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by 6177c40f 2y ago
Consume multiple sources which are subject to forces with different incentives. All information is wrong, some is useful, and not everything is wrong in the same direction.
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
These kinds of semantic arguments are as pointless as they are unhelpful. There are shades of accuracy- state-controlled media often ranks lower than other sources on topics in which the state has a vested interest.
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
Depends on the radius, as I understand it. It could have more or less gravity depending on that, but we don't know what the radius of this planet is yet. Wolfram Alpha has a good calculator if you want to play around with this [0] [0]
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
Thank you, this really aligns with my interest. I'll definitely be reading more
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
> (my submission on "offensive horticulture" did not even make honorable mention haha) Do you have this posted anywhere? I for one would like to learn more about "offensive horticulture."
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by 6177c40f 2y ago
I don't understand what you're arguing. It seems like you're saying you'd rather have a city where cops and concerned citizens stop to ask if you're confused than a dense, walkable city? I also don't understand
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The Flower Designer Who Built a Laboratory in His Home(press.asimov.com)
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Seagate Technology to Sell Assets to Broadcom Subsidiary for $600M(marketwatch.com)
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Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC(arstechnica.com)
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An Update on Human CRISPR(science.org)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I'm not trying to discourage the use of these drugs. In fact, I would absolutely use them if I required them- their potential benefits outweigh the risks. But I also must admit that I would still feel more than a bit nervous about it.
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I think that the benefit of the medication is clear, or else why would anyone take it? I definitely do not want to imply that I don't think the cost-benefit analysis comes out in favor of taking the medication. I just wanted to undersc
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Not supposed to be used long term, but sometimes they are, I personally know two people who are on corticosteroids long term because nothing else works. You're right though, it's all a calculated risk because untreated disease can
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
All of them increase risk of cancer (EDIT: upon further review, maybe not all of them? Or maybe just with combination therapy?) and severe infection. Many of the biologics are also quite new, and the long term effects of taking them are not
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A study says intermittent fasting is making people drop dead. Oh, come on(statnews.com)
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Rise in Legionnaires' disease incidence correlates with declining sulfur dioxide(academic.oup.com)
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SARS-CoV-2 fragments may cause problems after infection(nih.gov)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Probably not a huge issue as long as you only eat it every so often. But I wonder about the possibility of producing varieties of pawpaw (or soursop or other related Annonas) that don't produce annonacin. Probably could be done with ge
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Should also be noted that in 2016 the trivalent OPV was replaced with a bivalent vaccine in an attempt to further mitigate the risk [1]: > Until 2015, over 90% of cVDPV cases were due to the type 2 component in OPV. With the transmission
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Scaling Phage Therapy(press.asimov.com)
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Chemicals that cure malaria can kill weeds too (2017)(news.uwa.edu.au)
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Using Arc to decode Venter's DNA watermark (2010)(righto.com)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I think the tradeoff is worth it, viruses are far more likely to do us harm than to help us out. Besides, we're entering the age when we can direct our own evolution.
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Using Arc to decode Venter's DNA watermark (2010)(righto.com)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
This is bizarre, so they just didn't open the door to his room for over thirty years? How did they deal with the smell of a decomposing corpse?
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
One thing I've learned studying biology is that, while there are many decent anologies to computers, biology is really operating on a very different paradigm to the sort of programming most of us are used to. Biology is based on "
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I think you'll find some of the tricks that (mostly) viruses use to be interesting. Take a look at ribosomal frameshifting [1], where the viral RNA has a special structure such that at a certain point during translation in the ribosome
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
> So by your argument, there's no point in maintaining privacy for either piece of information (DNA / passwords). The problem with privacy is that it's fragile. When your info is leaked, you should assume it's out the
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I really don't see how this changes the threat model. If anything, I'm less worried about someone on the other side of the globe.
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
> Can you give an example? See my other comment, but in short I essentially mean the true realization of "precision medicine" and gaining a greater understanding of how different genotypes result in disease, information which c

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