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Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:11AM (#23221313)
The part of the article that shocked me was the Google hijacking. It seems Google is allowing it as a policy. Why screw these poor restaurants?

https://support.google.com/business/answer/6218037

Re:Ask HN: Telescope as a Window to Our Past on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:47AM (#22986763)
Thanks. I just didn’t use the right Google search strings. This helps

Ask HN: Telescope as a Window to Our Past

This is for the physics nerds out there. If Hubble telescope can see a past event of a distant planet, can the earth’s past be seen by a Hubble telescope placed in a distant planet? The answer is most likely yes. So my follow up. What if there is a mirror like object on that planet that reflected the light back onto earth? Can Hubble then become a window to our past? And can we essentially...

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This does have basis Refer to this section in the publication from National Academy of Sciences. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209710/?report=reader#...
Another important insight is that Viruses, and germs in general, try to evolve and adapt inside the host. They don’t gain if they end up killing the host because that ends them too. Not to sound apocalyptic but I think their holy grail is something like what the machines do to humans in the movie Matrix