No, but I do keep my luggage in my shoe.

Language is fun.

Actually, the GP may have worded it in an appallingly insensitive way, but the answer is correct. There is no safe way for cars and pedestrians to be in the road at the same time. The way you fix pedestrian safety is by:

• Requiring all traffic light pedestrian cycles to give pedestrians complete control over the entire intersection (all directions), with no turns, for a period of time (a.k.a. pedestrian scramble intersections).
• Regularly ticketing pedestrians who cross when it isn't their turn.

That's it. If you do this, every single pedestrian death that doesn't involve the car physically leaving the roadway and driving on a sidewalk becomes the pedestrian's fault, because pedestrians can never be in the road when cars are moving, and vice versa.

It is also more efficient for traffic overall on every street that doesn't have a dedicated right turn lane (or left in the U.K.). Instead of pedestrians forcing cars to wait to turn right, which forces the straight traffic to wait behind those cars, reducing the number of cars that get out from dozens to as few as one or two, the cars get their entire traffic cycle to themselves. And because pedestrians are crossing in every direction at once:

• It likely adds up to only a bit more time than the turn blocking chaos for the cycle in one direction, and far less than their impact on both directions combined.
• It means that the car cycles can be shorter, rather than having to extend them to allow pedestrians to cross, which means the overall total cycle time doesn't increase much, if any.
• If pedestrians have to cross both ways, their travel time is reduced (and it is better for cyclists, too, assuming you allow them to carefully use the intersection during this time), albeit with potentially more latency for pedestrians if they are crossing only in one direction.

But it only works if you do it consistently at every intersection in a city and then enforce it consistently by ticketing every pedestrian who crosses against a don't walk sign. Otherwise, you get pedestrians who make a habit of crossing when they shouldn't, and sometimes they get hit by cars. But if you do these things, plus adding some parking garages and eliminating road-side parking, you should be able to cut out about 99% of pedestrian deaths.

Some diseases do. Look at how many Native Americans died from their first exposure to various European diseases. That said, there are something like 160 strains of rhinovirus, so you're always getting different one each time you get sick, with no prior immunity, as far as I know, so for that specific variety, I'm pretty sure you are correct.

For a robust immune response, you'll generally want an attenuated virus, not a dead one. I mean, it doesn't matter much for something like flu, because it mutates so quickly that any immunity approaches zero after two or three years anyway, but for any vaccine that you want to actually last for decades, unless your exposure risk is low (e.g. polio in the western world), a live, weakened infection is probably a better option.

See above. The reason attenuated viruses are so much more effective is because they trigger multiple levels of immune response by infecting cells. Programming cells to create parts of real viruses differs only from attenuated vaccines mainly in that the resulting products do not then go on to infect more cells, and that the mRNA bits are usually time-bombed so that they stop producing those virus parts after a period of time, thus minimizing the rate of actual cell death.

But either way, the continued exposure over a longer duration, coupled with the involvement of cellular stress signals, help trigger both the innate and adaptive immune systems, resulting in a stronger immune response than if you just had bits of unexpected dead virus material floating around in isolation.

That's actually way more true with the dead virus vaccines you think are so great. For a classic example, the flu vaccine that caused a detectable uptick in narcolepsy (an autoimmune condition) in Europe, called Pandemrix, was an inactivated, adjuvanted vaccine. The adjuvant somehow triggered autoimmunity in some people. And the adjuvant was needed precisely because without that, the inactivated vaccine did not produce an adequate immune response.

IMO, the odds of an mRNA vaccine causing an autoimmune response are likely orders of magnitude less than an adjuvanted, attenuated vaccine doing so, because an adjuvant causes the immune system to pay more attention to whatever is nearby, including your own cells.

Not all of them. Some of them are independent research scientists, some of them immunologists working in the public sector or academia, etc. The percentage of professionals in this area who work for the vaccine companies is tiny compared with the percentage of independent researchers studying viruses and vaccines. That said, I'd trust even the research teams at the vaccine companies over some random person on YouTube or other Internet sites who shows no actual sign of understanding immunology, but bulls**ts just well enough people to convince a lot of other people who also don't understand it. And sadly, I've seen so much of that level of noise that I have a standing "No, I won't watch your YouTube video about medical subjects; if it were legitimate, it would have been published in a properly peer-reviewed journal" policy at this point. :-)

I mean sure, the folks without clean water might be less susceptible, but only because they're the ones still left who didn't die from it the first time.

Or Barbra Streisand's 1969 acceptance speech.

Every digital cinema camera I've ever heard of has XLR inputs. So if you don't mind being tethered to the boom operator, you don't necessarily even need a field recorder. It all depends on what you're shooting and where and how.

But yeah, decent mics are cheap enough now that even low-end DSLRs have at least survivable mono audio.

Not necessarily. Canvassing can also bring broader attention to something. For example, I'm hearing about this, and my politics don't align with his, but now I'm curious what the issue is about, and might actually pay attention to it.

At some point, it stops being a mob and starts being a vote. And while it makes sense to not allow people to drag random folks onto the platform just to vote your way, it doesn't make sense to limit voting on an important issue to the 0.1% of users who pay close enough attention to notice. So I can see both sides on this one.

Maybe the right thing to do is to require a certain level of activity to earn the right to vote, then dump the canvassing rules. That way, any canvassing would only serve to increase turnout, rather than truly padding the ballot box.

Doesn't even need time code. FCP lines up the files by matching the audio, mostly, IIRC. Also AFAIK, digital cinematography is pretty much the norm at this point, so film likely doesn't factor in most of the time.

Final Cut Pro can already basically do that, and has been able to do that for several years. Just create a multicam workflow and tell it to synchronize by audio. Not sure how well it works if you're dealing with hundreds of short takes though; I've only used it to line up hour-long continuous shots.

Then again, as cheap as storage is, I'm not sure why anybody actually stops the cameras and audio recorders anyway. If you want to have a private conversation, you can always step off the set and do it in a hallway or whatever.

The iPhone 6s (released in 2015) got a security update last month. So that's almost 11 years and counting.

Define "enough". Even 1 percent of the federal budget would be 74 *billion* dollars. The budget shortfall for road maintenance in the U.S. is about 86 billion, so even if it is only 1%, that money would be enough to almost completely fix a major problem that affects us all.

There are no large sources of waste, unless you count "money spend for things we don't agree with". That said, I think you underestimate how much waste results from people doing things that computers could do, but which nobody has spend the money to automate.

It's more than just the right of first sale; with software that is licensed via server-side communication, nothing prevents the company from terminating your authorization for any reason, and you have basically no recourse at that point, other than to sue.

There's a lot wrong with software in the modern era.