You know I thought it was copypasta but thought maybe it was rude to say it (if it wasn't). I must be delirious after making my 2am chili. I need to take a refreshing shower with icesoap.
BM planned to leverage its Watson technology as part of the acquisition, foreseeing its use for weather analytics and predictions. The deal, which closed the following January,[27] does not include the Weather Channel itself, which remained owned by the Bain/Blackstone/NBCUniversal consortium, and entered into a long-term licensing agreement with IBM for use of its weather data and "The Weather Channel" name and branding
Only the mobile app. They don't own the tv channel.
IBM planned to leverage its Watson technology as part of the acquisition, foreseeing its use for weather analytics and predictions. The deal, which closed the following January,[27] does not include the Weather Channel itself, which remained owned by the Bain/Blackstone/NBCUniversal consortium, and entered into a long-term licensing agreement with IBM for use of its weather data and "The Weather Channel" name and branding
This seems super cool. Like...too cool. I want to know how this electrogenetic interface works. They talk about using electrically stimulating acupuncture needles to activate human pancreatic cells in the test diabetic mice.
They just zap it? They zap it with a certain frequency or pattern of direct current? How do they make it affect certain genes specifically and not some other gene or something else in the cells?
Guess I'll go to the article linked paper in the journal Nature:
Here we provide the missing link by developing an electrogenetic interface that we call direct current (DC)-actuated regulation technology (DART), which enables electrode-mediated, time- and voltage-dependent transgene expression in human cells using DC from batteries. DART utilizes a DC supply to generate non-toxic levels of reactive oxygen species that act via a biosensor to reversibly fine-tune synthetic promoters.
Ah. Of course, reactive oxygen species to fine-tune synthetic promoters. Obvious, really because I...uh, I totally understand this.
Thanks for the kali yuga thing. I did not know anything about that and the alt-right connection. It's pretty funny that he said we were in the kali yuga and it's the lower left corner, the weak men corner. He said "Hindus predicted it thousands of years ago".
From the wikipedia article on Yuga cycles: "Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE."
What exactly were these good times before 3102 BCE? With each successive yuga decreasing in length, that puts the strong men cycle from 2,163,102 BCE to 867,102 BCE. I know it's religion and all that and not to be taken too seriously but I am certainly on board with everything before that period being hard times.
Thanks for the distinction with conversationalist vs. interviewer. The folks that seem to listen the most seem to be into bros having casual conversation, not an in depth interview while being well versed in the subject's expertise like a Terry Gross or Ezra Klein interview. The show seems like a slightly elevated bros bullshitting session.
Currently, the owners are projected to pay $31 billion in capital and financing costs, Associated Press calculations show.
Japan’s Toshiba Corp., which then owned Westinghouse, paid $3.7 billion to the Vogtle owners to walk away from a guarantee to build the reactors at a fixed price after overruns forced electric industry pioneer Westinghouse into bankruptcy in 2017. Add that to Vogtle’s price and the total nears $35 billion.
Does this seem strange to include the 3.7 billion in here? I guess when you're used to costs meaning what it cost the purchaser of said product or service it seems weird. Like, if I was the group paying for this I might even think to reduce the reported cost by 3.7 billion.
That's copied from the AP news article the post's nbcnews article links to. Similar statement in the nbcnews one, but....they don't let you highlight any text? Lame.
In the 2022 Monitoring the Future survey, the largest group of senior boys, more than two-fifths, claimed no politics at all, answering the liberal-conservative question with “none of the above” or “I don’t know.” Nearly one-fifth identified as moderate. Only 36 percent selected liberal or conservative as an ideology, and only there did the trend emerge.
I'm not as sold on "trending conservative" as I am "undecided on political ideology" +/-60% didn't say liberal or conservative.
I was thinking halfway through, "man I'm good if you just want to weigh it..." but the counting out time lapse did add something.
The one with rice I like was for exponential increases in size. Story: guy goes to the ruler of the kingdom and gets the ruler to agree to give him 1 grain of rice on the first square chess board, doubling every square so then two on the next, four on the next and so on. Runs the kingdom out of rice before he gets to the end of the chess board.
Another good one for the 1000x scaling is time. People seem to be able to grasp time magnitudes better than money. 1 million seconds is 12 days. 1 billion seconds is 32 years. 1 Trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
I was only a child when I learned a simple question to ask myself if something was right. What would the world/country/system be like if everyone did this? Would it make a better or worse system?
But I suppose asking that and caring about the answer would mean you'd have to care about something than yourself.
Insurance has effects on prices that health providers charge. I wonder if that ICU visit would be as expensive if there was no game to play with insurance and they would be guaranteed to be paid. If I (a for profit corp) knew X% of my customers would only end up paying 25% of the price or less, likely after collections and/or insurance paid some, I'd probably jack my price up, too.
They still can't come up with anything other than "it's not safe!" And "you're so irresponsible"?
Previous articles on this say the water is less contaminated than that which comes out of some of China's plants.
This article: IAEA says 10,000 becquerels per liter is the safe limit. Japan's output will be 63 per liter.