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lemming ,

So... What is it exactly?

lemming ,

Thank you! It looks like it needs more people for more excitement, but on the other hand, one-man projects look possible. Should be fun :-)

lemming ,

Oh, that sounds reasonable.

lemming ,

Is it better than using 25 % less salt?

lemming ,

This seems like a great source, thanks a lot for posting it.

What's the deal with Isreal vs. Palestine side taking in the West?

I feel like I've been kind of in the loop for most of the headlines regarding this confrontation. Yet somehow I can't find it within myself to actually care about either side. It seems like both are lead by genocidal parties, hell bent on indoctrinating their populace into hating the other side. Yet at the same time people are...

lemming ,

I am by no means highly informed, but so far, I didn't see a few things I think should be mentioned.

Both Israel's government and Hamas are definitely bad guys who found stirring hate towards each other a convenient way of staying in power. After all, If you have the stongest rhetoric towards someone who wants to kill people of your country, of course those people will vote for you and you can get away with things you otherwise couldn't.

There's also another side which I haven't seen explicitly mentioned and should be considered: surrounding islamic countries (who are surely not a homogeneous group). They are in a good position to help palestinian civilians, but don't do very much for various reasons I know relatively little about.

lemming ,

For plants, PlantNet works very well for me.

lemming ,

I didn't read the original paper yet, perhaps it's there, but it isn't in the linked article nor its source Ars Technica article. Can authors themselves upload their papers to these archives, and if so, how to do it correctly to make it findable both by DOI and other means? Does anyone know?

lemming ,

We see the same side all the time.

Not completely same all the time:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/613a9e24-653f-4bae-9095-1a95dcd1a553.gif

lemming ,

What percentage was the eclipse? It probably got dim, but human eyes are very good at filtering out wide range of intensity changes to handle both full sun and cloudy sky. You really only notice an eclipse maybe at 80-90 %. But it isn't that special even at 99 %. On the other hand, total eclipse is absolutely incredible.

lemming ,

That sounds very interesting. The time I saw total eclipse, at 99 % I was to excited about totality and it was cloudy. But I think I remember seeing the shadow rushing over the landscape.

lemming ,

For partial eclipses, very cool is watching the light underneath trees. The small holes between leaves work a bit like camera obscura, so they effectively project crescents of the sun on the ground.

lemming ,

A state doesn't have this kind of money to burn. If they did it, the money would have to come from somewhere. So either you increase taxes, decrease spending elsewhere, or start a business making a lot of money. Such as, say, selling the newly developed medications at a markup... It's sad, but I'm not aware of a better way.

That being said, the cost of medications in the US is utterly ridiculous.

lemming ,

You don't need profit in the sense of making lots of extra money compared to how much money you actually put in. I would be very interested in how much net profit is compared to gross in relative numbers. It's a lot in absolute numbers, but I suspect not so much in relative. The problem why drug development is so very expensive is that you don't just pay large sums for the drugs that are developed, but also for all those that are not, because they prove not useful during the testing. And there is way, way more than the successful ones, perhaps 100 to 1? I don't have numers at hand. So in the end, you have to charge a lot of extra money above the production cost if you want to have enough money to develop any drugs at all.

Of course, that isn't true for old drugs. Which is a reason why generics are so much cheaper. And also why patents need to exist.

I'm sure pharma companies abuse the system as much as they can, but not as much as it might appear at a first glance.

lemming ,

Wow, thank you, this is a great source! So less than 90% of the income is used to run the companies and do all the R&D. Honestly, that's less than I thought and shows how greedy they are. If I read it right, they are more profitable than other large companies. Wow. So a state-owned non-profit pharma company could in theory produce new medicine 10 % cheaper and still be fine. Provided that state-owned company could be as efficient as a private one...

lemming ,

I would like just to thank you for writing to title that it's US-specific. I mean, it was clear by the time I finished the title, but that's not always the case and I was really glad that you put it there.

lemming ,

Not as far s I know. Motivating people to go into debt often is not a common policy. At least not in Europe, but I think it's very unusual worldwide.

lemming ,

Thank you for organising this! It was fun, not only for me, but also for my girlfriend and relatives I was visiting over the weekend. None of us care about Superbowl in the slightest bit, but we definitely enjoyed all the owl pictures and choosing which group was better :-)

lemming ,

No, we weren't even very inetrested in which team is which, we justbalways compared the 2 groups. It was really difficult sometimes...

lemming ,

Well, barn owl is always stunning. But I also really liked the pharaoh eagle, ural, spotted wood and sooty. And many others also didn't know (and liked, naturally) white faced scops. But the others are great too, and I think I never saw quite a few of them. Unfortunatelly, it's a bit confusing for me, the little I know about various owl species I don't know in English, so it's difficult to connect all information. Besides, English is rather lacking when it comes to naming animals and plants... There is very little system.

lemming ,

I have to say I'm here for pretty owls, I don't know much about owl folklore. I know some of them are supposed to be bad omens, but that's pretty much it.

lemming ,

It looks like it has feather spacesuit :-)

lemming ,

Have you read the link? It doesn't say thay that analysing figerprints is less powerfull than was known, but more. It describes previously unknown connection between fingerprints of different fingers of a single person. This could indicate, for example, that two crimes were probably commited by the same person even when not a single identical fingerprint was found on both sites.

lemming ,

Well, it wouldn't be good evidence on its own at court, but can very well nudge an investigation in a right direction. And anyway, it's a first step, done with little resources and ablimited dataset for training. And at least for me, it'sbthe first time I hear something like this is possible at all. Others said that tools to the same effect were around for quite a while, but I haven't seen anyone providing sources, especially some that would give quantification of its capabilites.

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