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This was a favorite when I was growing up: "The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196827.The_Value_of_Beli...


If you liked that growing up, then this one about the same historical figure (Pasteur) might be of interest (later in life), since it seems to tell, according to the comments, "the rest of the story":

"Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology"

(4.8/5 stars, 406 total ratings, 68 with reviews) at https://www.amazon.com/Bechamp-Pasteur-Chapter-history-biolo...


TLDR: We knew micrometeorites would happen, just not one this big so soon. We've corrected four small ones already. We barely got away with correcting this one, because luckily there is a large performance margin built into the image gathering pipeline. We're studying how many more big whoopsies might occur and what effect that might have on the telescope's future.

I wonder if having an impact that was larger than modeled so early on in JWST's mission is a foreboding sign for its lifespan.


I wonder as well.... 10 billion is pocket change. Should have built 2.


No, but he is an intelligent person who leads a billion-dollar organization that is, among other things, on the verge of eradicating the historical scourge of polio.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/theoptimist/articles/Health-...


I'm not sure I buy the risk/market trade-off. You could replace Boeing with any car manufacturer that still has publicly traded shareholder needs.


The car industry is not as advanced as the aviation industry. It will come a time, where the level of complexity of a car means that in order to build and test it properly, it will be a ever-increasing easy business decision to take shortcuts.


And we have already seen glimmers of such behavior with all the emissions scandals around diesel cars... the outcome is not immediate death of passengers, but car companies were/are skirting health regulations to increase profits.


that has already happened...see the legal cases in last century via Gerry Spence for example ford pinto etc..


The world is full of examples of companies maximizing profits while screwing over their customers. Is that what was happening here? What's the alternative answer? They just didn't think it through? They rushed because of FOMO?


Fubo? Liked the service during trial but the 4K World Cup stream was flaky.


People != the market. Anecdotally Facebook usage among my circles has dropped. Most of that activity has shifted to Instagram which Facebook, Inc. owns but the general stigma attached to it is less.


Sure. But the market is a good proxy. Investors are betting billions that people don’t care about privacy and so far that bet has been good


Facebook is a natural monopoly. People have to use it, whether they like it or not, whether they care about privacy or not.


Facebook's usefulness outweighs users' concerns about privacy, which leads me to conclude that users don't "actually" care about privacy. They might wish that Facebook were different, but that wish hasn't translated into loss of market share for Facebook.


No one has to use Facebook.


No one has to use electricity, for a uselessly narrow definition of "have to".


Living in a city, I must manually retract side mirrors when parking on small streets and extend them before driving. Often need to readjust the mirrors each time after extending them.


I take it that you don't drive a car that folds its mirrors when you put it in Park, which is now a common feature.


The model of the helmet for use in concussion studies is only as good as your model for the (more complex) system of human skin, skull, and brain suspended in cerebrospinal fluid.


Worth noting that the pretty HD pictures came from a laptop hooked up to a DAC converter to simulate an analog HD video camera. The true analog camera shown on the page had nowhere near HD color resolution (though it could still recognize faces in a parking lot with 95% accuracy--impressive in itself.)


Shocked? It's called lobbying--it's been around for decades.


So has bribery. It doesn't mean people shouldn't still be outraged when it happens.


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