When you call the medical line, the people on the phone have a liability to address the problem fully. If you had a stroke, you could have sued Kaiser for not adequately addressing your concern. From her point of view, you could have been on drugs and not stay awake. From your story, it looks like she was really worried about someone whom she knew nothing about. Where I live, they would not have cared if I had a stroke, as long as I got off the phone and left them alone. It's 1am for them too. I hope you can keep that in mind.

The cars traveling in the tunnels are in series, but the loading of passengers into cars are in parallel. So many individual cars is much faster to load and go than a bus. You should really try it. It's a lot better than anything else that exists. Travelators that span several miles can be done, but would be much slower and costly.

I'm really hoping they name the interface into the AI "Clippy." That would be too good. Please Please Please!

Non compete clauses are inherently one sided, and limiting a one sided rule is not a reasonable solution. The employee would have to sue the company, and that situation is very one sided as well.

I fail to see the negative here. If you choose to leave, you have to leave with unvested stock options, and that is your choice. With a non compete clause, you cannot legally take a particular job, no matter how good it seems. It's illegal, and not a choice at all. Countermeasures only happen when you don't ban something, but rather, kinda, sorta, maybe change it in a limited but not sincere sort of way. You proposed example is not a countermeasure at all, but rather, a reasonable suggestion.

I don't think it's supposed to be a slap on the wrist. Not just everyone can break the law -- you need to pay a license fee to break the law. This is the license fee. $9.5 million makes more sense in that context.

Not now, but maybe in the future. in theory, we could have a person enter into a cocoon and emerge a different height. Metamorphosis is seen in nature already, so it is conceivable to partially replicate it.

That is a good question. I also did not see any mention of cost or licensing rules. "Standard" usually has to include the applicable intellectual property, but assumptions should not be made. Also, not all standards are free, so I suspect there is a cost here.

This is an example of the underlying problem. Someone proposed geothermal. Someone else says it's not a good idea, and use nuclear. Then someone else says it's not a good idea and use solar. In the meantime, years go by and we keep using fossil fuels.

I agree that it's like a deed, but it's more like a deed to a piece of art. NFTs usually don't have any functional value (like a house or car) as anyone can copy it and look at it, but they won't own it. For some reason, people like this concept of ownership to non-functional things like art. I personally don't mind hanging up copies of pictures on the walls (I used to have a copy of the mona lisa in my hallway), so I'm not one to judge the value of this idea. So the only value to the NFT is if others find value in it. Putting money in an emotional thing seems too . . . emotional, and not rational.

I thought nfts were a joke for a different reason. I originally thought that an nft was the actual digital image, like you. But I reasoned that if the hardware medium ever went out, you lost out, since copying the image isn't the same thing, as the hash would be different, depending upon what you hash. Links cannot be wiped out since it is all documented in the blockchain, so that is a better system than I thought. It's still a scam. It just makes more sense than an actual file being the asset.

This is a common misconception. Free software refers to freedom, not price. If it is Free software (not free software), and you distribute it, you can charge all you want, but you MUST be willing to distribute the source code. Free software is a subset of Open Source Software. F

That is exactly what double blind means. If the patient and researcher suspects based upon symptoms, that's fine, as long as they are not told the actual truth. It's always surprising how bad and severe of side effects the placebo can have.

We can anecdote this a lot, but like all things, some people may work better in person, and some may work better at home. Until we have better data on this, it is not a good idea to assume that everyone is better in person, and just implement it at work. I think that may be the learning lesson here with Apple. Admittedly, personalizing an optimal work environment for each individual is difficult, and much easier to just make a broad mandate, but that is a different argument, balancing the pros and cons of such a system.

That's not what is happening at all. Polio is coming back because people are not being vaccinated against a particular strain. This is not evolution. It's lack of vaccination. You must be confusing vaccination with antibiotics.

No, that's not what you said at all. You did not mention hygiene, and it would take a lot of mental gymnastics to get that out of your post. In fact, it is overtly clear that you are conflating hygiene and vaccines. Vaccines ARE artificial immunity, and this immunity suppresses disease. It's okay. You learned something today. Please don't try to change to goalpost again.