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by wk_end 2y ago
If the work on coronaviruses that WIV was doing was at BSL-4, I'd be more skeptical of a lab leak origin. It was being done at BSL-2; see Ralph Baric's testimony covered in this Vanity Fair article: https://www.vanityfa
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by wk_end 2y ago
The WIV was doing research on bat coronaviruses at BSL-2, not BSL-4. See Ralph Baric's testimony covered in this Vanity Fair article: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ralph-baric-wuhan-lab-...
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by wk_end 2y ago
They in fact were working on coronaviruses in a BSL-2 facility, which is another thing that helps make the lab leak hypothesis more plausible. E.g. from Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ralph-bari
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by wk_end 2y ago
You think China, in the 1950s, was opening research labs at the behest of the CIA?
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by wk_end 2y ago
> I’ve read that the lab was intentionally set near that wet market... That seems unlikely, given that - per Wikipedia - the WIV opened in 1956 and the wet market opened in 2002.
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by wk_end 2y ago
The problem is Brandolini's law - “it takes an order of magnitude more energy to refute bullshit than that needed to produce it”. So allowing widely disseminated bullshit effectively opens our society up to a denial-of-service attack.
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by wk_end 2y ago
Disappointed that it doesn't look to fix the biggest issue I have with the Switch, which is that docking it feels awkward and clumsy. You have to blindly line up a USB-C port/connector, and that seems to be the same approach they&
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by wk_end 2y ago
Fine, sure, I guess - the article is demanding an email address so I can’t read it, but I buy it. I’m responding to the statement “Netanyahu was the one that helped put them there in the first place. He did this to try and derail the two st
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by wk_end 2y ago
The “briefcases full of cash” began flowing into Gaza in the mid-2010s, IIRC. Hamas had been in power in Gaza for around a decade at that point.
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by wk_end 2y ago
> I also found Trump's signalling in the whole issue odd. His base and his cabinet is full of the most hard-line pro-israel figures imaginable, but then he goes forward and quotes Jeffrey Sachs and ostensibly pressures Netanyahu int
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by wk_end 2y ago
Speaking anecdotally, this doesn't really ring true for me. I see lots of pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram, ranging from the sincere to clear disinformation/propaganda. I have friends who post frequently in suppor
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by wk_end 2y ago
If I’m reading OP’s math correctly, you’ve got it backwards. They’re saying NYC should be in practice making significantly more than $500M/yr.
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by wk_end 2y ago
There’s an extremely goofy version of RoboCop that’s sort of like this as well. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3528906/
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by wk_end 2y ago
Also of note: > What is CopperSpice > CopperSpice is a C++ library derived from the Qt framework. Our motivation for developing CopperSpice was to change the core design of the libraries leveraging modern C++ functionality. > The r
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by wk_end 2y ago
Unfortunately there's increasingly few places where natural disasters, of one sort or another, aren't inevitable. The PNW also burns regularly now, never mind the enormous earthquake looming under us that we're terribly unpre
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by wk_end 2y ago
Your overall point still mostly stands, but per capita GDP isn’t super helpful when talking about middle class Americans because of wealth inequality. The median US income is less than half of that. And the cost of living in Bangladesh is p
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by wk_end 2y ago
Yeah, you're probably - in most regards, depending on various things - better off living in NYC than Toronto (having lived in both). But that's at least a conversation worth having, a comparison worth making. Comparing Canada to t
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by wk_end 2y ago
I lived in the US for around ten years after college and moved back early during COVID. I'd always wanted to go back, and had the possibility of keeping my American salary and working remotely; it seemed like a no-brainer, given how
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by wk_end 2y ago
> The person living in Montgomery can easily afford a house and a middle-class life. Can the person in Toronto? Of course not. But a person living in New York City - making the much higher median household income of 75K USD - also can&#x
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by wk_end 2y ago
H1-B and L-1 are both dual intent [0]. TN isn't. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent
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by wk_end 2y ago
Not a lawyer, but isn't that kind of dicey? The TN is non-immigration and temporary - it's not supposed to be used if you have any intention of permanently migrating. I'd worry about it putting your TN status in jeopardy.
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by wk_end 2y ago
You say "now" as though it's ever not been the case. These comparisons do a poor job of taking into account cost-of-living and quality-of-life; it's simply not the case that you're better off in Montgomery than Toro
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by wk_end 2y ago
One major change that happened with immigration is that the provinces (particularly - but not exclusively - Ontario) slashed funding for schools and encouraged them to make up for it by profiting off of a near infinite supply of foreign stu
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by wk_end 2y ago
If you're posting on Hacker News, you probably have a skill set that'll allow you to get a job covered by a TN. You go to border control, tell them you're applying for a TN, hand them a copy of your identification, resume, cr
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by wk_end 2y ago
> A bug in the SSH integration feature caused input and output to be logged to a file on the remote host. This file, /tmp/framer.txt, may be readable by other users on the remote host. Curious about how this happens. What does
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by wk_end 2y ago
FWIW, I’d love to read a blog post about that, too.
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by wk_end 2y ago
It's stretching the definition of "3D-focused graphics chip", but an early example might be I, Robot. An 8-bit 6809 CPU drives a custom polygon-pushing graphics processor. It's primitive but must've been mind-blowin
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by wk_end 2y ago
You don't want a maximally "efficient" vacancy rate (i.e. 0), because that makes it basically impossible for people to move around - and that gives enormous power to landlords to gouge tenants. So what vacancy rate do you w
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by wk_end 2y ago
Is it really that much harder to search for than "C", "C++", "C#", "F#", "Go", "Rust", "D"...? Googling "Fstar programming language" works fine for me.
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by wk_end 2y ago
In commercial aviation the vast majority of tragedies are Swiss cheese failures, at this point. The system has worked very hard to optimize out the possibility of any one individual failure leading to catastrophe. But the explosion of pot

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