Generally speaking, raw-milk cheeses are much safer to consume than fresh raw dairy milk. However, the dairy in question is a garbage company that has been responsible for numerous outbreaks in the past.
Raw milk is safe to drink too, if it's been kept correctly. I grew up on a dairy farm, and as you might imagine we didn't buy milk from the store when we had our own right there. Never once did I get sick, nor did any of the other farmers we knew doing the same thing. The risk of getting sick is higher, but unless you're not practicing proper hygiene it'll probably be ok.
I am all for requiring raw milk to be prominently disclosed, but banning it entirely is foolishness. Let people make their own choices for the level of risk they are comfortable with; don't make paternalistic decisions for them.
This isn't a binary distinction -- safe vs unsafe. Things you put in your body have a risk profile. The risk profile of raw milk is much higher than pasteurized milk, regardless of how hygienic you think you're being. Cows step in mud, their own feces, the feces of other animals, dirty water, and many other things that can splash up and onto (and into) their udders, contaminating their milk with pathogens.
Letting people make their own choices always has its limits, regardless of what people say (rather casually on the Internet). When nearly all health systems in the world work through the healthy subsidizing the unhealthy, we should be attempting to limit preventable illness.
In any case, I don't think there's any country or state that bans drinking raw milk. If you're on a farm and you want to drink your own milk, go ahead. Just don't claim it's safe enough to sell, because it really isn't.
When we say "safe" it's a regulatory statement about _certainty_ not about any given person's activity. We know pasteurized milk is safe because the process produces a high probability of a safe product.
When we don't do that, it's called raw. From there, we don't need to investigate anything else, whether it's 1 in 100, 1 in 10, or whatever. We know that because it's unprocessed, it's unsafe.
It's always curious when people bring anecdotes to a discussion like this as if what their family did with raw milk is perfectly emulated everywhere.
Same thing happened with surgery in the early century: doctors wouldn't wash their hands because they had some base assumptions about what caused diesease.
In the end, countering these anecdotes rarely work.
Since you are knowledgable about this, do you have any idea what happened to Mirasol technology? I was fascinated by those colour e-paper like displays, and disappointed when plans to manufacture it was shelved. Then I learnt Apple purchased it but it looks more like a patent padding purchase than for tech development as nothing has come out of it form Apple too. Is it in some way still being developed or parts of its research tech being used in display development?
Being a key technology architect for it (not the core inventor), I know all about it, and then some more!
I cannot however talk publicly about it. :-(
It has been a disappointment for me as well. I had worked on it for nearly eight years. The idea was so interesting--using thin-film interference for creating images is akin to shaping Newton's rings into arbitrary images, something which even Newton would not have imagined! The demos and comparisons we had shown to various industry leaders and sometimes publicly were often instantly compelling. The people/engineers in the team were mostly the best I have ever worked with, and with whom I still maintain a great connection. But unfortunately, there were problems (not saying how much tech how much people) that were recognized by some but never got (timely) addressed. And a tech like it does not exist till date.
I do not think anything on it is being developed further.
The earliest of the patents would have expired by now.
Liquavista, Pixtronics, etc., have been alternative display technologies that also ultimately didn't make the impact desired, AFAIK.
Meanwhile, LCDs developed high pixel densities (which led to pressures on mirasol tech too), Plasma got sidelined. EInk displays have since then made good progress, though, in my opinion, are still far from colors and speeds that mirasol had. And of course, OLED, Quantum dots, ...
My fantasy display would be some kind of reflective-mode display that can passively show static images like e-ink, have partial updates like MIP LCD in wearables, response times like modern LCD and AMOLED, and "super-real" contrast/gain.
I.e. actually do wavelength conversion to not just reflect a narrow-pass filtered version of the ambient light, but convert that broad spectrum energy into the desired visuals, so it isn't always inherently dimmer than the environment. I can only imagine this being either:
1. some wild materials science stuff that manages interference
2. some wild materials science stuff that controls multi-photon fluorescence
3. some wild materials science stuff to fuse photoelectric and electroemissive functions in the same panel. i.e. not really passive but extremely low loss active system to double-convert the ambient light that can follow the power curve of available light
>> My fantasy display would be some kind of reflective-mode display that can passively show static images like e-ink, have partial updates like MIP LCD in wearables, response times like modern LCD and AMOLED, and "super-real" contrast/gain.
What about cost? :-) It is an important factor too outside of the fantasy world and can kill new display technologies. The latter often suffer from yield issues (dead pixels, etc.) during early phases of R&D which can make initial costs be still higher as compared to already matured technologies.
>> I.e. actually do wavelength conversion to not just reflect a narrow-pass filtered version of the ambient light, but convert that broad spectrum energy into the desired visuals
Reflecting filtered version of the ambient light, if done efficiently, brings the display to as bright as other natural/common objects around. So it should be good enough for most purposes, even in a somewhat darker ambient with eyes adjusted.
It would not however be attention-grabbing by being brighter than those surrounding objects. So many users, often used to seeing brighter emissive displays, still do not pick those as a preference.
>> I can only imagine this being either:
>> ...
Another way to make it look brighter is to reflect more light towards the users/eyes while capturing it from broader directions. This would compromise on viewing angle (unless more fantasy tech is brought in), but I think this in itself take the display to wow levels.
