Bro, did you read the OP?

Native speakers get it _wrong_ 18% of the time.

Imagine living your life in a society where, in any interaction, you can fuck up and insult the other person 1/5 of the time.

That's stupid.

right, but I think the term just means "foldable" now

it's not like there are many important real flip smartphones right now

they should have fired him for inventing Javascript, to be fair

Even Snopes admits that this is a stupid lie made up by people ignorant of developmental biology (or people who know that you're ignorant of it).

I've been a spamgourmet user for 25 years, and it's been perfect but... Email as designed is fundamentally designed for a friendlier universe and thus easily exploited. To fix this email should deliver ONLY a secure link to its payload that is hosted by the sender. If I send you and email, in your email (or sms or any other delivery protocol) you get a notification: "Fishdan has sent you a message. To read it click fishdan.com/mail?recipient=you@youraddress.com&secretpin=19700101&othersexritything1=foo&othersecuritything2=bar&clientsecurity=&mysecurityclientid=918273123012 etc etc You could even have a thing where if I want to send you a more secure email I require your browser to have a JWT (or whatever) that you only get by answering a second email. Etc etc. Contentlink is evaluated by your email client AND your browser for safety. IF it's an official certification it gets a better trust rating etc. has to match the send of the email and your email reader assigns a trust rating to it that you see when opening the email and again when following the content link.

Lmao, how soon people forget that, by the end of the first Trump presidency, there was already talk of starting a massive denaturalization / deportation process.

US Copyright Office Grants DMCA Exemption For Ice Cream Machines

Literally the previous /. headline:

Video Game Libraries Lose Legal Appeal To Emulate Physical Game Collections Online

Goes to show who has lobbying money and who doesn't.

Rob

that way lies madness; the most popular cpu will be the most studied for vulnerabilities

you may as well decide to let the market decide and then...choose the second or third most popular platform

I've spent my entire career as a scientist and yes, I'm pretty careful about what I state as fact or proven knowledge. That was re-enforced in 2020 as we learned more and saw more published material come out at an ever-increasing rate. In addition, I was involved in several nightly clinical roundtable reviews (what did we do today? What did we learn today?) where we gleaned a lot of clinical pearls that played into published reports from cases or case series, uncontrolled drug trials, etc. There were literally days where I would change my opinions on treatment protocols, or even relatively hard data (test results and case numbers were never really hard data, despite protestations from a lot of social media pundits)several times in a 24 hour period simply because new, well-documented information came to my attention.
Why this admission? Because I was accused of not being truthful despite explaining my changes of opinion every time I made such a change. This was both in social media posts (Twitter was seeing a lot of science-exchange traffic) and in my updates to a large non-profit I supported. It was difficult to convince even people who generally believed me, and trusted my evaluations, that the landscape was changing that fast.
And to date, I've not seen evidence SARS-CoV-2 originated as a GoF lab experiment, nor that it emerged due to an intentional or accidental lab leak, but I've seen suggestions bordering on evidence (CCP transparency leaves a little to be desired) that the epicenter and index case did originate in the wet markets.

To the best of my knowledge, Tony Fauci did not, nor does he hold a patent on any vaccine, but Moderna had been working with NIAID for years on mRNA technology. But not on a coronavirus vaccine.

Doubt is key to science. I've not seen evidence of basic or gain-of-function research at WIV, but that doesn't specify or deny they were working on it. The CCP would prefer not to comment and that silence is likely to keep us in suspense re: WIV involvement.

The Trump administration's several decisions re: NIH and CDC contributed to the myriad failures in pandemic response and origin determination. As for GoF testing, adding ANY capability to a virus to study it better comprises GoF, not simply making it more virulent. Without GoF testing, we'd have a lot more difficulty studying potentially dangerous pathogens (beyond and including viruses). GoF testing for a bad rap during the pandemic because of a bit of misinformation regarding its uses.

No. The small outbreaks were not ignored but we didn't have the surveillance infrastructure in place to sequence them rapidly. And if we had sequenced them, we'd have gone, "Oh, damn, coronavirus" because we didn't have a sufficient index of suspicion for a novel coronavirus with multiorgan involvement that could rip through the population.

All depends on the type of work being done. If you were working on classified material (and had appropriate permissions to do so from home, you DID have to work on your work laptop. I was at NOAA during the Pandemic and didn't have a "work" laptop, but had requested a work desktop for home and was told to use my own personal system (computational modeling). When the VPN decided to stop playing with Linux, we played the game again, and I was denied again. So O created a work-around that exceeded security requirements, and got it approved by our in-house, and subsequently the NOAA security process. But it was all on personal hardware. I wasn't working on anything with any level beyond CUI.

Having spent a few hours of my life since 18 JAN 2020 looking at COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2) and being somewhat familiar with coronaviruses, although I'll admit I know MUCH more now than I did then, it's pretty fair to assume SARS-CoV-2 originated in China, in Hubei Province. There's evidence that it was actually circulating in the US, and around the world... and certainly in China... somewhat earlier than the official date placed in early March for the US, and certainly well before the US initiated travel restrictions. Blood bank samples have found evidence of specific antigen and antibodies, and several unexplained outbreaks of non-influenza viral pneumonia were seen in 2019.
Whether the virus was under study at the Wuhan Institute of Virology we may never know due to the removal of US National Institutes of Health personnel somewhat before this outbreak. In fact early reports of the outbreak came through an Australian connection, and a Tweet from a Chinese clinician that was subsequently removed. It became pretty obvious that, once the Chinese Communist Party apparatus understood the potential magnitude of the outbreak they shut down communication, and attempted to defeat the disease internally, but too late.
But really, where the virus came from doesn't matter, as we can't put the genie back in the bottle. And China had more illnesses and deaths, proportionately, than the US did, and took more draconian measures than the US ever contemplated. And they were unsuccessful, even with a Zero-COVID policy, in stopping spread.
Most of the information held by the US regarding COVID origins has been pretty publically accessible, and openly discussed on multiple forums. For the most part, the GOP lawmakers have been responsible for attempting to hide accurate information on the disease, efficacy of masks and other non-pharmaceutical interventions, and vaccines. If there's a conspiracy, I suspect they should look in their own house.

how will people send me word documents containing screenshots of their errors now?

The restrictions include several kinds of content that are illegal in the US, including sexualized depictions of minors and bestiality

Neither of those things are illegal in the United States; the First Amendment strongly protects fiction and art. The reason why Pixiv is geoblocking this stuff is not because of US law, but because of Visa and Mastercard.

Rob