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delbarital | 5 years ago | on: Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

The liability of China is the main question here. If it was released from a lab (and I don't think it was), China is liable to this world pandemic which is a huge thing.

delbarital | 5 years ago | on: Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

Good point

delbarital | 5 years ago | on: Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

You are right. The way they structure their challenges is different. Basically it's a debate between the two parties and judges with the relevant domain-knowledge will decide who is right. I think this is the most unscientific way to judge a claim, but I think that it's possible that the a group of people with enough knowledge in epidemiology and biology will be able to win this competition.

delbarital | 5 years ago | on: Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

From their Twitter account: "Probably our most surprising finding to date: COVID-19 has likely originated in a lab. A probabilistic analysis shows the proximity to a major coronavirus lab and anomalies in the genetic code are too unlikely for SARS-CoV-2 to have developed naturally. "

https://twitter.com/Rootclaim/status/1343207878325383168

delbarital | 5 years ago | on: Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

There are many people that are convinced this is the case, however, most scientists with the relevant domain knowledge claim that the virus was naturally mutated.

delbarital | 5 years ago | on: Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

The reason I posted it here is because I think they don't get enough attention from people from the industry who understand biology, statistics and reasoning. They are using the fact that no one challenges them as an evidence that their claims are true.

delbarital | 5 years ago | on: Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

Rootclaim, an Israeli startup, claims Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 was developed in a Chinese lab and was released was released by accident. They are offering to bet $100,000 on the accuracy of our analysis. Here you can find information about the challenge: https://www.rootclaim.com/rootclaim_challenge

Personally, I think their logic is doesn't work and I would like to see someone credible challenges them.

delbarital | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars?

"Investing" in any currency is a very bad idea.

delbarital | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” next, after HTTPS?

It's very interesting that most people here mentioned changes only to the top layers while one of the most urgent problem is in the BGP protocol that help route traffic between ISPs. Many times in recent years governments and ISP used it to steal the traffic of entire countries, or to block websites.