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by ftxbro 3y ago
> In a back-and-forth with Andersen that sounded something like a rudimentary lesson in scientific hypotheses, Representative Jamie Raskin (D–MD) brought up an email in which the Scripps Research scientist said he and his colleagues want
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> Really setting aside the divisive political positions that have poisoned the debate in the US yeah but if you believe lab leak then you are probably also an anti-fauci anti-vax anti-masker qanon trumper who gets all your news from tuck
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It's sad that it's so politicized, because there was definitely a coverup of at least the appearance of a lab leak and probably of a lab leak itself, but I disagree with the politics of basically everyone with that opinion. I know
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Oh it's Avi Loeb, head of the astronomy department at Harvard. Here's a youtube about what his deal is, by an astronomer who studied astronomy through postdoc level and then left for industry and doing some youtubes https:/&
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Oh it's Avi Loeb, head of the astronomy department at Harvard. Here's a youtube about what his deal is, by an astronomer who studied astronomy through postdoc level and then left for industry and doing some youtubes https:/&
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i wonder if the newest iphones will have even sexier message bubbles even more than the blue ones
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OK but if it were a real lab leak then it would be in the news, like not only on fox news with laura ingraham. Also it was signed by twenty thousand people I'm not surprised that three of them started questioning their certainty when t
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by ftxbro 3y ago
From that official US government statement: 'SARS-CoV-2 probably was not genetically engineered' That goes against the premise of the science paper, which is saying that the epidemic started with a bunch of covid viruses that had
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> or result of being inside of someone who takes mutagens. If it's inside someone who takes mutagens then that would result in some synonymous mutations as well. The point of the paper is related to not seeing enough synonymous muta
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they have debunked the debunkers??
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> If you're claiming something as a principle, when in reality it means nothing to you but empty rhetoric, you are by definition a fraud. Nah, that's what I'm claiming has changed. It's now acceptable to hypocriticall
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> Thou dost not research hard enough. is this how we say 'Do your own research, people!' on hacker news
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I think they are saying that early lab-created variants (with non-synonymous mutations only) first spread around the world, and then they only later acquired synonymous mutations by natural evolution.
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I always hear people suggesting to grind leetcode but never hear anything about grinding hackerrank.
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> we concluded that the formations of a part of Omicron isolates BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2 were not the products of genome evolution as is commonly observed in nature, such as the accumulation of mutations and homologous recombinations. Fur
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> its spammy attempts to shape public opinion were generally of very low quality, and often failed to reach their targeted audiences imagine if they used a cutting edge large language model
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this isn't a real article it's an ad
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That's enough to fill in the rest.
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I don't know, isn't claiming a principle just another tool in a rhetoric kit? In the boxing analogy are you saying it would be like an illegal boxing move like biting ear or low blow? If that's the case then I think the rules
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> In America, a bicyclist is usually not envisioned as being on par with someone who drives a car. They are stereotyped as either a rich hobbyist in spandex or as drunks who lost their driver’s license and have to rely on a lesser form o
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oh this is familiar is it sourceforge again
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Imagine an unaccountable bureaucracy failing to keep its promise.
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I love the third slide they show on that page. It's just a line going up and not even pretending the y axis has any meaning other than 'newer version'.
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The one who makes the most money uses tab on the keyboard which gets converted by the editor into spaces in the code.
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The concept of hypocrisy is outdated. In contemporary times, of course everyone wants to be treated well and their rivals treated worse. It's like if there is a boxing match, is it hypocrisy if each player thinks they should win and
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Maybe it's OK that AI requests the date but they shouldn't do it themselves. We should not let AI get used to doing this kind of thing or next will be every organic at the chopping block.
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> LLMs are slowly being commoditized nah there will always be demand for the best one
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sorry to hear that just don't go to graduate school and everything will be fine
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Maybe you just don't like web development. Other kinds of programming can be more interesting to some people, like scientific programming. Also I don't see how sysadmin is worse than programming, or why a good sysadmin would be a
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i hate the word enshittification but that's what github is doing

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