AlexGood

There is hope for reaching the stars: at a constant acceleration of 1 g you could reach 0.9999c in 5 years of proper time, covering a distance of 83 light years. https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Rocket/...

Very interesting! This repo contains a catalog of risk-management strategies from investing, engineering and other fields: https://github.com/sashagutfraind/uncertainty_strategies

Free-market economics made Chile the richest country in LATAM, but recently decided it wants government to control its economy. Unfortunately, we know know where it leads to. https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/social-revolt-in-chile...

How to write science: many years ago, this piece has transformed my scientific writing. It's one of those vital skills that are mysteriously never taught in college. In a gist, by understanding the reader's expectations, you can write text that the reader will immediately get.

U.S. CBP reported that they conducted 40k electronic searches in 2019, or about 1-in-10000 travelers. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/speeches-and-statements/cbp-sta...

I am not excited about having a vote on how to spend anybody's money, particularly if they spend it researching vaccines for malaria, like Gates did. Our system of government strictly limits which decisions are subject to democractic choices, for good reasons

This cannot be allowed to happen - take away the money RIGHT NOW

Obviously, us/government would have found a better way of spending Bill Gates' money than he did ...

Do tax cuts for the poor produce economic growth?

Gravity

Alas, HIV isn't going to be easy - it mutates too fast. But mRNA is inherently safer and easier to produce than other vaccine platforms.

It sounds like some of the technologies made it into prototypes, and could be feasible in some applications. e.g. ship detection is more feasible than aircraft detection