While I thank OpenAI for providing the wake up call that humanity needed, overall, their downfall is a good thing for humanity. We don't need a company that is as brazen as open AI about security leading the pack. Further, I suspect, larger player AIs already are and have always been ahead, but it just doesn't seem so because they put security and reputation ahead of the capabilities of a public releases.

Being able to breast feed and infant is a superpower that men do not have. The difference between being able to instantaneously react to your child's cry for hunger and having abandon the child for 5 minutes while you heat a bottle is immense.

I haven't had a chance to review the primary source, but the summary seems to indicate it's just a "me too" on Jeremy England's work that was covered on Slashdot back in 2014: https://science.slashdot.org/s...

It seems you could award 5 undergrad teams $20,000 each and probably come up with a coffeepot to invent a coffeepot that won't 'suddenly flying about cabins and breaking in the cockpit while full of hot liquid' and could be 'spun up' for only $300 while still have a lot of $ left over for quality coffee.

This idea will just incentives people to not social distance and increase greenhouse gasses. The correct thing to do is to tax companies for each worker they have in harms way. No wonder they gave Trump a second loan for 90M while he was suing them for collecting on the first.

No - it's actually 2 adblockers.... Also, you forgot: "Adblocking extensions with more than 300,000 active users have been surreptitiously uploading user browsing data and tampering with users' social media accounts thanks to malware...." Really dumb phrasing of both the title and this.

Just make each list an app that the blocker can use as a dependency. The lists can get updates thought he app store, so no data need be sent out.

I have 9 as well, and figured I'd pressure steam them if it turned out that virus lived for weeks on surfaces. The CDC says the virus can only live on a pours surface (like a mask) for a few hours, and non-porous surface for a few days, Thus if you are rotating a masks every 9 days, that should be plenty, without any need to clean them. Most HEPA filters become better at filtering over time as their pour sizes gets smaller (before they 'plug up'), I have a hunch as long as the virus isn't still alive on the surface of your mask this should be true for the mask too. However, there may be a change in static charges on the surface of the mask as it dirties that could potentially make it less efficient as it dirties.

$200,000 a paper seems about par for the course. somewhere from 20-40% of this is getting chewed up just by the real estate and general operating costs of running a lab. If you are running very thin another 20% is the cost of equipment and reagents (but it's likely to be A LOT more), leaving very little for actual salaries.

Similarly, intermittent funding only drives up costs as you now have to waist time on paying someone to hiring back and training skilled lab workers, rebuy all the reagents that expired while the lab was shuttered. Plus researchers now have to budget in extra 'runway' money to use for grant writing purposes incase their funding gets unexpectant cut.

I can't agree with this more. The Clinton tweet is dooshbaggery. They should keep the focus on actual needs: test kits, masks, ventilators, and scientific literacy or STFU.

While I wish they weren't, all of these are partisan issues

#1 is a partisan issue. If you can't test, you can't have higher #s

#2 is partisan because cities need it more than rural areas and we know which way cities vote

#3 is partisan because some neo-idiots make their party about 'open borders' and the other assholes care more about the 'stock market' than people.

#4 is partisan because one party doesn't believe in Science

1 out of 4 is a problem with Democrats are handling things
4 out 4 is a problem with Republicans

Neither can be trusted to do what is right. However, shame seems to be the only way to produce some action. Since most of the stupidity is happening from the party in charge this is going to continue to look politically divisive until corrective actions are taken.

This is exactly why I don't do science any more.

These aren't "computer simulations", it's simile statistical math one can do without a computer...

The title of the article is "what will happen if the US does nothing?" thus we should only be comparing US numbers. Bringing in WHO numbers is a mistake at best, or maliciously misleading at worst.

NO! both flyingfsk and saloomy fail at math, and thus both their points are invald.

Claiming that the mortally rate because the majority of people are getting sick is an "invalid point" because not only did saloomy not provide any evidence - he's flat wrong only 31% of those catching it are 60+.

Similarly, 1/2 a million might die across the world from the flu every year is nothing compared to what this virus can do. It doesn't take a math degree to calculate that at an 80% infection rate and 1% Mortality rate (provided the hospitals aren't overwhelmed - otherwise it goes up to somewhere between 6-12 %) is WAY worse. 7.7 Billion * 80% = 6.16 billion infected. 6.16 * 1% = 616 million deaths.

This isn't a game where everyone's "opinion" is correct.