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This seems really nice as a sketchpad for small flowcharts. I'd definitely use it to map out a small piece of work, because I'm terrible at laying out flowcharts on scrap paper without wasting space or painting myself into a corner.

One minor annoyance: I can't use tab/shift+tab to indent or dedent lines.

The breakdown of interest by subregion is... unsurprising.

I think people here (USA) see the news out of China/Italy and think it's not that bad here, without realizing we're 1-4 weeks away from starting to see how bad it will actually get.

Thanks. Didn't know this existed.

Seems interesting, but I can't read that without paying, and I probably lack the background necessary for it to be understandable.

Heh, It makes more sense if you think about it medically. Like, the gain or loss of function in a limb or organ.

For a virus I suppose this would be function in reproduction.

From the Wiki page for Furin

> ...must be cleaved by furin or furin-like proteases to become fully functional. Anthrax toxin, pseudomonas exotoxin, and papillomaviruses must be processed by furin during their initial entry into host cells.

From the sound of this:

- the site on the virus gets cleaved - Furin enables the cleaving - Furin exists in hosts cells

What I think I understand is, the cleaving makes it easier for the virus to reproduce inside the cell?

edit: turns out I have no idea how to format things on HN

The phrase "gain of function" seems to mean the virus differs in some way that makes it more contagious or deadly.

This sounds like the seismological equivalent of bloodletting, and would be about as effective.

I have no idea if molten salt reactors are as awesome as this website represents them to be, but I thought the following point was interesting:

"light water reactors can use only about 4% of their available energy."

They're comparing with 1960s reactors designs, so maybe more modern water reactors are more efficient. But, it's still amazing to me that there's that much more energy that we could potentially harness from the fuel.

It's well documented in numerous reports that:

1. The position and size of the upgraded engines for the 737 MAX caused the plane to tend to pitch upwards, which could cause a stall. 2. Boeing was concerned designed MCAS to automatically push the plane's nose down to prevent stalls

Every single piece of reporting I've seen on the matter refers to MCAS as an anti-stall device.

Pilots of 737 who have talked to reporters refer to it as an anti-stall device.

I have a hard time believing that this information hasn't been fact checked to hell and back yet.

It's interesting to me that the system would be designed to detect that a sensor is feeding it bad data, then go back to trusting that input after it had been determined to be bad.