HardlyCurious

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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
This is an interesting line of thinking. We can have all the evidence imaginable that scientists did a thing that caused a pandemic, but since they were trying to predict the next pandemic you just dismiss the evidence as meaningless. It s
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Maybe you are right, I shouldn't have characterized the evidence as indirect.
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
It's an appeal to Occam's razor. The most simple explanation of why a novel virus started infecting people in a city with a virology lab is that the written plan to make covid in that lab was executed.
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
There are a number of details about it which are the same as the plans from 2018. I don't think it's reasonable to think the plans of scientists don't get revised as they work. And as soon as the virus starts spreading, eve
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
I'm not qualified to evaluate the claims either, but I'm not convinced the authors are trustworthy. They say: "Harrison and Sachs (1) allege that scientists at NIH and elsewhere, including myself and colleagues, conspired to
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
"But what was really notable about this grant proposal was that they proposed to insert cleavage sites, similar to the mystifying furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence, and to insert those into their coronavirus sequen
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Discussing this isn't pointless just because we don't have definitive proof. We need to determine what happened based on what we do know. 7+million people are dead. Gain of function is happening in labs all over the world. Hum
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Covid has a novel mutation never seen in any natural coronavirus. Further there was a grant proposal from 2018 to insert the identical mutation as found in covid. There was a plan to engineer covid 2ish years before covid existed. But I&#
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
The fact that we only have speculation is due to yet inability to find a natural source of covid and China's refusal to be a decent member of the world and instead chose to obstruct and hide as much as they could. But, I'm sure ch
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Are you of the belief that the lab leak theory implies intention?
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
It is fact that a group that funds research in Wuhan (Eco health alliance) submitted a grant request to DARPA to fund research to engineer a coronavirus which could infect human lungs by inserted a specific cleavage site. Covid has that mu
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
I read this in a non-paywalled source a while ago, but this is all that easily came up in my search now. Maybe you think the title is sufficient to back up my claim, maybe you don't, IDK. https://www.bloomberg.com/news
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Actually, the closest natural viruses to covid were sent to Wuhan for study. I mean, that is what the Wuhan institute of coronaviruses was built to do right? The indirect evidence of a lab leak theory is overwhelming frankly. And it doesn
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Why did corporations change once covid hit?
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Food is inelastic, but any one food item isn't. People can cut back on meat in difficult economic conditions, and they do. So, what is on one hand necessary and inelastic can also be a luxury. Even things called 'staples' ar
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
What stopped corporations from realizing this before covid hit?
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
As a summary, the article argues for greater central control of the economy.
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Actually, letting people search video text would enable less watching and that is probably the reason they aren't interested in it.
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
It's in the article from this thread. Their is also a quote from the late RBG comparing efforts to stop this to some sort of stalinism. Either way, what is absolutely important is that any enforcement is absolute and not selective &#x2
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
Thank you for providing that research, I wasn't aware of that paper. But when I read it, I found something interesting. "The final precision could be reached by integrating over more than 130 000 rotations relying on a careful sup
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
I would love to revisit MM myself, but I don't have the expertise to actually setup the experiment. I might be able to resolve that gap, but I definitely don't have the funding either, and that is a gap I don't know how to s
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
I'm not convinced of that interpretation of MM. MM found a signal below the margin of error. I think if they spun the table faster the signal would grow in strength. But subsequent experiments stopped rotating the assembly at all an
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by HardlyCurious 3y ago
I see the cloud mostly for startup-ish companies hoping to grow rapidly but which want to avoid large upfront expenses to be ready for said growth. A stable company where growth as a percentage isn't likely to be significant can run th
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by HardlyCurious 4y ago
So are there no secular pop sci authors to clear things up or is your pet theory just you trying to blame an issue on your out group?
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by HardlyCurious 4y ago
What is this fear mongering? With logic like this we would have banned the internet in the early 90s.
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by HardlyCurious 4y ago
That union lawyer isn't going to unilaterally say ok. It has to get socialized and a consensus opinion needs to be found. That takes time. And like you pointed out, the union might not want to accept a modest increase because it can
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by HardlyCurious 4y ago
I'm not sure why you feel the need to falsely frame the point as a request for a blank check. I get all the reasons you provided, but at the end of the day an honest discussion needs to ask is estimating tasks effective. Do developers
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by HardlyCurious 4y ago
They could embed ads in their cover photos. Just a banner or something. Not sure how the tracking would work, but there would certainly be value in it since sharing headlines can get many millions of views.
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by HardlyCurious 4y ago
Go through history and tally up the human rights violations done by companies and govts and see who the leader is. The govt has an army, police, and jails. The govt has legal means to use violence against people and deny them their freedom
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by HardlyCurious 4y ago
Please provide a potential valid use of this data in line with the FBIs mission that doesn't imply circumventing due process?

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