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It's as though the vesicles are email, and viruses are spam. Previously on HN: 800 million viruses fall onto every square meter of Earth every day. They kill
by stephengillie 8y ago
It's as though the vesicles are email, and viruses are spam.
Previously on HN:
800 million viruses fall onto every square meter of Earth every day. They kill 20% of bacterial life every day. [0]
Video simulation of HIV infecting a cell and reproducing. [1]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16839636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16839636
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16982396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16982396
- noonespecial 8y agoWorse than spam. They're like that chain email all your relatives kept forwarding you about Bill Gates giving you a trip to Disney World if you sent it on to 10 other people.
- derefr 8y agoViruses are memes. Something that a cell hears, and then can't stop repeating.
- ajuc 8y agoIf the messages between cells are e-mail, then viruses are computer viruses. The analogy is almost perfect - it's information that uses security holes to cause the host to produce and send copies of it.
- stephengillie 8y agoAnd eventually the computer explodes, spreading email spam everywhere. Oh, wait.
- divs1210 8y agoJust realised 'viral meme' is a redundant phrase.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoVesicles are RPCs, and viruses are... Viruses. That's why informatics stole the word "virus".