Unless the rules changed within the last six years, if a hen house returns a positive environmental Salmonella Enteritidis test and the farm is large enough they must undergo an egg break test to show that the eggs themselves are not infected with SE before they can be sold to consumers. If the egg test is positive the eggs can only be sold as some form of pasteurized egg product until testing shows negative.
From the practical consumer standpoint, it is essentially true. Getting an egg with salmonella in it is like winning the lottery. But good information either way since some people do get their eggs from small farms which are exempt from testing.
Thats interesting because the egg white is rich in avidin which binds biotin which inhibits many bacterial pathogens, but not viruses because flu vaccines are grown in sterile eggs. The BBC broadcasted this with cross rail plague pits when they got a bod from porton down in to explain some of this stuff.
I can find these studies suggesting salmonella inhibits biotin in the gut[1], and this link suggesting a biotin deficiency can increase susceptibility to salmonella [2].
However one thing that can not be disputed is the reduction in choline intake from the egg yolk would have dumbed down the nation much like covid has dumbed down the world aka brain fog.
Maybe we need a law to sue political parties out of existence if they screw the nation.
I’m not sure if this is regionalisms, or an industry jargon I’m not familiar with, but I couldn’t make head or tails of “BBC broadcasted this with cross rail plague pits when they got a bod from porton down in to explain some of this stuff”. Could you help me understand?
Cross-rail is a new underground metro line in London. During digging of the tunnels, they discovered interesting archeological remains, which included plague pits (where plague victims were disposed of).
Portion Down is the site of a UK military facility specialising in research into chemical and biological hazards.
That would make it more expensive than onshore wind($45/MWh) and solar yet($48/MWh) cheaper than all other sources of energy including natural gas($59/MWh). Double the final cost of energy to $110/MWh and it would still be in theory cheaper than the average for coal($115/MWh). Granted I'm pulling these numbers from Wikipedia so it's not that simple but the numbers aren't unrealistic.
Texas had blackouts due to extreme cold as recently as 2011. The findings from the investigation after that event were ignored and we are now seeing a repeat of it exactly 10 years later. It has not worked "just fine" for decades.
I don't know enough about importing capacity in that other grid since they're hooked up to the western half supposedly but I agree with your points. TX being hooked up to the rest of the US could have saved them and this other regional grid appears to be managing it better than TX.
That is debatable. Close grids could not have supplied 30GW of power, they were also under near record loads. You would have had to pull from many states away which is insanely inefficient.
Also people miss how big the TX grid is. FL and PA are the #2 and #3 power generation states. TX produces as much as both added together.
For the pedantic TX does have connections to other grids but the capacity is so low that it wouldn't have mitigated this event and is under whatever threshold is set for federal oversight.
As a programmer in state government this approach is not feasible for many reasons the chief of which is that at almost every level of government we lack technocrats. In the very unlikely event that one is appointed or hired that has Audrey Tang's(from the podcast, digital minister for Taiwan) background I predict that the amount of pushback received from other levels of government and unions would smother any software with similar utility to that of the mask finder. I can't wait to jump to private industry.
Yes the current Taiwanese government is truly one of the world's finest, and the US governance one of the worst.
One of the reason I enjoy reading https://pedestrianobservations.com/ and other in depth discussions of public transit is that it's really quite the barometer for overall civic function. The rate of new public transit is also a fine derivative, and as such even more "low latency".
Something I really enjoy at Taiwan is the bike sharing system they've put all around the country. Liking it at a point where I've wrote an essaye about it[1]. It's cheap, everywhere, and built on a really high standard
They are trialing 2nd version of the system and it's better in every way - as in all the things you wish can be improved, they went ahead and did it (more solid bike, faster card swipe, better lock)
Disclaimer: I am Taiwanese. We have been doing well handling the COVID-19, but we did far worse on traffic accidents prevention than our neighbors.
The design of Taiwanese Roads leaves no room for bikes and passengers. Taipei does this better because it has MRT and so U-bike is widely used there. Other cities are not so lucky.
> Yes the current Taiwanese government is truly one of the world's finest
World's finest in what regards?
Have you seen what the conflict resolution[1] they chose in parliament meetings?
> and the US governance one of the worst.
