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Re:Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street
on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:20PM (#39483438)
Nvidia & cloud providers are the shovel sellers, seems to be working out quite well
Re:I was deliberately infected with Zika to test a vaccine
on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:29AM (#39443287)
> I'm not sure why you've been downvoted for this–maybe a little skittishness after years of anti-vax nonsense
A tangent, but isn't this a problem? We should welcome skepticism, if we can easily refute it: no problem.
Re:I was deliberately infected with Zika to test a vaccine
on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:26AM (#39443245)
Also note that 'attuenated virus vaccine' means the oral vaccine that is prevalent in the developing world, and not the vaccine that, e.g. EU citizens get, I had to look this up, as it is not obvious.
Re:Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @06:35PM (#39295797)
The flame wars were funny even back then, they were exaggerated conflicts, I never thought people took them seriously. Nowadays, instagram, twitters, fb? The rage on these platforms is unbeliveable! Forum-based flamewars usually had multi-paragraph detailed rants on why such and such was incorrect and why "my" way was "so much better". The modern version is one sentence sound-bites _at most_!
The internet was better when it was smaller, but maybe that's the way it is with anything.