trial were held in a municipal court in Texas, that requires 6 people to all give a "guilty" verdict; if less than half agree with the law then that's less than 1/64 chance of conviction. (And if held in a district court, less than 1/4096 chance of conviction!)

Correct, there's a problem with the system. This system fixes it by charging non-refundable royalties when placing an order, and by awarding those royalties to traders that do leave market orders in place until they execute.

A 2x2 board has more than 3^4 possible games, not legal positions. The same legal position may occur in multiple games.

For a felony he is guaranteed the right to a jury trial, and the flyer itself should be perfectly admissible evidence!

The big innovation here is adding wood pulp to an already zero-calorie food?? Konjac ("Devil's Tongue Yam") flour has zero calories and noodles made from it already taste good. You can find them in any asian market sold as "Shirataki Noodles" or in a solid block form called Konnyaku. They are traditionally part of Sukiyaki, and are available online from konjacfoods.com and miraclenoodle.com.

I think I would intentionally pee on a wall (at an angle of course) just to see how well this stuff works.