Are you also aware that United States has almost 14x of the population than Taiwan's? The governance of 330 million people coming from many different backgrounds and ethnicities around the global vs. 98% of homogeneous Han Chinese[2] are an order of magnitude difficult?
I am afraid your anecdotal doesn't tell the full story.
I failed my interview with Amazon and I blame them. They tried to rush me to an onsite after passing my online coding assessment. 4 different recruiters were in contact with me about the same position. Review materials were sent 5 days before the interview, I didn't know what Leadership Principles were before then. Travel arrangements weren't made until 3 days before the interview. A prep phone call where the recruiter tells me what DS&A material to focus on wasn't scheduled until 2 days before the interview. Material I was told not to focus on by one recruiter was brought up in one of my interviews. Another had such crippling anxiety that he couldn't finish a sentence making for a very agonizing hour where I made little progress on the parts of the questions/problems he could communicate.
I did the best I could given the circumstances and I have no regrets. Had I somehow passed it would've been very difficult to accept an offer given how chaotic the whole experience was.
I know it’s funny, but I hate the prevalence of this video so much, because people reference it as a reason voice programming doesn’t work, and I think it discourages people who may have otherwise had success with voice programming. You should consider linking to the middle of Emily Shea’s PerlCon video where she first plays this video then shows that it’s actually possible to dictate the same code effectively.
(note the fiddling around video playing isn’t a fundamental issue with voice input, google slides with video embeds turned out to be pretty unreliable with keyboard input and I believe that was ironed out in her later talks)
Algal oil is a potential substitute. There was a laundry detergent manufactured from algal oil instead of palm oil however there was pushback from consumers because the algae were genetically modified.
Because it was a pointless blanket statement? Anecdote - One classmate went on to study phage therapy in Europe, another went to work for Intralytix a phage therapy biotech in the US, both PhDs. They were not laughed at by their advisor or their contemporaries for their decisions.
While true, phage therapy was dismissed as propagandized pseudoscience from the Soviet Union since they were the pioneers in the initial research (and the research did appear dodgy TBH). The landscape has changed, but really recently that was not the case and many microbiologists viewed anything phage related as utter nonsense. I am happy to see more research happening.
Note that phage therapy was used and understood in the west well before the Soviet Union came into existence. It fell out of use because of the dangers from poorly purified phage preps, and because antibiotics showed up at about the same time those issues could have been fixed, and are a far more useful general purpose tool.
Do you have some sources for this? Because the Wikipedia article on phage therapy appears to directly contradict you.
Directly after the paragraph about its discovery by an Englishman and a Frenchman:
> A Georgian, George Eliava, was making similar discoveries. He travelled to the Pasteur Institute in Paris where he met d'Hérelle, and in 1923 he founded the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, devoted to the development of phage therapy.
Georgia was part of the USSR at the time. It appears to be the first reference to any actual therapy.
In any case it's a pretty tight schedule from the discovery of bacterophages in 1915/1917 to the formation of the USSR in 1922.
> The first patient was healed of dysentery using phage therapy in August 1919. Many more followed. At the time, none, not even d'Hérelle, knew exactly what a phage was.
Source: Infectious disease epidemiologist who has been interested in phage research for two decades ;)
But you will find on that same Wikipedia page an entry for d'Herelle, and if you follow that...as you note yourself, you get an animal trial in 1919 as well as a human trial. D'Herelle then heads to Indochina to work on Cholera, and he's awarded an honorary doctorate two years after the USSR is founded - along with one of the field's most prestigious medals.
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Is that a tight timeline? Yes. But the idea that "The West" ignored phages because it was some sort of Soviet pseudoscience is contrary to the historical record.
The west abandoned phage therapy because unfiltered endotoxins made phage therapy dangerous, and until the modern era, antibiotics are pretty superior in nearly every respect.
What did happen because of the USSR is the institute in Georgia not abandoning phage research because they continued to have much more limited access to penicillin thanks to the Cold War.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC173326/
Unless the rules changed within the last six years, if a hen house returns a positive environmental Salmonella Enteritidis test and the farm is large enough they must undergo an egg break test to show that the eggs themselves are not infected with SE before they can be sold to consumers. If the egg test is positive the eggs can only be sold as some form of pasteurized egg product until testing shows negative.
Page 47 if you're bored. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2009-07-09/pdf/E9-161...