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by jml7c5 6y ago
I'm not sure how I ended up with "around 500,000" instead of the (readily available) actual number. Thank you for the correction.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
>[...] the lab is a few blocks from the reported ground zero for this outbreak. The Wuhan Institute for Virology (BSL-4 lab) is actually 13 km away. People mixed it up with the unrelated Wuhan Center for Disease Control (BSL-2 lab).
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Around 500,000 people died of malaria in 2018. COVID-19 deaths are currently at 250,000 (according to worldometers.info), but deaths are only just starting to slow down, and it's unclear how many deaths are going unreported. (There has
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by jml7c5 6y ago
My basic issue with the lab escape theory: if SARS-CoV2 is a natural strain (and there is at this point no evidence that it isn't), then why assume some researcher was patient zero, when millions of other people catch bat coronaviruses
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Just a note: a call to stop the sale of "bush meat" in wet markets is not dependent on how this outbreak started. AFAIK the practice has been considered a disease risk for some time. While obviously the pressure to do something is
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Do you know of any good resources (documentaries, books, etc) on this sort of thing? (Particularly anything about government spending on pseudoscience.) After those Navy UFO videos were released and I learned that the crank Harold Puthoff w
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by jml7c5 6y ago
(2019)
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Well, you'd only see the first line or two. They'd be tap/click to expand.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Nix is probably the best solution to dependency hell I've seen. I would read more before dismissing it.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
On Twitter, there is a single type of content (a tweet). With blogs, there are two types of content (posts and comments). While it seems like a small difference, it changes behavior and appeal. When Alice comments on Bob's blog post, A
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by jml7c5 6y ago
The default nixpkgs channel has over 40,000 packages. I've found NixOS compares pretty well with other Linux distributions in that regard. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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by jml7c5 7y ago
>Liero is a video game for MS-DOS, first released by Finnish programmer Joosa Riekkinen in 1998. The game has been described as a real-time version of Worms. [...] Inspired itself by the earlier game MoleZ, Liero provided inspiration for
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by jml7c5 7y ago
I thought that had to be a typo. Good lord, why are they shipping videos as gifs?
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by jml7c5 7y ago
"Astroturf" means "appears grassroots, but isn't". It only implies deception. The amount of money spent or the scale of the operation is not that relevant.
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by jml7c5 7y ago
I wasn't aware of that! Well, my mistake; retirement is a real concern after all.
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by jml7c5 7y ago
Aye, any attempt at retirement would quickly result in a new '.io' gTLD replacing the '.io' ccTLD. The more reasonable concern is not that the ccTLD is retired, but that registration rules and/or prices are changed.
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by jml7c5 7y ago
Looks like you were one of the unlucky 10%: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mobile/android/mma.h... It seems they've been using Leanplum for some time; I'm surprised I hadn't heard anything
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by jml7c5 7y ago
I doubt politicians are the ones putting together these slides. But yeah, the slide thing is kind of silly. Looks like they did most of the work with a 4:3 template, then realized halfway that it would be shown on a widescreen projector&#x2
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by jml7c5 7y ago
>Something weird happened in California, where 20% of their tests were coming back positive, then all the sudden 04/04/2020 they started seeing <10% positive tests: This is not surprising. When tests were scarce, tests would
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by jml7c5 7y ago
And is that an ethernet port on the right?
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by jml7c5 7y ago
My understanding is that intentionally misnaming the virus/disease is done to mock perceived political correctness. Particularly after the WHO officially named it SARS-CoV2/COVID-19, if someone on twitter referred to the virus&#x2
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by jml7c5 7y ago
>We know that the lab was adding functionality to bat coronaviruses, making them able to infect human cells. Source?
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by jml7c5 7y ago
If all the stored water was dumped in a single year, the population's estimated radiation dose is around 0.02% of yearly background radiation. It's really not a problem. See https://www.meti.go.jp/english/eart
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by jml7c5 7y ago
Does the kernel provide a TCP stack? Either way, you still need to write an editor with which to write programs that utilize those syscalls.
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by jml7c5 7y ago
I think an important category has to be: no outside servers designed to help with this speedrunning challenge. Without such a rule, one can get an outside computer to do much of the work. One would merely write a small program that connects
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by jml7c5 7y ago
This sort of sarcasm does not foster quality discussion.
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by jml7c5 7y ago
Over the years I've wasted a lot of time watching Let's Plays. I consider the one you've linked to be one of the few upon which I have spent my time wisely.
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by jml7c5 7y ago
Moderators: is it possible to have "(in Italy)" added to the title? It's not clear this can be extrapolated to other countries. (In fact, they reference South Korea as a benchmark for the true value.)
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by jml7c5 7y ago
With regard to the 250k masks, it sounds like they're just distributing the ones they already had, not manufacturing new ones.
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by jml7c5 7y ago
I've been taking a look at Google's search trends on occasion. The term "bread recipes" had a nice uptick after people started panic buying* flour and yeast: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?

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