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by achenatx 5y ago
The assertion is not correct, viruses do not need to spread to new hosts to experience meaningful mutation.
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by achenatx 5y ago
this isnt the case. The virus spreads within your body and the mutations will spread within the body as well. A virus can mutate and improve within the host. What doesnt necessarily get selected for within the host is improved survival rate
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by achenatx 5y ago
Dumb people are going to want to go to covid parties to get infected naturally because it is better immunity.. Public health messages need to be kept simple. Natural immunity should be better because you are exposed to all the same proteins
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by achenatx 5y ago
No one is saying it cant transmit that way, just that it is likely not the predominant way. Just because something can transmit via airborne particles doesnt make it an airborne virus. This is partially because there is no strict definition
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by achenatx 5y ago
even scientists often times use the disease name interchangeably with the virus.
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by achenatx 5y ago
Airborne has special meaning. Clearly covid spreads "through the air" that doesnt mean it is airborne. One problem is there is no strict definition of airborne. There is no doubt that covid can spread via an airborne path, but it
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by achenatx 5y ago
some types of comments are redundant. These days I write my code as comments first and then write the code. But for example this one // If either token bucket capacity or refill time is 0, disable limiting. if si
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by achenatx 5y ago
Any outcome that diverges from the percent population means the institution is racist. This is literally the foundation of woke culture 1) More blacks are incarcerated than their representation in the population. Therefore the justice/
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by achenatx 5y ago
As people have done analysis of what percent of the time police spend on various types of calls, it becomes clear that we only need armed police for around 5%. investigation, forensics, traffic control, etc etc dont need weapons and tactica
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by achenatx 5y ago
least reliable is the battery. In texas, 60 month batteries only last 3 years. One day you try to start your car and it simply wont start. Thus requiring a jump start. I know what to do here, but many people I know have to get their car tow
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by achenatx 5y ago
I have asked my HR and team not to use the family analogy. We are team and support each other as team mates. We do help people when they are sick etc. Ultimately we are trying to achieve a shared goal and I want to company to help people to
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by achenatx 5y ago
The likely scenario is that it turns into cold/flu. Everyone either gets the vaccine or the virus and we are all mostly immune. It mutates a little and once it mutates just enough to spread substantially everyone who gets it gets immun
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by achenatx 5y ago
The ultimate issue is that underpinning every action is a value system. Value systems are opinions and are fundamentally not rational. Virtually every political disagreement is based on values, though most of the time people dont recognize
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by achenatx 5y ago
Education is essentially free on the internet. You cant get a diploma from a fancy university, but the knowledge is available. Housing costs are high in some areas, but still incredibly low in others. The internet has enabled knowledge work
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by achenatx 5y ago
Since the beginning of forums there have been trolls and misinformation. There has always been the option to ignore, either by not replying or by blocking an offender from their view. However my experience has been that 1) people are almost
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by achenatx 5y ago
the first amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" the federal govt should have zero benefits tied to marriage. By having benefits tied to marri
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by achenatx 5y ago
assuming the demand is still there, other employers will take up the slack and potentially be in a position to hire the employees.
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by achenatx 5y ago
there are certain patterns that have been true with communication media over a long period of time. You can see that all electronic forms of communication follow these patterns. There is immediate/delayed, one way communication, two wa
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by achenatx 5y ago
There is a third kind which bars people working for professional services companies from taking clients directly or going to another company and taking clients.
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by achenatx 5y ago
As a professional services company we have had a few people over the years shop their contract or try to go direct with the client. They essentially split our gross margin with the client. The client reduces their cost and the employee gets
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by achenatx 5y ago
we used livescribes which were very usable. However instead of constantly improving their physical device they wasted a few years trying to make a platform for apps. The pens were fat and they should have invested in making really nice form
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by achenatx 5y ago
my theory is that the single dose vaccines and getting infected are about the same effectiveness as a single dose of the two dose vaccines. If you are infected, you probably have about 85% resistance to infection. Getting an addition shot o
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by achenatx 5y ago
Natural selection means that they likely are warlike and violent. Warlike and violent intelligent species destroy themselves quickly so are unlikely to exist at the same time as us. Only the ones that can reengineer themselves to not be war
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by achenatx 5y ago
There is no universal morality. Morals are likely partial genetic and partially cultural. Natural selection selects for cultural values ("morals") that allow a culture to survive to destroy other cultures. Random morals are consta
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by achenatx 5y ago
people are using crypto to bypass country based currency controls. The original big bump I think was related to chinese getting their money out of china.
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by achenatx 5y ago
most science is too complex for people to understand the data (e.g. climate change). Therefore science is almost always reduced to religion for the lay public. Ultimately whether you believe is based on if you have faith in the scientists.
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by achenatx 5y ago
This should be retitled to be Based on the assumptions built into our computer models, our models suggest that it could take millions of years for biodiversity to recover.
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by achenatx 5y ago
how hard is it to just agree? I agree with conservatives and liberals even when they are saying ridiculous things. "Oh yeah, I totally know what you are saying" "mmm hmmm" "Interesting I hadnt thought about it like
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by achenatx 5y ago
volume and tuning should be dials. I dislike touch screens too. My tundra has the perfect UI for climate and audio
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by achenatx 5y ago
once you go down that road you will find preppers (e.g. doomsday preppers)

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