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by yters 6y ago
Looking at the ACE2 alignment from the article, it looks like there are 55 spots where the sequences have different proteins. Of those 55 spots, 7 of them are identical between the bat and sars2. On the other hand, I count 20 matches betw
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by yters 6y ago
I don't think muslim children in the US necessarily get to opt into their religion. And yes, it is hard to argue for universal human rights without some sort of transcendental argument that there is something special and universal abou
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by yters 6y ago
thanks, i see what you are saying regarding the binding sites, clearly they are quite different. but, the similarities seem greater than possible by chance, and i am not sure how that could happen. maybe a variant of sars mutated into sars
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by yters 6y ago
My understanding is people have rights that trump whatever religion they are born into, i.e. the fundamental rights listed in the declaration of independence.
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by yters 6y ago
arent the riots and protest much greater risk of spreading than a church service? why aren't police breaking them up?
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by yters 6y ago
If an unmarried daughter has sex, the father can kill her. I think that shouldn't be allowed.
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by yters 6y ago
Taliban didn't do too badly in afghanistan. We've never defeated them despite over a decade of the world's most advanced military. Sure, they've had help from iran and such, but still their armaments are mostly inferior
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by yters 6y ago
I would say an armed militia can still resist any industrialized nation. The US has lost numerous modern wars against minimally armed guerilla fighters. Pretty interesting such means of resistance has been so constantly successful.
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by yters 6y ago
So I'm still not following. You say it is infeasible for a lab to generate sars2, yet it seems Fauci thinks it is feasible enough to fund an attempt. If I understand your argument, you claim sars2 is too genetically different from the
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by yters 6y ago
here is the article about fauci endorsing and funding such research https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...
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by yters 6y ago
MIT article on their research. http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218
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by yters 6y ago
Here's the research article from MIT. http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218
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by yters 6y ago
can the opposite also be true, that people who refuse to accept true conspiracies may also be anxious to preserve their worldview, ignore contradiction, and eschew rational analysis for emotion ladden thinking? e.g. this is the popular port
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by yters 6y ago
The quantum magnetic dot is not exactly a microchip, but it does provide a weak signal that can be read electronically, and could be administered during a vaccination injection UPDATE: here's the MIT article on their research. http:&#
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by yters 6y ago
i dont understand why it would have to jump through a bunch of animals first. cant it go from bat to human? fauci was conducting coronavirus gain of function experiments in wuhan in 2019 trying to go from bat to human, so at least some scie
586.
by yters 6y ago
does gain of function require directly engineering the sequence? i saw one gain of function expeeiment where a cat virus was exposed to mouse material, and underwent zoonosis on its own additionally the sequence can just be manually copied
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by yters 6y ago
where did the aesthetic come from originally?
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by yters 6y ago
what does 'random' mean, even?
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by yters 6y ago
but is that sufficient to generate the forms we have? our intuition is intelligent intention is necessary, and dawkins argues it is not, but then demonstrates with a simulation that requires our intelligent intention
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by yters 6y ago
simplest approach to eliminate crime is to get rid of the law no law = no crime not sure why no one else has ever realized this guess i am a genius
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by yters 6y ago
i bet if police stop responding to 911 calls altogether then crime complaints will drop to zero
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by yters 6y ago
why wouldnt solomonoff induction work for number sequences?
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by yters 6y ago
Why not just use Bing? Also, how is this not a problem? If DDG ever becomes popular enough to be a threat, Bing just stops providing them search results.
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by yters 6y ago
Dawkins defines 'fantastical' as great complexity that fits an a priori definition.
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by yters 6y ago
The problem is that complexity is not emerging. It is being injected externally through the human input, so contradicts Dawkin's argument.
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by yters 6y ago
great clarification of wording! natural selects without forethought for form, yet gets fantastical forms, yet in biomorphs that is precisely how i select, and that is how i get fantastical forms. this would seem to imply natural does indee
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by yters 6y ago
dawkins whole argument is evolution produces the appearance of design
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by yters 6y ago
even proximate results being selected is intentionality. i.e. i select a more simple design, then one with an interesting whorl, then one that looks like a bug. all that is intentional. or his example of butterflies selecting butterfly lik
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by yters 6y ago
that seems to beg the question then if we only get good simulated results with guidance, then that implies we get good biological results due to some sort of directedness it seems dawkins example undermines his argument
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by yters 6y ago
the question is "how does evolution work so well to create the appearance of design?" dawkins answer is unguided mutation and natural selection. so, a guided computer simulation fails to demonstrate his point. darwin does the sam

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