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SQL2219··on New materials could deliver ultrathin solar panels
The new Stanford prototype achieves 5.1 percent power conversion efficiency, but the authors project they could practically reach 27 percent efficiency upon optical and electrical optimizations. That figure would be on par with the best solar panels on the market today, silicon included.
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https://imgur.com/fjYhJCU
SQL2219··on Atmospheric Oxygen Level Project
you could move next door to Bezos, and tap into his.
SQL2219··on The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low
I am just very surprised by the theme of the article. How is it that this author did not know this basic fact. I saw a video of the President speak about 2 weeks ago, and he said that if you're vaccinated you can't catch the virus. How is it that the President is saying this, when it is clearly not true. No one calls him out on it, not even Fox News.
SQL2219··on The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low
This has been common knowledge for at least six months, I am surprised that this author from the Scientific American did not know this. I guess if you're only reading White House press releases, this is what happens.
SQL2219··on Germany Electricity Prices Hit Record €431 per MWh
how do European data centers make sense in this scenario?
SQL2219··on How to survive If your colleague is a high performer?
no one but you is an expert in your domain in your particular context. close tickets like a madman, document everything.
SQL2219··on Check your Coinbase account, my balance is 600M
coinbase finally posted a note:

Display Issue - Non-tradable Assets Some non-tradable assets on Coinbase.com may display inflated values - this is a display issue only and does not impact trading.

SQL2219··on Check your Coinbase account, my balance is 600M
yea right, I'd rather not go to jail.
SQL2219··on Check your Coinbase account, my balance is 600M
https://coinmarketcap.com/
SQL2219··on Pfizer Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports [pdf]
Somebody help me discern the data table on page 7.

Relevant cases = 42,086

Fatal outcomes = 1,223

This can't possibly be right, or I am seriously misinterpreting the table.

SQL2219··on Federal judge blocks Biden vaccine mandate for health care workers nationwide
from the article:

"If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, two of the three powers conferred by our Constitution would be in the same hands," he wrote. "If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency."

SQL2219··on The Navy is testing a GPS-like device that doesn’t require satellites
My memory is fading on this, but I recall that early cruise missiles used some kind of on-board terrain navigation system.
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Defense given: 480 x 212

Prosecutor withheld: 1920 x 844

SQL2219··on Wild bidding wars erupt at used-tractor auctions across the U.S.
Lamborghini still makes tractors https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/it-it/
SQL2219··on Wild bidding wars erupt at used-tractor auctions across the U.S.
Coupled with right to repair issues, farmers are really in a bad spot.
SQL2219··on The Mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer [pdf]
PAGE 15 "The underinclusive nature of the Mandate implies that the Mandate’s true purpose is not to enhance workplace safety, but instead to ramp up vaccine uptake by any means necessary"
SQL2219··on The Mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer [pdf]
your liberty is being sledgehammered. next will be a BMI mandate, because high BMI individuals are responsible for taking up 10X more hospital beds than covid patients.
SQL2219··on The Mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer [pdf]
PAGE 20

Of course, the principles at stake when it comes to the Mandate are not reducible to dollars and cents. The public interest is also served by maintaining our

constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals to make

intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions—even, or perhaps particularly, when those decisions frustrate government officials.

SQL2219··on The Mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer [pdf]
"We next consider the necessity of the Mandate. The Mandate is staggeringly overbroad. Applying to 2 out of 3 private-sector employees in America, in workplaces as diverse as the country itself, the Mandate fails to consider what is perhaps the most salient fact of all: the ongoing threat of COVID-19 is more dangerous to some employees than to other employees. All else equal, a 28 year-old trucker spending the bulk of his workday in the solitude of his cab is simply less vulnerable to COVID-19 than a 62 year-old prison janitor. Likewise, a naturally immune unvaccinated worker is presumably at less risk than an unvaccinated worker who has never had the

virus. The list goes on, but one constant remains—the Mandate fails almost completely to address, or even respond to, much of this reality and common sense. "

SQL2219··on The Mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer [pdf]
The title of this thread is an actual quote from this review, on page 8.
SQL2219··on 25% of College Degrees Have a Negative Return on Investment
Colleges should be on the hook for over-selling certain degrees, and charging too much for 'em.
SQL2219··on Investigations revealed pathophysiological alterations after vaccination
increases in A1C seen. potentially putting folks into pre-diabetic range.
SQL2219··on Biden admin barred from firing unvaccinated employees DC judge issues injunction
because fear = control

the end.

SQL2219··on Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons
I predict employees will increasingly make phone calls instead of sending an email.
SQL2219··on ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients – but most don't have Covid
"Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions, and suicide attempts, among others"
SQL2219··on Tracking the White House YouTube channel
Methodology details how and why:

https://81m.org/about/

SQL2219··on TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State
1,400 workers cut loose from Northwell Health https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/northwell-health-cuts-2-25...
SQL2219··on TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State
nursing wage arbitrage.
SQL2219··on TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State
A lot of this "shortage" can be attributed to the firing of nurses who refuse the vaccine, which will probably only increase in the next few months.
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