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2020-04-15 at 6:48 AM UTC in Learn COBOL!It's simplicity is why it's so great. Most of the bugs we catch are due to Java programmers trying to do weird and clever things.
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2020-04-15 at 6:17 AM UTC in My uncle might have coronavirusRIP to Hiki's Uncle a gentlmon of cultere and discrimination
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2020-04-14 at 8:50 PM UTC in Corona was manufactured in Wuhan Institute Of Virology
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
There are similar concerns about the nearby Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention lab, which operates at biosecurity level 2, a level significantly less secure than the level-4 standard claimed by the Wuhan Insititute of Virology lab, Xiao said. That’s important because the Chinese government still refuses to answer basic questions about the origin of the novel coronavirus while suppressing any attempts to examine whether either lab was involved.
Sources familiar with the cables said they were meant to sound an alarm about the grave safety concerns at the WIV lab, especially regarding its work with bat coronaviruses. The embassy officials were calling for more U.S. attention to this lab and more support for it, to help it fix its problems.
“The cable was a warning shot,” one U.S. official said. “They were begging people to pay attention to what was going on.”
No extra assistance to the labs was provided by the U.S. government in response to these cables. The cables began to circulate again inside the administration over the past two months as officials debated whether the lab could be the origin of the pandemic and what the implications would be for the U.S. pandemic response and relations with China.
Inside the Trump administration, many national security officials have long suspected either the WIV or the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention lab was the source of the novel coronavirus outbreak. According to the New York Times, the intelligence community has provided no evidence to confirm this. But one senior administration official told me that the cables provide one more piece of evidence to support the possibility that the pandemic is the result of a lab accident in Wuhan.
“The idea that it was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there’s almost nothing on the other side,” the official said.
As my colleague David Ignatius noted, the Chinese government’s original story — that the virus emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan — is shaky. Research by Chinese experts published in the Lancet in January showed the first known patient, identified on Dec. 1, had no connection to the market, nor did more than one-third of the cases in the first large cluster. Also, the market didn’t sell bats. -
2020-04-14 at 8:46 PM UTC in Corona was manufactured in Wuhan Institute Of VirologyUS Military says evidence "inconclusive" whether Corona was natural or escaped from a lab, but are leaning towards natural, for now.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/04/coronavirus-escaped-chinese-bioweapon-heres-what-pentagon-says/164612/ -
2020-04-14 at 8:39 PM UTC in What does it mean when a gal calls you multiple times in the middle of the night?
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2020-04-14 at 8:37 PM UTC in Learning Real Ninjitsu possible?
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2020-04-14 at 8:29 PM UTC in My uncle might have coronavirus
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2020-04-12 at 8:40 AM UTC in Lanny is such a stupid sack of shitCaptchas don't stop people, they only stop automated posters. It's basic defense to stop automated posters posting a zillion posts all at once. You don't see that happen is proof that it's working.
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2020-04-12 at 8:27 AM UTC in I seem to be deeply transphobicI know the person you are talking about. Yes, she's a little offputting - doesn't even come close to passing.
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2020-04-11 at 6:44 PM UTC in lol I posted rhis as a response to this LinkedIn feed
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2020-04-11 at 6:26 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get off that bus edition
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2020-04-11 at 2:04 PM UTC in so what do you guys think about the ethics of machine lewrning or data analytics?If I had to bet I'd say they'll still be using Cobol in another 20 years.
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2020-04-11 at 1:57 PM UTC in so what do you guys think about the ethics of machine lewrning or data analytics?Not to dox myself, but we use Cobol at work. They have been meaning to swap out for Java for the last 20+ years, but just can't risk the possibility of something going wrong.
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2020-04-11 at 1:47 PM UTC in Farmer dumps 56k lbs of milk because nobody is buying it
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2020-04-11 at 1:46 PM UTC in Shouldn't there be a LGBTQQIPP2SAA+ safe space on this forum?
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2020-04-11 at 1:25 PM UTC in Shouldn't there be a LGBTQQIPP2SAA+ safe space on this forum?
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2020-04-11 at 1:24 PM UTC in so what do you guys think about the ethics of machine lewrning or data analytics?Cobol programmers are very much in demand right now.
