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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_Ame... is an excellent reference.

> They want to keep out the poors That's classism. Indirectly associated with racism in this country, sure. But naming the thing accurately communicates the full breadth of it's ef…

Same to you.

Yes, I'm aware. I'm also aware that Oxford Nanopore now sells a $5,150 MinION pack containing the sequencer, five full flow cells, and a sequencing kit. Admittedly it's not targete…

https://www.the-odin.com/ $599 for 30x coverage sequencing of any whole genome: https://www.the-odin.com/whole-genome-sequencing-30x/ Or purchase the equipment you need to DIY.

I don't much care what the man does with his free time. I'm more interested in the veracity of his statements. On that front he supplies copious references to peer reviewed researc…

You really like to stand up incorrect assumptions to argue against. Second time you've done so in this short interaction. Not a word yet about your motivation. Huh. You'd think any…

> What kind of expertise should you possess to be able to comment on a lab theory? Enough. > Even if lab leak is true, what is the proposal, that we do not study viruses at all? Pe…

> relatively few domain scientists support that claim I spent a decade at a national Science and Technology Research Center responsible for a twelfth of NSF's research budget. We s…

> The lab leak people are probably wrong https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Testimony-Qu...

I imagine it'd be a lot easier to get a giant datacenter through the queue and connected if said datacenter also generated more than it's own needs with solar and grid scale batter…

No idea what you're talking about. My local utility lit up 100MW of solar over the last year alone. Everywhere I look is doing the same.

The solution is simple: require datacenters to overprovision solar panels and grid-scale batteries for themselves, and use that capacity to strengthen the grid and transition off o…

However they also quite famously rely on a majority of nuclear power for their electric grid. Great for France, but that makes them an already-low carbon emitter compared to many o…

Depends entirely on whether or not you think Amazon actually caring about the fine and bothering to do anything to prevent it recurring is part of the goal. If it is, the fine must…

True. And also amazing how complex their interactions can be! Just because immune cells are often individually motile, does not mean they're not intimately interoperating within an…

It's a very fuzzy line. But according to The Octopus Lady's video in the other comment, it's because separating them from the other zooids doesn't result in immediate death. They m…

You're thinking of Siphonophores like the Portugese Man-o-war. The Octopus Lady has a wonderful video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDpbYQdFEA

Sorry, Daniel. I know better, but the fingers typed what they typed. I seem to be sick this morning so perhaps I was already coming down with something. :-/

There's a history and a 'pattern or practice' of behavior between NSA (sometimes using other TLAs or plausibly deniable intermediaries) and standards bodies and regulatory agencies…

1: We were all aware of the default change before we became aware of the payment. But the payment is old news today. And the default change was fishy before the payment was discove…

> there has been no hint of a backdoor in ML-KEM Wanting to standardize it's use without the secondary layer of protection provided by existing algorithms over the objections of a …

I've read the emails on that list in which DJB is accused of unprofessional behavior. Dave's concerns are not only relevant and well considered, he's taken an extraordinary amount …

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