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Academic publishing is a racket. So I don't much care. Lancet played politics to run cover for China who conducted US funded gain of function on coronaviruses in Wuhan because it supported their political narrative.

This is little different. All western institutions will fail because all western institutions are run by money grubbing cowards. The west will eventually die and we will be taken over by strongmen like Jinping or Putin. This brief liberal moment we had in an otherwise authoritarian history will be extinguished.

> This author appears to have an interesting way of seeing the world. Did you see their other publications?

No I did not, I am sure many fucked up people had "an interesting way of seeing the world".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Psycho...

> According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.538, ranking it 4th out of 12 journals in the category "Psychology, Psychoanalysis", and 130th out of 142 journals in the category "Psychiatry (SSCI)".[1]

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> There is not yet a permanent cure.

Not clear if the author has tried procedures where the skin of the "white" person was removed surgically, or maybe altered in appearance to be less "white", would be interesting to see follow up research on the matter. Hopefully they can get access to some funding to do further research on these important questions as part of the US infrastructure plan once the republicans stop being racist and finally pass it.

Personally I would ask them to stop glad-handing with china and using their slave labour. But that is just me.

Adamant is rather generous. Golang maintainers are overly defensive about serious deficiencies in an otherwise mediocre programming language. It is the worst tool for the job in almost any situation.

At the moment it is easier to write correct software in Python than it is to do it in Golang and in almost all cases correctness is more important than performance.

Again, this is in the source I linked, and if by similar you mean, differing by 14.4%, then sure.

> Usually caused by contact with animals, the outbreak in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, was due to a leak at a vaccine plant, according to Lanzhou’s health commission. People are still being treated at hospitals even though the outbreak happened a year ago.

Won't happen because the media and FANG runs cover for politicians in the west as opposed to reporting on them.

They keep burring anything that can be slightly damaging to politicians while they dox private individuals with impunity.

No they are not. But those numbers are also in the link, and it is more or less the same, top 1% earned 20.9% of all income.

Conjecture is conjecture, but "this is conjecture" is not a refutation of said conjecture. And banning all refutations of conjecture such as "this was definitely natural and any suggestion that it is not is a racist conspiracy theory" is also not refutation.

When summing up top earners:

- Top 1% of earners paid 24.3% of total income tax.

- Top 5% of earners paid 40.6% of total income tax.

- Top 20% of earners paid 66.4% of total income tax.

Guess their efforts are not that good.

Whatever the fuck is going on here should be torn out at the root.

Here are the facts:

1. Facui was pro gain of function research.

2. US did fund Wuhan Institute of Virology

3. WIV did do cornoavirus gain of function research

4. There has been more at least 4 leaks from Chinese labs in less than 15 years. This excludes a potential COVID leak.

5. State departement investigators were told to not investigate a lab leak theory because it would open a pandora's box.

6. The biosafety at some of the wuhan instute of virology coronavirus labs was on par with a dentist office.

These people should all be fired. And the people who sent funding to China to perform gain of function research on coronaviruses in shoddy leaky labs should be held criminally liable.

[1]: Under the subject line, “No need for you to sign the “Statement” Ralph!!,” he wrote to two scientists, including UNC’s Dr. Ralph Baric, who had collaborated with Shi Zhengli on the gain-of-function study that created a coronavirus capable of infecting human cells: “you, me and him should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn’t work in a counterproductive way.” Daszak added, “We’ll then put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice.” ~ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

[2]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[3]: https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/prominent-nyc-scientist-backtr...

But everyone is free to make shitty software, so have at it.

Yes. Those are the options. The .001% is really cleaning house while smaller businesses are dying. And no way Amazon is going to absorb the cost, so all of this will just end wiping out the earnings and savings of most people while nobody's purchasing power increases.

- Top 1% of earners paid 24.3% of total income tax.

- Top 5% of earners paid 40.6% of total income tax.

- Top 20% of earners paid 66.4% of total income tax.

How do you figure this? If businesses were not paying more the market rate would not be going up.

I fail to understand why any business should pay more than market rate for anything. I get that you want the market rate to be higher, but I have yet to ever have encountered a business that completely disregards market rate and just blows their wad on the first employee they hire.

So whats wrong with allowing them to help with those parts?

I think it has always been rare. I generally avoid projects which are under a person's own github account because to me it is a massive red flag that they will kill the project by failing to maintain it and failing to hand it over at some point in time.

When you build a project the most important part is to eliminate dependency on yourself. If you are approving all commits, or doing most changes, you need to fix it, because it is a problem.

I don't really understand pedronauck's response. If he does not have time, he should tell people he does not have time and they should make PRs, is that not the point of open source projects?

There is nothing wrong with demanding that people help themselves, people are not entitled to your time, and unless you are not processing PRs then you are not the problem.

They don't need to be, they are what they are. 40.6% of all income tax is 40.6% of all income tax. No normalization needed.