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Comment Re:Anyone know what they're doing (Score 2) 100

As a frequent user of DuckDuckGo I can confirm it's a very BAD search engine. It even fails for obvious queries. I use it in order to avoid Google, but I see no reason Google would fear it when it comes to actual performance. From my limited experience Bing is somewhere closer to Google but MS seems not significantly better on privacy.

Comment Re:Are these guys *that* obtuse? (Score 3, Insightful) 401

Occam's Razor does not work that way, and becomes invalid if you rephrase it as you like. Option A: The first virus made in the lab generates a worldwide pandemic. Option B: The virus is naturally emerging. Just like every other pandemic generating virus in the history of mankind. If a known fabricated virus would emerge a city near the laboratory it produced, what would you expect an authoritarian regime would do in terms of mitigation? Wait for weeks or months or act immediately?

Comment Re:Which means (Score 1) 347

No particle travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum. Light travels slower in certain materials to the point it is almost completely stopped (several experiments are studying such events). Cerenkov radiation occurs when a charged particle exceeds the speed of light in a certain material (e.g. water). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

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