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Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See... by tossandturn on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:29PM (#18651311)
Prions are like gamma-induced bit flips, Viroids are like small code patches, and Viruses are self-deploying code patches.
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Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See... by jvanderbot on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:13PM (#18651585)
What blows my mind is these aren't really analogies, they are in fact mostly truth.
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Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See... by thinkpad20 on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:26PM (#18652359)
To be precise, these aren’t really analogies, they are in fact similes. :)
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Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See... by kenbellows on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:47PM (#18652465)
To be precise, similes are a type of analogy
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