Accujack

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by Accujack 7y ago
Doesn't seem flagged now? In any case, lots of companies will "have a vaccine" soon... the question is whether any of them will work on a virus type that has so far been very good at defying vaccine creation (see the history
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by Accujack 7y ago
I expect that the US public will be unable to trust the US Government during this outbreak. I'm hopeful that experts like the CDC and other public health officials "leak" information to the Internet or elsewhere so the publi
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by Accujack 7y ago
At this point, it's much more likely to be sabotaged by an inept government than any intelligence effort. The US is showing the same signs of wanting to avoid losing face as the Chinese government did, probably with the same results.
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by Accujack 7y ago
They are far from existing. Right now the only workable test for the virus is a genetic fingerprint via PCR. This takes time and needs both a lab and some very specific reagents which the CDC is presently having trouble producing. If you
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by Accujack 7y ago
I think the term "techlash" is an attempt to shape opinion on the existence, source, nature and of the problem being discussed. Really, the issue is "corplash", or backlash against large corporations abusing privacy... a
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by Accujack 7y ago
I think the term "techlash" in the blog is an attempt to shape opinion on the source of the problem. Really, the issue is "corplash", or backlash against large corporations abusing privacy... and even then, it's rea
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by Accujack 7y ago
The "standard" test so far is to isolate the RNA of the virus, use that RNA to form DNA, then replicate the DNA using PCR to check it against example serums or antibodies. There are several problems with this, not the least of whi
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by Accujack 7y ago
In other words, it's possible for a non native program to be faster than a native program provided the native program is less optimized for the execution platform. This is not exactly news.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Do a google search for "laser induced fission". Generating plasmas with CPA lasers is becoming more common, but isn't widespread yet because the technology is very new. These plasmas can be the source for all kinds of partic
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by Accujack 7y ago
>fire a stream of hydrogen ions with a particle accelerator at a chunk of Boron 11. This is what's wrong. The energy required to accelerate the ions is much higher than the energy which can be harvested this way. The concept under
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by Accujack 7y ago
Love the user name. I always thought that movie was amusing, and so is the NSA :)
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by Accujack 7y ago
The real answer is that any industry can die, and the best way to avoid that is to look carefully at your business model before you commit to building a company. No one can see the future well enough to tell exactly what will happen in an i
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by Accujack 7y ago
Yep. They're not just collecting info for marketing their own stuff, they're collecting "free" assets to sell, because there's not yet a law against them doing that.
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's probably closer than you think. The reason we don't already have self driving cars is that there hasn't been enough computing power in a small package to make the sort of decision logic needed practical until recently. A
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by Accujack 7y ago
Yeah... you have to start with music, not bytes.
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by Accujack 7y ago
It was originally meant as a dig at the height of some fellow scientists, really.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Interestingly, the original "sx" designation for Intel 386 chips (80386sx) meant the same sort of thing... the 386sx was a 32 bit chip with a 16 bit bus. The dx was 32/32. A product generation later, Intel changed what this
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by Accujack 7y ago
Not a bad idea, but the fundamental thing that needs to happen is that US laws have to be fully updated for the computer age, with privacy protections and limits on what collected information be used for.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Who is President Trump's Mickey Mouse?
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by Accujack 7y ago
I won't address the content of your post here - there's too much to go through and too little time. But, I will say that Trump's supporters are both ready and unready for the fallout. Ready because they're essentially de
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by Accujack 7y ago
You know what I find really interesting? If Trump screws up the response to this virus (like by cutting the CDC's budget in the middle of a crisis) then the people most vulnerable are the same demographic as Trump's supporters.
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by Accujack 7y ago
That's nice, but not comparable to a vaccine. Treating people with this means saving more of those who would die, but death is only on impact of the virus (as serious as it is). Without a vaccine, the only way to keep people from gett
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by Accujack 7y ago
Hint: If it's going to become a pandemic, then it's probably already too late to contain it.
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by Accujack 7y ago
1) This is an ignorant statement, there are plenty of people in the 55+ age range who work worldwide. 2) Simply having workers get incapacitated is one of the smallest impacts the virus will have. Take a look at the present price of crude
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's for detecting life on Mars. If what you fire the laser at screams in pain, it's probably alive.
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by Accujack 7y ago
I was just wondering why they did this with an inkjet instead of a laser, but you answered that. I wonder if they can manipulate the liquid composition to adjust the gap?
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by Accujack 7y ago
Not to mention waste heat.
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Oh, look... a paywall. (closes tab)
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by Accujack 7y ago
>There is evidence that the study claiming the virus can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed. There's also a recent news story that a UK citizen is a "super spreader", and that he had contact with all the
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by Accujack 7y ago
> It is all about efficient use of real estate. To be completely accurate, it's all about maximizing profit and minimizing costs, which in this case means having as many people in a given amount of floor space as is legally possible

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