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by mikem170 5y ago
Maybe see if you can find a Cisco CCNA study guide to flip though? Here's a syllabus [0]. This will give you a good foundation in layers 1-4 and routing, but stops short of bgp. You can tackle bgp separately, afterwards. Routing with b
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by mikem170 5y ago
I agree, that's why I pay the most attention to the genetic evidence. Other sections of his post, and the references he pulled together, go into great detail on that.
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by mikem170 5y ago
I too am disappointed at how politicized this is. That includes the Vanity Fair article, which was mostly about press coverage, funding, memos, and circumstantial evidence. Here's some good science sources: - Comprehensive reddit post
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You do know that there's genetic evidence that seems to point to an origin 600 miles from Wuhan? > Of 23 samples that came from Wuhan, only three were type A, the rest were type B, a version two mutations from A. But in other parts
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by mikem170 5y ago
Correct. And democratically elected.
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If a group of people can't reach consensus then the ideal may be to split into smaller groups, not force minorities to conform? Nothing an HOA does is an emergency. Even if 2/3 of the people want to change the rules for parking, f
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by mikem170 5y ago
I'm more worried about this amazon mesh network being used for access by other internet devices. For example, it's not easy to get a dumb TV. If I had one I wouldn't want it online. It appears that Amazon would sell access to
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> keep their neighborhood as white as possible I know that these same mechanisms were used to keep out minorities in the past. But I'd say now that they are more about forcing conformity to stereotypical average white middle class a
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Every municipality I've lived in has laws on the books against putting out trash too early, and also about condemning property (which I am admittedly not as familiar with, but I assume priorities safety over aesthetics, which makes se
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> The fact that they can enforce their vision of the neighborhood is exactly why people like them. I wonder if the love/hate opinion on HOAs boils down to that, i.e. some like forcing others to their way of thinking, and others are
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Seems like it would be better to have a pool (or other common amenities) via voluntary contributions, leaving out the rules forced on homeowners' properties. And a voluntarily financed pool makes a certain amount of sense. Why should s
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by mikem170 5y ago
I don't think that democracy is not synonymous with a 51% majority. There's super-majorities, consensus, and unanimous votes. A lot of people who strongly believe in democracy (real democracy) don't believe that 51% of the pe
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by mikem170 5y ago
There are crooked dentists. I've moved around a lot and been to a lot of dentists. There's a few that I trust, but also slightly more than a few who have tried to rip me off. I've had dental offices that try to sell/bil
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by mikem170 5y ago
I've been interested and following the science around this. I've been heavily favoring genetic evidence over other things, those other things tending to be circumstantial, conflicting, and/or not well sourced. So I give the m
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by mikem170 5y ago
Your Yuri Deigin link was interesting. I was hoping he addressed something I saw elsewhere [0]: > what about the polybasic cleavage site and the o-linked glycan? We have seen, with other viruses, the ability to develop polybasic cleavage
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by mikem170 5y ago
Wet market as opposed to meat market, I didn't mean to misquote Dr. Deuhr. Are you saying that there were people infected with covid-19 600 miles away from Wuhan, before cases originating in the Wuhan wet market, with covid-19 viruses
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by mikem170 5y ago
Here's one virologist, Dr. Duehr, who is very confident that covid-19 doesn't have any connection to the Wuhan lab. He backed it up with a detailed reddit post [0], the most comprehensive collection of referenced information that
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Here's something [0]: > Next, we showed that patients (n = 23) who recovered from SARS (the disease associated with SARS-CoV infection) possess long-lasting memory T cells that are reactive to the N protein of SARS-CoV 17 years afte
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by mikem170 5y ago
On the cleavage site, from [0]: > Second, what about the polybasic cleavage site and the o-linked glycan? We have seen, with other viruses, the ability to develop polybasic cleavage sites when put under just the right conditions for long
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by mikem170 5y ago
True. I gave a lot more weight to the genetic evidence, the 1200 mutations from the nearest related bat virus, the receptor optimized for multiple species, evidence it was first seen in humans hundreds of miles form Wuhan, etc.
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But there are about 1200 mutations! From the source [0] Dr. Deurh's references: > there are 931 synonymous substitutions and 145 missense substitutions between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13. The other ORF regions (90%) are identical between
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by mikem170 5y ago
Is this covered by Dr. Duehr's Section 2.1 [0] on chimeric work the lab was doing with viruses? That section explains how this looks very different genetically than a natural virus (one copy/paste versus hundreds of scattered litt
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It appears that we have a lot of data from the WIV lab [0]. The work there to survey bat coronaviruses was paid for by the American National Institute of Health. Duplicate samples were sent to other labs, across several countries. Genetic s
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There's already a lot of proof that it didn't [0], a lot more than in this article. (Genetic evidence, 1200 mutations from the nearest related bat virus, receptor optimized for multiple species, evidence it was first seen in human
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There's a pretty comprehensive reddit post [0] by a virologist, James Duehr PhD, listing all the reasons why it appears that covid-19 did not come from the Wuhan lab (with numerous supporting references, well over a hundred). For examp
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I added a clarifying edit to my comment above.
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From the article, a section called "Prediction of the potential for long term protection" at the bottom of the Results: > The estimated neutralization level for protection from severe infection is approximately sixfold lower th
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by mikem170 5y ago
OpenBSD is top of the line when it comes to security, stability on supported hardware, consistency, and coherence. The entire distribution is taken care of by a single team. Security is a higher priority than additional features. Documentat
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by mikem170 5y ago
I think that direct democracy can work for local issues. People need to be engaged with what they are voting on, things that effect their lives, things they have a real stake in. An example might be a few hundred people in a room seeking co
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by mikem170 5y ago
He covered accident lab release in Question 4 [0]. He mentions that the WIV lab is well respected, well funded, well equipped, there was public logging of all relevant bat samples, along with parallel samples sent to other labs, lab workers

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