Best of Twitter - Week of January 10, 2022 [2/2]
@moxie Responded!
I think the status quo comes from a present-day "missing middle" where we have centralized-but-easy things and decentralized-but-hard things, but new tech (w lots of cryptography!) actually is on the cusp of giving us the best of both worlds.
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Speaking of air filters, I continue to be ever more radicalized about air quality and health. In my personal life, this has mostly showed up as "increase ventilation if I burn my frying onions" and "tell all my friends not to use ultrasonic humidifiers"
Tessa Alexanian @tessafyi
^ thread (about 2021, not just air filters)
Great thread on why timelines for terraforming Mars are terribly off-base, and far too pessimistic.
"...implicit assumption of no significant technological development over the next 100,000 years...a total failure of background assumptions."
Donald Hobson @DonaldH49964496
As a tool developer, I'm somewhat conflicted by this - I think the founders definitely choose the better business model but ...
Imagine a world where Illumina, instead of selling sequencers, decided to "keep it exclusive" and sequence everything themselves
Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh
^ interesting
😂 Semiconductor shortage leads to Canon selling toner cartridges without chips which usually identify them as genuine, so Canon now instructs customers on how to override the warnings for using "counterfeit" cartridges
Mario W. @mariowitte
Quarantined section
Omicron has learned how to read!!!
Of the 30 mutations in its spike gene, 24 have been characterized in scientific publications.
Also, it borrowed defining mutations from alpha, beta, delta, eta, epsilon, iota and mu. Even though it was in hiding when these variants emerged.
^ explanation: