Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

Hmm, well your comment made me go and read the paper. It is interesting because they focused on an important part of the DNA storage process, which is deposition and recovery. And yes, there are a few neat innovations, like the tape system, the partitions, and the zeolite encapsulation.

However, the limitation remains DNA reading and writing, which is A) much longer than the deposition process, making gains in the deposition process almost insignificant, and B) requires careful temperature control such that any hopes to do this at room temperature are pretty much moot. It wasn’t the focus of the paper, so it’s not fair to say they glossed over it, but they did bury it in the methods. A few key limitations:
    - They used DNA Fountain to encode the data, which offers a high storage potential, but they also limited it to 100 bp oligos so that the DNA strands would be accessible with current oligo synthesis technology. So for their test, a 50 KB file required 5000 100 bp oligos. The maximum that has been reached using this approach is around 2 MB with 72,000 200 bp oligos. The data densities that they talk about in these papers is a theoretical bits per nucleotide that is extrapolated out to number of nucleotides in a gram of DNA and therefore a theoretical maximum bits per gram of DNA. It is nowhere near a practical reality, though.
    - To synthesize these oligo arrays of 3000 - 5000 oligos per array, they contracted them through Twist. It has been a while since I have worked with Twist, but these oligo pools cost on the order of $1500-$2000 per pool to synthesize, it takes weeks to months, and the failure rate is fairly significant.
    - To read back the oligos they used Illumina sequencing. This is a multiple day process that also costs thousands of dollars in consumables. And for this application the error rate is significant. So instead of taking the raw sequence reads as the data, they mapped the reads to a known reference. Which means they weren’t actually reading the data, just confirming it.

Bottom line: while it is interesting to see people thinking about some of the physical aspects of a DNA storage device, and I like a lot of the ideas they have proposed here, this technology isn’t going anywhere until we have major breakthroughs in DNA synthesis and sequencing capability. And when we do it will have impacts far and wide, beyond just DNA storage.

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.

So, on a medium such as the WWW that has no inherent security and has been plagued by scammers since nearly its inception, a “real estate developer from Las Vegas” is too busy to type https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalcaribbean.com%2F and click the phone number at the top of the page, and instead freely gives out his credit card information to an unverified phone number that came up in a Google search, and the reporter from WP thinks this is mostly Google’s fault?

We are so fucked.

Supply and demand dictate this is exactly the case.

If something is valuable to everyone, it should only be accessible to those who have enough saved value to acquire it.

The poor fucked themselves. My parents are poor but worked hard so I wouldn't be.

Being compensated for it means it wonâ(TM)t get wasted and will always have a fair valuation.

Compensation is as cooperative as it comes because nobody can hoard it.

Uh, no, warming something from -180C to “somewhere above freezing” would actually use a lot of energy, especially if it came in the form of electricity

On the other hand, if only heating is needed and no electricity, that sounds like the perfect application for nuclear. A 100kWe reactor is probably producing around 500kWt, so just disconnect the steam turbines and use the heat directly.

It would be amazing if there was a document that stated in very clear terms just how limited our federal government is and what it can't do at all no matter what.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

There already is: short-term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income.

There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).