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by lvs 6y ago
Opportunity to give people leukemia. These ideas are at a prehistoric level of biology. We're way beyond this silliness now.
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by lvs 6y ago
> UV light treatment of blood. What? No... No don't do this. This is a discarded idea from the era before molecular biology, and it was discarded for very good reason.
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by lvs 6y ago
> Far UVC lights (200 to ~222nm) OK, these are not safe wavelengths, and whatever you're reading is not right. This is absolutely ionizing radiation. The rate of formation of thymine dimers in this regime is similar to that around 2
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by lvs 6y ago
> There's some selfless sacrifices that you're not willing to make. So, if I got it right, you're saying that your sex life is something you can't temporarily sacrifice to slow the spread of a potentially fatal diseas
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by lvs 6y ago
> I happen to be single, and at the moment, where I'm living, if I have a date with someone, I could technically be fined $1500 And well you should be, you selfish person. This is about keeping it from spreading to people who are in
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by lvs 6y ago
Does this support the offline extensions, so that you can work seamlessly (mostly) if you're temporarily disconnected or without service? (e.g. on a plane, if I ever take one again...)
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by lvs 6y ago
This is likely just about population age distribution in prisons vs the general population. 16% of the US population is 65+, but only 2.7% in (federal) prisons. So that must account for a decent chunk of it. https://www.bop.gov&#
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by lvs 6y ago
Edit: I was the one who misread it. My mistake
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by lvs 6y ago
Yes, there are about 13k genomes deposited in the databses right now, but they are from all over the world -- not just the UK. But yes, given infinite capacity it would be excellent to sequence from every single patient. It would be a dream
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by lvs 6y ago
So let's remember how evolution works, shall we? Evolution selects for strains that reproduce the most and selects against ones with attenuated reproduction rates. That's the whole basis of biology. If you've observed a wild
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by lvs 6y ago
> we can hope there’s a less infectious strain out there But how? We are able to surveil only a tiny fraction of genomes, relative to strains circulating. How would a "less infectious strain" ever emerge to the extent we'd
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by lvs 6y ago
Perhaps you should consider the arguments and disregard a superficial comparative analysis of our credentials.
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by lvs 6y ago
The citation does not refute or pertain to my statement. Yes, very specific mutations/indels can attenuate strains -- welcome to biology -- but the broad claim that the general observation of mutations/indels is somehow indicative
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by lvs 6y ago
Yes, the input I'd provide is that the writer doesn't have a particularly good grasp of virology, but people in this community are upvoting as if this is authoritative. People who write authoritative blog posts without expertise r
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by lvs 6y ago
Let me circle back and touch base with you by EOD.
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by lvs 6y ago
Don't worry. We're not going to run out of cold viruses any time soon, and the pitch was hyperbolic in virtually every way.
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by lvs 6y ago
And critically, ensure there aren't really enough details to evaluate the proposal. ... Profit
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by lvs 6y ago
OK well, having used a Biacore perhaps two decades ago, I'll just have to imagine your "magic" must be pretty good to compete with plastic multiwell plates and cotton on a stick.
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by lvs 6y ago
How is chip fabrication is more scalable than plastic 384-well plates and cotton swabs? Nothing shy of a home pregnancy test is more scalable than qPCR.
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by lvs 7y ago
Is there a reason why something as important as openssl is not being backported to keep up with the most recent versions?
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by lvs 7y ago
You're right. Morality means nothing. Every man for himself.
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by lvs 7y ago
It bothers me that I can't sit down.
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by lvs 7y ago
I saw him give a talk some years ago and took a stab at understanding a couple of his papers. Frankly, I'm pretty sure I didn't get what he was driving at. It looks like he's left academia for the pharmaceutical industry, for
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by lvs 7y ago
If they had users in the US, they would be operating in US jurisdiction. I think the only answer, if the law turns against us all, is to move to a decentralized system like Matrix. Signal as a centralized system has a single point of failur
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by lvs 7y ago
Like food, health care, and education. Encryption is not the reason human trafficking exists. Poverty is the reason it exists. The separation of wealth is the reason it exists.
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by lvs 7y ago
Thanks. Make him explain whether the machine learning is real too, since his linked manuscript doesn't say anything about it. This is a really exploitative moment to be hyping things.
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by lvs 7y ago
So, I can't get to your site, but this seems a little disingenuous as a title. You're not seemingly "unlocking" anything more than a protocol for Sanger sequencing that, if it eventually was approved and actually tested
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by lvs 7y ago
The third party doctrine arises from an era where much less information was held by third parties. It obviously can't be claimed that information I share with integral service providers, e.g. when sending an email to my daughter, carri
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by lvs 7y ago
Does this require a remote service to function, or is it stand-alone? If the former, what happens if that remote service goes down?
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by lvs 7y ago
It's good that people are fast enough to error-correct bold claims before they get too many eyeballs, but I am still shocked that smart people post these things publicly with such authority without first thinking through how they could

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