molbioguy

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by molbioguy 5y ago
Variants will continue to to be generated as SARS-CoV-2 is almost certainly endemic. We should be focusing on developing and testing therapeutics and treatment protocols to help as many people as possible, rather than focusing so heavily on
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by molbioguy 5y ago
This is not a paper, it's a letter to the journal. Space is very limited. The salient point is that governments are using shame and stigmatization to try and encourage vaccination, when in reality the unvaccinated are apparently only p
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by molbioguy 5y ago
I think it would be hard to get all the required fragments without raising red flags. There aren't that many synthesis companies and it would take a lot of fragments. Assuming you could get the fragments, its getting easier to assembl
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Yes. The commercial synthesis companies check and reject sequences that are parts of dangerous viruses.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Commercial oligonucleotide synthesis companies will check sequences submitted to them against databases of 'dangerous' or regulated sequences. Flagged sequences won't be synthesized. This was designed to prevent someone fro
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Privilege is too broad and doesn't really apply to the parent comment. Bad habits are also passed on and/or learned by children. There are advantageous behaviors that can be learned and will increase the chances for success.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
This is "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley, 1931) in a nutshell!
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by molbioguy 5y ago
The pandemic has taught me that rational relative risk assessment crumbles in the face of personal fear.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
How will this not run into the same buzzsaw as Parler? If this will include mobile, it will need to live on Apple and Google's walled gardens.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
I agree, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But skepticism isn't usually a big tenet of religions. Science depends on healthy skepticism to move forward and not get stuck in an incorrect model.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
We should stop making Science a religion. Science is a powerful tool for generating and validating models of how things work. But it often works slowly and is certainly fallible (at least in the short run). Science as a methodology and pe
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Not sure what to do with it, but it works and it's neat.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
You'ree right. I don't attach morality to 'greed' -- it's just wanting 'more' than what you've been given.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Leverage is the risk. Asking for 3 times what's initially offerred is greed. Greed isn't bad, per se, it just entails a risk.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
The lesson is about greed. Risk always accompanies greedy moves and you have to calculate that risk before taking action. Without solid facts to back him up, going in so hot against Steve Jobs and Apple was too risky.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
It's not sufficient to cherry pick an example of agreement to refute the original comment. There are obviously many things scientists agree on, but there are also many complicated things scientists disagree on, especially when it comes
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Abandoning rights and freedoms in the name of expediency is also a lot easier than standing up for them. And recovering those rights and freedoms once lost will be a long and miserable process.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
The issue isn't people's opinion. Was everyone whose privacy was violated saying "that the holocaust did not happen"? And who exactly is the arbiter of what's acceptable, if not the law? The issue is that the people
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Violating their expected privacy, fostering moralistic vigilante justice against them, and creating an environment where they have to fear expressing opinions -- that's "poisoning the well" in a far worse way.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Maybe this helps. From the Nature article abstract: "in practice, this means that a light pulse propagating through the atomic vapour cell appears at the exit side so much earlier than if it had propagated the same distance in a vacuu
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Though it makes YC look very weak and thin-skinned, I bet the same thing would have happened at a lot of companies if an employee tweeted critical comments about the CEO, owner, etc.
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by molbioguy 5y ago
Love the show and the UI displays on it are no exception. And the post was interesting to read, but was anyone else annoyed by the way images were displayed on the site? You have to click on each image to see it and then use the browser ba
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by molbioguy 5y ago
That's somewhat true, but in this case the story wasn't told as a parable and the primary actors are real and alive and well. Someone is taking credit for other people's work.
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NASA Wallops May 8 Rocket Launch Visible in Eastern US(nasa.gov)
3 points by molbioguy 5y ago|1 comments
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by molbioguy 6y ago
Not only did Moderna have a decade of experience with mRNA as 'drug', but the mechanism of coronavirus infection was well-understood from SARS research, namely the importance of the spike protein. All the parts were in place and
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by molbioguy 6y ago
Worth reading this post on how section 230 is often misunderstood: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
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by molbioguy 6y ago
When it comes to "unpopular" ideas and peoples, fear and moral superiority justifies: censorship -> incarceration -> extermination The path is plausible and logical if each previous step fails. And heck, the ends (protecti
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by molbioguy 6y ago
My favorite Calvino book is Cosmicomics . It's a collection of his stories that deal with a scientific principle that he weaves into a beautiful fantasy story!
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by molbioguy 6y ago
In addition to "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, "The Trees" by Rush comes to mind: Now there's no more oak oppression. For they passed a noble law. And the trees are all kept equal. By hatchet, axe, and saw
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by molbioguy 6y ago
This is pretty late in the discussion, but here's my advice: start with a smaller decent quality dob (6") -- we started with an Orion SkyQuest XT6 -- and get 2-3 decent eyepieces (10mm, 25mm, 32mm) and a 2x Barlow. You should be a

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