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We are going to cross that 100k death toll by June, and there will be an acceleration in 2-4 weeks as we see the effects of reopening efforts on transmission rates. [1]

Brooklyn funeral homes have trailers full of bodies waiting for burial. Just because it’s not happening where you can see it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. [2]

1. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/covid-forecasts/?ex_cid...

2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/nyre...

You need a way to get analytics on which event is providing high-value customers. That means tracking leads, and getting those leads into your sales funnel. There's a reason Salesforce leads in this field, but even having a spreadsheet full of contacts after the event that you follow up with might be enough to validate your pipeline hypothesis. That said, this is going to be a rough season for in-person events.

Hey everyone, Interaction Designer who is working on the project here. My day job is working at Google but this is a really rewarding volunteer gig. The folks behind this are humble and top notch.

The functioning masks use FDA-approved surgical guide resin, not an extrusion-based material which might exhibit problematic porosity. We're only pursuing materials that already have FDA clearance, and working directly with hospitals and industry partners to scale.

This is not a DIY, at-home effort. The adapters we are using are printed in an industrial facility and are currently being fielded by many MDs. We will have over 400 out in hospitals next week and have a goal to put out 50k before this is over. No pictures I can share yet since we don't have release forms but please feel free to AMA. I speak for myself, not my employer or the larger MasksOn org.

I’m working on a sub irrigation planter (SIP) for succulents and small houseplants to reduce the need to water and problem of overwatering. Currently working on the case mold and working plaster mold for ceramic batch casting!

Ventilators are first come first serve. Once someone is on a ventilator it’s not like you can unhook them for a younger patient.

This isn’t the companies being punished - it’s the opportunists. These vultures are driving to every small pharmacy and clearing out all the masks and sanitizer. Now that Amazon & EBay have cracked down on reseller gouging, some are sitting on stockpiles through the midst of a pandemic.

* https://www.nytimes.com./2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-p...

I’m not sure this is just being written in bad faith, but in the 2016 presidential election, the winner had over 3 million less votes (over 2% of votes tallied). The electoral college system of the US values certain voters more than others in terms of assigning points to the contestants.

California actually provides most of the produce (vegetables fruits and nuts) for the nation. The midwestern corn / soy / beef states are focused on producing bulk commodities for export to other countries.

Any review of geoengineering projects to combat climate change should also include an analysis or description of iron seeding of oceans to promote plankton growth. In addition to sequestering carbon such work results in abundance in the marine food system. A pilot project completed off the Alaskan coast may have resulted in record salmon runs in 2017 as juvenile fish found plenty to eat.

If you're interested in developing this into a useful library, perhaps you should consider starting a Patreon (rather than a kickstarter). Having a monthly drip of money is probably a more sustainable model for an open source project than a lump sum payout with nebulous goals (that it looks like you've already achieved).

Take a look at RightHand Robotics. They’re shipping a bin packing arm that achieves millions of cycles working with entangled objects in recent demonstrations. I think this task is by and large solved. https://www.righthandrobotics.com/blog

Is this something you would care to share? This would be ideal for watching Wong Kar-wai films.

This article seems like an attempt to minimize the effects of radiation from atomic bombings. Given the release of the latest NPS (nuclear posture review) advocating for use of strategic low yield nuclear weapons and the 'escalate to deescalate' strategy being advanced by the current leadership of the U.S. [1], this seems timed to create political allies on the right. This is interesting because other literature from the K=1 institute seems to be anti-nuclear in tone. [2]

I question the way in which the author glosses over the pain and suffering of the cancer victims of these bombings. People were dying in agonizing pain for years and decades after the war had ended [3]. By comparison, outlawed chemical weapons seem relatively humane.

