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by biorach 5y ago
Lysenko was a fraud and a disgusting human being who cheerfully saw scientists condemned to death to further his take science. Lamarck's theories were unsupported by the evidence available at the time. Current research indicates that i
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by biorach 5y ago
Excellent reply. And absolutely fascinating research. Thanks.
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by biorach 5y ago
That's not accurate. Djano encourages, but does not mandate, a particular structure. Incompetent developers will always find a way to subvert whatever sensible defaults are at hand, which is the case you are faced with.
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by biorach 5y ago
Source?
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by biorach 5y ago
I think that most of the overhead is due to how ansible communicates with clients. A faster language would not change that. chezmoi has a much simpler approach so I don't think it's a good comparison. There is a project called mit
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by biorach 5y ago
all of the economist articles are anonymous https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
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by biorach 5y ago
No one said it was taboo. You made a dumb comment, someone politely explained real science to you.
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by biorach 5y ago
OPEC is not terribly effective and suffers from constant bickering behind closed doors. The same motives apply - even if there was a "HIV vaccine cartel" there would be a massive incentive to undercut it.
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by biorach 5y ago
Excellent article.
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by biorach 5y ago
Telling you that you don't know what you're talking about.
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by biorach 5y ago
Over 4000 US dead, $1.9 trillion expenditure, hundreds of thousands Iraqi dead, their health care and education systems wrecked and still not fully restored, a regional rival empowered and dominant in Iraqi politics.... Worth it?
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by biorach 5y ago
Yes! This really sums it up - they have their place, but it takes experience and good judgement to know where they are appropriate, and how to divide up concerns.
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by biorach 5y ago
Agreed - photos diminish it - nothing can capture the intensity of the original.
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by biorach 5y ago
> and basically all modern guides tell you to avoid it. If only... There's still a thriving OO-heavy mindset in much of the Java ecosystem, but less evangelical that it used to be. In other languages... Inheritance tends to be de-em
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by biorach 5y ago
Trying to tell a resident of rural Leinster what I should and shouldn't consider rural isn't going to get you very far. To get back to your point... > there were also completed and empty housing estates.... Rural areas had huge
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by biorach 5y ago
To address just one of the many many poorly thought out points you made... This is not the 4th strain. There have been an uncountable number of mutations, and many strains (omicron is not the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet - there have be
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by biorach 5y ago
> but the degree with the Covid is off the charts for peacetime action. Actually, no. This is exactly the level of heavy handed, indiscriminate beaurocratic/government control that poorer people have always had to deal with - see fo
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by biorach 5y ago
> a major problem we are seeing unfold in real time is that some influential, very high-IQ people often have limited awareness of exactly where their circle of competence ends.
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by biorach 5y ago
> around 180000 unoccupied dwellings at the last count. I spend a lot of time in rural Ireland (ok, in the eastern, wealthier, part). This figure doesn't really reflect what I see on the ground, which is scarcity of supply - you got
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by biorach 5y ago
>In Europe, there has NEVER been A PANDEMIC for people <45yo. What? This is completely, wildly,untrue. See for starters Spanish Flu (killed mostly those aged under 45), smallpox (disproportionately affecting children)
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by biorach 5y ago
>The horrifying precedent is small numbers of people who do not always stand for election making highly consequential decisions for large numbers of people. Nothing new there, beaurocrats and public health officials have long had the pow
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by biorach 5y ago
Whether China can keep it up until the end of the pandemic is yet to be seen
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by biorach 5y ago
The evolutionary pressures that can lead to some diseases becoming less lethal and more transmissible over time are actually well researched and modelled, and has happened many times. That this could happen with Covid has been quietly menti
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by biorach 5y ago
While Ireland does have a capital that contains a higher proportion of the population than is normal for other European countries you are still overstating how rural the rest of the country is
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by biorach 5y ago
There is not a taboo. There is a very very high standard of proof required, rightly so because of the sensational nature of the subject.
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by biorach 5y ago
> The whole letter reads like a polemic attack on the editorial department of Scientific American. It really doesn't. The letter addresses the points raised by the author of the original piece. Your comment is bizarre because it is
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by biorach 5y ago
There are plenty simple low-cost tractors on the market. However for large-scale agriculture where your tractor is pulling high-end machinery you need something very powerful and sophisticated. JD leads this market, and is a significant pla
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by biorach 5y ago
It's not a monopoly. There are plenty of manufacturers in the market. However JD has significant, if not leading, market share in many markets along with being regarded as a premium brand, and has significant loyalty among a demographi
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by biorach 5y ago
That's with a 1.7mm layer of fungus. This looks to be proof of concept research. Whether thicker layers can be used to provide comprehensive protection is for future research to establish. (and it's unlikely to be a linear relatio
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by biorach 5y ago
It'll be really impressive once you add general relativity.

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