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The Musk Industrial Complex

reuters.com
3 points·by pumpkinhead·2 jaar geleden·0 comments

The great toilet battle – Does Bill Gates have a solution? (YouTube vid)

youtube.com
2 points·by pumpkinhead·4 jaar geleden·1 comments

Trivago should be fined $90m for misleading Australian consumers

theguardian.com
3 points·by pumpkinhead·5 jaar geleden·0 comments

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pumpkinhead
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
This isn't a far-fetched as you might think. This damned virus seems to mutate at an alarmingly fast rate.
pumpkinhead
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Something very important that I didn't mention in my post - the virus mutates very quickly and each of the major variants seems to evade the vaccine of the last major variant.

Here in Australia I will be going to get my 4th shot in a few weeks. I only get one 'flu shot a year though in comparison, and I got MMR decades ago.
pumpkinhead
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
People pushing extreme and divisive politics and religious beliefs are more likely to get votes when people are frightened and under stress. Unfortunate but true.
pumpkinhead
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Gain of function research is very important in that you get to see how a pathogen behaves. From this you can formulate a plan/vaccines/treatment etc. It is too difficult to infer from what is already known. You just gotta be careful.
pumpkinhead
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
That COVID-19 is new in humans, is incredibly fast spreading, evades both vaccines and tests worries me. Now it just needs to pick up some genes that can cause it to be more deadly and we are in a lot more trouble.

Did a postgrad degree in Mol Bio a while back, and I cannot think of any reason why this virus has/will not pick up genes that would increase its pathogenicity.
pumpkinhead
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
"Interesting tidbit, the mongol empire had a significant but indirect part in the "discovery" of the americas by columbus."

So did the Ottomans. Their monopoly of the eastern routes caused the Western kingdoms to go the other direction.
pumpkinhead
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
"However, there’s a version of GNAT released by AdaCore called “GNAT Community Edition” which is similar to FSF GNAT but does not provide the runtime exception."

Ok, so if I download the GNAT Community Edition from Adacore, how I do switch GPS to use the FSF GNAT tool chain? How about the static analysis tools? Windows and Linux?

Everytime I look at Ada, I want to start doing a project with it. What a wonderful tool.