reuben_scratton

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by reuben_scratton 2y ago
I can't believe iPhone chips, almost the supreme luxury good, are considered worthy of Federal subsidies. Surely a better path would have been to slap imported silicon with tarriffs at least equal to their gov't subsidies? (Unpopu
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by reuben_scratton 2y ago
I have two severely autistic children who cannot talk and who need lifelong care. That's the REAL autism, the one Leo Kanner identified in 1943. Not the rebranded Aspergers with extra rainbows. I wouldn't wish real autism on my wo
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by reuben_scratton 3y ago
Here's an example: The LGB Alliance in U.K. are routinely smeared as a 'hate' group for taking a dim view of male rapists in female prisons, males competing in female sports, and so on. Resisting that trend and arguing for se
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by reuben_scratton 3y ago
When my mother died she had been completely unconscious for a whole week, but just 30 minutes before she died she opened her eyes and looked around the room. I was later told by a nurse that this is quite common when people are about to die
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by reuben_scratton 4y ago
You must know that virologists routinely "serial passage" viruses through animal hosts? Evolving a candidate virus "through multiple, probably dozens of hosts" is what virology labs do . And lab leaks happen All The Tim
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by reuben_scratton 4y ago
Same here. Twenty-one years since my last cigarette now, and it's entirely thanks to the late great Allen Carr - may God rest and nourish his immortal soul. (It was my 9th or 10th attempt to quit too, but my first and only with Easy Wa
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by reuben_scratton 4y ago
Guided introspection. Despite not considering myself alcoholic, my wife nagged me into going to local Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings. I came to realise that I had somehow slipped into alcoholism without being the classic street-drunk, s
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by reuben_scratton 4y ago
Having kids. I'm sure it's great for normies but my kids are mentally disabled and being their dad is grief and heartache without end. I have no close family to share any of it with - the little family I grew up with are all dead
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by reuben_scratton 4y ago
Does anyone (UK) even offer fixed rate more than 5 years ahead?
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by reuben_scratton 4y ago
"Taking full precautions against airborne transmission would require major changes at hospitals" Major changes such as, er, occasionally opening a window to let some fresh air in? That's a basic, obvious precaution that'
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by reuben_scratton 5y ago
"Verified by a human" - and that human will be an overworked, underpaid, overseas subcontractor who may well have an incentive to mash the "Confirm match" button from time to time to improve his performance.
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by reuben_scratton 5y ago
I thought Intentional Programming would be big by now : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming
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by reuben_scratton 5y ago
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that today is Patch Tuesday. :-|
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by reuben_scratton 5y ago
Lab escapes are not that rare, SARS-1 is known to have escaped 6 times. It also doesn't matter how safe and secure the WIV's BSL-4 lab is, since coronavirus research was done at BSL-2 and BSL-3.
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by reuben_scratton 5y ago
The furin cleavage site in SARS-Cov-2 does not appear in any other SARS-related beta coronavirus (sarbecovirus).
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by reuben_scratton 5y ago
SARS-CoV-2 is spectacularly well-adapted for infecting humans, the original SARS and other animal-origin viruses are not. The idea that this thing sprang out of the wild, in Wuhan of all places, perfectly adapted to infect human beings, i
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
This is why I feel the international community should somehow come together to agree to indemnify China against all types of future sanctions or prosecutions etc re Covid-19. The critically important thing is to establish exactly what happe
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
Re. Novichok, if there wasn't video evidence of two known Russian agents the Porton Down theory might be more plausible. But Porton Down says they have nothing to do with it and we should just accept their word as fact, just as we have
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
There is no direct evidence of zoonotic origin either. An entire year on and we don't even know the intermediate species, let alone where crossover occurred. With the original SARS this was worked out in a couple of weeks. Also I'
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
Was it really? Where can I see proof of this?
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
Well quite. You'd think for all the screeching of "incitement" the news coverage would be able to find one 5 second clip or tweet or something where he'd actually done it. It beggars belief how low journalistic standards
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
That article is one of the dumbest articles I've read in an unusually dumb year. Why do these journalists think we should all only ever be spoon-fed inoffensive, carefully-curated pap? And when was the last time anyone changed their mi
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
I had a year or two of chronic lower back pain and thought it was just the price of getting older (also mid 40s) and living a largely sedentary life. Then I started taking a Vitamin D supplement for a totally unrelated reason (mood, basical
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
Could we stop trying to make Facebook responsible for every damn thing that happens?
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
That's a truly terrible article.
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
Quinn The Eskimo at Apple's forums is a 10x support engineer, his posts have helped me fix dozens of problems.
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
There's bat colonies and wet markets all over China. The odds that SARS-CoV-2 naturally began in one of the very few places with labs that study it seems exceedingly remote.
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
Yes. His family are financially secure, thanks to his Cloudflare millions. I could die much more easily knowing my family were safe after I'd gone.
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by reuben_scratton 6y ago
Not actually left yet, but at age 48 I certainly want to. The trouble is it's all I'm good at...
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by reuben_scratton 7y ago
That was an excellent article, thank you.

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