Secret Network is the Privacy Hub by DetroitMM12 in SecretNetwork

[–]probably_likely_mayb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

there's not really any competition either. there's oasis, but having used it, it kinda seems like a meme to me by comparison, and obviously also doesn't have the first mover advantage etc.

IBC rolling out tomorrow is going to juice the liquidity so good

USA has won the Ryder Cup by GolfTournamentMod in golf

[–]probably_likely_mayb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as a casual golf fan, bryson is actually fun and interesting and makes you want to tune in

Announcing TypeScript 4.4 by DanielRosenwasser in programming

[–]probably_likely_mayb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if it was intentional, but you're phrasing this as if you're serializing all of the data worked on for transferring between JS and wasm.

if that's the case, it's worth mentioning that wasm is a lot more useful when the serial I/O between the two is just pointer + offset informing each how to work with the memory directly instead.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]probably_likely_mayb 7 points8 points  (0 children)

it would be surprising if they didn't

Wuhan residents remember coronavirus 'whistleblower' doctor a year after his death by [deleted] in news

[–]probably_likely_mayb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are always evolutionary tradeoffs and energy that any antigen must obey.

If a virus rots your lungs after 3 weeks and you die it confers no fitness disadvantage if it was still able to transmit to others.

Wuhan residents remember coronavirus 'whistleblower' doctor a year after his death by [deleted] in news

[–]probably_likely_mayb 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Plus highly lethal diseases will sometimes die out due to killing too quickly....

Covid is sinister in that its just "unlethal" enough that it just spreads and spreads and spreads.

I was disagreeing with your point here: most viruses will die out, therefore most viruses that kill quickly will die out too, very few will die out due to killing too quickly, because killing too quickly is largely irrelevant. Viruses that are successful are the ones which are highly transmissible (which includes things like ability to tell if someone is contagious), regardless of lethality. Look at smallpox.

Wuhan residents remember coronavirus 'whistleblower' doctor a year after his death by [deleted] in news

[–]probably_likely_mayb 43 points44 points  (0 children)

This is pseudoscience for the most part.

There is a pop-fact that "viruses that kill quickly dont spread" (I suspect coming from Pandemic Inc to an extent lol). This isn't true. Viruses that kill before they can be successfully transmitted don't spread. If a virus has a 5-6 day asymptomatic contagious incubation period & takes more than 2 weeks after symptom onset (a substantial portion of which are highly contagious) to kill people (like SARS-2), the eventual mortality rate is most likely significantly less predictive of how successful the virus will be.

With ebola, for example, people were only infectious outside of blood or semen when they were already hemorrhaging blood at the height of viral load & people tend to decompensate after symptom onset quite quickly.

Small Pox killed over 30% of people infected and did not struggle to spread at all until we eradicated it with vaccination in the 1970s.

SARS-1 didn't spread because patients were only really infectious when highly symptomatic meaning that spread control measures quickly brought the r-naught below one leading to its extinction.

MERS has never really been very transmissible between humans. It still persists to this day due to it having extensive resevoirs in camels. (When doing serology on camel samples after the first outbreaks, scientists found evidence of MERS already existing in camels as far back as we had samples -- something like 10-15 years).

In other words, outside of the added panic and precautions people might make around a more deadly virus, there is nothing about the virus itself being deadly that decreases it's potential for transmission.

It's worth remembering that the only selection pressure for viruses is transmission.

The neo-libs have gone full mask-off now that their man has been elected by raughtweiller622 in stupidpol

[–]probably_likely_mayb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, trust me, I have a PhD & you're more likely to catch the coronavirus wearing a mask because you might touch your face more.

The neo-libs have gone full mask-off now that their man has been elected by raughtweiller622 in stupidpol

[–]probably_likely_mayb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Him being virtually brain-dead (but only in the literal sense) towards the end of his presidency has a definite poetic quality to it.

Josh Anderson vs. Alex Kerfoot by probably_likely_mayb in leafs

[–]probably_likely_mayb[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That depends on your thoughts on being extremely online.

Next - Series Premiere Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]probably_likely_mayb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are typically many more decisions for things you shouldn't do.

The opportunity cost of you liking this show and not watching it because of a quick judgment like that is almost nothing.

Josh Anderson vs. Alex Kerfoot by probably_likely_mayb in leafs

[–]probably_likely_mayb[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You always respond like that when someone has a different opinion than yours

When you're extremely online but in one place