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by pochekailov 5y ago
No, my point is that I personally am very afraid of death, and would fight death from the selfish reasons. People who support the notion of death seem not to constantly fear it themselves, but view it as something hypothetical, that they wo
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by pochekailov 5y ago
Telomeres are only one part of the equation, and they likely natural mechanism for controlling the cell differentiation. My understanding they resemble natural breaks that prevent cells to divide uncontrollably where they shouldn't. I
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by pochekailov 5y ago
Ageing is natural and harmful. Hunger is natural and harmful. Earthquakes, hurricanes, plaque are natural and harmful. We should mercilessly fight all of those, and ensure either of those maladies cause people to die.
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by pochekailov 5y ago
I never understood people who defend death If there is a tiger chasing you, wouldn't you try to escape or fight? Or just give up and let the tiger eat you? It is natural, tiger also want to eat, right?
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by pochekailov 5y ago
So you would rather die, and let everybody who live now die, for the sake of the potential future generation?
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by pochekailov 5y ago
Today's medicine is focused to treat the diseases, refusing to admit that people at 70-80 years old die not from disease, but from the old age. Everybody but a few enthusiasts refuse to treat ageing instead of cancer or heart diseases.
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Show HN: Bernie, A robot for DNA purification, automates tedious biology work(kickstarter.com)
7 points by pochekailov 6y ago|1 comments
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by pochekailov 6y ago
I really agree with you. I feel the extension of young and healthy life (ideally to infinity) is a number one priority. Surprisingly, people almost always strongly oppose when I just start expressing my views. I never understood this. Would
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by pochekailov 6y ago
Author also forgets #3: instant availability of the user's data on each of his devices in the proper format. As a user who has to work with several devices simultaneously (several laptops in my laboratory, each managing some equipment)
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by pochekailov 6y ago
Why not build apps to build institutions? Politics is quite complex and full of its own jargon. It is not simple to understand. Why not to develop apps, which will streamline a complex political process? Take zoning for example. There are n
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by pochekailov 6y ago
Great reply, thanks, you are restoring my faith in the humanity. I fully agree that we have to build build build, to surpass technological level of Star Trek. And yes, I do want to live in science fiction. "Early retirement" is th
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by pochekailov 7y ago
Thanks! The reason it was not automated yet, is that non-biologists (including CS engineers) don't know that individual steps are that simple; while biologists do not have experience in thinking in abstractions, and so they simply not
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by pochekailov 7y ago
I completely agree about hands-on experience: yes, it is extremely useful to practically do a biology engineering project. What I claim, is that about 2 weeks to 2 months of that is enough. Regarding your second paragraph: I was fortunate t
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by pochekailov 7y ago
I think a part-time job would be an overkill I have trained many students to do biology, and I can teach anybody, without any education, to perform molecular biology experiments in 2 weeks. I 2 months, they are usually able to generate scie
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by pochekailov 7y ago
You are absolutely right. After those 11 years in molecular biology, I am absolutely convinced that the bottleneck of the field is not some fancy method, but a total lack of automation. Modern "CRISPR" cool methods are done with e
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by pochekailov 7y ago
I have spent 11 years in molecular biology research. I must warn you about a survivorship bias. All the exciting news you are hearing are the tip of a giant iceberg that rests on the mounts of a most dull and repetitive labor. Here are some