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throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Descendants of Henrietta Lacks file another lawsuit over the cell line

Burn all the HELA samples. There's plenty of other cell lines. It's not worth messing with lawyers, just move on to samples with donor's permission.

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Intermittent Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence Among Non-Exercising Adults

"cohort analysis" Maybe people exercise because they are healthy and can. We need randomized trails to see if it's real.

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Downfall Attacks

WASM has support for SDL for a long time: https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2019/12/01/webassembly-graph...

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Reddit has disabled copy/paste on right click

Copy still works on old.reddit.

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: LexisNexis is selling personal data to ICE so it can try to predict crimes

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fbi-google-geofence-warrant-... : A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Biden missed deadline for declassifying intelligence on origins of Covid-19

What's going on here? The bill passed Senate and House unanimously and Biden signed it. What's the hold up?

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

IBM bought Lotus 1-2-3. Looks like the same playbook.

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ vanishes from Spotify, Apple streaming sites

Who's side is Silicon Valley on?

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: Archive.is Appears to Be Down

Historically it's been up and down. It will go away for a while. There's also archive.today and archive.ph . Sometimes it gets firewalled by zealous sysadmins.

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans

Human tissues may be fine tuned to need a specific range of C12orf29 molecule quantities: too many or too few might be big problems. See https://www.proteinatlas.org/search/C12orf29 for the gene expression for various tissues.

throwaway12245 | 2 years ago | on: RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans

More complex than the immune system?

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: Announcing WCGI: WebAssembly and CGI

You'd have to delete your operating system and most of your libraries.

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: Chrome ships WebGPU

Any firefox nightly webgpu demos?

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?

Renaissance Technologies: "Renaissance's flagship Medallion fund, which is run mostly for fund employees,[10] is famed for the best track record on Wall Street, returning more than 66 percent annualized before fees and 39 percent after fees over a 30-year span from 1988 to 2018"[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: Peanut Consumption May Have a Beneficial Impact on Vascular Health Biomarkers

Funding This research was supported by funding from the Peanut Institute 2019.

from the link.

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: How TikTok Broke the Ad Business

Can I use google in China? Part of it is China can ban US internet companies, but US can't retaliate?

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

>palm oil is less than ideal

Why do you say this? Just curious. Palm oil is one of the better plant oils, no?

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: Warren unveils bill to repeal Trump-era bank deregulation she says led to SVB

And had a chance to actually get it passed two years ago.

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: Trichloroethylene: An invisible cause of Parkinson’s disease?

> feeding mice with high fat diets gives them a kind of Alzheimer disease. Do you have a link for this.

I found this: "However, some of these diets contain levels of dietary fat that are much higher than the levels that humans routinely consume. The question has been raised as to whether experimental use of these diets with very high levels of fat adequately models the situation of human obesity." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-019-0363-7

throwaway12245 | 3 years ago | on: FDIC Establishes Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., As Successor to Signature Bank

Isn't inflation destroying the value of money?