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by 6177c40f 3y ago
> What benefit will there be? Knowing your genetic information is currently of limited value for the majority of people, this I admit. I believe that in the future, however, the promise of precision medicine will be realized, and that ha
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
No, I don't think that that's obvious. At least in the US, there are already protections for genetic information (including but not limited to GINA [1]). In the long run, I think keeping your genetic information private will be un
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Given that Sickle Cell Disease only affects ~20 million people in the entire world [1], and beta-thalassemia affects even fewer (maybe ~200,000 people) [2], and that this treatment currently costs millions of dollars per person, I think sha
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Gene Therapy Trial Medical Tourism in Honduras's Semi Autonomous Zone [video](youtube.com)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Another common parasitic plant, dodder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta Also, a parasitic plant (a green alga) that infects animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototheca
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
One would think this would happen pretty often, but at least my cursory search didn't turn up many specific examples of it happening in the US. I wonder why that is?
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
This is bizarre, especially this bit: "Crop milk is a holocrine secretion, unlike in mammals where milk is an exocrine secretion." In which Holocrine secretions are "[..] produced in the cytoplasm of the cell and released by
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Something I wonder about is whether anti-malarials would work against Prototheca as well, given that some have herbicidal properties. My cursory search for whether they've been tried turns up nothing, which is unsurprising given the ra
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Chemicals that cure malaria can kill weeds too (2017)(news.uwa.edu.au)
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Now for something different: Prototheca, pathogenic algae (2021)(journals.plos.org)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Plenty of stuff. For example, Mercury, which was used as an ointment and a laxative, among other uses. Here's a surprisingly readable excerpt from a medical text written in 1787: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar
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Seeing color following gene augmentation therapy in achromatopsia(cell.com)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
A bunch of random thoughts: Why would being able to write different emails help? Wouldn't they just reuse the same email over and over again, maybe just changing the addressee's name? Also, now I wonder what the typical response r
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Well you know how confusing datetime stuff can be, it's best to not be too certain.
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How scientists are hacking the genetic code to give proteins new powers(nature.com)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
While I don't really have an opinion either way on whether we're likely alone or not, I just want to point out that the blindspot in this argument is that all those things are truly necessary for life. This is like a form of the a
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Honestly this is the outcome I'd hope for. Got to leave some mysteries intact.
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I'm a big fan of niche museums. Here's a couple neat ones from my home state (MN) that aren't on this site: The Bakken Museum: https://thebakken.org/ Pavek Museum: https://www.pavekmuseum.org/
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I've resolved that I just don't want to be advertised to. I will never stop blocking ads no matter what, even without the security benefits.
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A Black-Feathered Dino Inspired a Series of Nerdy Cocktails (2020)(atlasobscura.com)
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Actually given the number points my "contrarian" comments tend to get, I've come to believe my opinions are actually pretty in-line with those of the average HN user. For better or worse.
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I thought they typically had safeguards to prevent this, but maybe not all models do. Not trying to be obtuse here- but how is this different from the fact that I could go to a hardware store and buy a propane space heater with zero restric
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
I think you're talking about subvocal recognition [1]. People are indeed using ML for it, but it looks like it's more complicated than it appears. Still, I think it's only a matter of time before it's available to the av
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by 6177c40f 3y ago
Tangentially- Why, in America, do we need a doctor's prescription to purchase a CPAP machine? Of course, I know plenty of bad reasons why, but I'm wondering if there are any legitimately good reasons at all? This reminds me of the
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The Official Mocktail of the European Space Agency(atlasobscura.com)
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by 6177c40f 4y ago
Unclear, but some really preliminary research suggests it might actually neuroprotective [1] and cardioprotective [2]. A lot more research needs to be done though, it seems. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36191807/
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by 6177c40f 4y ago
I think it's because tech is the only thing the average HNer knows enough about to know that they know nothing.
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by 6177c40f 4y ago
This is not exactly new, see this paper from 2016, for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12808
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by 6177c40f 4y ago
I've done it both ways, while GPT-4 seems to be better at sticking to valid moves, neither play well, and neither noticed when I won. If you claim victory at any point, they'll congratulate you and concede the game, which is prett
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by 6177c40f 4y ago
One the other hand, I've not yet gotten it to play a successful game of tic-tac-toe (if it can play correctly at all, it plays exceedingly poorly and its descriptions of its moves often have no relation to the moves it actually made).

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