1. How did the virus get to Wuhan? That is the core of the lab leak theory, a virus leaked due to field work/lab work is a lab leak origin. 2. 96% is not close, that is a few decades of evolution distant. 3. The instiutional scientists are not neutral on this matter, they have a massive vested interest in protecting their jobs/labs/grants. They will be rewarded by China for their water carrying. 4. No virus was found in any of the animals at the Wuhan market, China had every opportunity to find it, and great motivation to do so, but nothing. The multi-market hypothesis is x^(number of markets) more unlikely 5. The wild life trade is far, far larger in southern China, Wuhan has far less trade. 6. Documents were just recently published that demonstrated a proposal to add furin cleavage sites to Coronaviruses, exactly like Covid-19 has.

Have you never heard of passaging? It's letting virus infect tissue in vitro, selecting a descendant and repeating the process. It is entirely "natural" in that it is virus infects tissue and replicates, humans don't do anything except sample the descendants that get put into the next generation. It does not leave "markers", (which you have never described) it is simply allowing evolution to take place in the lab, since the fastest/be adapted virus grows the most and is most likely to be transfered to the next passaging experiment.

They tried parachutes already, they disintergrated during reentry. The landing burn is done because it is the best way to recover the stage, not because it simulates some kind of mars conditions. Using spare performance of the first stage to land it allows them to recover it without adding too much unnecessary weight such as via parachutes.

Actually the Hui are beginning to experience the same oppression, nobody tried to stop them with the Uighur, so they see no problem extending it to other groups https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26... Seems like religion IS part of the equation

You mean like India just did for $240 million each?

I'm no expert, but that looks like either the self destruct or a fuel leak from the upper stage igniting, it looks right on the upper stage fuel tank.

That sentence parses fine

You didn't even read TFSummary "for PC and consoles"

I've also heard scurrilous rumours the pope is a catholic

Aljazeera English is wonderful varied, and mostly balanced news source, Aljazeera arabic is horrible, Islamist and conservative

Paying someone to lose is not cheating? By what definition of cheating?!

You can speed run Super Mario in 5 minutes, can you do that with Skyrim?

A problem was found in a new library and fixed, this wasn't the PRNG itself, it was an interaction with the operating system. To quote (jandrese):
1. Grandparent initializes SSL state, sends some data, then exits.
2. Parent forks a child
3. Child happens to get the same pid as the grandparent, and then uses the SSL connection.
Why are you outraged? This was a subtle bug, that was tricky to exploit and couldn't be used to hack into the computer. You should be outraged that the heartbleed bug remain exposed for years due to awful coding practices

A neuron might be fast, but communicating the idea that neuron just came up with is billions/millions of times slower than that. You either have to write/type or speak it, THAT is the limiting factor with how humans might communicate with an AI (baring Sci-Fi neural interfaces)

The real problem is the time it takes for humans to express and communicate their ideas, speech is millions of times slower than a packet over the internet. The speed of propagation might be "fast" but the transmit time, or packet length of a word or conversation is epically slow compared to a computer. Typing at a keyboard is probably just as slow as speech. We can only receive data as fast as we can read it too, all of these thing ARE millions of times slower than a computer.