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by kuhewa 5y ago
> We haven’t changed much in the last 50,000 years Genetically, not too much. In terms of population density and technology, we absolutely have changed, and both are relevant to our ability to clear a continent of dozens of species of a
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Are you certain there weren't changes in abiotic factors that coincided with the rise and expansion of modern humans?
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by kuhewa 5y ago
This is one of those topics I am more familiar with, and as such the number of users sharing superficial speculation as fact makes me wonder if the same is true on the topics I am not as familiar with.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Yes, COVID replicates in the nose quite a bit pre-symptoms but for it to out-compete the actual very fit active strains, which are turning your upper respiratory tract into a virus factor, it would be difficult to ensure no symptoms. Also,
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by kuhewa 5y ago
That's technically a variant of emerging from other hosts.. although I suppose it could have been grown on tissue culture and not animal models.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Hard for it to spread faster than a respiratory bug unless it has some symptoms - coughs etc. The version of that idea that is feasible is intentional innoculations, which is basically a live attenuated vaccine.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Nah. Just because societies and journals in STEMier fields are moving towards being more inclusive in broader practices does not equate to a fundamental difference in what counts as science
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by kuhewa 5y ago
This comment would have been more apt a decade ago, but we've already seen a substantial correction and changes to the 'rules' in response to the replication crisis. There's an explosion in the amount of shite published
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by kuhewa 5y ago
even if more cancer treatments didn't have horrible side effects and treatment increased survival rates for all cancers by a significant margin, I think COVID has demonstrated that a substantial fraction of people would still be opting
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by kuhewa 5y ago
> Lots of people are blowhards with odd opinions. And the ones that are masquerading as having Nobel worthy research chops to get the audience to believe their gripes about the scientific establishment is on topic enough.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
> have been open and honest about their mistakes They really haven't. They continued to double-down on ivermectin and other COVID era flim flam as it came to light more studies were dodgy or outright fraudulent. It's pretend sc
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by kuhewa 5y ago
If it is ever going to solve a fraction of the societal ills promised, yeah sounds like it will need that warning.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
> have you ever dealt with the insides of forex trading before? Why, is there a way to send currency directly and irrecoverably into a paper shredder on the inside?
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Yeah i reckon some 80 year old grandmothers struggle with some Android functions.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Currencies don't come with a prerequisite of intimate knowledge of industrial jargon that requires use on a daily basis to be proficient enough in to not lose everything.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Fish in fish farms are pretty dumb.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Ask a Faroese
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by kuhewa 5y ago
You could be right as this suit alleging commonplace leaking was before ownership changed. https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
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by kuhewa 5y ago
meh. green != free lunch
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by kuhewa 5y ago
How much of the pandemic response do you imagine Fauci actually controls?
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by kuhewa 5y ago
This is now going in circles but quickly: > why were masks mandated soon after shortages were no longer a concern? (and continue to be) ...because that is when the scientific evidence changed. Preprints from China were streaming in in Ma
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by kuhewa 5y ago
> His later statement was that the "real reason" they advised people not to wear masks was not actually the stated reason, but a completely different reason. Again, he didn't comment on the factual basis of the original ma
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by kuhewa 5y ago
That's why he made a statement — That doesn't mean it was intended to deceive, just why it was necessary to take a stand publicly.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Sure, but if you have a semester to talk statistics and climate modelling, you will be able to caveat the information with plenty of 'this has been simplified' warnings.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Fauci's infamous quote was: “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not provid
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Fifteen years of Ringo Starr's computer art(ringostarrart.com)
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by kuhewa 5y ago
> can adjust over time to compensate for lowered metabolic rate Isn't that part of CO?
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by kuhewa 5y ago
You are right in that caloric expenditure is going to affect the CI-CO balance, and at a deficit your expenditure will decline due to both a decrease in basal metabolism as well as decrease in spontaneous activity.. but at the end of the da
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by kuhewa 5y ago
It may even be improving for most people's needs. But I think it does present a scenario where a niche search engine with a different business model could be successful (and they probably wouldn't need 10k engineers to reach parit
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by kuhewa 5y ago
Google has been getting worse for the past few years, probably in the demands for making a standard product to suit the average person. But now the first page is full of results that exclude one of the search terms. And my strategy for year

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