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I used to live right near the park, 1/4 mile from the N-Judah. The infrastructure in that area can barely support the housing stock that exists right now.

“Only be out the house and whatever payments” isn’t negligible in most cases, why are you hand-waving that away?

YIMBY should more properly be called YITBY (yes in their back yards).

Except the school bus is a public good. Are you saying that we should reframe housing as a public good as well and provide it as such?

Costco sells USDA Prime? That’s worth the trip alone. Most grocery stores never have Prime.

I’d call that a reverse cargo cult, if so.

But the processing and shipping isn’t the problem with desalination. The problem is that dumping bribe or salt into the ocean can kill local wildlife.

Probably depends on the vapor pressureS of the VOCs; if less than water, then no.

Mixing cultures makes everyone nicer.

I’d need a source for this, because this seems incorrect. Most of the captured carbon would enter a food cycle, and while some of it might become methane, much more of it would be constantly cycled in the ecosystem, and some would end up as calcium carbonate.

To be fair, a very, very stressed out 31 year old doctor died from it. Stress does truly awful things to the immune system.

Yes, the “person from Porlock” who knocked on his door to sell him insurance. That’s the most enduring thing about that poem, as it’s so relatable. Those people from Porlock are everywhere.

Should anyone buying that insulin have to divulge how much money they make a year and what other things they spend their money on, so that the manufacturer can figure out how much to charge?

I’ve heard very, very few worthy covers of it. The most recent is by Vomitron.

As you shouldn’t, there have been at least two horrible incidents in the last year or so where “ESA” dogs mauled another passenger.

One thought about this, ICD9/10 are medical coding standards. They have only a very shallow semantic depth to them, they’re more about completeness and specificity. They don’t map well to what OWL tries to do.

This has been around for a while. It’s excellent, and I’ve tried to get it adopted at several life science organizations.

The problem is culture. Principal investigators are notoriously stubborn about how they do things, and that includes what they call things. Manufacturers and supply companies also don’t see much benefit to standardizing around this, and of course realize the large downside (alienating the aforementioned PIs).

What would help this would be the introduction of OWL into major software suites, primarily LIMS and ELN packages, and include tools for aligning terminology and concepts with OWL.

How is this not a display of religious symbols on public property? I assume because the city government doesn't maintain it and it doesn't impede city works?

Let me be more precise (for you and for the people who downvoted me): fusion will never be cost effective. Ever. There is no conceivable material for the walls of a reactor that could withstand the neutron bombardment from the reaction. Maybe there’s some super-inexpensive way to replace the entire reactor core every 18 months... but I seriously doubt it.

Fusion is never going to work at all. The only fusion reactor we’ll ever have is 93 million miles away.

When you get off a plane from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa, you are often greeted by the smell of countless open cooking fires dotting the land. It’s quite nice in my opinion, though it’s not healthy for those who use them.

Matt Stoller puts this into context in his recent and excellent book “Goliath,” specifically the pro-monopoly, proto-fascist forces dominating America at the time. And of course, he brings this forward to the present, where we are currently contending with and suffering from monopolization.

Thank you. Every time I see a fusion article - and it’s always a breathless “just around the corner” puff piece - I scan it to see if they’ve solved neutron embrittlement, or even come close. So far, no one has.

But that’s my favorite drug name, despite its antiquity. There’s just such a goofy mismatch between something that sounds like magical fairy sparkles from heaven, and a drug that lets you fight six cops at the same time and win.

We have to treat the causes of homelessness. And I don’t think the cause is “not enough software.”

I'm not the New York Times, I'm n=1. I can't really generate my own statistics. And see the other person's reply about immigration vs. illegal immigration.

To be sure, I am no great detective or even particularly smart; I'm sure people fool me every day. I used to work in substance abuse research, and your story (which I am sorry to hear) rings very true. You're right that I don't have any kind of magic vision to see who's a drug addict and who isn't, so my observations above should probably be taken with some skepticism.

You're being downvoted, but there's a lot of valid social critique contained in the seemingly cruel "learn to code" meme.

Fast food. Warehouse picking. Wholesale food packing. "Attendant" style jobs. Basic landscaping.

I've done several of these in my youth - they were luxurious compared to the offerings now. Forty hours a week, no gamification, human bosses, daytime shifts, few injuries. Making the workplace like that would be an actual effort at making America great again.

I haven't suggested anything, except that the problem is much more complex than most people acknowledge, and that some causes of the problems seem to be deliberately ignored.

That being said, I would recommend universal healthcare, vouchers for free daycare for lower-income Americans, and a new omnibus of worker protections to allow more humane workplaces (sorry, Amazon and Tyson Chicken). Also, much more vigorous prosecution and sentencing of those who employ illegal immigrants.