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by mgamache 6y ago
This is not how they conduct gain of function research. It's uses serial passage (using biological hosts and the virus's own variations). This produces vary little evidence of manipulation.
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by mgamache 6y ago
I think he is referring to official CCP statements not news reports.
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by mgamache 6y ago
I think Circumcisions are questionable, but are offered as a medical procedure.
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by mgamache 6y ago
Vaccines are not treatments ether if you want to be strict about the definition. You can't treat something you don't have, right? They are medical procedures that have a risk/benefit ratio.
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by mgamache 6y ago
"Every other treatment we use medically is aimed at some existing pathology—from a cold to cancer" Really? prenatal care, circumcisions, postnatal care, colonoscopies, x-rays, ultrasounds (to name a few) Are all preventative&#x2F
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by mgamache 6y ago
"safest medical procedure' is not a very high bar....
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by mgamache 6y ago
Right, nothing will kill a bad product faster than good marketing.
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by mgamache 6y ago
It was not a value judgement, just a prediction. Some judges do look at the impact of a ruling. I personally don't think they should be legally binding (as I suspect most HN readers do). "doesn't matter how much money they lo
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by mgamache 6y ago
I have a feeling that a judge would want to find them invalid, but what happens if he/she rules that they are non-binding? The chaos it would cause for US B2C businesses would be large. This alone may sway the courts to make them bin
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by mgamache 6y ago
IMHO, one of the issues with BitCoin is the prophecy that bitcoin will explode. It makes people engage in FOMO even worse than other investments because many people 'know' BitCoin will go to the moon and they are anticipating the
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by mgamache 6y ago
Placebo usually shows up in subjective measures, or where the brain can intercede to effect the outcome. There should be a control group, but I would not expect telomere length to be effected by placebo.
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by mgamache 6y ago
Saddam played games with the inspection teams (remember the 'presidential sites'). Did Blix get a comprehensive look and verify maybe, but that was after 10 years of obfuscation. Also, you know who thought he might have nerve gas?
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by mgamache 6y ago
Bush may have lied, but don't forget that Saddam Hussein used WMDs and wanted his neighbors to think he might have them to project regional power. So the lie was believable and not manufactured from whole cloth. Did they believe it?
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by mgamache 6y ago
Funny that you bring up Feynman, he stated he only had an IQ of 125. High, but probably lower than Kasparov.
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by mgamache 6y ago
Technical Debt is not a thing when you are coding a new feature. It’s like a stock future. It might be debt, but it might be something no one uses or gets dropped (or rolled into another feature). There’s a cost to speed that has to be cons
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by mgamache 6y ago
I think that's because PD spec is only those voltages (5,9,15 and 20 volts). You'll have to use a regulator or buck converter to get other voltages.
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by mgamache 6y ago
Sometimes... Sometimes not... spotty mobile connections with a powerful device (iPhone Android etc...) it might make sense.
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by mgamache 6y ago
He's 100% MAGA. I don't care, but I am sure that's what the parent is referring to.
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by mgamache 6y ago
GP was looking for people 'who was not previously famous'. Any college professor has a somewhat public job, but it's not the defining feature of the job (for most professors).
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by mgamache 6y ago
Of course we only hear about famous (or semi-famous) people Off the top of my head... Stephen Hsu of MSU Greg Patton of USC Bret Weinstein (a few years ago.. this backfired). Jonathan Friedland (fired for using the N-Word in a meeting discu
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by mgamache 6y ago
see my comment above re DOM.
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by mgamache 6y ago
I think there still performance issues when manipulating the DOM. When those get worked out (and they will), it may change the velocity of adoption.
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by mgamache 6y ago
in vino veritas
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by mgamache 6y ago
Jews might have an issue with being ‘tracked’
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by mgamache 6y ago
It's interesting this article is not treading higher on HN. With the general rational / enlightenment perspective that HN has this should be a hot button. The denial of rationality and logic as a way to know things is antithetical
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More inclusive language from Twitter engineering(twitter.com)
6 points by mgamache 6y ago|2 comments
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by mgamache 6y ago
Does anyone have a citation for the unfounded stops assertion -- "But we know that police officers are more likely to stop Black and Hispanic people than white ones — and that more of those stops are unfounded ."
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Red Hat to remove contentious terms like 'master' and 'slave' from its source(techxplore.com)
5 points by mgamache 6y ago|6 comments
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by mgamache 6y ago
We've (in the US) have been captured by two parties that are exploiting us to prevent democracy from breaking out. How does the elite stay elite? Take the anger that people have from being in a rigged system and focus it on the other p
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by mgamache 6y ago
I think they even admitted that self-driving cars are required to succeed. That's why they acquired <wink> waymo tech.

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