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I wonder how long it will take until the anti-?ism apologetics come out to justify this to headline-readers.

>If the fundamentalists are a problem, maybe there’s a problem with the fundamentals?

What people call fundamentalists are often not all about the actual fundamentals. Rather, they're stuck on one or another bad, but still old idea. Actual fundamentals do not reflect the hateful, angry, bitter image that's conjured up by the term "fundamentalist."

>The 0.01 percenters represent about 0.007 percent of the U.S. population

I don't get that part. Does half the population not pay taxes, or are there people outside the US paying US taxes? Both?

Djikstra is the king of smarmy CS quotes.

> it would not be able to be reconstructed in the archive

Much the same way as if one were to look at our own neural connections, it would not reveal our memories. The recall of some pieces lead to a reconstruction of the feeling or the memory itself, and so it is with archived data of the Internet. Maybe this article reveals how accurately archives work when used in conjunction with our own mental ones.

We may need to look into this further!

> It would be equivalent to say that lighthouses cause ships to run aground, because many teams when ships run aground it's near a lighthouse.

But if a lighthouse manufactured coral reefs, and the coral reefs on which ships were running aground displayed features of those that a given lighthouse manufactured, it might be more accurate.

The intense interest thing may be of help then. Getting over the activation hump can be challenging, otherwise. Pair programming might help with difficulty investing into learning things, as well.

From experience in dev, there are multitudes here with learning disabilities of many different kinds. Without knowing more specifics, I'd say just about anything is open to someone from a wide range of learning disabled backgrounds. Personally, I'd recommend a person with a learning disability particularly focus on what he or she is intensely interested in. It's generally a good idea, but intense interest can help push through a lot of challenges, from my own experience.

Thanks! I did a bit of digging around, and it looks like the BSE-causing prion can rarely, on ingestion, cause prion formation that causes CJD. So, if I understand correctly, it's not exactly a disease that transmits like a virus, it's one that is induced by the transmission of a diseased particle (the cow prion) when it goes form cows to humans. BSE and CJD seem to be the result of the transmission and induction of the respective prions. It seems comparable to a cow being on fire, and a human catching fire from it -- the latter is a human fire, and the former is a cow fire. Unless I really got that wrong, interesting!

Not being a biologist, I'll ask what might be a dumb question: If the essential elements of each disease are compared, is there a difference? Are the prions associated with each disease different from one another? If so, is there a difference elsewhere that defines between one disease and the other?

>Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and some of its variants, including mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.

I thought CJD and BSE were the same thing.

It's interesting that you can categorize a number of the top comments according to this list.

Are large gatherings allowed at all the planned locations? This seems a little tone-deaf.

Not to be confused with Techno Viking, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y

> devaluing rich people's money

Do the very rich, the top 1% * n, keep much of their wealth in liquid currency?

The utilization of government assistance is the utilization of force and violence. If a small number of players do this, it is not a free market, was my main point. If there is a way to utilize government, it should come with the strings attached by which the government itself is nominally controlled (granted, the government itself ignores those strings, but it would be a step in the right direction, imo).

> market-dominating

I'm reminded of In-Q-Tel at times like these. I defy anyone to find more than 20% of wildly successful "tech giants" who have not received government funding and support. It's not a free market when some get tax breaks and government money. If you get those things, your utmost law should be the law that governs the government in your region. This will never happen, of course.

Reminder that a few hundred years ago, people typically worked a few months out of the year, and were able to live the whole year. The source(s) of the reason(s) we need to work nearly 5/7 of the year now is one element of why this is even an issue.

Part of me wonders whether the thinking of those who don't has been affected by movie and television's portrayal as anyone who thinks as having an internal narrative. Granted, it's hard to convey an abstract thought through the idiot box, so I don't entirely think media producers are evil for having done this. Just curious.

> politics

I agree. And there's a massive depth unwinding to that.

>This is the kind of government competence that only exists in the most wild conspiracy theories

And, possibly, before the 1960s.

Bout 3.50

They probably don't, but when something looks suspicious enough, in comes the audit.

I wish we were neighbors :)

Awesome! Now do Google.

Ever since I saw the ring cam video of the delivery dude drinking someone's milkshake, I've never used these weird ad-hoc food delivery services. Here's another reason.

I was in the same boat. They changed it so quickly I didn't even notice the "problematic" one.

I'd wondered why that ugly mess appeared on my phone. I didn't even notice the old one looking like Hitler. Oh well.