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This monetary policy, and the consequent industrial policy ("free trade"), is, more than any other factor, the cause of the so-called "Great Stagnation." Its persistence is why the Great Stagnation is not over, despite some recent noises to the contrary. US growth will not resume until energy production does. With shale seemingly spent, nuclear too scary for most, and fusion perpetually 10 years off, growth is unlikely. The US will continue to "print" oil by printing dollars (h/t to Luke Gromen), care of Saudi Arabia, until it can't. The US will do anything and everything to ensure this continues, history is proof of that. When the US finally fails there will be a war. Not like Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan. A very, very bad war. And the winner will determine monetary policy for the next century or so.
I still think a contaminated sample is more likely, all else being equal. Not saying this is impossible, but would like to see at least a few other cases this early. If this patient had not been to China then there must be some.
And if this turns out to be a true positive then it indicates the virus is so contagious that it spread that far and wide, that quickly, that overall infection must be much more widespread than is thought.
Maybe. More likely a false positive? Hopefully they repeated and followed up with tests from other providers to confirm.
> We are building a pipeline from FASTA files of genomes to deployment in our customer's facilities.
This statement and the remainder of that paragraph is simply nonsense. The same can be said for much of the rest of the text. They are trying to resuscitate an old idea with pure hype.
Biology has been eating the world for 4 billion years.
MA: "Bio today is where information technology was 50 years ago."
Bio today is still in the pre-transistor era of IT. There is no tool that doubles our capabilities to manipulate molecular processes every 18 months. No, genome sequencing does not count, it is "read only." No, as amazing and as promising as it is, CRISPR does not count. For the present we continue to merely tinker, which is invaluable and necessary to more forward. Maybe once we figure out how to efficiently, reproducibly engineer enzymes, which truly accelerate molecular processes, we can claim that human-directed bio is eating the world. Until then, nature-driven bio is still on top.
I am amazed that this has not gotten more attention here, given the amount of attention a story gets when <insert your favorite famous tech mogul here> says we might be living in a simulation. We are not. This also argues against simulations of the human brain, or possibly, most biological systems, including even individual proteins. The complexity is simply far greater than anyone can even begin to comprehend. Anyone who wrangles with real scientific data learns this very quickly. The number of very intelligent people led astray by this should serve as a caution to us all to dial down the near-religious fervor with which we greet almost all of their pronouncements.
Not sure how useful this is for existing laws, but for pending legislation it would be fascinating to see the forks and merges as lawmakers negotiate toward a final bill. Maybe the Sunlight folks are doing something like this?
Desperate attempt by Apple to stem the Android tide ;)