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Comment Re:NYC corruption (Score 1) 33

In NYC, Uber played by the rules. In the outer boroughs where taxis rarely roam there have always been livery car services, which are licensed by the TLC. Call the dispatcher (on the nearest payphone, of course), they give you a price and send a livery car to pick you up. You wave down the car and off you go, paying the driver in cash once you reach your destination. The drivers are (TLC licensed, registered to a particular base) independent contractors. Uber registered itself as a livery car base, claimed that arranging a ride through its app was the same as calling a dispatcher, and of course there's no requirement that the driver accept payment in any particular form for prearranged rides.

Comment Re:Give it 50 years (Score 1) 111

There is a dead polio vaccine which is less effective and harder to administer (it's injected). Once the only strain circulating is the vaccine-derived one, vaccination efforts can switch to the dead vaccine and as long as enough people have had the vaccine (either version), the vaccine-derived polio will stop circulating and no new vaccine-derived strains will appear.

When there's still wild polio circulating, it's best to use the most effective vaccine.

Comment Re:Damage? (Score 1) 189

Butterflies lay offspring by the hundreds, have short enough lifespans that selection will take place soon after the event, lack the socializing effects of modern healthcare in humans, etc.

There's no doubt that there were millions of stillborn and otherwise irreparably genetically damaged butterflies already. The question is has it affected the long-term survivability of the species.

Comment Re:take one apart? (Score 2) 157

Monitoring high-speed digital signals takes special (expensive) test equipment, which even a university lab might not have lying around for open use.

The SNES does not have high-speed digital signals. The whole thing is clocked at 3.58MHz. This isn't like trying to probe a SATA connection.

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