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Comment Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? (Score 1) 387

Because organisms that reproduce rapidly also tend to mutate rapidly (more opportunity per time unit, more unstable DNA) and just because there's no evolutionary need doesn't prevent random mutations from occurring.

It prevents random mutations from having advantages, though. In unvaccinated hosts the mutants compete for needed resources with all their peers, while they have an advantage in vaccinated people. To become prevalent they may need two stages, one of generation and one of selection. As you say below:

It sounds like these new mutations (which all microorganisms undergo regularly) are opportunistically using the unvaccinated as their proving ground.

And the vaccinated as their selectors, possibly. But I repeat, serious, in depth studies are the only possible answer.

Comment Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? (Score 2) 387

I don't see why the illness should mutate more where it encounters less resistance, that is in the not immunized hosts.
But OK, somebody will sure have studies on this, and hopefully they have been independently confirmed.

Still it is the opposite phenomenon of what happens in hospitals: pathogens that manage to survive there become way difficult to remove. I also wonder what Darwin would have thought of less selective pressure leading to more mutations.

Comment Re:Don't worry! (Score 1) 124

Being part of an 'enhanced' human/robot hybrid will be way more fun

Yes, very fun. Just multiply all the fun you have managing your pc, smart tv, cellphone, by 1000.

"Oops! it appears your credit is insufficient to purchase your monthly subscription to ExoHand Manager 2045. All movement is inhibited for safety reasons except swiping until the situation is corrected. Have a nice day!"

Comment Re:They can keep th em (Score 1) 191

You mean that a well maintained citroen 2cv or a fiat 500 pollute more than a suv because of their no-electronics tech? The measure is not pollutants per gallon of fuel, but pollutants per mile, after all. Someone should do the math, under real conditions (because there are lies, damned lies and spec sheets).

I have no electronics in my car (mechanical distributor, carburetors, and the car radio is disconnected). But I am not averse to it, as long as it is documented, and replaceable. This is not going to happen because the point of electronics in the car is control, not performance or pollution.

Comment Re:Speculation (Score 0, Flamebait) 475

Is it a fact that they said "use bitlocker instead, it's safe"?
If it is, your BS detector should be blaring at full volume.

What you call speculation is only the most obvious explanation. It might not be the correct one, and the bloggers you refer to could all be al qaeda operatives on russian mafia hardware, but it still is the most obvious explanation, with a string of documented precedents. So you should come up with some other interpretation, or your doubt is not very productive, IMHO.

Comment Re:what's wrong with public transportation? (Score 1) 190

No, you have to stay in your bubble and swear at those human drivers and check yahoo email with android phone to get ahead in your insane work schedule designed to keep other people unemployed so they can lower your salary. With public transport you might have conversations with real people and those usually lead to some truth. Stay in your bubble.

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