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Fun fact, Syncytin-1 is the syncytin used by primates, other branches of mammals have other forms of syncytins, meaning that the event of being infected by a retrovirus that gives …

Saying that before the Top 40 music was reduced to people singing songs badly in pubs and the few who could afford an instrument is a pretty reductive view of musical history.

No, they made a big deal of giving a ten-years period to developers to port their code before depreciating python 2. But honestly, there are more breaking changes between two versi…

Well, the ultimate achievement when building an LFS system is to plug it to an existing package manager so you don't have to keep updating stuff manually.

In 50 years, I bet they'll still be looking for python 2 developers to work on old python code... Or not... it's not like you can't throw a python 3 dev at an old python 2 codebase…

Bah, even if the vaccine was 100% safe and 100% effective antivaxers would claim that it's a death shot that does nothing for your immunity. But yes, we should definitely be as sur…

In France, we have a tool called WinDev which isn't used very much outside of France. It is a proprietary abomination used to create graphical applications (and with sisters tools …

How that problem can be solved by an IBM 5100, a computer that has never ran any flavor of unix is a mystery though. I guess we'll find out when we have to send someone into the pa…

Arwen isn't that weird though, a quick search says it can also be of welsh origin rather than LotR geek origin.

I think it's pretty clear from the scientific data that the covid-19 virus is a recent zoonotic infection that jumped from bats to humans (with possibly another animal in between).…

Yes, people here aren't that eager to make sacrifices for the greater good. Unless it's other people doing the sacrificing.

IMO, this virus isn't as deadly as that. It was reasonable for China to implement such measures because 1) at the time they didn't know how bad it was and 2) their people are actua…

I can't speak for all western countries but in my country (France) if the government tried to impose quarantine on the same level as China, I'd expect riots. People here aren't as …

I've heard that their border with China is pretty porous and that people cross it on a daily basis to get contraband into the country. So I'd say b) is most likely. People are crit…

Jehovah Witnesses trying to find out the identity of one of their members who badmouthed them on the internet... Good thing it didn't go through.

Officially, there's been no outbreak in North Korea. Of course, there's no way to trust NK on this, but there's been no confirmation of cases in NK by another source (I'm discounti…

Life arising anywhere other than earth would be a big deal.

Wouldn't you use subjective time for this kind of things?

> AIDs while changes genetics fast evading immune system its hard to catch and takes decades to show up. It took us 35 years to come up with a vaccine and that was due to our degre…

And it's a hellish punishment for all the developers who end up in hell and have to maintain it.

> Wouldn't that require two unrelated explanations for higher viral-outbreak mortality rates? That doesn't sound unreasonable at all when the two outbreaks are separated by a centu…

The Spanish Flu was a hundred years ago, I highly doubt that what happened then in Iran has much relations to what's happening now. What's happening now has more to do with their t…

Better go infect other people before being put in quarantine.

There was an article about an experimental way of creating new vaccines that could potentially get it out faster. https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-firs...

So would most people who wielded a comparable amount of power.