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by spats1990 7y ago
>SARS and Civet coronaviruses. The closest match of any host or vector coronavirus to human Covid-19 has been a 96% match in _Rhinolophus affinis_ (a bat). That's also the major bat species that was used for live animal research in
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by spats1990 7y ago
"researchers from Hong Kong, China and Australia have found that genetic sequences of the novel coronavirus in pangolins are 85.5% to 92.4% identical to the coronavirus currently infecting hundreds of thousands people." https:&#x
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by spats1990 7y ago
the main thing about the accidental release theory to me is it neglects the intermediary animal aspect most scientists seem to agree on. An accidental transmission from bats to humans in the lab: yes I could believe that. An accidental lab
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by spats1990 7y ago
But then you'd get sick of making such shitty pots, if you liked pottery as an art form enough to want to learn it, and you'd start trying to make better ones because just passing the bar probably wouldn't be enough for your
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by spats1990 7y ago
Aw man, Mordor had air support though (nazgul). It's like saying the allies could have just assassinated Hitler. Not a plot hole in my opinion.
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by spats1990 7y ago
similarly from dune re leadership... it's just a simple thing but the idea that once you tell a group of people under your leadership to do something once, you have to tell them to do the thing every time. Thus good leaders give as few
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by spats1990 7y ago
OK so your original post was premised on there not being massive mobilised response to less than ~250 cases in a city of 11 million by mid-december. It's nice to have the benefit of hindsight. Thanks for the response and links, but I b
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by spats1990 7y ago
>grew unchecked or for months It really didn't "grow unchecked for months". >using our thinking machines. OK. You first, then.
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by spats1990 7y ago
The other day my dad, who turned 60 last year, swore he couldn't hear a cicada that was right outside the open window. It bugged him so much he made me go outside with him and point out the cicada. I told him about the mosquito tone, w
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by spats1990 7y ago
I'm an editor and writer and at my last job I got interested in how many words I typed a day. I put some applet on my work computer that tracked them across all applications. It was usually less than I thought; something like 10-15k wo
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Post-Prandial Protein Handling: You Are What You Just Ate(journals.plos.org)
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by spats1990 7y ago
Hypothetically speaking, would you rather read about the recent US impeachment proceedings in Korean or in English? You know, the language most widely spoken in the US?
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by spats1990 7y ago
In fairness, the GP is bait too. It's just more thoughtful bait with paragraph breaks. It's basically elegant finger wagging. Decay of the west bit aside, the parent has a point. Do you freak patients out by getting them to sign t
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by spats1990 7y ago
Late reply but thanks for that, I'm a casual reader of SSC and its satellite blogs but hadn't come across the Scissor one before.
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by spats1990 7y ago
[dubious—discuss]
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by spats1990 7y ago
"purity" is an odd word choice there when "homogeneity" or perhaps more neutrally "uniformity" are equally accurate. more broadly, when i see/hear this line deployed by westerners in regard to certain east
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by spats1990 7y ago
Sashimi/sushi slot nicely into $$$+ pricing range because the small portions and emphasis on presentation are very similar to the aesthetic often found in high end gourmet restaurants, which tend to serve things that are beautiful, tas
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by spats1990 7y ago
Parent comment was about biology and evolution, not... whatever it is that this reply is about.
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by spats1990 7y ago
Aboriginal Australians did fine despite not really having it, for ~40,000 years or more.
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by spats1990 7y ago
I know exactly what you mean, but it's okay. I don't know if there will be a game to fulfil people's dreams of "exactly like pubg but better" for a long time, if ever. Because it was made mostly by people who I beli
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by spats1990 7y ago
>I know this is the norm for France and I vaguely believe it's normal in Europe more broadly. Is it! OK, then I more or less retract that dumb speculation /implication about the olympics (except that it makes more sense given
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by spats1990 7y ago
>Like a list of names with their Hangul version? The problem is that you can't know how someone's name is pronounced for sure. Just how their name would be said if written in hangul. Ideal but unlikely: let the person choose th
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by spats1990 7y ago
>it's a pretty random tossup between someone introducing themselves in family name first order or family name last order, even when speaking Japanese. Same in Korea, except in Korean it's fairly rare to use "you" as a
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by spats1990 7y ago
Anecdata but I got fingerprinted just passing through Shanghai airport in transit at the end of 2018. I haven't visited the US or transited through a US airport but again anecdotally I've heard this happens there too (even in tran
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by spats1990 7y ago
Alcohol was grandfathered in, as Elon Musk said in that interview where he hit the blunt.
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by spats1990 7y ago
Could you expand on why you think so? 1. I'm driving at 110 kph when the limit is 100. I pay $80, but I got paid $16000 after tax this month. 2. I'm driving at 110 kph when the limit is 100. I pay $80, but I got paid $4000 after t
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by spats1990 7y ago
Maybe my British English is hindering communication of my point here, because by "private car" I meant "car for private personal i.e. non-commercial use" as I've noted elsewhere, in many areas there is no way around
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by spats1990 7y ago
Regarding weather, that will always be a factor too. I was going to mention it, but I did that thing where I thought I included a sentence then it wasn't there when I reread what I'd written. I see my position as not car-hostile o
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by spats1990 7y ago
I sympathise but I think this post has a few contradictions in it. For example, I'm not surprised the bus in your area is inconvenient schedule-wise because I assume you aren't the only person in your city who drives ten minutes t
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by spats1990 7y ago
Just thought I'd toss it in there as a sort of topping or garnish for the article. Private cars in urban areas are incredibly inefficient from just about any direction you choose to view it from.

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