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WIV was studying bat-vaccine viruses: release the vaccine in a population and let infection do the rest. Wuhan variant, shows a mortality of around 10% (all the miners died, and he…

If torture, then you should defend that the UK is torturing prisoners. I thought that was going to be a hard sell, but then I checked the most recent thing that Nils wrote and it s…

Not surprised. Sometimes give a tip for good service. If you want people/companies to pay $ then you are not working on OSS.

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Heh. Was not Watergate itself about breaking in and stealing documents? According to US, Assange went too far by playing this kid, asking him to use his privilege to scour the netw…

Pooptimized.

> We still don't know > are you trying to Level 0 thinking, you do not even know the value of your cards. Such sophistry could only work on similar-leveled people. So if I engage, …

How can you have integrity of the justice system if you don't have integrity of facts? What you call torture, is the isolation and lack-of-stimulus we put all prisoners through. Th…

To what? People discussing and voting for their favorite candidate? Before it got censored as fake news, parts of social media were pretty damn correct on the pandemic and its orig…

Perhaps OSS has become too sophisticated and professional-standard for its own good, while still being created and maintained by amateurs. I have an analytics package which is appa…

Consultants sometimes dislike NDA, because as a consultant, you are already expected not to disclose. It is strongly implied, like patient-confidentiality. Airing dirty laundry or …

If this becomes a cultural thing, part of OSS, then more employees inside big companies will start to advocate for funding the OSS they rely on. Companies found to be profiting of …

I feel this is a problem of companies being cheapskates, not of OSS maintainers. So do not make it their problem. I do not make OSS for companies, but for enthusiasts, contributing…

I do not think it is an advertisement. The author studied CS at MIT. Then was a journalist based in Moscow. Now works for the Wall Street Journals on scoops involving DARPA. But I …

The word "cartel" is too negative, especially when discussing political and social factors. The narrative seems written, before their findings. Or at least, it could well have. For…