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by ximeng 5y ago
How are you not attacking gain-of-function with “the real problem vis a vis Covid19 is not the lab leak. The real problem is "gain of function" research, using gene splicing to make more virulent-to-humans pathogens.”? Perhaps I’v
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by ximeng 5y ago
“This virus was likely man-made because gain of function man made viruses are quite common in research” - this doesn’t seem a convincing argument on its own (ignoring the comments on conspiracy / sense-making / politicisation). Ga
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by ximeng 5y ago
It's a black box from an outside perspective, but generally I imagine it's factors such as appearing political or the sort of thing that would be reported in mainstream media (both of which are somewhat discouraged by site guideli
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by ximeng 5y ago
Yes it does bury stuff very quickly if it is flagged by sufficient numbers of users. I’m not sure it’s a good thing but it is a thing.
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by ximeng 5y ago
Both this and the originally linked article are long on politics and conspiracies and short on science, which is why the responses end up being political. The interesting questions here are not about CCP secrecy but about mutation rates in
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by ximeng 5y ago
(2019) “As such, he appears almost more interested in eliminating the people who are suffering than the source of the suffering itself.” - this conclusion is unjustified by the article and seems unfair
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes Not first two letters, two letter ISO codes. There are also complications with dialects, so not quite this simple.
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by ximeng 5y ago
Interesting article on a Uber for cremations company: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/may/07/funeral-grace...
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by ximeng 5y ago
To be clear, the scientist is not quoted as calling it a conspiracy theory, that is the wording of the author of the article. The scientist provides a scientific explanation (“Recombination is naturally very, very frequent in these viruses,
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by ximeng 5y ago
Quite a long article, but skimming it it looks like that experiment involves applying naturally occurring mutations to an existing virus?
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by ximeng 5y ago
I agree it's enticing. I tend to agree with the scientist quoted that it's a conspiracy theory, but if it is then it's a really good one, and this article is well written. If I'm right the reason it's not being anal
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by ximeng 5y ago
I believe the lab origin theory is flawed based on the scientific reasoning, not the meta analysis. I agree that the meta analysis is inconclusive as it is not emphasising the science enough. The feeling I get is China doesn't really w
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by ximeng 5y ago
The problem is knowing how to put in the furin cleavage site, and generally if it's done in the lab it's done by copying a particular sequence from an existing virus as scientists can't predict how to do it themselves (withou
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612... Here is a paper that states that the furin cleavage site appears naturally in a number of viruses. I looked into these lab origin theories for t
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/n29fxn/piano_teache... https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/n4a4l0/huge_history... Even if not supported in the article h
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by ximeng 5y ago
Ziglang creator moved from YouTube ( https://m.youtube.com/c/AndrewKelley/featured ) to Vimeo ( https://vimeo.com/showcase/7818787 ) to have more control. Encouraging creators you like to migrate
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by ximeng 5y ago
Using Google SSO is fine unless Google arbitrarily closes your account with no recourse.
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by ximeng 5y ago
Think this is as much about the author's negative experiences of the culture in scientific research as it is about Feynman. Anyone who has read the book will know something of both sides of Feynman, here she is saying that despite him
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by ximeng 5y ago
https://www.zhihu.com/question/22769200 first answer to "what is Wuxi like?" starts with "Is Wuxi really a small city?". And the answer is... it was but isn't really now. So it sounds like this
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by ximeng 6y ago
http://www.shadedrelief.com/world/Data/map1_type.jpg a good map of mountain ranges to search for counterexamples. Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the Magdalena river runs
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Dhrx4H-wA These videos show the state of the latest self-driving features pretty well. It’s obviously not reliable or comprehensive, and definitely still needs a human driver. On the other ha
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by ximeng 6y ago
Another alternative is that they use success in ramping up the car business to raise capital for investment in other on shore advanced manufacturing. The market they go for may not just be cars.
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co... "The average energy consumption for one single Bitcoin transaction in 2020 was 741 kilowatt-hours. This was significantly more compared to the c
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 here at least pg argues for downvote for disagreement
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by ximeng 6y ago
If Signal want maximum security / privacy, why not just make all messages auto-delete after a week (rather than their current stance that you lose them when you decide to use Android when you're currently using iPhone or if you lo
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by ximeng 6y ago
Realistically none of these are very good options. Starting a competitive messenger application is likely to be impossible - Signal got to where it is thanks in large part to 50mn USD from Whatsapp's founder. The fact that it's ve
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by ximeng 6y ago
Not allowing backup as you should be using email for things that are important is really a circular argument. If you can't even choose to backup / analyse with your own tools then you won't ever use chat for anything importan
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-f...
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by ximeng 6y ago
ECONOMICS (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period. "there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular"
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Find interesting rooms in clubhouse using Python(funnybretzel.com)
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