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Elon Musk’s China Battery Partner Is Now Richer Than Jack Ma(bloomberg.com)
3 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Good idea. or have a dollar amount limit on the hardware
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Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design drawings(nytimes.com)
114 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|110 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Feels laggy compared to google.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
And yet Biogen's stock is only $51B? Either the numbers are off or everyone should be buying it.
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The Last–and Only–Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out(bloomberg.com)
14 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|5 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Maybe the virus was not a pandemic 20k years ago. Small tribes that carried genes that are resistant to the coronaviruses spread later on as they established larger communities/cities.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Look at the infection/death rate in Southeast Asia. It strongly suggests past community transmissions of past coronaviruses.
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‘Dragon Man’ skull may be elusive Denisovan–or a new species of human(sciencemag.org)
2 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|0 comments
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China plans to send first crewed mission to Mars in 2033 and build a base there(cnbc.com)
3 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
"Dr. Goldstein noted that the testing paper listed the individual mutations the Wuhan researchers found in their tests. Although the full sequences are no longer in the archive, the key information has been public for over a year, he s
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Saudi Operatives Who Killed Khashoggi Received Paramilitary Training in U.S.(nytimes.com)
245 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|147 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Really? HKFP is still there.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Aug. 5, 2019: "Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns" - NYTimes [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
you can click and hold on the screen to trigger a pop up menu to dislike a video that's not in your interest.
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Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins(nytimes.com)
7 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Won't Apple just integrate the apps into the OS. No app icon = no app
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China sees them https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136078/chin...
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
The CDC’s Dr. Thornburg and Josh Denny, chief executive of the NIH’s All of Us program and an author of the latest study, both said they don’t plan to search blood samples earlier than December 2019, given how few they have found back then.
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Author at The Pentagon wrote Op-eds in a Chinese state tabloid against US policy(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Classic NYTimes taking quotes out of context. Note the reporter can't even quote full sentences but rather construct their own narrative with a very selective use of phrases in the Xi document. Where in the document did Xi direct the C
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Dang, why is this flagged off the front page when articles favoring lab leaks are always kept on it?
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
This. Oftentimes people are mad at the media too quickly dismissing the possibility last year rather than actively suggesting it was a lab leak.
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China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs(scmp.com)
6 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong. RaTG13's genome was published in 2020 after the pandemic started by Shi and the Wuhan Institute of technology. Doesn't seem likely they'll voluntarily publish a paper on a virus they used as the
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The Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Is a Tale of Weaponized Uncertainty(wired.com)
5 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|1 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Amazingly, old news can be recycled by the NY Post and they can pretend it's breaking news and part of the "probe".
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
With all these advantages, why did the mobile revolution happen with Apple instead of Microsoft?
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Pompeo's effort to prove lab theory shut down by Biden over quality of evidence(cnn.com)
5 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|2 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Except the evidence that the virus came from a lab leak is provided by the American government, the arguments are constructed by Americans, and the news leaked and propagated by the American press and American social media networks. The oth

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