Many wireless and ethernet connections could ultimately network with just a few Starlink user dishes in population centers. I think the base station could be located in neighboring countries. It might be plausible if you have a bunch of young people who are disconnected for too long.
The benzene is the money-saving opportunity. Per GP it's added to avoid a costly drying process. The cost of removing the trace benzene would nullify those savings.
UBI is here (perhaps temporarily), and unevenly distributed in terms of fiscal and monetary allocation.
AI is here, and in the hands of a few tax-evasive global corporations. So far AI has been good for: addictive attention farming, polarization, and social control.
I'm a fellow techno-optimist, but the solutions Sam brings up don't feel effective, or at least sufficient. Our direction is ugly, and Sam isn't calling out the big players to change their course.
Perhaps we need Universal Basic Compute: any corporation beyond a certain compute capacity (in FLOP/s) must allocate 50% to public utility. From there, individuals can vote to determine how they algorithmically represent themselves.
The field of virology doesn't draw a line in the sand excluding certain viruses with low transmission rates.
Viruses that are more transmissible simply draw the attention of the field.
Presumably, a scientific study of ideas would observe ideas commonly transmitted in the wild.
It seems sufficient to acknowledge that virality is a property of ideas. We can then continue using a single term to reference the notion of an 'idea'.
Maybe a cannula would be attached at a certain point? I think the real difficulty would be producing nutrients and mixing them into the blood. I am clearly a nonexpert.
I brought this up thinking about the broader "chicken and egg" ethics & scaling problem of tissue growth. Currently the biotissue alternative meats are dependent on fetal bovine serum to get started. A vegan might object to these meats.
I don't personally support these methods, and am just spitballing ideas on the tech side of the aforementioned problem.
Your description of dukkha reminds me of a concept in Stoicism. Early Stoics formalized "pneuma" as something of a "natural order" or "holy ghost". The teachings were that one could avoid self-destructive behavior by not fighting an intrinsic flow to the universe.
To frame this with what I saying about Nietzsche- his criticism might have encouraged one to wrestle with natural order. Or perhaps stated that passivity with regard to the state of things is undesirable.
This article discusses how transcendental meditation has induced nihilism and reality disconnect upon some of its vulnerable practitioners.
In my ears, this lends cautionary support for Nietzsche's criticism of stoics and Buddhists. I'm not very knowledgeable here, but roughly his argument is that the avoidance of life's suffering is nothing but an escape from life itself. If one engages with the world, one must deal with pain and joy as a consequence.
On more practical terms, it's always good to measure how your inner model corresponds with reality.
Given the terrible health consequences of deficiency, I think assuming racial difference in healthy vitamin D levels is a more dangerous claim that requires a burden of proof.
Melanin absorbs the UV light our bodies use to produce vitamin D.
It is an important public health issue for people with darker skin living in temperate or polar areas to get enough vitamin D.
Lack of vitamin D for people with darker skin is the inverse of paler people being at risk of burns in sunny areas.
After referencing that paper and a couple others, the new work says "... practically all the galactic rotation models so far are based on potential theory and the circular orbit concept in the Newtonian framework"
"In the present article a new model for the rotation curve of galaxies is developed including the effects associated with mass currents...
... It is shown that the inclusion of the gravitomagnetic field clarifies some inconsistencies of the standard potential theory."
That's fair. I mean that if this person's claims are truly dubious and they seem to be seeking the spotlight, then giving them the spotlight could exacerbate their derangement. That's useless for Okta, sad for this person, and dangerous for others.
Was the building made from stacked shipping containers? Containers are such a budget-friendly and trendy structural building block these days. They even click with the software engineers - "Hey, it's like Docker".
Containers would seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to dissipating, rather than containing, heat. I hope improved thermal management and fire suppression designs can be implemented.
The discussion of the fat percentage misses the relevant concern. Mineral oil, unlike vegetable or animal fat, is a petroleum product and carcinogen that bioaccumulates in body fat.
The oekotest.de link also discusses methylcellulose as a cause of indigestion (a symptom mentioned in this thread), and the presence of genetically modified soy. GM crops are a concern because of their tolerance to high pesticide levels.
It sounds like you aren't familiar with ice driving.
The worst pileup in Texas occurred on one side of an arched overpass. Drivers coming from one direction couldn't see the pileup forming at the bottom until they were already coming down. At such a velocity and slope, there was no recourse. This is in spite of the long distance that remained to the start of the pileup.
For context, ice accumulates on bridges before the rest of the highway.