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Time for Better Microbiome Research(blogs.sciencemag.org)
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Many Roads to Recovery: How Asia Showcased Best Practices(demystifyingscience.com)
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
about 3/4 of the way down the page, just before the heading "Viruses all the way down" "Except you know what’s weird? Although the absolute diversity of prokaryotes is widely held to be unknown and unknowable at any scal
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
interesting, do you live alone?
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
I'm really hoping to see that - certainly some teams will underperform but I have a gut feeling that there's a lot of people who would do a lot better without having to do any water cooler chitchat
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
that sounds like the company needs to restructure it's hiring/firing framework rather than punishing those who would be great at wfh.
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
well that and violence
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
I kinda figure the only purpose of the law is to protect citizens against the vagaries of unchecked economic progress
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
ooooo externality mandated wfh I love it
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
this is a fascinating line of inquiry, and comes down to the methods of detection being insufficiently fine-grain. it's challenging to tell apart all of the pieces in a metagenomic sample except through assembly. A "viral plasmid&
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Ask HN: Should WFH Be a Mandated Option for All Remote-Capable Jobs?
19 points by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago|29 comments
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
So the crazy thing is that if you take a teaspoon of soil and sequence it for bacterial information, almost all of that information is similar to what's been found elsewhere. If you take that same teaspoon of soil and look for the vira
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
I think it's a complexity problem. Someone downthread pointed out that there are some viruses that are small - so small they consist of only two genes. It's possible that the super simple minimalist viruses are spontaneously produ
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
The last part of that is an interesting theory. Would you expect to see a lot of relatedness between different viruses if that were true?
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
It is! It's also why people are very much on the fence about them being alive.
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
If you sequence a virus and it has no genes that are found in any living organism, then it's hard to say that they're related... since all our definitions of relatedness come down to sequence similarity. We haven't found nuc
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Viruses are Largely Unrelated to Life on Earth. Where Do They Come From?(demystifyingscience.com)
31 points by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago|17 comments
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
Porch pirates are capitalizing on the fact that people order shit off the internet that costs a lot of money, that the goods will be replaced if they're stolen, and that people are not at their houses most of the time. In a post-apocal
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
Agreed. I also think that humans are different now than they were 2000 years ago - we have a sense that great things can be accomplished peacefully, and have ways of going about doing it.
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The Elusive Question of Viral Aerosols(demystifyingscience.com)
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
I have a hard time believing that the only thing that's keeping people from stealing shit is that there's a cop with a gun somewhere down the line. Is that the case for you? Or anyone else you know? If you know how to garden, help
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
It's weird, halfway through the article the author suddenly had a change of heart about preventing interested parties from openly discussing their perspectives on the matter. Better than the alternative, which is maintaining a strict g
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
There has yet to be a mechanism for how and why shit hits the fan. If someone can propose a non-handwavy path to it, then I'll start to prepare. But also, I've planted a garden, I've started getting to know my neighbors, I&#x
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How COVID victims are betrayed by their bodies(nautil.us)
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Could the Virus Be from Space?(demystifyingscience.com)
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
I'd also add that there is a very real possibility of people using the origin of the flu for political purposes - and it's worth asking yourself if you want to play into that ugly game - left or right. Speak and think for yourself
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
interestingly, a more effective immune system can often be a bad thing. have you heard about "cytokine storms" as a mechanism for why the mortality rate is much higher is certain groups? that's the immune system eating the ho
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
what's political, not calling an epidemic that was carried by migrant workers and Frontline soldiers into Fort Funston Kansas thé "Spanish Flu?"
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
Calling it "Spanish Flu" is like calling oxygen phlogiston or saying that you get scorpions when you leave a few leaves of basil between two bricks. it's a colloquial name that results in confusion down the line. call things
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by qqqqquinnnnn 7y ago
As soon as there was global trade, pandemics could spread. Colonist arrival to the americas was a semi-pandemic - but there were epidemics of the plague, of cholera, that spread from Asia to Europe and back for many years. there's an a

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