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Comment Online hate speech like... (Score 2, Insightful) 236

...Hunter Biden is a crackhead in the pay of foreign interests?

That was a story American media companies suppressed because it was true and hurt the candidate they wanted to win.

We all know that the only "hate speech" that will be suppressed is speech that the ruling powers hate.

Comment You mean "Natural Disasters" (Score -1, Troll) 226

The belief that periodic natural disasters, which have plagued mankind from time to time throughout recorded history, is "climate change" is essentially a religious belief, though one that doesn't seem to deter the likes of Al Gore and Barack Obama from buying swanky mansions situated on beachfront property.

There is zero evidence that hurricanes today are more or less powerful than at other times in recorded history. Read up on Racer's Storm, a far more powerful and persistent storm than Ida which struck in 1837.

All this boils down to "Natural Disasters Suck." No shit. The "climate change" spin is just an attempt to shoehorn random weather events into The Narrative.

Comment What's the big deal? (Score 2) 52

Everyone knows you only need three design elements per page:

1. Papyrus for headlines
2. Comic Sans for body text
3. The first piece of public domain clip art that comes up in an image search on the topic

Why overthink design when you could spend the time learning the latest hot language or framework to get you the next gig when this one implodes?

Comment Absolutely true (Score 2) 141

Extreme ultraviolet lithography is insane.

You can't just steal the plans. You need to steal all the techniques across dozens of disciplines that feed into the machine.

Semiconductors are hard. Cutting edge fabs are very hard. ASML's EUV stepper is insanely hard to replicate.

China would have to steal the tools to steal the tools that make that tools that go into the stepper...

Comment A cheap vaccine poor countries can make (Score 2) 52

Interesting approach from Jason McLellan at U. Texas currently in trials. Take Newcastle disease virus, strip out the pathogens, add instructions to make a highly-modified prefusion spike protein from SARS-CoV-2, and dump it in chicken eggs using the process for making influenza vaccines. As this is available throughout the world (the first trial was in Vietnam), this can be reproduced locally. The prefusion spike is even more stabilized than the one in the Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J shots, as it has six prolines rather than just two. And because they use Newcastle disease as the manufacturing vector, it infects chicken eggs beautifully, giving tremendous yields.

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