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byHarinezumi
3, 2022 @09:47PM
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Attached to: Researchers Pinpointed Covid-19's Origin to Within a Few Metres
The earliest known cases and their distribution are all the information we have to go by for establishing the geographical origins of COVID-19 in humans. Given that the distribution of the early cases is consistent with the geographical location of the wet market and not consistent with the geographical location of the viral research center, the available evidence indicates that the wet market was the likeliest source of the initial transmission to humans.
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byHarinezumi
3, 2022 @07:15PM
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Attached to: Researchers Pinpointed Covid-19's Origin to Within a Few Metres
A list of carefully laid out "facts" where the very first falsifiable claim, that the research center is 0.5 km away from the market, can be demonstrated to be false with a brief look at a map.
For an actual well-researched and well-documented examination of the origins of COVID-19, see this article on science.org: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
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byHarinezumi
2021 @12:49PM
(#61725341)
Attached to: Ants Use Soil Physics To Excavate Meter-Long Tunnels That Last Decades
The science here isn't in figuring out how to design structurally stable tunnels, it's in figuring out how to build them without needing to design them. The main feature of interest here is the instruction set that is simple enough for an ant to execute that produces a stable tunnel without a team of surveyors, designers, and engineers to guide it. It may be of very limited use given that the physics of structural stability work differently in the same materials at different scales, but it may provide some key insights for making better instruction sets for semi-autonomous bot swarms.
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byHarinezumi
21, 2021 @05:54PM
(#60975884)
Attached to: Which messaging app do you prefer to use?
Where's Google Hangouts? I haven't even heard of most of these.
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byHarinezumi
2, 2021 @03:01PM
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Attached to: Amazon and Facebook Staff Warned of Threats To Safety
You seem to be operating under two very mistaken impressions: 1) that the giant corporations that generate most of the country's agricultural output care more about politics than making a profit and 2) that food is not perfectly fungible. Decrease the agricultural output of flyover country, and Mexico will be more than happy to fill in the gap.
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byHarinezumi
1, 2020 @02:46PM
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Attached to: Pfizer, BioNTech Covid Vaccine Wins European Backing
I think I speak for everyone here when I say: wat?
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byHarinezumi
10, 2020 @02:09PM
(#60816592)
Attached to: Apple Turned Blind Eye To Supplier Breaches of Chinese Labor Laws
Without a second thought. I'm hiring an electrician, not a babysitter.
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byHarinezumi
r 09, 2020 @05:39PM
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Attached to: Apple Turned Blind Eye To Supplier Breaches of Chinese Labor Laws
It still would not be any of Apple's business. Apple's mission is to design goods for consumers and generate profits for shareholders, not to police its entire supply chain for moral and ethical behavior.
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byHarinezumi
r 09, 2020 @02:59PM
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Attached to: Apple Turned Blind Eye To Supplier Breaches of Chinese Labor Laws
Why though? Why should the complience of another company to a foreign country's laws be any concern of Apple's in the first place?
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byHarinezumi
r 18, 2020 @05:55PM
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Attached to: After 12,523 Replacements, Feds Investigate Tesla Media Control Unit Failures
Or, better yet, give the option to stop writing logs altogether. In a car, logs are a nice-to-have feature, not a must-have.
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byHarinezumi
r 11, 2020 @02:38PM
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Attached to: Why It's a Big Deal If the First COVID-19 Vaccine Is 'Genetic'
FUD FUD FUD.
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byHarinezumi
2020 @12:16PM
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Attached to: When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won't Be Able to Answer
Even with COVID, humanity is still in a much better state right now than it was when Voyager 2 launched. For one thing, we are no longer on the verge of nuking ourselves into the stone age.
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byHarinezumi
020 @02:09PM
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Attached to: Facebook Violence Curbs Thwarted by Groups Using Code Words
Makes sense that advertisers wouldn't want their product associated with discussions of the virus, though. And that's where the money comes from.
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byHarinezumi
5, 2020 @12:13PM
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Attached to: The Supreme Court Says States Cannot Be Sued For Copyright Infringement
The Declaration of Independance is not the law of the land, it's just a historical document.
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byHarinezumi
4, 2020 @08:46PM
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Attached to: 'Why the Foundations of Physics Have Not Progressed For 40 Years'
With your friend.
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