aliasEli

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by aliasEli 5y ago
> If you’ve watched as many David Attenborough-narrated nature documentaries as I have or follow Nature is Metal, you know that many non-human animals spend their entire existence merely surviving. First a not so nice response: Humans al
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is quite an interesting article. Link: https://link.medium.com/HNdhmXdFHhb
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Overall it is a nice article about a group of species that deserve a lot more positive attention. However this statement is definitely false: > spiders are terrestrial, so you are not close to spiders when you are swimming! Several land
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Spiders eating snakes, oh my Here are the photographs to prove it(arstechnica.com)
1 points by aliasEli 5y ago|0 comments
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by aliasEli 5y ago
What is really amazing is that all current approved vaccines seem to reduce the risk of serious consequences (like dying) from COVID-19. The fact that some vaccines cannot protect against re-infections is worrying, but so far most reports s
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is a good pragmatic article about using formal methods. You should not expect them to solve all of your problems, but they can certainly help.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
My relation with Autoconf, eh, let's say it's complicated. Once you get it running it generally does a solid job. It helps to run your code even on systems that you have never heard of. On the other hand if you wanted to change yo
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Some COVID-19 tests can be fooled. A good article with the scientific reasons behind this. It is also interesting for people who are not children, and definitely for people who are deciding whether these tests are useful.
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Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks(bbc.com)
2 points by aliasEli 5y ago|1 comments
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by aliasEli 5y ago
You are right, of course.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Quitting smoking is already a big step for your health. Smoking requires all kind of complicated chemical reactions that result in things like free radicals and airborne particulates that certainly will damage your health. Vaping is mainly
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is really shocking news. He is a very well respected journalist. The police have arrested three suspects, and it is believed that their car was caught on CCTV near the place of the murder.
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Peter R de Vries: Dutch crime journalist wounded in Amsterdam shooting(bbc.com)
3 points by aliasEli 5y ago|1 comments
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by aliasEli 5y ago
There are multiple reports that indicate the 'Long Covid' is a very real phenomenon. Because COVID is still a pretty new decease, it is difficult to estimate what the really long-term (say 5 or 10 years) problems are. One of the t
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Most users have never programmed their PC.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is a very positive development. So much stuff that could be repaired ends up in the garbage. For the vast majority of products there is no good recycling process so the materials in these products are lost. Also tractor owners will be
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by aliasEli 5y ago
An article like this where the author described her own doubts seems more likely to convince other doubters than a dry article about statistics.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
But they will apply the same norms to you as a tourist. A part of the population will regard them as degenerate perverts.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The mechanism that duplicate the virus genome is fairly imprecise, which means that they produce an astronomical number of mutants. The only mutants that we will really notice are the ones that survive. There is nothing sinister about the f
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Vaping is a pretty effective way to stop smoking. I smoked for decades, after one week vaping I quit smoking.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Much more detailed story by Brian Krebs: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-...
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The title is misleading. The research was not about vaccine but about monoclonal antibodies.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
A nice story about AI systems that warns that you should very carefully choose the parameter you want to optimize.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The immune system of these patients was fighting two infections at the same time. Once the bacteria was eliminated it could use al its energy on fighting COVID.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> a swab from a bat contains very little infectious virus We know that they were doing gain of function research, but that only works with live viruses. So they must have some method to cultivate the virus. When they can do that small si
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is simply the result of natural selection, there are tons of viruses that are less infectious, but they simply die out.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
What do you mean "did not disclose", most scientists that had connections with WIV were pretty open about it.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> The reasons for this seems to be that bats are just too small and the virus load too thin to pose a threat to humans. So bat to human is very unlikely, but bat to cat is more plausible, and then cat (etc) to human also more plausible.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I does not have to be an immediate infection from bats to humans. With both SARS and MERS an intermediate host transmitted it to humans.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
South Korea did well at the early phases of the epidemic[0]. The problem now is that they don't have enough vaccines[1]. China used some draconian measures to achieve their results. [0] https://www.worldometers.info/cor

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