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A comment on Ask HN: Are Viruses Alive?.

Re:Ask HN: Are Viruses Alive? by tic_tac on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:46AM (#22576091)
Is 79°F hot?

Alive is just a word. It means different things to different people and any formal definition will necessarily be arbitrary.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Viruses Alive? by zzo38computer on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:48AM (#22576115)
They told me at school that viruses are not life forms. But, that is a good point I suppose, and, should want to know how that is determined "is it alive"?
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