Assuming that the measles vaccine works like the Covid vaccine or others, even if it doesn't entirely prevent someone from contracting measles, the immune boost from the vaccine typically ensures that the disease experience is much milder than it would've been otherwise

Iâ(TM)m very grateful for this explanation. Iâ(TM)m one of those Juicebox users who has a 100amp panel and a concern about overload, so I adjusted the charge level down. Now Iâ(TM)m unsure that my setting will be preserved come next week or if Iâ(TM)ll ever be able to change it if I get an electrical upgrade.

Have you tried Bluetooth recently? I'm on calls about half the day for work and AirPods have been a savior. They have pretty minimal lag and good sound quality (at least as good as the folks using headphones without a mic or just their laptop's built in one). Maybe you had a bad experience, but Bluetooth has come a long way.

The article wraps up with a suggestion that we need to invest more in classroom education so there's not inequity between students who can and can't afford a graphing calculator. I'd suggest we need more competition in the graphic calculator space. No way in hell this should still cost $100.

Good speeds and good coverage and less costly than being on AT&T

Of the rapacious cable network no longer allowing me to watch a game broadcast free over the air without a subscription. First I had to watch in SD only, then I had to pay for the HD box, and always with a monthly subscription cost that kept rising. And then to get the stream, I have to login with my cable account (that I don't want, because it's expensive).

Many utilities offer discounted charging rates for off-peak times. This rate of 6.7 per kilowatt-hour, from Dakota Electric in MN, is actually one of the highest. https://www.dakotaelectric.com... So your gas fuel costs about 7 times more per mile, not 3.7. Compare that over a 5 or 10 year vehicle life and it's thousands of dollars.

Also, there are likely maintenance savings. Check out the schedule maintenance booklets from Nissan for the Versa compared to the Leaf. There's no oil to change, oil filters, air filters, spark plugs. https://owners.nissanusa.com/c... https://owners.nissanusa.com/c...

It's true that an EV needs a new battery eventually but at 12,000 miles per year, an EV battery is expected to still have 70% of its original capacity. Even if you need a new battery in 10 years, prices are coming down so quickly that it's likely to be closer to $3000 than the original $10,000. Far less than the fuel cost savings in that time period.

One major reason the 2000-era movie sucked was that D&D is a universe to tell stories in, not itself a compelling story. As others have mentioned, there are many fantasy books whose characters have been in the D&D universe that make good stories, but a "D&D movie" doesn't even make sense, unless you consider the "summoner geeks" short animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... That's what a D&D movie means to me.

And it's as good a story of how sexism plays out in real life as anything, so the comments here are just appalling. The sexism denialism on Slashdot rivals climate denialism in the Republican Party. You don't have to be sexist toward women to contribute toward the problem, just like you don't have to love fossil fuels to contribute to climate change, folks. But if you don't act deliberately, you're just part of the problem. I'll grant you this, it's not necessarily JUST sexism that keeps women out of STEM, but if you think it doesn't play a role, you're better off staying in mama's basement.

Yes, believe it or not, black people can be racist, too. It's a socially pervasive attitude that affects nearly everyone. Look at the Freakonomics analysis of our attitude toward black sounding names, for example. It's convenient to dismiss the notion because of the mistaken belief that "black people wouldn't be racist to themselves," but there's an awful lot of data to suggest otherwise.

It does. A lot more. Which is why the Audubon Society (bird folks) feel that fighting climate change and coal power is a bigger deal than fighting wind. http://policy.audubon.org/wind...

Baseload is concept of a 20th century grid run by monopoly utilities with a vested financial interest in operating certain inflexible power plants at maximum output. If I have a paid-off coal or nuclear power plant, of course I want it to run at max output 24/7! And because I'm the monopoly utility (true in 30 U.S. states), I get to prioritize output from my power plant. Winner winner chicken dinner!

In truth, our power system already has a helluva lot of capacity built to accommodate variability from energy USERS (supply = demand at all times or system crashes), and it can also be used to manage variability from energy PRODUCERS, like wind. It's not an extra cost, it's built in until the level of variability far exceeds current situations (except in isolated geographic areas of the grid, or island power networks).

In the long run, we will need a power system with more flexible sources of generation or storage to manage higher levels of variability associated with wind and solar power. But for now, on most power grids? Not even close.

And guess what, fossil fuels aren't without variability, either? What if you can't get a coal train to a coal power plant? http://www.marketplace.org/top...

Yes. They are publicly-sanctioned monopolies with regulated profits. This is Slashdot, so I don't think I need to say more.

The linked article may not follow your standard of cheapest, but this does. Wind is cheapest, with external costs or not: http://www.lazard.com/PDF/Leve...