Houston has significant hurricane risk, whether or not you’ve actually had a problem.

It’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.

They’re probably more afraid that Trump will burn the company down.

Yes, it’s just some colors. If you can’t handle a picture with some colors, you’ve got a problem.

I didn’t find either group on social media. Real groups have some other way to reach them.

Pick an activity. I’m into the outdoors, so looked at local Sierra Club chapters and cycling clubs. Joined a couple. Met a lot of people.

Haven’t done it using an app. Pick an activity. Find a club that does it. Meet in person

Only way to find those people is to get out and interact though

Some level of socializing is important though; you end up with a not-very-functional society without it

That depends on whether the virus starts spreading human-to-human with each infected person infecting more than one other person.

If it does not, then things look like the SARS outbreak in 2002-2004, where a few people get sick, and a few people die.

If it starts spreading with R₀ > 1, then pretty much everybody gets it, and a significant number die.

We could reduce the risk of the latter with measures like:

• Actively test all dairy herds
• Vaccinate dairy workers, and regularly test them for infection
• Quarantine those who are infected
• Ban the sale of unpasteurized milk and crack down on existing black-market distribution of it

However, it seems really unlikely that we’ll actually do so.

Stuff unlikely to kill and not made from materials likely to kill is generally legal. Pipe bombs don’t fall into that category

Under federal explosives law, it is illegal to manufacture, store, distribute, receive or transport explosive materials without a federal explosives license or permit (FEL/FEP).

I’d be rather surprised if there was a permit issued for these pipe bombs.

I don’t expect that he’s been arraigned (formally charged) with it yet because that usually takes a couple days, and today is a holiday. Prosecutors will likely file a superceding indictment once they’re back to work

First paragraph of the article:

A Virginia man was arrested this month with what federal prosecutors described in court papers on Monday as the largest cache of “finished explosive devices” ever found in the F.B.I.’s history.

You don’t let something like that get to the point of killing people; you stop it before they set them off.

He killed one of the rich instead of a minority

The environmental movement asked the same thing for subsidized hydrogen production

Power use by the Washington/Oregon data center cluster was almost entirely covered by a local surplus of hydropower until a couple years ago. That might be why it looks different from elsewhere.

If you’re doing a massive load increase, build out emissions-free generation to match. Some mix of wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, and geothermal would do fine. Otherwise, don’t do the big load increase.

Flood insurance in particular isn’t run by business in the US; it’s underwritten by the federal government, and has been operating at a loss for quite a while. The example in this story is somebody who while they signed up for it, experienced damage before the policy went into effect (there’s a 30-day waiting period to start)

Homeowners insurance tends to actually pay out when you have individual uncorrelated failures (eg: house burns down due to electrical system failure) which is what’s it’s designed for. Having that around makes buying something as expensive as a house practical.

It’s more that you can’t be assured of being able to buy the necessary insurance for 30 years, let alone the time you’re likely to live in the house after paying off the mortgage. Changing the rules to require that insurers commit to renewals for the duration of the mortgage might make it more doable, but would likely result in large areas becoming impossible to sell homes at anywhere near currently-prevailing prices.

It’s a gift link. If you’re not stripping off the access token from the URL, you should be able to access the article without needing somebody to do that.