Comment Re:China virtually eliminated homicide (Score 1) 62
4.0 homicides per 100,000 people is the lowest rate since 1900 according to FBI data. That's a 44% decrease since 2021.
Submission + - Jellyfish knock out French nuclear plant (latimes.com)
Bruce66423 writes: 'A “massive influx” of jellyfish has forced Electricite de France to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant and reduce output at a fourth, curbing power supply at a time when extremely hot weather is boosting demand. That’s taken some 3.2 gigawatts of capacity offline.
'Last year, it faced similar problems when swarms of jellyfish clogged up filter drums.'
The SF plot line question is: what did it do to upset the jellyfish? The more prosaic one is to ask why they didn't do something about the jellyfish after last year's problem?
'Last year, it faced similar problems when swarms of jellyfish clogged up filter drums.'
The SF plot line question is: what did it do to upset the jellyfish? The more prosaic one is to ask why they didn't do something about the jellyfish after last year's problem?
Submission + - A $400,000 payout after Maduro's capture
An anonymous reader writes: A $400,000 payout after Maduro's capture put prediction markets in the spotlight. Here's how they work
“The bulk of the trader's bids on the platform Polymarket were made mere hours before President Donald Trump announced the surprise nighttime raid that led to Maduro's capture, fueling online suspicions of potential insider trading because of the timing of the wagers and the trader's narrow activity on the platform. Others argued that the risk of getting caught was too big, and that previous speculation about Maduro's future could have led to such transactions.”
“The bulk of the trader's bids on the platform Polymarket were made mere hours before President Donald Trump announced the surprise nighttime raid that led to Maduro's capture, fueling online suspicions of potential insider trading because of the timing of the wagers and the trader's narrow activity on the platform. Others argued that the risk of getting caught was too big, and that previous speculation about Maduro's future could have led to such transactions.”
Submission + - The Eastern District of Texas
Mirnotoriety writes: The Eastern District of Texas, the patent trolling capitol of the world.
Why East Texas is ground zero for settling patent cases
Why East Texas is ground zero for settling patent cases
Comment Re:We sort-of had a computer room (Score 1) 192
In 1974 my high school had an ASR33 that was connected to a timeshare line to a PDP-11. We shared this line with another school with the changeover at noon. There were no formal classes, but there were a small group of us that used it to explore programming.
Comment Re: Surely the law can handle this (Score 1) 462
It's simply untrue that "when the 2nd amendment was written only single shot muzzle loading pistols & rifles existed".
This article by David Kopel explores the firearms technologies available at the time:
"Firearms technology and the original meaning of the Second Amendment"
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Comment Re:Surely the law can handle this (Score 1) 462
At the time the Second Amendment was written, it was not unusual for someone to make a firearm at home. About the only difference here is that technology has made it somewhat easier to make a firearm at home.
Comment Re:20c heat is (Score 1) 66
The video the article summarizes gives more details. It's a water-source heat pump. Water at 20 C is an excellent source for a heat pump.
Comment 2.8 tonnes s/b 2.8m tonnes (Score 1) 151
Translated to American English = 2.8 million metric tons
Comment Re:Stupid in a few ways (Score 1) 228
Grocery Store? No masks. Rarely see anyone wearing a mask.
Doctor's office? No masks.
Dentist's office? No masks.
Endodontist's office? Masks.
YMMV.
Comment Re:be interesting to see how they develop (Score 2) 333
"Third, it is possible that the association between a gun in the home and risk of a violent death may be related to other factors that we were unable to control for in our analysis. For instance, with homicide, the association may be related to certain neighborhood characteristics or the decedent’s previous involvement in other violent or illegal behaviors. Persons living in high-crime neighborhoods or involved in illegal behaviors may acquire a gun for protection. The risk comes not necessarily from the presence of the gun in the house but from these types of environmental factors and exposures."
So if you buy a gun because you live in a dangerous neighborhood, your increased risk of violent death may be due to where you live and not the gun you bought.
Comment Re:Is this the egg Incubation one? (Score 4, Informative) 202
No. This is spike protein grown in yeast cells. Not the same as viruses grown in eggs.
Comment Re:Clive Cussler - Dirk Pitt series (Score 1) 112
My only regret in having read the Dirk Pitt series is that I can't read it again for the first time.
Comment Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo (Score 1) 112
Intended to be a zombie novel with plausible science, the first part is eerily similar to the beginning of the COVID pandemic.
Comment Re:A gift for humanity? (Score 4, Insightful) 56
If we never spend resources on knowledge for knowledge alone, we'll never know what we might have done with that knowledge.
I suppose we could have kept living without any technology. No medicine, no farming, no solid-state electronics, no thermionic valves, no aluminum, steel, iron, copper or other metals, no flint knives. We could still all be huddling in small groups, wondering where our next meal was coming from.
