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This is a very positive development. So much stuff that could be repaired ends up in the garbage. For the vast majority of products there is no good recycling process so the materials in these products are lost.

Also tractor owners will be greatly relieved. There is a big market for old tractors that could still be repaired by their owners.

An article like this where the author described her own doubts seems more likely to convince other doubters than a dry article about statistics.

But they will apply the same norms to you as a tourist. A part of the population will regard them as degenerate perverts.

The mechanism that duplicate the virus genome is fairly imprecise, which means that they produce an astronomical number of mutants. The only mutants that we will really notice are the ones that survive. There is nothing sinister about the fact that the very first COVID virus was already adapted to humans because otherwise it would never have been to infect humans.

Vaping is a pretty effective way to stop smoking. I smoked for decades, after one week vaping I quit smoking.

Much more detailed story by Brian Krebs:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-...

The title is misleading. The research was not about vaccine but about monoclonal antibodies.

A nice story about AI systems that warns that you should very carefully choose the parameter you want to optimize.

The immune system of these patients was fighting two infections at the same time. Once the bacteria was eliminated it could use al its energy on fighting COVID.

> a swab from a bat contains very little infectious virus

We know that they were doing gain of function research, but that only works with live viruses. So they must have some method to cultivate the virus. When they can do that small size of the initial sample is no longer relevant.

This is simply the result of natural selection, there are tons of viruses that are less infectious, but they simply die out.

What do you mean "did not disclose", most scientists that had connections with WIV were pretty open about it.

> The reasons for this seems to be that bats are just too small and the virus load too thin to pose a threat to humans. So bat to human is very unlikely, but bat to cat is more plausible, and then cat (etc) to human also more plausible.

Some bat species, e.g. flying foxes are not really small and can weigh about 1 kg. Also bats are very strange that they can tolerate high virus loads without getting ill. There is a report that one of the Chinese researcher got infected while collecting samples.

I does not have to be an immediate infection from bats to humans. With both SARS and MERS an intermediate host transmitted it to humans.

South Korea did well at the early phases of the epidemic[0]. The problem now is that they don't have enough vaccines[1].

China used some draconian measures to achieve their results.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_South_...

Link to the new letter in the lancet:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

There really is only one country in the world that believes that the embargo is justified (Israel probably does not really care either way).

The embargo started because the US did not want communist regimes in their backyard. As a reaction the Cubans nationalized all US companies and property. There is a powerful lobby in the US against lifting the embargo.

Do they also insure against reputation damage? How would that work and could they measure it?

There is some evidence that they had live bats in the laboratory. This would make sense, bats are quite different from other mammals, and it seems very likely that some bat viruses can not be cultivated in standard cell cultures.

For LGBT people country number 2 Hungary is definitely not safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n#Anti-LGBT_po...

The decline and fall of the Roman Empire was very likely caused by a combination of factors. The article makes a reasonable case that lead poisoning could be one of them.

There is such a thing as irreducible complexity, no matter how you implement it, the solution will always have at least that complexity. This means that in a non-trivial system there will be some services that definitely won't fit in your head.

The safest way to build with micro services is still to start with a monolith. When you find a good reason like performance you can split of a micro service.

I believe that David Frazor was the only one that made visual contact. Chad Underwood was relying on FLIR because he was too far away.

Link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210705202917/https://www.audac...

The more we learn about Neanderthals, the clearer it becomes that they were very similar to Homo Sapiens.

Just wait until the anti-vaxers hear about this.

Which is not surprising given the scale of recent ransomware attacks.

Let's hope that insurers will start with requiring better security from their clients.

Fortunately, we already have multiple vaccines that are based on multiple working mechanisms. Also some vaccines, especially the mRNA based ones, can be adapted quite fast.

The interesting part of this article is that it gives new examples of what life on other planets could look like.

In the video it says that they could not get a range estimate for the object. That implies that it was impossible to estimate its size.