I'm surprised it's that low.

The US is almost unique in requiring non-resident citizens to pay income tax on their earnings (above a threshold of about $110,000). There are certain other provisions for non-residents to avoid double taxation, but it all gets pretty complex and you can understand why some wealthy Americans who can take out citizenship in their country of residence decide that it's easier to just renounce their US citizenship.

Yes, there has been structural racism and sexism in software development, to the detriment of everyone.

Addressing the structural discrimination in the profession will, amongst other positive outcomes, result in better software. None of this makes software development anything other than "hard".

We've been developing software for 70+ years and the historical record shows that it is, indeed, hard to do well.

For what it's worth, my own conjecture is that it's partly due to something akin to the Peter Principle: software requirements (functional and non-functional) converge to a level of difficulty such that developers are marginally capable of delivering them.

and where I live, a Prius usually has a worse mileage, thus hybrids are basically non-existent

Compared to what?

I have a Camry Hybrid. While it's true that the mileage gains are biggest in stop-start city driving, the hybrid will beat the conventional Camry on a freeway cruise as well because the engine is tuned for maximum economy and can use the electric motor to compensate for the loss of (conventional) power.

Not true. While representative statistics are kinda hard to find, from the research I've seen on the matter women are victims of this type of fraud at least as often as men.

When I need a treatment for warbles, I'll be lining up for ivermectin. Covid-19, not so much.

As far as HCQ goes, my partner works at a medical research institute which actually conducted a HCQ trial (she was not involved in the trial itself). It was very controversial within the institute because the majority of the staff thought it had already been sufficiently debunked, but they went ahead.

Guess what? Just like every other HCQ trial in patients, it didn't work.

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You'd rig it to get a sequence that is less likely to be chosen by other players and that "looks" random, to maximise your payout and minimise the chances of people paying attention.

While I don't know about vaccine development, I do know a little bit about drug discovery, and there is plenty of "dumb", brute-force work going on to finding drugs to treat all sorts of things, including COVID-19.

Thanks to robotics, you don't have to run experiments manually in a single test tube any more. If, say, you want to find a drug that interferes with the action of a a particular protein, you can do that experiment hundreds of thousands of times with libraries of hundreds of thousands of different candidate molecules until you find ones that achieve the effect you want.

I'm sure it takes some of the fun out of drug discovery, but it's also plenty effective.

Nobody really knows whether there is a safe dose of radiation or not, and the question is virtually impossible to answer robustly.

The available data is insufficient to distinguish beyond reasonable doubt whether low levels of radiation have a very small effect on your risk of getting cancer, or zero effect. Distinguishing reliably between "very small effect" and "zero" requires ridiculously large amounts of data. Furthermore, there are a squillion other things that affect your risk of getting cancer.

By contrast, we do know that emissions from cars, trucks, and coal-fired power plants do kill people in huge numbers; from a population health perspective, I'm far more worried about those than I am about the release of this slightly radioactive water.

Greater Tokyo has 40 million people in a more-or-less continuous conurbation. The urban rail network is very good, but it still takes quite a long time to get from one side of the metropolitan area to the other. Car travel is a joke.

As such, an air taxi service that can do 20 km point-to-point journeys in a short time could find a big market.

Depending on the altitude and the weather conditions, the water vapor from aircraft exhaust has significant climate effects above and beyond the CO2 emissions from combustion. This area of climate science is one of the least well-understood, but current estimates suggest that the climate impacts of aviation might easily be double that of burning the same fuels at ground level - and that's for subsonic aircraft flying at ~30,000 feet. This plane will likely fly considerably higher, so the effects might conceivably be worse.

While the US, particularly under a Republican administration, might give this aircraft a pass on that, it's unlikely that other governments will be so forgiving.

The question about reliability is not one that can easily be answered in a sound bite but the short version is that fossil fuel proponents have screamed that grids were about to collapse when renewables made up a fraction of the grid just a little bit bigger than what they currently are. They have been wrong every single time, and will continue to be.

You don't NEED methane to make fertilizer. You can use hydrogen derived from electrolysis - but to make that cost-competitive you need really, really cheap electricity. Guess what you can get from wind and solar power in 2020 and beyond?

That is at least partly true, but it doesn't matter. Even if you put Rand Paul in charge of the NRC, you ain't going to turn the ship around in any relevant timescale. It's over, renewables, backed by gas at least in the short term, won. Existing coal and new nuclear lost.