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New comment by TacticalMalice in "Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)"

TacticalMalice — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:37:42 +0000

The earliest angiosperms appeared in the Cretaceous. This is after the appearance of Hymenoptera (Jurassic) and Diptera (Triassic). While a nice story, this needs additional substantiation. An alternative explanation is likelier imo.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

TacticalMalice — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:43:04 +0000

The Dutch did not seize the company, but assumed control over certain aspects of its governance.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

TacticalMalice — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:40:53 +0000

The company has not been nationalized.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL"

TacticalMalice — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:25:51 +0000

Throw-And-Exit is a custom function in the script @ https://github.com/brooks-code/WSL-VHDX-Compact/blob/main/ws...

New comment by TacticalMalice in "KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration"

TacticalMalice — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:15:46 +0000

My 14 inch MB Pro also scratches and stains its own screen with the lid closed. It's the only problem I have with this machine.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)"

TacticalMalice — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 08:01:07 +0000

Milk is not necessarily sterile upon lactation only to be contaminated later. Pathogens such as Brucella and TB are shed in the milk itself.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’s worst diseases"

TacticalMalice — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:37:21 +0000

Attenuated viral vaccines, against measles for example, also hijack body cells to make foreign proteins to trigger immune responses.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’s worst diseases"

TacticalMalice — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:33:13 +0000

By eliciting responses against specific parts of a specific protein that minimizes the production of antibodies that bind to, but not neutralize denguevirus.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods"

TacticalMalice — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 14:30:22 +0000

> "Government rules that tenants cannot be evicted during corona crisis"

The above is an agreement between several housing cooperations/companies and the ministry. It is not a law and eviction orders due to backpay have still been granted after June 2020, when access to the courts opened up again for these cases.

And yes, judges will consider the interests of all parties. In the case where a judge won't grant an eviction, the tenant will be ordered to pay missed rent.

> Also tenants can sign contract with you ( as landlord) and immediately go to the Huur Commissie and argue their rent is too high. So it will be lowered if they first signed a different contract with the landlord.

This is only possible for social housing (based on the point system), so this shouldn't come as a surprise for the landlord. This is also a reason to avoid renting out social housing.

The only thing during COVID that's affecting most landlords is that rent increase is maximized. Considering that employees are supported via their employer's NOW-subsidy, I don't buy the argument for this maximization for people that still have jobs. Another benefit to offering only temporary contracts.

> I know a landlord who waited 2 years.

Waited two years before getting an order, or only successfully getting an order after two years?

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods"

TacticalMalice — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 12:13:41 +0000

Eviction is already possible after 3 months of not paying rents (and sometimes after 2 months if there's a history of non-payment). The landlord has to get a court order, which is commonly granted.

Minors will be placed in foster care if they cannot be placed elsewhere.

Taxes on earnings depend on how you structure your work. They are usually in "box 3" where taxes are based on fictitious returns on investment as a percentage of total wealth and (fictitious) asset class.

That said, law-makers are a significant source of uncertainty and risk.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Endianness, a constant source of conflict for decades"

TacticalMalice — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:08:56 +0000

"five and sixty thousand five hundred six and thirty", right?

Dutch is similar and this is a source of mistakes when writing down (phone) numbers. I've resorted to calling out the digits in LTR order.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "The Achilles Heel of the Coronavirus"

TacticalMalice — Mon, 17 May 2021 14:04:22 +0000

Translational frameshifting is a feature of the human PEG10 mRNA, https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=PEG10

http://recode.ucc.ie/search?q=homo+sapiens lists a number of other recode events.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again"

TacticalMalice — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:00:43 +0000

And not just Syphilis unfortunately. In Amsterdam and surrounding cities Hepatitis C is on the rise in MSM on PreP.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Magic Mushrooms Injected into Man's Veins Started to Grow in Blood"

TacticalMalice — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:26:09 +0000

No, I specifically meant below. I should have written " ... die at temperatures even below 80 degrees Celsius".

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Magic Mushrooms Injected into Man's Veins Started to Grow in Blood"

TacticalMalice — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:45:32 +0000

Most fungal spores have only moderate heat resistance and die at temperatures below 80 degrees Celsius.

Substrate sterilization with a pressure cooker prevents bacterial growth and inactivates fungal virus that may ruin your harvest.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "A flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872 by infecting horses"

TacticalMalice — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 06:54:18 +0000

You are probably thinking of On the Origin of “Oops!”: The Language and Literature of Animal Disease by Ray Malewitz claiming it came a gradual shortening of the word “ooperzootics” (epizooty, a disease affecting many animals at the same time) to “oops” between 1872 and 1921.

https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/origin-word-%E2%80%98oops...

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Some Bacteria Are Becoming 'More Tolerant' of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds"

TacticalMalice — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 08:29:13 +0000

Those shells are temporary; They talk about endospore forming bacteria. They are very hardy and "dormant", but can reactivate given the right conditions. Bacillus cereus for example can survive rice cooking in the spore form, then reactivate and poison you if you leave the cooked rice out of the fridge long enough.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "KeePassXC 2.3.0 released"

TacticalMalice — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:39:30 +0000

The mentioned issue has the following statement which makes me wonder whether concurrent use on sync services is supported atm:

> I was going to add tests for "concurrent" access of the same file in phase 2 of these changes. Phase 2 is refactoring the saving process entirely to make it asynchronous and robust to file sync services.

New comment by TacticalMalice in "SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster"

TacticalMalice — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 05:47:53 +0000

2013, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

New comment by TacticalMalice in "Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple"

TacticalMalice — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:06:31 +0000

CO or CO2? Both are possible, CO2 poisoning is quite horrible though, whereas CO poisoning may go unnoticed.