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Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK(virological.org)
18 points by themgt 6y ago|4 comments
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by themgt 6y ago
It's frankly worse because he won't even admit he was lying. We knew about asymptomatic spread back in January and he's mischaracterizing his own "masks don't work" message. It just further erodes any reason to
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by themgt 6y ago
FCC approval only gives Amazon until July 30, 2026 to launch at least 50% of their 3,200 sat constellation into orbit. I don't know of any existing provider other than SpaceX that could plausibly put that much payload into orbit in 5 y
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by themgt 6y ago
Blue Origin is also talking up their moon lander, but we still haven't seen them actually put a payload in orbit. The BE-4 engine has been delayed and they've still only delivered test stand versions to ULA. If you read the Blue O
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by themgt 6y ago
It looks like this is the pre-print: https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/pdf/S2405-4712(20)30461-0....
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A Breakthrough in Protein Folding Unfolds(vgul.medium.com)
1 points by themgt 6y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 6y ago
Consider the so-called Great Barrington Declaration, an online document that argues we should aim for herd immunity, while protecting vulnerable people from infection. The authors of the original are three scientists, but the declaration w
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by themgt 6y ago
Reaching max q at T+0.0001 seconds while 1 inch away from the launch site's massive expensive centrifuge. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
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by themgt 6y ago
The reality is you can easily google "migraine/cluster headache" + "psilocybin" and find a lot of research and anecdotal evidence that your prior that they might be a (sarcasm detected)"miracle cure" shoul
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by themgt 6y ago
This review is hilariously bad and biased ("no touchscreen or 5G!"), but the app compatibility is an expected chicken-or-egg issue with early adopters. The point I would make is you have to weigh the app experience in Nov 2020 aga
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by themgt 6y ago
It's funny how many apps have this problem, you don't realize until you're on a spotty connection. Often disabling/cycling the wifi/network fixes an app freeze.
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by themgt 6y ago
This may or may not have been a political move, but the theme of certain partisans celebrating when their perceived enemies are deplatformed is disturbing, especially given the parallel phenomenon of politically inconvenient stories being t
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Facebook Qanon “Redirect Initiative” paused after users shown false positives(twitter.com)
2 points by themgt 6y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 6y ago
OK. You only had to wait an hour[1]: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off
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by themgt 6y ago
Bari Weiss wrote in Tablet yesterday (before this current hullaballoo had begun) about this[1]. I think "successor ideology" is an apt if awkward stand-in term, because it focuses on the project as an attempt to ideologically pres
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by themgt 6y ago
Can you very easily consume more than a days worth of calories in a lot less than 6 hours eating uncooked leafy greens? Or to make it easier how about eggs, let's say 2500 calories at ~80 calories per egg, you just need to down ~32 egg
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by themgt 6y ago
This Twitter thread[1] from a professor specializing in Islamic thought debunks these claims and links to a paper making the counterargument in more detail[2]. [1] https://twitter.com/shahanSean/status/131437211494
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by themgt 6y ago
While this article's content isn't exactly wrong, the Wikipedia on "Identical ancestors point" gives some important context for what's actually being asserted: All living people share exactly the same set of ancest
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E-6B Mercury airborne command just went active on east/west coasts(twitter.com)
75 points by themgt 6y ago|28 comments
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by themgt 6y ago
Here's a video of BLM/Antifa protestors in Portland 1 week ago celebrating after one of their security detail apparently murdered a right-wing protester in cold-blood: > "I am not sad that a fucking fascist died tonight&qu
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by themgt 6y ago
This isn't just limited to Portland but is becoming a general aspect of these protests now, e.g. here[1] was DC last night where a Washington Post reporter was hounded out of the protest and then followed by "minders" to prev
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by themgt 6y ago
My guess is there will be multiple lines of attack, but this paper[0] which was also at least implicitly referenced in the recent Congressional hearing seems very likely to be one of them: Approximately 86% of online display advertising sp
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by themgt 6y ago
I would look at other fields of medicine, e.g. research around how certain diets and fasting protocols can reverse metabolic syndrome and type-ii diabetes along with a variety of other positive health benefits. So what is a major focus of r
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by themgt 6y ago
> If we put half the energy we use up arguing about Oumuamua into detecting more interstellar objects we would have the data to end this debate This HN comment was just the motivation I needed to get off my computer and rededicate myself
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Jiang Shigong, “Empire and World Order”(readingthechinadream.com)
2 points by themgt 6y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 6y ago
I highly recommend doing some reading about what Xi and the CCP are really thinking and planning. It's a fascinating situation, and I'm not sure we or even they precisely know. But there has been a feel of a very dark turn overall
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by themgt 6y ago
I think unsweetened almond milk is maybe the best overall pick if you want a milk substitute. From my understanding it's fairly healthy, natural, and the taste / "mouth feel" is good. Downsides are cost and maybe the
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by themgt 6y ago
Yep, and in addition to both of these, Starship is also designed: * to be fueled / ignited such that it can be refueled in-situ on Mars & then launched back to Earth, without advanced rocket fuels or the TEA-TEB chemical igniter. *
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by themgt 6y ago
Thanks, as I say our use case may be too odd to be worth supporting, but effectively we're trying to add a basic metrics (prom/ad-hoc) feature to an existing product (using Postgres) with an existing sort of opinionated "ORM&
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by themgt 6y ago
I was testing out both TimescaleDB/InfluxDB recently, including maybe using with Prometheus/Grafana. I was leaning towards Timescale, but InfluxDB was indeed a lot easier to quickly boot a "batteries included" setup and

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