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Perspective from a computational biologist: Campus hosted HPC means the direct cost pressure is seen as IT staff and hardware related costs. Researchers are encouraged to use the available capacity. This is good.

Externally-hosted HPC means every single compute job is seen as something that directly costs money. This negatively affects the quality of scientific output (research playfulness / creativity / focus on the research / etc).

The “unvaccinated hospitalisations” statistic is often somewhat fraudulent it seems. Please see this example here: https://metatron.substack.com/p/alberta-just-inadvertently-c...

It is caused by three factors primarily: (1) extreme asymmetric testing rates between the two groups of all patients; (2) inclusion of <14 day or even <21 day post-vaccination into the “unvaccinated” column; and (3) in some cases even the “unknown vaccination status” is amazingly included into the “unvaccinated” column.

The article above gives an example of 2. An example of 3 is here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=af76uwdGCM0

Number 2 essentially uses a proximal increase in vulnerability facilitated by the vaccination in order to sell more vaccinations. I am at a loss for words as to describing just how scandalous this is.

I agree, and I also urge people to watch this footage. It can be found here[1] (it is also featured for a few seconds in the other videos [2-4]).

There are two takes on this by comedian's here[2] and here[3], which I personally thought were intriguing (and funny).

There is also a comprehensive (serious) take here[4] showing a bunch of extra footage I hadn't seen yet.

If anyone watches these takes and disagrees with them, I would love to hear how specifically you don't agree?

Especially: how can it be explained the omissions shown in [4] that the media are making, e.g. not showing the several incidences where the masses of Trump supporters were actively stopping the violent provocateurs (protecting police, stopping them from smashing a window, etc)? I am genuinely curious.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/sugaspov/status/13469199432380006... [2] https://www.bitchute.com/video/bZCHyUgTc0o/ [3] https://youtu.be/xH9XWNz0GW4?t=219 [4] https://youtu.be/BwSxVvRFMJA

Yep. I believe you can also become an Australian permanent resident and then citizen through that visa. You just need a spare 5 to 15 million dollars AUD to invest, depending :). IIRC Steve Wozniak went for it or at least was considering it. Details here: https://www.border.gov.au/Lega/Lega/Form/Immi-FAQs/what-is-t...

I'm curious what your experience in Australia has been for you to think that. In my experience that's not what I'd call a lot in Australia, most commonly your average basic IT contactor will charge $80-120/hr, let alone any sort of speciality.

It seems the "world's largest" claim is correct by a decent margin, I can't seem to find any battery installation that comes close to the 100MW output and 400MWh capacity claimed here. What is the second largest (that is at least financed and in-planning as it is here) solar-battery farm I wonder? Or is there bigger?

FWIW, The CSIRO logo is in the shape of Australia (the dot representing Tasmania), as it's an Australian organisation. It also sort of looks like WiFi signal bars to me, and I guess the CSIRO has some legitimacy for that seeing as they were involved in inventing WiFi: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/D61/Areas/Wireless-and-netw...

Does anyone know a good way to implement wireless roaming around a large home? I had Ubiquity's Zero-Handoff on my list of things to check out, but seems they don't use it anymore, and as above it was a hack anyway.

I have been for years using (and recommending to others) multiple access points (of any brand) wired together and just set them up with the same SSID and passwords. Usually works mostly OK, although VoIP tends to drop out moving around the house (and thus changing BSSID). Keen to fix the VoIP issues. Maybe I'm missing out on something such as using special routers or some 802.11 standard that might work better.

Proteins don't usually "learn" how to fold from other proteins, their structure is usually determined by their amino acid sequence. In vivo there are chaperone proteins that help proteins fold into their natural structures by preventing premature aggregate folds, but still their final fold is a result of their amino acid sequence. Less commonly, there are some rare chaperones that cause specific folding that wouldn't otherwise occur, but these are the exception and not the rule. However you are right that prions are an exception here, prions are uniquely misfolded proteins that are amyloid-prone and cause their otherwise normal folded structure to refold into another prion form, leading to a chain reaction of refolding into the prion form for that particular protein. As far as I know there is still a lot of research to be done in order to verify the theories regarding prions.

It doesn't make sense to say newly synthesised proteins arises mostly from amino acid metabolism, metabolism involves both catabolism (breakdown) and anabolism (synthesis). Amino acid degradation results in glucose via gluconeogenesis or cellular energy (ATP), whereas amino acid synthesis is of course what is used for proteins, as proteins are made of amino acids. So yeah, doesn't really make sense. Perhaps you meant to say that newly synthesised protein uses amino acids of which are most often sourced from proteolysis?

As for red blood cells, they don't have any mitochondria, so they only metabolise glucose and other sugars (and anaerobically at that, due to their function of carrying oxygen). They certainly don't metabolise amino acids or proteins, so I'm not sure where you got that idea from.

I hope that helps.