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by eutropia 5y ago
I’m not sure what to make of this. But I’m not inclined to accept their premise that “vaccines do nothing” and “the narrative will shift”. Is anything in this article discussed in peer-reviewed scientific literature?
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Then you either: - Collect your money and be arrested and sent to jail for murder - Evade capture but never collect your money. How does this work, again?
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I'm not sure I understand the principle here of refusing the vaccine (which does reduce spread, though doesn't make it impossible). If your employer paid you to come in early or stay late to get the vaccine -- why refuse?
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Yes.
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I recently had a bit of a panic attack when I saw what I thought was a murder hornet in Kentucky. (Last time I had read news of them was early 2020, that they were in the PNW: so I wondered what if somehow the problem was worse than we thou
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I don't know much about Haiti's international affairs, but I'm curious if other countries will be involved at all in the investigation of this murder (because the victim was a head of state). Complicating the situation of co
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What's fascinating to me about bitcoin is how much it shortens the chain of transmutation between electricity and money. A typical situation might involve a business or manufacturer taking power, raw materials, and labor to create some
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What you want exists: it's called a vocational school -- and no, as of now, many don't teach higher level academic subjects to the exclusion of all others, but they do provide a focused training for a specific line of work and not
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For any food I have never attempted cooking, I always default to searching "<food> recipe serious eats" (After working through Food Lab almost religiously). Every single time, the Serious Eats recipes (even the ones not by
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Ask HN: Is there a system for repeatably productive work days?
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FBI sold phones to organized crime and read 27M “encrypted” messages(arstechnica.com)
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A heat pump is a specific technology, not a generic term for something that produces heat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
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Some people don’t view anyone as having a “right” to something they had no hand in creating. Earth existed, then humans existed: why does any one human have a claim to this finite resource of planetary surface area? LVT says no human has in
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the normal solution is that owner/operators or owner/residents don’t pay the LVT until time of sale, and could instead pay modest interest on the LVT.
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I'm only a former bioinformaticist (not a clinical practitioner), but people tend to anthropomorphize the blind idiot god of evolution a bit too much. "Selection" is just the end result of survivorship bias. CGG-CGG is the m
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Granting that, or even granting that the virus wasn't modified in the WIV (merely collected and then accidentally released) at all: we need to find the animal population that it supposedly jumped into people from -- and 18 months later
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Sorry, I was being hasty (replying in too many locations to produce a good and thoughtful response -- instead I produced a factually incorrect one) Damns my credibility a bit, doesn't it? Well, I should have more accurately mentioned t
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I grant it's totally possible for this to occur naturally, at random (thank you, genetics) -- but when we haven't found any intermediate host animals and there's a lab at the outbreak location that: Developed chimeric S
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TFA doesn’t call Sars-Cov-2 a bioweapon. Sloppy lab practices on virus research is all it takes to have a lab leak.
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The “smoking gun” was the “human” (arginine as CGG) way the AA seq was coded for at the furin cleavage site: Only 5 percent of SARS2’s arginine codons are CGG, and the double codon CGG-CGG has not been found in any other beta-coronavirus.
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We’ve been searching for intermediate animal species for 15 months and none have been found (SARS and MERS were found quickly), SARS-Cov-2 is actually quite bad at infecting bats, and the key thing: arginine-based (i.e DNA amino acid, not R
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Which other Coronaviruses have a furin cleavage site using arginine? Which other coronaviruses even have arginine in their proteome?
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I quoted this bit in another comment, but Steven Quay (interviewed by the US gov as mentioned in tfa) The “engineered” comments refer to common amino acid sequences from lab practices, they leave a signature because ordinary biology is more
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The article mentions the state department had Steven Quay present an analysis of the origin of the virus: https://zenodo.org/record/4642956#.YIa66ehKhPY The “engineered” component is about the Furin cleavage site on th
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by eutropia 5y ago
The article states that at the time people were denying the possibility of a lab leak, there was a lack of credible evidence for zoonosis. If I’m evaluating hypotheses, it’s generally better that I wait for hard evidence before ruling one
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Really happy to hear that this exists, because when I told the sleep doctor that I'd rather learn to sleep on my side he LAUGHED at me and said it wasn't possible. Jerk.
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I thought this was going to be a dashcams only version of WorldStar.
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Just your annual reminder that the Land Value Tax is the Least Evil Tax. Tax "rent"[0] at 85-100%, allow owner-residents to defer LVT taxes owed to time of sale with modest interest. Speculators would be naturally driven out in
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You start with a riff on the naturalistic fallacy "nature did it so it must be the right way" and conclude that all efforts to create AI not informed by neurobiology are doomed to fail (as doomed to fail as randomly assembling com
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I doubt the piracy moralist you replied to will respond with an apology for calling you a thief and a criminal; but I really appreciate that you explained your situation. It's unreasonable to lump all people who pirate media into some

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