As a society, I believe we need to be vigilant towards attempts to normalize use of these weapons. They may have a role in deterrence, but the relatively low-level wars the USA has taken on over the past 40 years must not make us callous towards choices that will quickly escalate to hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths. With the survivors of the last world war rapidly dwindling, I fear we are quickly losing our global memory of the horror of large-scale conflict and through media, preparing our society to accept a nuclear exchange for which we hav a very limited and untested defense. [4,5] In fact, creating this defense system has spurred our global rivals to develop more horrific weapons [6].

[1] https://www.defense.gov/News/SpecialReports/2018NuclearPostu... https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1204755/escalating-t...

[2] https://k1project.columbia.edu/a11

[3] https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-dying-from-leuke...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/politics/military-exer...

[5] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-limits-of-u-s-missile...

[6] https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1204814/putins-nuke-...

This is great.

Waze provides an additional service here - pointing out police locations, which is extremely useful over long stretches of highway.

I wonder if google Maps' performance is due in part to Waze users being shunted off of main highways?

Another weird though - if Waze is spoon feeding you ads, don't they want you to drive as long as possible?

The process depicted in the video is a variant of Stereolithography a process by which photopolymer is solidified by exposure to directed UV light. The video depicts the authors using a commercial 3D printer created by Digital Wax Systems. Reading the paper, it appears that they mixed in amorphous silica to the resin and ran the printer successfully. Few details are given on their test rig.

This approach has been applied successfully to create ceramics in the past, and doesn't seem particularly novel to me. Companies such as ADMATEK are already commercializing this technology.

Weaknesses of this approach are that the end part needs high temperature sintering to remove the photopolymer from the part, and will not yield the same material properties as monolithic glass. Significant shrinkage can be expected and the sintering process means that you are limited in the thickness of the parts that can be designed.

All in all, this is a nice note, but isn't fundamentally introducing a revolution in the 3D printing space.

This is a straw man argument (use fossil fuels or lose all benefits of modern life. We can still enjoy these benefits by switching to renewables, or power.

The naive nature of this comment seems pretty synthetic, but I'll give it a grown up response:

One answer to preserve GDP while shifting to carbon neutral renewables is to increase the cost of fossil fuels through the use of a Carbon Dividend. This consists of three points 1. Taxing carbon fuels at the wholesale market. 2. Providing a dividend to every citizen of the U.S. (mitigates the impact on low income families, estimates range about $4k / person) 3. Provide an adjustment tax at the border punishing other countries like China that do not institute their own Carbon fee structure.

This is a market based solution advocated by James Baker & others within the conservative establishment to help our society accelerate the shift to carbon neutral power. Currently a group of 17 house republican representatives support the measures.

More information can be found by researching / participating / volunteering for the citizen's climate lobby - http://citizensclimatelobby.org/

At the Boston march, networks couldn't handle load - it was the first time I haven't had network access for hours in years. Maybe this wouldn't preclude the network registering my phone's requests (and our phones were reporting signal bars) but it's to be considered that our cellular infrastructure isn't built to handle massive protests at this scale.

Not only that, but the smell is horrific.

From the video, it looks like they're growing carbon nanotubes on the surface. The process is limited to high heat applications (since the feedstock for the material is high temperature carbon bearing gasses). It's pretty impressive that they've commercialized the process - I've only seen it done in small quartz tubes with diameter < 3". Is it fair to say that CNTs are probably as toxic as death and you should stay far far away from them?

Establishing a material monopoly for an artist is a dick move, but certainly can't say it hasn't been done before. Yves Klein probably did it best.

I recently started designing and making jewelry. I'm particularly fascinated by Iolite. [Iolite]("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordierite") is commonly referred to as "water sapphire" or "viking's compass". This is because it changes in tone depending on it's angle to the sun. Historically it would have been useful because the effect works regardless of cloud cover and even when the sun is below the horizon. I'm not sure if the nickname is a historic remainder or attached during modernity (the jewelry industry is both ancient and opaque) but the effect is real, and could potentially be of concrete utility during navigation.

Glitter resin launched by Formlabs:

http://formlabs.com/company/blog/2015/04/01/introducing-glit...