Hacker News: ketamine__

New comment by ketamine__ in "Why wood has gotten so dang expensive"

ketamine__ — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:38:51 +0000

I’ll just create another account and start again. You won’t stop me.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Metformin trial reduces seizures and brain tumours in Tuberous Sclerosis"

ketamine__ — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:20:56 +0000

But increases diarrhea on a scale thought unfathomable? Every time you meet one of those 'life extension' types taking Metformin just know that they aren't living their best life in the bathroom.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Why wood has gotten so dang expensive"

ketamine__ — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 22:30:09 +0000

How does speculation drive the price of lumber up?

New comment by ketamine__ in "A bear case for social audio"

ketamine__ — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 09:39:19 +0000

Many Twitter users with a high follower count have turned off replies from people they don’t follow. So it’s basically just an announcement platform for perceived genius.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown"

ketamine__ — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:34:41 +0000

Looks like a massive attack. I wonder if the goal of the attacker is to short the stock.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:26:33 +0000

https://mobile.twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/14052391280532...

> The work met--unequivocally--the definition of gain-of-function research of concern under the 2014 Pause.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:25:09 +0000

https://mobile.twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/14052391280532...

> The work met--unequivocally--the definition of gain-of-function research of concern under the 2014 Pause.

> The work met--unequivocally--the definition of potential pandemic pathogen enhancement under the 2017 HHS Potential Pandemic Pathogen Control and Oversight (P3CO) Framework.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:03:54 +0000

Your comment contradicts your previous comment.

> There's no indication WIV was doing any gain of function research.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:02:21 +0000

1) It's Richard Ebright who has been quoted in numerous articles. He isn't some "rando on twitter." You didn't read his sub-tweets.

2) You only read the title of the article I linked that was in sub-tweets. See the following tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/14052391926286...

> The construction of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and lab animals at WIV (1) was published with acknowledgment to NIH grant AI110964 (https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...) and (2) was reported to NIH under NIH grant AI110964 (https://reporter.nih.gov/search/0dVX_GElSEGDOsNMZq7qaQ/proje...)

So, yes, gain of function research was happening at WIV.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Will Work for Air-Conditioning"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:32:44 +0000

How quiet is that? My problem with air conditioners is noise. I end up wearing earplugs.

Are they not selling it anymore?

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:26:28 +0000

Why? They are worried about American scientists chasing after them?

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:15:06 +0000

This is not true.

https://twitter.com/r_h_ebright/status/1405239078698815489?s...

> The Wuhan lab constructed novel chimeric viruses that combined spike genes from new bat SARS-related coronaviruses with the genomic backbone of another bat SARS-related coronavirus.

> These were viruses that were novel, not viruses that were present in nature.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:11:02 +0000

It’s scientists that fund or support gain of function research at WIV. So anyone involved with Ecohealth is fair game.

I don’t see anything political here. If Fauci and Daszak had come out against dangerous experiments at low biosafety levels we wouldn’t be talking about them.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

ketamine__ — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:04:01 +0000

I don’t think Richard Ebright is demanding an investigation for political reasons. He refers to Trump as a sociopath.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Brave Search beta"

ketamine__ — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:27:43 +0000

You're concern trolling. It's blatantly obvious: Hey, I just have a question. Five paragraphs later...

New comment by ketamine__ in "Brave Search beta"

ketamine__ — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:26:33 +0000

> But it was enough of a consequential donation back then to have removed from as CEO of Mozilla.

False. The reason for leaving Mozilla was never published.

> I'm wondering if I'm missing something like he himself did some about-face, or people lost track of this, or if they just don't care anymore or what?

So your disappointed Hacker News isn't more engaged with identity politics and cancel culture?

And by the way you are wrong. It has come up in several threads in the past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25844354

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328758

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549604&p=2

New comment by ketamine__ in "A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python"

ketamine__ — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:02:50 +0000

FSD rollout has been delayed many times. He's underperforming.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]"

ketamine__ — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:29:00 +0000

Tricks? You detached a perfectly valid thread. Kathpathy only responded to this thread with a shallow dismissal and none of the other critiques. That should tell you something.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]"

ketamine__ — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:38:48 +0000

If Elon was any good at keeping his word it wouldn’t be an issue.

New comment by ketamine__ in "Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]"

ketamine__ — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:27:08 +0000

I've read claims that they are desperately trying to hire.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/140705191831739...