On top, there are significant costs for hosting

I read somewhere that AWS hosting would cost $2bn/year vs advertising revenue of 30bn/year

Are mirrors really a good test of self awareness?

Aren’t they just testing the understanding of reflections?

the Big Brain people don’t like to ask people who work trades

Case in point, this hairdresser rediscovered Roman technique

Why? What do these do?

Scrum/Agile has 2 advantages over waterfall.

• things that don’t work get stopped early, without stigma.

• the team works together towards an overall goal, it is not individuals working on individual tasks.

The “agile” tools themselves rarely encourage either of these practices.

Jira

• assigns tasks to individuals.
• treats closed and cancelled differently.

I think I need to compliment our IT department. I have experienced 0 problems with teams. Sometimes my network quality falls, but I just switch to my phone and everything continues.

Disclaimer: Never used the captions, meeting summary etc. Just the basics

What is 2.5!

What is Pi !

Get good enough and just dodge the bullets

“you can’t say it but we can”

Presumably the same punishment is given whoever says it.

Define straight in a precise, mathematical way.

Then that section would be of a shorter length.

This is how to do carbomb jokes.

What if it is put in their name by someone else?

Throughout the rest of the article the professor is just referred to as Cooper.

Coworker was insensitive too

No. They are banking the interest.

I marvelled at being able to stick my fingers in Spock’s nostrils.

how is it relevant that it was an accidental lab leak anymore?

Accidental lab leaks unfortunately happen. What is still relevant are the implications. The existence of the virus itself and it’s cover up are the problem.

The cover up

Mainstream media labeled anyone who mentioned the lab as a racist conspiracy theorists. Commenting on social media resulted in censorship.

WHO “invesigation” and Peter Daszak investigating himself.

Deletion of data from the WIV website.

Chinese closed policy and destruction of evidence.

No questioning science

Nature published a peer review saying that a lab origin was impossible.

Scientists hypothesising about lab origins were ostracised.

Source of the virus

In the wild, the nearest documented virus is 96% similar. Where have the 4% changes in the leaked version come from?

Have these 4% changes come from purposeful gain of function research?

Gain of function research in the US was banned in 2014. Did research stop or did funding just move countries?

Where else is secret GoF research being conducted? Is there sufficient saftey and oversight?

The prior paragraph is also important

The main reason the conspiracy theory started is because the city where it started had a world renowned virus research facility in it.

Left on its own this implies that the lab is the source. However, the next paragraph counters that view. It erroneously implies the local area is full of bats and their species hopping coronaviruses. Not even “China’s Bat Woman” thinks that is likely:-

“I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir.

No. Its pretty fallacious to imply WIV was only looking at local bats.

The wuhan area certainty has many viruses, but none were anywhere close to the sample found 1800 km away, which WIV certainty had a copy of because they sequenced it.

Agreed. And un(der)regulated capitalism multiplies this by forcing cramped, low cost living conditions for animals.