It is China. Also only likely a dozen or so. It was just academic gain-of-function research gone awry.

This was plain to any scientist that looked at the sequences and those being used in previously published reports from the lab.

If it can scale at a competitive cost it would be pretty wild.

Like me or not, I am glad to hear about your milestone.

He seems frustrated but resigned. Not much he can do.

I have a friend that’s a professor at the University of Michigan. This tracks with what he relates. Less motivation and less competence, also more parental involvement, and UofM gets the pick of the litter.

Now the EU wants us to pay them $30k for EU Network Security Compliance certification.. Estimate to prepare the paperwork is 2-3 months.

No wonder there are no startups in Europe.

That’s one way to look at it, but I don’t think it’s particularly useful to look at it that way. 9/11 is a factor among many for sure. But demographic shifts, changes in media, etc., you can make all kinds of reductionist arguments, but why? Is there anything really gained from a simple narrative?

We won’t be doing it. I think we either ship before the deadline, or no EU. It’s absurd.

I love doubles tennis. It's fast-paced cooperative athletic chess.

I am working with a group making a mobile device that we are shipping this summer, and we put a big battery in it. The EU passed a rule last summer that goes into effect in June that we need to show that it will retain 80% of its max charge after 800 cycles if we want to sell in the EU. If we fast cycle-it, it can damage the battery, but running it down takes well more than a day. So maybe we can't sell in the EU for at least 2.2 years? Way to go EU... Oh, we also have to drop it on concrete from 1 meter 45 times without functional impairment. Yeah.

Well, a reasonable vax policy hasn't meant a reasonable food one thus far.

Or global warming. All the kids got fat because they stopped smoking too, I guess.

It's definitely complicated. RFK is overly skeptical of vaccines, and hopefully his influence there will be limited. I do think our food system is a travesty, however, and hope he makes some change there.

Oh I don't know.. Maybe less of this stuff:

No. My daughter is fully vaxed, and usually gets the flu vax. I don't think any available vaccinations cause autism. I don't think it's cover. I think he happens to be doing the right thing there.