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I wonder if someday we get even more absurd. Musk wagers company money on the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, announces this on Twitter, then hedges his bet when Vegas moved the line after a bunch of pro chiefs action. I mean, it’s not like there aren’t hedge funds that do sports gambling already.
I always try to use HIV as my point of reference for COVID-19. We got off lucky by that measure. So maybe my pessimism is unfounded, but I really wish we had learned more lessons from HIV.
Half a year into the pandemic the president of the United States was filling stadiums was maskless supporters. The WHO seems completely willing to fall on their sword over COVID, and indeed they failed in many ways. But in the long run, we’re seeing a disaster of anti intellectualism around the world, and the next pandemic may be just as bad as this one.
Stick a fan in it so I can hear if a background process is being run!
More like buying indulgences
For the list of mutations, there is a convenient Wikipedia article [1]. For example, the South Africa variant has mutation E484K which means mutate amino acid 484 from Glutamic Acid to Lysine. It’s just that simple; you could even download a spike protein crystal structure from RCSB and try rolling your own mutations!
Why a mutation improves transmission takes a lot of investigating to understand. I am not sure why you were under the impression that we know the mechanisms. If you type something like “E484K molecular dynamics” you can find a lot of computer simulations trying to investigate the mechanism, this is standard biological research. Of course we E484K you have a mutation from a negative to a positive residue, so that might give you a hint why it’s harder for the antibody to stick.
I can assure you that here in Japan we do not care about Trump. Perhaps we should be more grateful to his good support for the Pfizer vaccine, which is the one we are now deploying at scale (after the government here did their own review of the evidence).
It seems like the flu virus is the example you want right? Every year the vaccines delivered is a cocktail based on the predicted most common variants, because no one vaccine can protect against them all.
This is a reminder that a lot of this comes down to the whims of whoever is staffed at HR. I’ve often read contradictory advice about resumes in articles written by people in charge of hiring. It’s not a big surprise, a lot of these views are arbitrary (though they will insist otherwise!)
I am in favor of the current title as it makes it extremely obvious how few HN users actually read an article before commenting.
The article isn’t saying they’re happier people…
Tesla Models X, S, and 3 all have high customer satisfaction ratings on Consumer Reports, with the Model 3 earning a CR Recommended label.
I wonder how serializing a novel would mesh with most author’s work flow. I guess most would want to write it first and release monthly an already finished product?
The galactic center, according to the scientists, “provides an ideal” central location for “advanced civilizations to place a powerful transmitter to efficiently send beacons across the entire Milky Way,” in what is yet another advantage to this strategy.
Can anyone comment on this? What is the idea of such a beacon?
It sounds to me like what the author is really saying is that a quantum theory of gravity would look like some of these modified gravity equations in the classical limit. Of course it would be nice to kill two birds with one stone and knock out quantum gravity and dark matter with one discovery. I am curious if some of the proposed theories could be made to look like that.
It drives me crazy when people complain about charity ceo pay. Half a million is a drop in the bucket compared to their actually expenses. If you reduce the ceo pay, you’ll find your ceo leaves every few months because they’re being offered ten times more somewhere else.
Easier on the eyes -> more time spent using your phone and not sleeping?
If this is the case, it seems like you could get a lot of bang for your buck by building up a beach evacuation infrastructure.
It would be far better if Facebook just said: “he tried to undermine democracy in the home country of our employees, so we banned him because we don’t want that”. This charade just leaves them open to people calling them hypocrites in the future.
Time to take a hint from the college board and insist that every student’s code has to run on a TI-84
Great story. I wonder if somewhere on a site like the daily wtf you can find the sys admin’s retelling where he relays in horror how a bubble sort almost brought down the system!
IMO the problem is that OSS developers hate any change that’s made to a UI because it breaks their workflow. As a result, a lot of OSS has old style interfaces, and it’s hard for UI designers to convince the others to make changes.
Or in this case, maybe we should be relaxing the legal requirements that lead to YouTube trying to enforce copyright.
evolve to be hyper-infectious in the local conditions
I’ve never heard that idea before, very interesting. I wonder if we will figure out if certain mutations work “better” on certain populations, environmental conditions, etc.
Deep down in the human psyche, I think we all believe that disease is a punishment for our bad behavior. So we always see comments saying it’s because of X or Y. But from what I’ve seen, this disease is very chaotic in its spread. So I think the discussion has to be less “it’s because of X” and more “things like X have increased the risk factor”
I get your instinct, but there is one thing missing. I’m theory, my CI isn’t really being run in a known environment. I can’t write a shell script to power the ci, because how am I to know the CI launcher even has a shell? Of course, once an environment has been deployed, I am safe to switch to write shell scripts, calling system commands, etc. But it does make some sense to be completely static at the start and I haven’t be even picked an operating system.
there seems to have been little to no cost-benefit analysis performed by policy makers regarding the lockdowns and other attempts to combat it.
What evidence do you have of this? This seems like a baseless criticism.
I think I would prefer a separation between the package manager and build system. I’ve already got a build system for my FORTRAN codes, and that system can handle all the complications. SPACK, for example, can easily work with a pre-existing build system. But I definitely think that the worst part of FORTRAN compared to modern languages is that it takes so much work to manage external dependencies, so I appreciate the effort.
It’s interesting that iPads are up. I wonder if people wanted tablets due to corona
A number of Kosuke Kindaichi movies are available on Netflix (at least, here in Japan!). I thought they’d make a good watch, but I found that there is a huge culture gap, that ends up making them very complex, so I gave up. But that might be an appeal to you, so give it a shot!
It seems to me like the census is the wrong tool for the job described in the headline. I understand that a census makes sense for allocating seats, since it’s easy for citizens to understand and trust. Filling out the census is almost a political act. And indeed most of the article is about apportioning of reps. But if I want to know how many people there are, surely there are more accurate approaches?
How many of those tourists will die as a result of this? The data seems to suggest it’s vanishingly small.