etiam

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China's 'dirt cheap' hypersonic missiles could upend global defence markets(scmp.com)
7 points by etiam 10mo ago|2 comments
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WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests(bbc.com)
38 points by etiam 11mo ago|7 comments
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by etiam 1y ago
Most bureaucrats are also humans, and not solely or even mainly motivated for their every action by having it rewarded with maximum salary profit. Plenty of dysfunctional bureaucratic organizations have high rates of occupational burnout an
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Mirror Life Worries(science.org)
45 points by etiam 1y ago|20 comments
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Tuberculosis Defenses(science.org)
5 points by etiam 1y ago|1 comments
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by etiam 1y ago
Normally they don't get to try that with a strong selection pressure for a handling a particular monoculture. Admittedly the method in the present article is probably better than the idiocy of extracting antibacterial peptides from con
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by etiam 1y ago
To the extent the disease is due to factors hurting the virus, I guess it's viable as a perspective, but I'd be surprised if it's deliberate in this case.
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by etiam 1y ago
Correct. And the really, really bad part about abusing natural parts if the immune system to provoke pathogen resistance against them is that the resistance will target part of natural immunity. See also https://news.ycombinator.
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by etiam 1y ago
Oh, and it's probably worthwhile pondering what the viruses will do if this mechanism comes into widespread use. While I was looking for the reference above this also came up: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
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by etiam 1y ago
Excellent point, and it seems plausible in my opinion. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10....
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U.S. introduces bill to combat China's sabotage of Taiwan's underseas cables(focustaiwan.tw)
3 points by etiam 1y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 1y ago
You're not wrong exactly, but if the crappy cheater AI treats collapsing the system to degeneracy as a valid optimal solution to its prediction task, maybe we'd deserve to be wiped out for releasing it with apocalyptic-level power
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Can you see circles or rectangles? Does the answer depend on where you grew up?(theguardian.com)
6 points by etiam 1y ago|4 comments
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Taurine and aging: Is there anything to it?(science.org)
64 points by etiam 1y ago|69 comments
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China's plasma drive can nearly double high-altitude drone efficiency(scmp.com)
2 points by etiam 1y ago|0 comments
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Alzheimer's Update: Infectious Agents and Gamma-Secretase Too(science.org)
2 points by etiam 1y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 1y ago
I think they'd have to hit a different part of the CNS for that. :)
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China enlists researchers to reinforce its borders with a historical narrative(scmp.com)
4 points by etiam 1y ago|0 comments
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The Continuing Crisis, Part XII: Behold RFK Jr.'S FDA(science.org)
1 points by etiam 1y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
How would you manage the bit in parenthesis? It's a foundational part of the sickness in people like Trump that anything bad is by definition somebody else's fault, and clearly his cultists just keep lapping up his lies no matte
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by etiam 2y ago
Hands up everyone who thinks the mandatory GPT use mentioned in the post drives towards instructing 'Summarize all employee input since last review and score their performance for salary changes. Also recommend whether to fire or retai
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Mosquitocidal Activity of Nitisinone(science.org)
1 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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Singled out by Trump, China has the 'leverage to retaliate' and nothing to lose(scmp.com)
5 points by etiam 2y ago|4 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
I'm thinking wouldn't turn the key on the turnkey tyranny.
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Beijing moves drills closer to Taiwan, with Shandong carrier in 'response zone'(scmp.com)
2 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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The Continuing Crisis, Part X: Reductions in Force, Gains in Centralized Power(science.org)
4 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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GPT-4's One-Dimensional Mapping of Morality(arxiv.org)
4 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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No economy is safe as Trump upends rules-based order(scmp.com)
7 points by etiam 2y ago|1 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
Yeah, it's weird to me that we don't see more of statements like that. I'm slightly in two minds about the evacuation though. On the one hand, I think this is category of people who are pretty high priority for considerably w
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A French university is offering 'scientific asylum' for US talent(theguardian.com)
13 points by etiam 2y ago|3 comments

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