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9question1on The Domestication of SARS-CoV-2 into a Seasonal Infection by Viral Variants

```if ... virus domestication could be somehow done in-vitro``` This is basically the definition of a vaccine, except that the vaccine has 0 infectiousness and near 0 virulence, rather than high infectiousness and near 0 virulence

9question1on Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer activity on Wikipedia

tfw you see a snarky comment on a discussion thread about toxic comments

9question1on Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?

Your point about essential complexity is absolutely correct, but your faux mathematical analysis is totally not a legit way to analyze the complexity of something or determine test coverage. I feel like as programmers we should be comfortable making sensible statements without making up shady pseudo-math to sound convincing.

9question1on ReasonML – React as first intended

Everything I've heard suggests ReasonML is targeted primarily at developers currently using NPM and working in that stack. I don't think creators of a tool have a moral obligation to make it easy to use for everything. Most things have an intended focus, and some happen to be really good for all kinds of other stuff too. That being said, it does sound like it would be cool for it to be easier to install without that dependency.

FWIW, Scala and Clojure require the JVM to work at all, and both are pretty popular.