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> For anyone who really cares about pursuit of truth or the scientific process (and how it tends to be ignored even by science institutions) this would actually be earth-shattering…

My point is that actors can and do change over time. Just because you trust who is in charge today that does not mean that said person/organization will continue indefinitely as-is…

> So would not being able to get fuel because there isn't enough of it because no one allowed supply and demand to work. The UK has strict rules on how much petrol/gas anyone can c…

> You don't get it. just because tge grant was denied, does not mean the work was not done. The fact it was even written at all is evidence someone thought it'd work. You should re…

> It's not a "weasel word", "Scientific theories placing a low enough probability (...) If that was the case then go ahead and just show the theory. Just provide a single evidence …

> This is honestly the most damning part of evidence. What evidence? There was a grant proposal, and the proposal was rejected. Why do you feel that the fact that the rejected prop…

> You cut off the critical part of the parent's comment: "(or well, with such a low chance it may as well be)". No, I left out the weasel words from the original claim. https://en.…

> There’s also evidence it cannot possibly (...) have occured naturally. I feel this claim is simply not believable nor possible to take at face value, given that in order for a pr…

> My favorite is to implement a tarpit while moving the ssh port. For those who, like me, are unfamiliar with the concept of a SSH tarpit, it's a technique consisting of inserting …

> It's well-known that there has been high-risk coronavirus research across the globe. It's the first time I heard of anything of the sort. Do you have any reference pointing out, …

> Daczak serves on the WHO team to investigate the virus origins (...) As a reference never hurts, specially in a topic prone to disinformation, here's a link to the WHO's page on …

> When speed mattes, people use libraries that are considerably faster than plain python. This. The general guideline has always been that Python is ideal for glue code and non-per…

> It may seem like a design mistake at first glance but it’s surprisingly useful. > It’s intent is to allow a given codebase to maintain a consistent style (eg camel vs snake) even…

> 1. UBI might increase people's willingness to pay for goods in general, and the prices of goods that are most strongly driven by willingness to pay would rise. It's reasonable to…

> Food and clothing depend on other things (cost of employees, equipment, materials, etc.) When the costs of those things rise, the cost of food and clothing will have to rise. Not…

> The problem of surveillance isn't a problem at all if you could trust every actor to do things right, it's just that you can't. I disagree. The problem of surveillance still stan…

> This is an article about the iPhone 13 Pro camera. If you can afford it (...) Some people who purchase iPhones can't really afford them in the sense of having hundreds of dollars…

> Did anyone expect anything else? It was either extinction of the virus (which was unrealistic once it was out of China) or it evolving into a sort of cold with lots of casualties…

Paywalled.

> I wouldn't call Lightroom CC "expensive"...it's less than a Netflix subscription. The site states $126/year. > I guess everything is relative nonetheless. Right, $126/year might …

> The only currency that has stood the test of time is gold, a private currency. I'm curious about what leads you to claim that gold is "a private currency". Can you elaborate on t…

> That's true, but at this point we should clarify what we mean by microservices. By "microservices", I mean "you end up with more services than engineers". That's not what "micros…

> Most companies won't see the kind of scale Facebook/Google/etc sees, not because they won't have that much clients, but also because there's a good chance that they don't need al…

Oh dear God... WEBRING! I haven't heard that in a while. I'm starting to have flashbacks, hearing the sound of 56kb dialup modems...

It's hardly fair to go to a thread on an embedded JavaScript implementation to criticize JavaScript by focusing on the JavaScript ecosystem. It's up to you to decide which and how …