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by n0rbwah 6y ago
Fun fact, Syncytin-1 is the syncytin used by primates, other branches of mammals have other forms of syncytins, meaning that the event of being infected by a retrovirus that gives mammals proteins necessary for the placenta happened several
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by n0rbwah 6y ago
Saying that before the Top 40 music was reduced to people singing songs badly in pubs and the few who could afford an instrument is a pretty reductive view of musical history.
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by n0rbwah 6y ago
No, they made a big deal of giving a ten-years period to developers to port their code before depreciating python 2. But honestly, there are more breaking changes between two versions of ruby than between python 2 and 3. And during the time
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by n0rbwah 6y ago
Well, the ultimate achievement when building an LFS system is to plug it to an existing package manager so you don't have to keep updating stuff manually.
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by n0rbwah 6y ago
In 50 years, I bet they'll still be looking for python 2 developers to work on old python code... Or not... it's not like you can't throw a python 3 dev at an old python 2 codebase and tell them to work on it. Even if that pr
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by n0rbwah 6y ago
Bah, even if the vaccine was 100% safe and 100% effective antivaxers would claim that it's a death shot that does nothing for your immunity. But yes, we should definitely be as sure as possible that the vaccine is reasonably safe and e
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by n0rbwah 6y ago
In France, we have a tool called WinDev which isn't used very much outside of France. It is a proprietary abomination used to create graphical applications (and with sisters tools WebDev and WinDev mobile for web development and mobile
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
How that problem can be solved by an IBM 5100, a computer that has never ran any flavor of unix is a mystery though. I guess we'll find out when we have to send someone into the past to retrieve one so we can fix the bug.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Arwen isn't that weird though, a quick search says it can also be of welsh origin rather than LotR geek origin.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
I think it's pretty clear from the scientific data that the covid-19 virus is a recent zoonotic infection that jumped from bats to humans (with possibly another animal in between). How could it possibly have caused any human illness be
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Yes, people here aren't that eager to make sacrifices for the greater good. Unless it's other people doing the sacrificing.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
IMO, this virus isn't as deadly as that. It was reasonable for China to implement such measures because 1) at the time they didn't know how bad it was and 2) their people are actually quite compliant with what their government ask
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
I can't speak for all western countries but in my country (France) if the government tried to impose quarantine on the same level as China, I'd expect riots. People here aren't as docile as Chinese people and don't fear
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
I've heard that their border with China is pretty porous and that people cross it on a daily basis to get contraband into the country. So I'd say b) is most likely. People are criticizing China's release of information but co
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Jehovah Witnesses trying to find out the identity of one of their members who badmouthed them on the internet... Good thing it didn't go through.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Officially, there's been no outbreak in North Korea. Of course, there's no way to trust NK on this, but there's been no confirmation of cases in NK by another source (I'm discounting South Korean anti-NK propaganda as an
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Life arising anywhere other than earth would be a big deal.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Wouldn't you use subjective time for this kind of things?
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
> AIDs while changes genetics fast evading immune system its hard to catch and takes decades to show up. It took us 35 years to come up with a vaccine and that was due to our degree of knowledge of the immune system works at the time. Th
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
And it's a hellish punishment for all the developers who end up in hell and have to maintain it.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
> Wouldn't that require two unrelated explanations for higher viral-outbreak mortality rates? That doesn't sound unreasonable at all when the two outbreaks are separated by a century. A lot has changed between 1920 and 2020.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
The Spanish Flu was a hundred years ago, I highly doubt that what happened then in Iran has much relations to what's happening now. What's happening now has more to do with their theocratic regime that didn't take the threat
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Better go infect other people before being put in quarantine.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
There was an article about an experimental way of creating new vaccines that could potentially get it out faster. https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-firs...
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
So would most people who wielded a comparable amount of power.
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Coronavirus 'spike' protein just mapped, leading way to vaccine(livescience.com)
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
It probably had something to do with collecting the blood of all our animal/human sacrifices.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Your employer isn't your friend either and most of them will gladly throw you under the law enforcement bus if it comes to that.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
No but given the place it occupies in today's world, everyone's entitled to their opinion on FB and the harm it may cause, whether they use it or not.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
It's pretty common for addictologists to prescribe opiate substitutes, benzos or antidepressants to their patients. All of which addictive substances. But then, they do it because it's supposed to help their patients with their ad

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