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How cheaply, in theory, could you mass produce cracking plants for post consumer waste?

There would be serious logistical issues with this. Drive by the nearest refinery and see the cracking tower. Essentially this is doing as you describe, making ethylene, propylene etc from olefins. But these refineries are located at pretty centralized petroleum or gas terminals. Compared to the mass flow of used plastics distributed evenly across the population density. You either need the haul the stuff very long distances or build lots of huge refineries everywhere. An incinerator is a significantly smaller capital investment than a refinery.

I'll raise an alternative: plastics are degraded by the heat and pressure of repeated processes like injection molding. Recycled plastic objects will be of lower quality and shed more microplastics. Instead of recycling them, incinerate them for electrical energy. Use a modern incinerator design that guarantees 100% mineralization to carbon dioxide and water.

TeleMessage is most likely an intelligence asset, and a burned one now that Trump's people stopped using it. A fake hack is the safest way for the agency responsible to leak the messages collected.

Less than half the population of the world live in birthright citizenship countries. Such countries as all of Eurasia except Pakistan, and all but a handful of African countries. Do those countries not have rational thinking people?

I have never heard of DEI referring to diversity of viewpoints. Wikipedia for DEI defines diversity thusly: "Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, culture, class, veteran status, or religion."

The full letter is here. It only looks like internal contradictions when you quote partial clauses and sentence fragments.

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

I don't think the institution will run out of money any time soon. It's a $50bn prop trading firm with a university attached.

Confusingly, at various point in this article they refer to him in the past tense, "was a good father" etc, while he's still alive.

Donald Trump has advocated for tariffs for 40 years. Agree with them or not, they were quite predictable, not chaos.

A victimless crime?

As a juror, I would expect such a trial to at least be able to produce a single victim that could testify on the stand that they got deceived before I would vote guilty.

I have a feeling if the current administration had a problem with your social media posts, maybe you said something about Tesla that they could construe as supporting the current protests and/or vandalism, and similarly venue-shopped for a federal court, say East Texas, (using the U.S. v Mackey precedent to claim jurisdiction because some fiber carrying data might go through it) where the 12 jurors would be on team red, you would not feel like it would be a fair trial if you got convicted.

Chipping away a pillar always starts with something that you can say was a good reason.

I remember when the last administration jailed Douglass Mackey for tweeting

> Can we learn to live with them?

"We" don't have to. It's a uniquely Anglo problem to remove street cats and dogs. One that we could immediately stop. You would have a hard time finding a rat in Istanbul.

> The quokka, like the rationalist, is a creature marked by profound innocence. The quokka can't imagine you might eat it, and the rationalist can't imagine you might deceive him. As long they stay on their islands, they survive, but both species have problems if a human shows up

> In theory, rationalists like game theory, in practice, they need to adjust their priors. Real-life exchanges can be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma. In the classic version, the prisoners can't communicate, so they have to guess whether the other player will defect or cooperate.

> The game changes when we realize that life is not a single dilemma, but a series of them, and that we can remember the behavior of other agents. Now we need to cooperate, and the best strategy is "tit for two tats", wherein we cooperate until our opponent defects twice

> The problem is, this is where rationalists hit a mental stop sign. Because in the real world, there is one more strategy that the game doesn't model: lying. See, the real best strategy is "be good at lying so that you always convince your opponent to cooperate, then defect"

> And rationalists, bless their hearts, are REALLY easy to lie to. It's not like taking candy from a baby; babies actually try to hang onto their candy. The rationalists just limply let go and mutter, "I notice I am confused". This is also why they are poly.

Most of the things are applicable to the current top models, but he frequently references Claude sonnet, which is not even above the fold on the leaderboard

The Uralic word for slave is very archaic and dates to well before they became sedentary. The Uralic tribes came into contact with the Aryas people on the steppes, and won battles with them enough to take captives as slaves, calling them orjat.

Imposing the Common Core curriculum on American children did infinitely more damage to the country's STEM competitiveness than gutting the NIH's funding of unreplicable or outright harmful research.

To return to specifics, this thread is about the NIH- hadn't they been funding gain of function research on coronaviruses? It would be hard to claim that cleaning house there is national suicide.

> preserving state institutions

As Obama said, elections have consequences. Do you think there should be a permanent bureaucracy that is totally unaffected by elections? Or put it this way, hypothetically if James Bowman takes power for the next 8 years, and the other side has had 12 years to implement and entrench their institutions, are you really going to object to your side reversing it when the pendulum swings back your way?

Becoming? This may sound like a trope and a canard, but indeed this very publication, The Economist is partially owned and controlled by the Rothschild dynasty.

Commercially, they wash the cuticle off the eggs in the US before they are sold. This means they have to be refrigerated.

cf Mickey S.R.L. in Paraguay

They buy it through scale ai

Do the Swiss want to be considered someone's ally or neutral?

It is an interesting angle, because now he could potentially be subpoenaed by Congress or anyone else, and it seems unlikely that he would perjure himself over anything after 2014.

It is a protein that exists in mammals. Presumably they produced the murine version to put in the mouse. Science journalism screwed up the paper's language, calling it a zebrafish protein, when it is a protein that is conserved for all vertebrates. But the function of the protein, and its role in heart regeneration, was identified in zebrafish.

> Directly after LAD ligation during MI surgery, hearts were injected twice with 15 μl of AAV9(CMV:GFP) or AAV9(CMV:HA-Hmga1) (1 × 1012 virus particles per mouse) in opposing regions bordering the area at risk of ischemic injury.

The paper doesn't say whether the viral vector (AAV9) used the murine or zebrafish Hmga1 sequence, but it is more likely that they used the murine.