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Comment · 1 year ago
I really wish more research was funneled into vaccines that target T-cells instead of B cells which produce antibodies. You see viruses mutate quickly and antibodies produced by the b cells can be evaded pretty quickly, but T-cells the white blood cells that actually eat the viruses are far more adaptable.
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Comment · 1 year ago
I still tip very generously for food delivery and table service but I will never tip a cashier at checkout and in fact I actually avoid stores that use the tip screen checkout system because I hate being guilt tripped when buying gum.
Comment · 2 years ago
This paper's argues that due to half of the early reported cases being linked to the market and the presence animal DNA showing animals were at the market that this is strong evidence. But this is just circumstantial evidence, there is no evidence that these animals were infected, and still to this day the two closest viruses found in the wild were found thousands of kilometers away and are very distantly related with the last common ancestor being decades ago.
Comment · 2 years ago
What politics of today in any way fit with a 500 story about a magical Monkey fighting monsters? I just want a compelling game, no one is going to change their politics suddenly after playing a magical monkey game. For politics there is a time and a place, do you think there should be political messaging in Banana bread recipes as well?
Comment · 2 years ago
To attack a Chinese developer about covid is totally wrong, regardless of what happened they like the rest of us had no control over what happened.
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting that we seem to find SARS-CoV-2 circulating in animals from reverse zoonosis(humans to animals), but we can't find any precursor virus circulating in any animals that would explain the zoonotic spillover in the first place. It's as if the virus vanished in whatever intermediate host after infecting the first human like some sort of immaculate infection event!
Comment · 2 years ago
I just want to point out that anyone who tries and make arguments about the rare earth or the uniqueness of our solar system based off of observed exoplanets and solar systems should note that due to time and technical limitations we almost exclusively focus on M-type red dwarf stars which shouldn't be used to determine what typical solar systems and planets exist around G-type(sun like stars) or even K-type(the second most common star type) which collectively make up about 20% of stars in our galaxy.

But if we had multiple JWST like telescopes and one dedicated towards observing G and K type stars we could get a better understanding.

Comment · 2 years ago
And what is this consensus based upon outside of what is most beneficial for their field of study? As stated in the article we have not found any infected animals, no antibodies or samples pointing to infected animals, no precursor viruses found circulating in any animals species, no separate spillover events nothing. This is something we find for all spillovers and all of this evidence was uncovered almost immediately for SARS1/MERS. Take a look at the current bird flu situation cropping up, whenever we find a case, we find infected animals at the farm, we find the virus in animals during random sampling, we find the virus in raw milk, we observe many independent outbreaks etc.

How is it that such an infectious virus no longer exists in any animal population? It's as if after the first human got infected the virus simply vanished off the face of the Earth like some sort of immaculate infection. Now how come when humans infected cats/dogs/deer etc. via reverse zoonosis that SARS2 didn't stop circulating in humans?

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Comment · 2 years ago
But you're refactoring an existing codebase so it's not prematurely dry. You know exactly how these classes diverge.
Comment · 2 years ago
The microtubules were from a pigs brain according the material and methods. These proteins exist in all animal cells. So this probably explains why single cell organisms are so intelligent despite not having a brain
Comment · 2 years ago
>the many-worlds interpretation is basically the result of saying it doesn't

Few problems with this, the state that a particle can be in after the collapse of the wave function follows a probability distribution, so if all states are equally real then why does it seem like some states are more likely than others? Why would probabilities be such a powerful mathematical tool, and how would it work in a MWI.

If all points of the universe branch out into several universes after each particle interaction, where does all this energy come from? If all branches are equally real why even have the wave function in the first place?

Comment · 2 years ago
Penrose argues just in terms of classical computers

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