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New App Prevents Icelanders from Sleeping With their Relatives
- victoro 14y agoThe Appalachian version of this App in one line of javascript: alert("Don't do it, you're related");
- tptacek 14y agoThere should be a tripwire somewhere in HN that detects people who read this comment and failed to flag the story.
- jere 14y agoI think it'd be cool just to see how related I am to any given person I meet. I don't know how likely it is that someone would actually use this for its intended purpose though.
- KateScisel 14y agoI'd use it for creating my family tree
- arnfada 14y agoThe app actually creates it for you.
- digitalWestie 14y agoWasn't this released about a year ago?
- saidajigumi 14y agoI recall one of Heinlein's books addressing this problem by a different means: a genetic comparison to determine whether a bad genetic reinforcement might occur, rather than relying on the proxy of relatedness. For Iceland's case as addressed in TFA, that's perhaps a more relevant metric -- that you might end up "crossing" with someone outside of known family, yet who is still closely related enough to present a genetic risk. I sense a market for a Square-style "DNA chip on a headphone jack" to augment this app. ;-)
- StavrosK 14y ago> yet who is still closely related enough to present a genetic risk. Isn't that basically just siblings, and maybe first cousins?
- Turing_Machine 14y agoNot necessarily. The closer the relation, the greater the probability of bad genes pairing up, but it is, in fact, a probability. Your fourth cousin might have a copy of the same bad gene as you while your first cousin doesn't.
- StavrosK 14y agoAh, I see, thanks. It makes sense now.