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Ancestors of the COVID-19 haven’t been dead for a million years though. If COVID-19 has natural origins, then the ancestors should still exist in nature and thus should the discoverable. Given that the ancestors must exist somewhat close to humans for transmission to occur, it’s not unreasonable to expect them to be found given the intense amount of resources dedicated to the search.

And again, I was asking for specific evidence of a natural origin. Evolution has plenty of evidence even without living common ancestors between primates and humans.

This is typical breakup scenario. Yes getting fired sucks, but it’s probably best in the long run. Wasting an employee’s time in an environment where they’re definitely not going to succeed is not good for anyone.

Marginalize them? Give them the unimportant tasks and classes. Put them in positions that limit harm.

What is the evidence against a lab leak? As far as I know, they've not been able to find the an ancestor of COVID-19 in any natural reservoirs prior to the pandemic. Also mentioned in the article is research being done that indicates the virus was spreading weeks / months before the infamous wet market. From what I've seen, there is very little evidence of a natural origin, and a lot of circumstantial evidence of a lab leak.

The article said up to 40% of matings were forced, not that 40% of female ducks die from forced matings.

After reading this article, it seems that it's much more likely than not that the virus has lab origins. That is crazy, but what's more interesting is how interconnected all the players in this space are. Trump often referred to the virus as the "Chinese Virus" due to his view that the virus originated from the WIV. While it does appear likely that the virus originated in China, it turns out an NIH-funded U.S. NGO was also highly involved?

Also troubling are minor details not really related to the main lab-origin theory presented in this article:

> In 2011, two scientists separately announced that they had genetically altered Highly Pathogenic Asian Avian Influenza A (H5N1), the bird flu virus that has killed at least 456 people since 2003. The scientists gave the virus new functions—enabling it to spread efficiently among ferrets, which are genetically closer to humans than mice—as a way to gauge its risks to people. Both studies had received NIH funding.

I'm not saying the NIH is directly responsible for these programs, but it seems prudent to cut back on deadly virus creation.

Do you have a link to that? I'd be interested in knowing about it.

I was deploying to a fleet of servers. Having every engineer add every server via the macOS sharing UI or using RDP to manually connect to each host doesn’t seem scalable. Maybe remote power shell sessions would work, but I’m not even sure if there is a power shell client for Mac, and it’s also not clear if remote power shell sessions would fix the open file handle issue.

Experienced Windows devs I talked to said they used Packer from Hashicorp to entirely recreate their server image whenever they wanted to deploy. This process takes hours, but that was the best I found.

What’s the alternative? I was deploying from a Mac, so connecting to a Unix box is exactly what I was doing.

This is more about building sufficient experience in something rather than being perfectly rational. For instance, think of the color green. You know green when you see it. Why? Because of the numerous experiences you’ve had that have reinforced your knowledge of the color green. Such reinforcement applies to all your other experiences as well, including engineering. After some time, you should know whether or not you’re a good engineer without external validation.

I don’t think GP was saying “just don’t have problems.” Rather, they were saying that as an experienced professional, having someone believe in you shouldn’t be the determining factor in whether or not you do a good job. You should believe in yourself and your experience.

In my personal experience, Windows development is absolutely awful. Nothing about it is ergonomic, and the management of the development environment is just painful. Obviously you don't always have a choice, but creating a nice development experience is clearly not a priority for Microsoft. One really basic example: I was deploying files to a Windows Server box using scp, but my internet connection died midway through the transfer. All subsequent deployments would fail until I could connect via RDP to kill the old SSH process holding an open file handle. Another example: I bought into the WSL hype, hoping it would solve all my problems. But you can't easily interact with files on the system outside of Linux subsystem, which made it more or less useless for my purposes. If I wanted to interact only with Linux files, I would have used a Linux-based server. Maybe I could get better at Powershell, but it felt overly verbose while also being less composable / powerful. The simple posix shell primitives were sorely missed. Running things on startup was also insane. I think I needed to add a triggered job that ran on user log in, and then configure the host to login a specific user when the host starts. Very crazy...

Is there any evidence that harm is being caused from age-based dosing?

What is the benefit of using a new bespoke syntax vs. running docker containers directly? Drone.io does this very well.

That still doesn't say anything other than "our data includes interactions with cyclists." As far as I can tell, they don't treat cyclists any different than they do other obstacles on the road.

The video contained almost no information. Just a clip of a cyclist cutting in front of a Waymo car and then a cut back to the Waymo employee. It doesn't even show how the car responded.

Hmm good point. I guess you need entropy for a nonce.

The quick examples seem like they could all be solved using git diff's --ignore-all-space option.

It doesn't need to be encrypted, just signed by the entropy source. The signature should be verifiable without entropy.

I'm sure many of these companies will be successful, but I'm underwhelmed by most companies on the list. The AI and biology-based companies seem the most interesting in that they're attempting to push the envelope forward. The rest seem to be some combination of:

1) Do X slightly better

2) Do X in new region Y

3) Do X using NFTs

4) Be a bank to those underserved by existing banks

Obviously the point of these companies is to make money, not necessarily to push the technological boundary of human progress, but I miss being inspired by what YC was encouraging people to build.

What is your argument exactly? That as long as coal power plants emit airborne mercury, then anyone else can emit mercury as well as long as they emit less? This is just a form of whataboutism. We don't have ready, scalable alternatives to coal power at the moment, or don't have the will / money to bring alternatives into service. We do have alternatives to mercury-based space fuels.

The round trip time between distant users to your VPS would be quite large though.

So basically this is just a completely fictional account for entertainment with maybe some historical context thrown in for dramatic flavor? What is one supposed to take away from that?

I'm not confusing anything. I don't understand how you can write code without understanding whether or not it is secure, and whether or not it will scale. If you need scalability and security, then writing code without knowledge of those concepts is simply impossible.

I'm sorry, but if you think that a dev shouldn't understand security and scalability then I don't want you anywhere near my company.

Harvard was founded in 1636 and Yale was founded in 1701, over 150 years before the gilded age. And why is the blood of WASPs blue?

> Bolivia

Don't you mean the Plurinational State of Bolivia?

> Knowing basic accounting, being able to fix things around the house, being pleasant to work with, etc are far more important.

Those are totally useless skills. If you live in America and your only contribution to society is being pleasant, knowing how to fix things around the house, and basic accounting, then expect your livelihood to be replaced by someone willing to do your unskilled work overseas for a fraction of the cost in the very near future. Not to be harsh, but that's the reality.

Calculus underpins almost every scientific advancement since its discovery. To exclude it from the curriculum at a school focused on technology would be insane.

But would you come up with the idea for Reddit if you approached it from an advertisement perspective? Probably not.