"A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates", I know I'm probably looking at marketing hype to generate investment. Give me a white paper, please, with some real data.

police cars?

Public servants, public monies, public data.

Didn't they have an RSS that they killed? And didn't the Circle in that other service--the FB competitor service, what was it called?--give me a better way to build my own echo chamber? There was value in that.

I'm getting tired of algorithms hiding shit and foisting what others think I need to see on me.

Why are we even paying attention to this? Is there some danger to society that the FE movement presents that isn't evident to me? Like "we can't just ignore this or it will get out of control and we be plunged into an apocalypse" scenario? Genuine question: what am I missing?

I mean, i get that willful ignorance can lead to very horrible things in the world (e.g., the anti-vax movement) and so I get trying to engage and educate on a topic like that. But why on (round) Earth do we pay any attention at all to Flat-Earthers? Why engage? How is this impacting the rest of society in any significant way? It honestly feels like they are mostly trolling for attention and consequently diverting attention from more important matters. That is to say, it seems that if there is a risk with FE-ers, it is from paying attention to them rather than ignoring them.

Here's a medical record:
Name: XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
Age: 32
Sex: M
Disease: Stage 4 lung cancer

That did not take 15 years to XXX the name.

Very much this. One of the less foreseen issues is with the leading edge erosion that means efficiency begins declining with use, and the rate of decline increases with time leading to a mandatory stop for repair/replacement or risk catastrophic failure.

"Erosion of the leading edge of wind turbine blades by droplet impingement wear, reduces blade aerodynamic efficiency and power output. Eventually, it compromises the integrity of blade surfaces. Elastomeric coatings are currently used for erosion resistance, yet the life of such coatings cannot be predicted accurately." https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

Allow me to introduce you to the phrase "works with Alexa", already featured in TVs and A/V receivers.

showed that a large percentage of corporate moves resulted in a location that was closer to the CEO's house. I recall this at the time (approx year 2002) because the small company I worked for had moved twice in 4 years, and each move was closer to the CEO's house. Could not find a reference, unfortunately.

When Apple's products are specifically designed to work less optimally after 2 years, when the products are purposely designed to not be fixable, when the company seeks to have laws implemented that would prohibit third party repairs, when the digital data is designed to not be transferable to other platforms, then "coercive business transaction" is an apt description.

Of course, Apple is not the only company trying to maximize this business model.

were also talented artists and/or musicians. Their hobbies have included painting, clay sculpture, and playing in orchestra or other bands. The best artists I have known, were "only" artists, but that wasn't a limitation of their abilities, but rather a limitation of their education or of the brainwashing they received about how they lacked the "smarts" to be anything but an artist.

If you are reading this and are pre-college, and have talents in the arts, and believe (or are being told) you are somehow lacking the smarts to pursue engineering, then I encourage you to reconsider. The people telling you this are probably HS counselors or others that are not engineers. They do not know engineering except by proxy of the students they've encouraged in that direction. Their failure isn't in the students that pursued engineering and washed out. Their failure was in the students they encouraged to do pursue liberal arts instead, that could have been great engineers.

One of the very best engineers I've ever worked with was--when she was in high school--a mostly C's student that drew horses in class instead of taking notes and did not know what she wanted to pursue if she went to college. Her father suggested she pursue mechanical engineering and lacking any other particular ambition, did just that. She discovered college classes weren't as crappy as in HS and she did her homework, got good grades, graduated and got a job at NASA designing cool shit.

She regularly cites her creative talents as giving her an edge in her design work. When she was just staring out and needed to think through a mechanism design, she made paper crafted models with tape and paperclips to gain understanding and validate her ideas, and later discovered this wasn't an uncommon practice among engineers at NASA.

I know all this because I talked with her about education paths when we were both mentoring a HS robotics club. She was incensed at the teacher running the club that would direct the "artsy" kids to create the posters and design the t-shirts for the club, rather than have them focus on the robotics. The teacher was setting those kids "artsy" kids expectations low and perpetuating the stereotyping that participating in a robotics club could have overcome.

Liberal arts are important to society and artists are certainly important to society, but being an artist and making a living are, except for a rare few, not the same activity. Whatever spark of creativity and originality that exists inside you is valuable and usable in engineering.

Wanting to highlight your point. If the conditions that led to the crash can reliably crash the all auto-piloted Teslas, then the statistic that matters is how likely is that condition going to occur for all Teslas on the road. Ok, make an estimate and take the gamble. But more broadly, we can't know the frequency or likelihood of all the conditions that could screw up autopilot ahead of time. Those circumstances have to be "discovered".

A data point I want have: how often do auto-pilot users become negligent and ignore the warnings to re-take control? It seems that ignoring the warnings should fall under some flavor of existing laws, re: "reckless disregard for safety".

On the whole, however, I'd rather navigate roads filled with teenagers, elderly, sleepy, and drug-impaired drivers all using auto-piloted Teslas, than the current alternative.

Nipple

Just stop. Your basic facts about HFCS makeup and metabolism are wrong and therefore I assume the rest of what you are saying is shilling.

Unlike what you said, HFCS has four common versions with different quantities of fructose: HFCS-42 has 42% fructose. There is also, HFCS-55, HFCS-65, and HFCS-90, containing 90% fructose. Soft drinks typically use HFCS-55 or HFCS-65, but of course there's nothing on the labels to indicate which version of HFCS is being used.

Also, unlike what you said, fructose is not metabolized identically. Unlike glucose, fructose is metabolized nearly entirely in the liver, which is where the triglycerides are coming from (re: the article).

Disappointed that whoever modded you up didn't at least check Wikipedia first.

Millions of adherents of astrology, not to mention religious zealots would applaud your explanation. You also give legitimacy to polls conducted by Fox News and every other agenda-driven group seeking to influence opinion through the bandwagon effect.

I choose to believe that science is not a democracy.

the science on AGW was wrong, because they were in the minority. Now, I guess, 15,000 scientists are presumably the majority, so AGW must be right? Is that how science works?