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by rualca 5y ago
> We live in a country that has the rule of law, you can't just arbitrarily use a vague characterization of a country being "hostile" to abridge the rights of someone. There is no ambiguity in the classification of North K
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> The new viruses created in the research gained human transmissibility. The article mentions nothing of the sort. Can you provide any reference that supports your baseless assertion?
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> From the article, it sounds like the response is "it wasn't gain-of-function research, it was just research that involved gains of function." Not really. The article states quite clearly that the research paid by the NIH
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by rualca 5y ago
>What flags you have in mind? -Wconversion https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html This is common knowledge for ages. Any cursory Google search returns countless answers. Take this post made ove
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> The only difference is that I have the wrong background, so no one's going to try to gratuitously describe my reaction as something "postcolonial." "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, t
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by rualca 5y ago
> When c reaches about 0.5e+6 times larger than a and b, FMA starts winning. It should be noted that 1e+6 sticks out as right on the rounding limit of single precision floating point numbers, which is about 1e+7. Thus it suggests that th
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by rualca 5y ago
"shakiness" is not the problem at all because papers are expected to serve as a perpetual source of observations intended to serve as food for thought. Therefore, as knowledge at the bleeding edge is always incomplete and being co
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> Hatred for the main stream media is now more often than not just a way of rationalizing one's political side-taking. I don't know where you are from, but in every country I ever lived it was readily apparent that their mainst
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> My best friend is Venezuelan and I assure you there are real humans in the world who get real value from a stable digital form of currency that doesn't require a central bank account. I have friends living in Venezuela, and one of
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I'd take that these "crypto holders" are indeed able to change their opinions, but for that they also need to change their investments on crypto.
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> He's rejoined and left the industry multiple times. While he brings up plenty of valid issues, Jackson could also do with some self-reflection. It seems to me that his personal journey granted him a privileged vantage point to tal
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The quote is particularly relevant to the thread, and who made the quote matters little to nothing except for the fact that the person did had a very public change of heart regarding a specific topic. Why do you feel you need to ignore the
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by rualca 5y ago
Why is this message being downvoted, particularly without pointing anything wrong with the point that was made? Edit: and of course this question is being downvoted as well.
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by rualca 5y ago
> A lot of the "patients" in the recent UK propaganda push for the jab have been discovered to be actors and not real patients. Your baseless assertion sounds outright lunatic. Do you have any source at all to back your claim?
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> No. I agree with you that the RPI is a great experiment board, but usually you don't get them for below 30€ (20 for the zeros). You should really look up those prices because your assertions don't match reality. I am, right n
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by rualca 5y ago
> Vichy did represent French sentiment at the beginning. No, not really. The Vichy regime was the dictatorship puppet regime imposed onto the remaining french territory after the third republic was dissolved, and enacted policies imposed
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> Hah. The first encounters between the French and the US in WW II were hostile: The US landings in Morocco against French resistance. I feel this statement grossly misrepresents history. French north Africa was controlled by Vichy Franc
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> The point is that the Raspberry Pi -- any version -- has always been underpowered and overhyped. This sort of comment is extremely short-sighted and totally oblivious to . A raspberry pi was always, from the very first day, an inexpens
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> If communism and socialism is so bad, why is there even a need for an embargo? Given that Cuba's regime was responsible for putting nuclear weapons next to the border and pointing straight to the US, and given the fact that a size
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> I use a database that was designed by someone who understands one sometimes wants to run a migration. It’s not hard to add new fields. We're not talking about adding attributes to a database. We're talking about one of the mo
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> Or use an API layer such as GraphQL (...) But that already qualifies as the boilerplate code that was supposedly the root problem, isn't it? But now instead of a simple mapper you've bolted on another complex system. So exact
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> That’s reasonable advice for growth stage companies aiming for huge user bases. Not really, that's the result of hard-earned lessons that pay off from day 1. Think about it: you have data in a database, and you put up an API to al
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> Yeah. This is the problem: we've abandoned the hypermedia architecture of the web for a dumb-data, RPC model. I'm not sure that's the issue at all. The article complains about boilerplate code used to convert results to
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by rualca 5y ago
> Yes, I can, see links in this thread. No, I really can't. So far you've been unable and unwilling to do so. I see a lot of posts from you with unsubstantiated allegations followed up by desperate ad hominems. And when you are
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> Firstly, why would someone laugh? Well, we see people and even political groups laughing at the idea of a virus outbreak that kills 100k even today, isn't it? Now picture it without the benefit of hindsight. Why did western societ
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> Being murdered doesn't compare to being robbed? I believe OP's point is that an exceptionally rare assassination of a random person does not compare to frequent robberies of people close to you.
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> I said I'm sure you will find fault with it. Predictable. If the allegations are not supported by evidence then it's natural that anyone finds faults. That, and your ad hominem, says everything about your accusations. > Th
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> people tend not to appreciated being accused of mental illnesses when they consider themselves sane Working for a store that sells a product is not the same as being accused of anything, and it really makes no sense to pin the responsi
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The thing about wit and parodies and sarcasm is that not everyone is able to identify it. There are plenty of examples of parody sites being cited as if they practiced journalism.
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> Moderators work for free, so you get what you pay for. Moderating a subreddit is not a job. Moderators are regular users from the community who are picked to have a say in how the community is regulated. > The automod feature on r&#

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