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by johncena33 5y ago
First of all, if a transmission can happen at a wet market, it can also happen inside a lab. One doesn't need a virology degree to understand something this simple. As a matter of fact that's exactly what happened in a Taiwan lab
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by johncena33 5y ago
The reality is not so rosy. Many virologists know that if lab leak is true their careers will be over. So I am very skeptical of how much obfuscations and disinformation spread by virologists is for the good of humanity and how much of it i
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by johncena33 5y ago
That would only disprove the genetic manipulation part, but not necessarily lab leak. A WIV lab staff can easily contract virus from a bat inside the lab. This essentially what happened in Taiwan, where a lab staff got infected with COVID f
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by johncena33 5y ago
AFAIK the known animal reservoirs got it from humans. Do you know any animal reservoir that we still don't know how the animals have got it?
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by johncena33 5y ago
Also Ecohealth Alliance and WIV collected viruses in Laos. So in terms of natural origin vs. lab leak the viruses found in Laos don't increase probability on either side.
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by johncena33 5y ago
> warned it could damage “international harmony”. "international harmony" is just a front for hiding self-interest. Many elites, including the said virologists and bureaucrats, have significant financial or other ties with Chin
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Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate(wsj.com)
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by johncena33 5y ago
That doesn't stop at least few "I Hate Ads" (read "I Hate Google") threads popping up every single day. For some reason this "tedious" tag only applies when it comes to Lab Leak or any China related thread
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by johncena33 5y ago
In my experience, that's how left wing disinformation works. Using rhetorical tricks to mislead the audience. It's even more ironic when most left wing journalists and pundits are followers of Foucault and Derrida.
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by johncena33 5y ago
Yes, there are two groups: pro-MS and anti-Google. And maybe there is a large overlap between these groups. Not some privacy warriors as many of these anti-Google jihadists claim or pretend to be.
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by johncena33 5y ago
Snopes have made lot of dubious and misleading claims on lab leak [1][2]. Politifact literally retracted their claims on calling lab leak a conspiracy theory [3]. Reality is all these mainstream media is trying to control the narrative with
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by johncena33 5y ago
This is a common tactic of left wing media. They use rhetorical tricks to mislead the audiences. Lab leak has been tarred as conspiracy theory because of political and financial gains through very dubious rhetorical tricks. [1] https:&#x2F
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by johncena33 5y ago
Snopes have made lot of dubious and misleading claims on lab leak. Reality is the whole Acitvist Industrial Complex and many elites, who have financial ties w/ China including HN favorites like Apple and Amazon [3][4], are trying to re
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by johncena33 5y ago
Interesting how when MS is on ad market justifications like this pop up all the time on HN. Meanwhile, quarter of HN is nothing but a jihad against Google for its advertising business.
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by johncena33 5y ago
You should see how HN would react if Google has done anything remotely close to it. If it was Google your comment would be downvoted to oblivion instead of being the top comment. Not to mention you'd be disparaged for protecting your e
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by johncena33 5y ago
> Also, roughly 100% of the companies who are asked, "are you about to be disrupted by new technology that you didn't create and is totally different then the way you do things?" answer, "Nope!". I don't kno
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by johncena33 5y ago
Well, it's HN. HN has become a FUD machine.
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by johncena33 5y ago
I've noticed the quality of conversations on HN have deteriorated drastically after dang took over. There're simply too many threads where the whole conversation is complaining, whining, dunking, outrage etc. Anytime there's
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by johncena33 5y ago
I've heard it from another Chinese student that a lot of Chinese students come from families that are blessed by CCP. So naturally they are very loyal to CCP. Very few students/people in general can make it outside of China withou
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by johncena33 5y ago
It wouldn't be HN if someone doesn't do hot takes.
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by johncena33 5y ago
Yes, Google used to have this feature. I was probably one of the tiny percentage of the users who used it. My guess is it's one of those features where very few people used it. So the cost of maintaining a feature like this on a scale
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by johncena33 5y ago
I am looking forward to people getting outraged once again when Android does not allow third-party apps to handle 911. There'd be dozens of articles on HN about how Google is being anti-competitive and outrage will keep pouring in.
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by johncena33 5y ago
Please stop spreading disinformation. Mitchell got fired for leaking company documents to outsiders. When people spread obvious lies, that makes me thing they don't have anything substantial to begin with. that's why they need to
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by johncena33 5y ago
HN is a very pro-Amazon place. Regardless of what Amazon does, at least one of the top 3 comments is always justifying Amazon's actions.
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by johncena33 5y ago
Do you need a static ip address for it?
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by johncena33 5y ago
HN is on the fore-front of this Google bashing. Just look at this comment on another HN thread about "buy now, pay later". Here's the comment [1] which justifies MS actions: > Maintaining browsers has become a significant
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Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report(about.fb.com)
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by johncena33 5y ago
As a brown immigrant man, most of the sublte form of racisms I face come from previleged white women. My hypothesis is unchecked narrative of victimization is enabling racism. Most of these women don't probably think they are doing any
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by johncena33 5y ago
Twitter is THE social media I am not able to use without letting it affect my mental health. Anytime I logged into Twitter, I came out more angry, bitter and outraged. It's like the whole platform is built around hot takes, dunking, bu
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by johncena33 5y ago
You can still take vaccines, wear masks, and practice distancing. At some point your well-being becomes solely your responsbility, not everyone else's. We can debate on where that point lies. Just because your fear of COVID is the tren

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