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Bill Gates was already involved in a startup to radar identify and kill mosquitos with lasers . . . guess it did not go well.


It resulted in a prototype that apparently cost $50 per unit, but no retail product yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser


Are there massive amounts of retail products in, say, Africa?


Yes, Africa's retail market was worth US$1.4tn in 2015.[1]

1. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/africas...


Indeed, however Oxalobacter formigenes is not widely present in all human biomes, even those without antibiotic therapy.

I have attempted to garner the interest of major enzyme corporation (Novozymes, for example) in mass producing the oxalate degrading enzyme through fermentation, but no response.


From Lab Escaped Covid to Now Carbon: China Emits More Carbon in 2 Weeks Than Australia Does in One Year


Electric cars still require rubber tires, most of which are made from fossil/petro resources.

Electric cars still require roads to drive on, many of which are asphault, which contains cancer causing aromatics, and is the lowest, heaviest product in a refinery crack tower.

Many lubricants which are derived from fossil/petro are used in electric car transmissions, etc.

Electric cars have no less fossil/petro derived plastic and polymers than conventional cars.


And all of these points are infinitely more useful and applicable than the entirety of the article. Addressing those issues is arguably the next step toward sustainable transportation.

Non-petroleum-based plastics are becoming more mainstream, and I look forward to when they're mechanically and economically competitive enough to displace petroleum-based plastics entirely.



The "new shorts" are the options traders who have placed millions of calls since Friday . . . no margins, but increased leverage


https://shortvolume.com/ if you put in GME there, it shows short volume is being matched by regular volume too...


Just tried to download and install handshake. Requires docker. Just tried to download and install docker on windows 7, failed install, requires more stuff.

Opinion: This will never become a realization until these people realize the average Joe is not going to jump through all these hoops just to get an alternative browser up and running. It should be simple and seamless. Less than 1% will bother with all this.


You can use nextdns.io which has an option to resolve handshake domains.

Other options also provided in the docs: https://learn.namebase.io/starting-from-zero/how-to-access-h...


So I've not had a look at this software before.

I had a look at their website: https://hsd-dev.org/guides/win-install.html

It doesn't say that you require docker. Docker is one of the options.

You could either build it from source using NodeJS or use node JS's package manager NPM to install it.

Docker is a containerisation platform that requires virtualisation support:

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/

The system requirements are as follows:

* Windows 10 64-bit * Hyper-V and Containers Windows features enabled

So of course this method is not going to run on Windows 7 and it clearly has stated so.

Plus it's not a web browser. It's a blockchain DNS.


It doesn’t require docker! You can install directly on windows, Mac and Linux [1]. This is how I have it running (for the past 8 months)!

https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd


I don't see any Windows installation instructions there.

Is it really that hard to distribute an application? A statically linked executable, or a portable directory with an executable in it. Thousands of projects do it every day. Why do so many developers insist on making a simple thing like actually running their software so complicated?


The installation instructions say to use npm, which is pretty simple? Everything's javascript anyways.


Does the average Joe really reads articles from sci-hub ? The target public of sci-hub should be able to understand how to install a couple programs imo.

Windows 7 has reached EOL a year ago (minus two days), so yeah, maybe it's not very well supported...


> Does the average Joe really reads articles from sci-hub ?

What a ridiculous statement, do you truly want to live in a world where they can't? Most authors on sci-hub themselves would struggle with containers.

If a mechanic mocked a room full of people for not being able to change their own oil what would you think of them?

Please reconsider such an ideological stance.


Well, no, but they actually can, so it's not the question.

I doubt that most people able to read and publish complex scientitic papers would "struggle" to follow what is overall a one page sequence of instructions to enter in a computer. You don't need to understand containers to run docker.

I don't really get the analogy with the mechanic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


> You don't need to understand containers to run docker.

Maybe we live in different worlds but the average (non-cs)professor would very much struggle with this stuff. I've seen some barely being able to use basic programs, they are skilled in very different domains and no one will bat an eyelid if they slowly click on the mouse to copy/paste every day of the week. Rocking the command line is certainly not in their job description for the most part.

Even comp-sci academics do work that is horrendously bad and not even close to what would pass in the workplace for an entry level graduate.

> the analogy with the mechanic

Essentially an adult saying to a group of children "this is so simple for me, what are you a dumbass?"


Define "average Joe"? I haven't been in academia since I finished university years ago, but I'll sometimes want to do some digging around on some topic and get a lot of mileage out of sci-hub then.


Get a VirtualBox VM running Linux, and take it from there.


Docker does not work on non-professional versions of Windows. Was very annoying as a student.

EDIT: Seems that progress has lead to this no longer being true.


you can run docker using WSL/WSL2 but you will need to enable hyper-v on win10.


Good to know. Glad that was fixed. Thank you.


Dr. Pierre Kory represents a group of well published, highly regarded American physicians presenting new studies and research which they claim conclusively proves that ivermectin has been found to be the closest thing we have to a miracle drug for covid19 (both prophylaxis and treatment). Ivermectin is an well established, inexpensive existing drug with over 3 billion pills taken worldwide in past decades, very low side effects.


palm prints are standard now along with fingerprints, the creases within palms and fingers are verifiable.


The real dirt behind the scenes is that Apple paid to have an evaluation of how much access was worth to Facebook, told Facebook to pay up or else. Facebook balked at the number, and now Apple is gonna cut them off. Just simple business.


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