BrandonMarc

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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Sounds like bullying to me. Giant entrenched mainstream entity teams up with nonprofit to financially take out a competitor. For the purpose of removing diversity from public discourse. Doesn't sound so high minded when you put it that
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
... and the W.H.O. based their decision making on this ... What exactly is surgisphere? Hackers that paid for illicit data feeds? A total fabrication? Chinese misinformation? Nothing makes any sense.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
You'd probably be better off with a snowmobile there, too
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
... I see your cargo cult, and I raise you Elon Musk and Tesla with gargantic touch screens in their cars. Aesthetically neat; realistically trouble.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
... until something goes wrong. Then a touch screen is the last thing you want. An airliner moving uncontrollably is no time to try touching just the right spot of the screen, and avoid touching the wrong spot.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Why didn't we start a month ago? 6 weeks ago?
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Oh? That might explain the girl in Iran. Athlete in her 20s, died of covid-19.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
What is meant by "free" revenue? I'm wondering how the one leads to the other. Does this mean, lower processing fee/less need to increase processing fees?
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Who could trust the FEC to fairly adjudicate? Whoever is in power, or whoever placed the officials, the other side will happily claim foul play.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
mistakes != agenda
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
... and that's merely a recent example.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
It's also worth pointing out, all of the Great Powers are involved in bio-weapons research. Even the USA. Classified of course. Very dangerous, but able to provide tempting powers to politicians and military leaders. Not that I support
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Thanks. Resubmitted. Dang - you wanna delete this one?
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible
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Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)(nature.com)
48 points by BrandonMarc 7y ago|9 comments
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Not if Elon Musk and Bill Gates have their way. Electric cars, using power provided by thorium reactors ... two massive game-changers for everybody.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Is that including ocean?
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Agreed. While I believe the article points out the gruesomeness, it also carefully notes how much less collateral damage is likely. I came away from the article a bit sickened by the concept, yes, but also proud we have a weapon whose purpo
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Flint leadership deserves a lot of blame. I read a story (can't find it) about a contractor who intended to do a high quality job taking care of the lead pipes ... but the city of Flint instead gave it to a different contractor, who ch
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
OR ... The comments encourage critical thinking about the claims made by the post.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Yeah, that's a bill that will never see passage.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
I'm not so sure. I think Trump's hot air about suggesting companies leave China is something.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Precisely. Don't want to be involved in international politics? Fine - don't involve yourself in international commerce, either.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Indeed. The "decoupling" phenomenon has their attention.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Ditto South Park. By telling people they cannot watch South Park, they have guaranteed everyone will want to watch that episode. That's the lesson Dolores Umbridge inadvertently taught us in Harry Potter # 5.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Yep. The same reason they ignore Gen-4 nuclear, and sucking carbon out of the air. Politicians frankly don't want to solve global warming; they want more money and power. They want to pass laws telling the masses what they can and can&
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Needs a better title: How to survive the aftermath of a lightning strike
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Indeed. He mentions halfway down his previous employer is a billion-dollar startup, and why what works there won't work for his micro startup. And yet ... I'm sure a lot of what he learned there is being applied here.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Yes, she did that. Her entourage of assistants weren't on the boat. They flew back and forth, several times. Therefore the whole endeavor had an undeniable net-positive carbon footprint.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
> Nobody is advocating for everybody stopping flying tomorrow. You should read the Green New Deal. Not tomorrow, no, but one goal is to make flying infinitesimally rare.

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