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Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:24AM (#26552793)
Scale matters. Let me quote Taleb:

> I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

What he meant is that while communism works in a family because the incentives are aligned, it doesn't work at society level.

Re:This Music Video Does Not Exist [video] on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:15AM (#26552735)
Parent meant best in the sense of Billboard Hot 100.

Saying people will not be interested in AI music is like saying people will not be interested in movies with CGI.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:52PM (#26549115)
Just imagine govmts auctioning vaccines. That's how you start a revolution.

And isn't the point of govs to take care of their own people? Otherwise rich countries should right now start spending their money on solving poor countries issues, like lack of a working healthcare system.

Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:49PM (#26548462)
From what I've read when you have pneumonia you receive antibiotics. If that doesn't work, they test a lung wash sample against the usual bacterias/viruses. If that doesn't match anything, it's called unexplained pneumonia, and that gets escalated and the sample is sent to top labs for sequencing. When they did this, they got a 90% match to SARS and raised the alarm.
Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:38PM (#26547521)
Ok then. Let's watch TWiV 615, where they interview Peter Daszak, the virologist which headed the recent WHO origin seeking mission in China.

Listen to him talk about how easy is to modify coronaviruses in labs and how they are actually doing this, mixing and matching viruses at 29:50:

> Well, coronaviruses are pretty good... you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot what happens in a coronavirus. Zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can bulid a protein, and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this, insert into the backbone of another virus, and do some work in the lab, so you can get more predictive, when you find a sequence.

https://youtu.be/IdYDL_RK--w

Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:10PM (#26547123)
> EcoHealth Alliance, which has an agenda for convincing people that this is not a leak?

Exactly that. The first paper which discredited the lab leak theory published in The Lancet early last year by a number of scientists was later found out to have been organized behind the scenes by EcoHealth, which also asked for it's name not to appear on the paper.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/ecohealth-allian...