gatronicus

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by gatronicus 5y ago
The speed of detonation also matters, a meteorite detonation is surely slower than a nuclear bomb which releases the energy in milliseconds.
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by gatronicus 5y ago
We should be able to find the impact geological records and build a probability model.
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by gatronicus 5y ago
Except that for decades REP MOVS/STOS were avoided on x86 because they were much slower than hand written assembly. This only changed recently.
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by gatronicus 5y ago
Since there were so many TLS security bugs due to it's complexity, is there any push to replace it with something simpler and with less choices and attack surface? Google gave us HTTP/2/3, but don't seem to care about fi
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by gatronicus 5y ago
Which is why we need "intelligent design" to "help" the virus jump over this combinatorial problem. For example we can try spikes from different related viruses, or pick and choose various other tricks, like furin cleava
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by gatronicus 5y ago
> I have no idea how challenging that is. Technically it's easy, Moderna already has multi target vaccines (for other diseases), one with 7 different targets. It can be as easy as literally creating 7 different vaccine liquids and
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by gatronicus 5y ago
> should prove exceptionally difficult for the virus to overcome through evolutionary pressure Which is why we need gain of function experiments to accelerate this process and get ahead of the virus so that we are prepared for the eventu
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by gatronicus 5y ago
The main purpose of the submarine is to deliver nuclear missiles from near the enemy shore, so arguably it's most important feature would be to remain undetected. It's unclear if modern tech can "reveal" where the subs a
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by gatronicus 5y ago
One article said that the France contract was about 7 bil per diesel sub, while the new one will be 4 bil per nuclear sub. I can't imagine how you can justify 7 bil for a diesel sub. Is it possible that France though that Aus had no al
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by gatronicus 5y ago
Taleb favours "street smarts" vs "intellectual yet idiot". In this context "street smarts" probably means being a one boxer.
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by gatronicus 5y ago
Do not talk about the basilisk.
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by gatronicus 5y ago
Germany had a N95 mask mandate (called FFP2 in Europe), nothing else was allowed, and yet had a very similar infection curve to Sweeden (according to article picture) which had no mask mandate. Mask quality is definitely a factor, but can&#
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by gatronicus 5y ago
> Russia can't ask US service to deny making business with US citizen (for example). It's completely outside of their territory. Not sure what US citizens have got to do with this. Russia obviously was able to order Google to b
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by gatronicus 5y ago
While the article does have a point, it's too soon to conclude why some places had more or less covid infections/deaths. If you look at the overall global picture - location, climate, size, population, demographics, education, GDP
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by gatronicus 5y ago
Just as the gov required google to remove the app they can also require the big email providers to block all emails with links to it. 99% of the people are on the big email providers. Also, you will quickly find out that sending many emails
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by gatronicus 5y ago
I hope they use some of that money for a study regarding the nutritional value of Gatorade fed plants.