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by burfog 6y ago
We created the live polio vaccine by breeding. That was long before fancy genetic technology. Flu viruses are particularly easy to breed. Viruses have short generation times and easy vulnerability to genetic damage. Flu viruses even have a
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by burfog 6y ago
No fancy technology is required. Long before that, we created the dog and the apple. The USSR even recreated the wolf-to-dog transition with foxes. Doing something similar with viruses is much easier because the generations are shorter and
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by burfog 6y ago
Being very capitalist, I don't give my employer free labor. I make my employer pay. Capitalism is great for me.
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by burfog 6y ago
The overhead for the two near-useless flags, PF and AF, would be interesting. How much did that junk slow down the clock speed?
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by burfog 6y ago
They are not neutral applications. Windows has settings for timezone, language, currency, and more. Using the software sold in China, can you choose Taiwan or is it called Chinese Taipei? What do the maps show for the South China Sea, for t
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by burfog 6y ago
No, they do not pay the tariffs. When a marketplace transaction is taxed, it really doesn't matter which party has to hand over the money. The buyer and seller will split the cost of the tax according to elasticity. Consider a transact
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by burfog 6y ago
The point is that one without PTSD might want to claim to have it. This gets sympathy, disability benefits, etc. There are also borderline cases of victimhood. Do those get rounded to "yes" or "no"? If you've had a
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by burfog 6y ago
Yes, there is "lack of school supplies", but not for lack of money. It's malice or incompetence, probably both. Imagine that you are a school administrator. If you save money, your budget will get reduced since you obviously
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by burfog 6y ago
The supposed "widespread agreement" doesn't include this less-biased source: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/do-school-spend... I suppose the fallacy was not a claim of correctness due
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by burfog 6y ago
Looking at study #2... I immediately notice that the study is funded by the American Federation of Teachers. That makes it credible like a smoking study funded by tobacco companies. This should not be getting served by a .gov web site! I al
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by burfog 6y ago
I truly believe there there is very little relationship between funding and performance. Any claim that funding fixes performance problems is destroyed by the DC public schools. (only need one counterexample) It isn't totally crazy to
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by burfog 6y ago
There were no neck injuries (see the autopsy report) and thus the "putting their weight" concept is clearly an exaggeration. Nothing involving the neck was involved in the death. It is a gross mischaracterization of the right that
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by burfog 6y ago
The news is way worse than that. A couple notable things they mostly buried just this past week: The George Floyd bodycam video leaked out, destroying the BLM narrative (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24046940 for
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by burfog 6y ago
I had to eat cake, like it or not. Nobody gave me the option to show up without school supplies. That would be an "F" grade. The schools are funded. Some of our best funded schools, the ones in DC for example, are particularly ter
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by burfog 6y ago
"I can't breath" is not at all believable when followed by vigorous non-compliance. Cops are used to criminals saying stuff like "I can't breath" to cause delay and worse. Make it believable with complete compl
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by burfog 6y ago
Two guesses, one for each side of the political spectrum: 1. The word "erratic" suggests that there is error, rather than deliberate behavior to make the news and to throw enemies off guard. 2. You pointed out that the actions wer
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by burfog 6y ago
They should do what my teachers did. Students are to bring specific types of paper according to teacher preference. That could mean lined paper, plain paper, 1mm graph paper, or even a lab book with a stitched binding. Students who do not c
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by burfog 6y ago
From the start of this year, Esther has free healthcare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers... Most likely, Esther can also "provide an SSN". Identity theft is normal.
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by burfog 6y ago
No, the engines are not low. They can't be, because the wing is low and the landing gear is short. The engines are wider than the old ones. They are also much further forward, in order to avoid being low enough to hit the pavement. (pa
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by burfog 6y ago
Those people practically don't exist, so who cares? They are a rounding error, if that. It is desirable to maintain a college culture that is biased towards people who read about lots of different things, including yachts. Reading is g
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by burfog 6y ago
The idea that those professions are lower-paid because they are mostly female is pretty strange. It would require a vast and secret conspiracy. The scandal would dwarf the secret Silicon Valley agreement (involving Apple, Google, Adobe, Int
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by burfog 6y ago
It's desirable to create a test with cultural bias. College has a culture. Remember, the test is about the ability to do well in college. Awareness of the cultural expectations will increase the chance of success in college. If a stude
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by burfog 6y ago
The complaint about "oarsman" and "regatta" is nonsense. Supposedly it was racist. Supposedly the white kids are all out doing yacht races, so they alone would know the vocabulary. That is ridiculous. The portion of the
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by burfog 6y ago
If you make "laws to cut down interest rates", two things happen. 1. The normal lenders discontinue lending, either by choice or by bankruptcy. 2. The blackmarket lenders fill the gap. Mafia loans are not good for society. The nat
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by burfog 6y ago
It's worth a 2-year difference in the age at which kids read. On one end is Chinese. On the other end is Russian and Spanish. English sits right in the middle.
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by burfog 6y ago
To be fair, the teachers sort of deserve some blame, in multiple ways. They somewhat willingly support a union. (they at least voted to unionize) That union, via stealing from the teacher's paychecks and "donating" to politic
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by burfog 6y ago
"Rocketreach has not met the requirement of the GDPR to name an EU representative (Art27) to account for the processing of European Personal Data. In their answer, the CNPD makes it sound like it is optional, it isn't. Instead of
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by burfog 6y ago
Teacher burn-out is mostly ignored because fixing it would require undoing some very deliberate changes, like keeping bad kids in school and even in normal classrooms. We'd have to empower teachers to expel kids who refuse to be studen
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by burfog 6y ago
They should ask their country's embassy or consulate for help getting home. In many cases, travel assistance is available. They would then be in a fully legal status without all the trouble/stress/fear of hiding from the law
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by burfog 6y ago
It's better performance for one web site, at the expense of whatever may be in other tabs or even outside the browser. I really don't want to grant that. Web browsers are failing badly at resource controls. I don't want to ha

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