As long as the design team has the discipline to freeze the button layout for any given car, so the driver doesn't have to deal with moving or disappearing buttons.
All of the loops and swirls are summary representations of known atomic positions: really, knowing a protein structure means knowing the position of every atomic nucleus, relative to the nuclei, down to some small resolution, and assuming a low temperature.
The atoms do wiggle around a bit at room temperature (and even more at body temperature), which means that simulating them usefully typically requires sampling from a probability distribution defined by the protein structure and some prior knowledge about how atoms move (often a potential energy surface fitted to match quantum mechanics).
There are many applications of these simulations. One of the most important is drug design: knowing the structure of the protein, you can zoom in on a binding pocket and design a set of drug molecules which might disable it. Within the computer simulation, you can mutate a known molecule into each of your test molecules and measure the change in binding affinity, which tells you pretty accurately which ones will work. Each of these simulations requires tens of millions of samples from the atomic probability distribution, which typically takes a few hours on a GPU given a good molecular dynamics program.
As long as Amazon has their fulfillment and delivery network, I don't think they'll ever be replaced by AliExpress (in the US, at least). I've never seen anyone delivering packages in an AliExpress van :)
"As a manure, guano is a highly effective fertilizer . . . Guano was also, to a lesser extent, sought for the production of gunpowder and other explosive materials. The 19th-century guano trade played a pivotal role in the development of modern input-intensive farming."
Chicago should build new designs of these around Millennium Park, and maybe reduce their strife with what is both native wildlife and a productive resource. They really can't stand pigeons.
Within living memory, Americans wore hats pretty much whenever they were outside. If we decide to give up sunblock, we might want to reconsider the change in fashions that got rid of them.
“There is a basic distinction between life expectancy and life span,” says Stanford University historian Walter Scheidel, a leading scholar of ancient Roman demography. “The life span of humans – opposed to life expectancy, which is a statistical construct – hasn’t really changed much at all, as far as I can tell.
Life expectancy is an average. If you have two children, and one dies before their first birthday but the other lives to the age of 70, their average life expectancy is 35.
That’s mathematically correct – and it certainly tells us something about the circumstances in which the children were raised. But it doesn’t give us the full picture. It also becomes especially problematic when looking at eras, or in regions, where there are high levels of infant mortality. Most of human history has been blighted by poor survival rates among children, and that continues in various countries today.”
Couldn't you use the bleaching effect of UV to estimate exposure? It doesn't have to be an electronic UV sensor, just a spot of calibrated UV-sensitive dye.
The reason it's "like printing money" to build an apartment building is that there are so few relative to demand. You're using the result of a shortage as an argument not to fix the shortage.