Well, the reflectivity of color MIP LCD is not very satisfactory. It is barely adequate, even for people like me who are fans. This is both because of the narrow-band RGB filtering and the inherent losses of the polarization-based switching method. Even the "white" state is discarding most polarizations of the ambient light, and then the darker colors are even blocking that.
My fantasy is having the reflectivity be at least as good as good white paper, and with deep contrast too.
It also needs to be brighter in practice than normal objects because, no matter what, it will have to overcome some glare from whatever protective glass and touch sensing layers there are over the actual display.
>> Well, the reflectivity of color MIP LCD is not very satisfactory. It is barely adequate, even for people like me who are fans. This is both because of the narrow-band RGB filtering and the inherent losses of the polarization-based switching method. Even the "white" state is discarding most polarizations of the ambient light, and then the darker colors are even blocking that.
Yes, that's right. A typical color LCD transmits only about 5-10% of the light for white because of all those factors.
>> My fantasy is having the reflectivity be at least as good as good white paper, and with deep contrast too.
That exactly was our benchmark for mirasol development. We used to measure best-in-class color prints for color gamut, brightness, contrast, etc.
mirasol did not use polarizers or RGB filters. An advanced architecture (that I was leading) also avoided RGB subpixels, something which very few alternative technologies can do [1].
>> It also needs to be brighter in practice than normal objects because, no matter what, it will have to overcome some glare from whatever protective glass and touch sensing layers there are over the actual display.
There are also optical means that can nearly get rid of glare, if cost were not an issue. I have seen demo coatings that make the glass practically disappear -- we would repeatedly walk into it if it were used on a glass door.
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[1] Liquavista had Cyan-Magenta-Yellow subpixels vertically stacked. A new Eink architecture uses multiple colored pigments within the same cell but now needs sophisticated mechanisms to control them independently.
>Perhaps you joke, but does Tucker really have a chance at the Presidency?
People had the same attitude about Trump. Tucker has millions of followers and regularly gets more viewers than CNN. He is also one of the only talking heads that isn't on Israel's propaganda payroll. I think he'd actually go far in the primaries if he ran. Whoever wins next will be whoever is the least cozy with Israel. Democrats still polling at all-time lows despite this. I think whoever distances themselves from Israel the most (democrat or republican) is going to be the winner. People see how AIPAC and donors like the Adelsons control our country and force us into wars that don't benefit us. There will absolutely be blow back from this.
While I agree with you that Americans (on both sides) are increasingly getting frustrated with American politicians' near-blind devotion to Israel, it will not translate to public eschewing of Israel in American politics. Elections are still won by money-power, and AIPAC supplies a lot of that.
I don't think so, he's too much of a nerd. He uses too much reasoning in his communication (I am not saying good or bad reasoning) which is not what people want, especially not today. Even someone like Bernie Sanders was successful because he struck a cord, his message was clear and didn't need too much explanation. Tucker is mostly trying to be the smartest person in the room, an intellectual. Too many voters are turned off by this. FWIW I expected Trump to win in 2016 based on similar things.
Yeah, first I thought this is just a BeOS-inspired GUI theme, but there is more to it:
Nexus is Vitruvian's custom Linux kernel subsystem that brings BeOS-style
node monitoring, device tracking, and messaging to Linux — making it
possible to run Haiku applications on a standard Linux kernel.
True! Came to post the same thing - one of my favourite feature of Opera Presto engine was how all the websites in your history was also "indexed" locally, so that you could do a simple keyword search on "History" to find the web page you wanted to re-visit. It was fast and accurate and made it a breeze to find any site in that you had browsed and was still cached, and it was an incredibly useful feature.
I am from India, and online gas booking is temporarily no longer available because waiting list is long now (we use gas cylinders, not piped gas here, and so have to book for cylinders to be delivered home when it becomes empty by use). Earlier, I used to get a cylinder within a day or two of booking, but now it is upto 2 weeks in my city. But I am well off, and can rely on electrical / induction stoves if need be. The really poor, who had been enticed to move away from firewoods to gas through free / highly subsidised cylinders are the ones feeling the real pain - they've gone back to using firewood now. Mid-day meal schemes in schools are also affected due to gas shortage and firewood is being used in some areas to ensure the poor students don't go hungry. Some restaurants and small-scale eateries that relied on gas for cooking too have gone back to using firewoods, because of government restrictions on gas usage.
I used to live in India myself. Is the electric grid ready for widespread use of induction cookers? Are the wires in peoples home the right gauge? My air conditioners and heaters cause the sockets they were plugged into to melt in a high rise apartment.
The electric grid is significantly more capable now, at least in South India. And both induction stoves and electric cookers are already quite popular. The only thing holding them back is the higher cost of electricity - gas is still way, way cheaper. Compliance to using proper gauge of wires and sockets of appropriate ratings unfortunately still depends on the individual, as government supervision of the same is lax.
This makes me wonder - can Trump have better success in browbeating Cuba into submission and even getting a "friendlier" (i.e. pliable) regime (like with Venezuela) than the shit-show that the Iran war is now? (Any result in Cuba surely would be easier to sell to the electorate, due to the "success" with Venezuela).
Does it benefit Apple from removing this app? Yes, because it has a competing service - Apple Music. Apple shouldn't be the middle-man here deciding what apps its developers can create for its platform and what apps it users can install and use. It is prone to abuse, as many examples highlight. Even Apple shareholders should be questioning why Apple is wasting its time and money on litigations on legal disputes between third-parties (here the copyright holders and the developers).
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