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Re:Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the... by Palptine on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:09PM (#22206923)
Large HIV database inflating matches is indeed a big concern. But dismissing one miss matches sounds arbitrary: these segments were not arbitrarily selected, but real insertions on tops of sars.
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Re:Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the... by folli on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:15PM (#22206959)
Again, take any random six letter amino acid sequence and chances are high that it matches to some HIV protein.

I just did the experiment with my first name that is coincidentally 6 letters long, and lo and behold: a match to HIV env protein!

Has my first name now been designed by a bioweapons facility?

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Re:Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the... by AnimalMuppet on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:13PM (#22207381)
> Has my first name now been designed by a bioweapons facility?

No, of course not. Your parents were designed by a bioweapons facility, so that they would choose that name.

;-)

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Re:Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the... by folli on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:46AM (#22209285)
You revealed my secret
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