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New comment by sdhfjg in "Turning stem cells into human eggs"

sdhfjg — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:01:32 +0000

I could have been more clear, the distinction is semantic. I was referring to culling/sterilization to prevent reproduction in the sexually mature. Unborn persons are not adults, even if they will be.

New comment by sdhfjg in "Turning stem cells into human eggs"

sdhfjg — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:53:26 +0000

Eugenics has obvious issues when applied to mature individuals or groups, but I'll need convincing that the same moral position is warranted if we're talking about cells.

New comment by sdhfjg in "Epistemic Minor Leagues"

sdhfjg — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:09:11 +0000

>Compared to infinity, all dicks are small...

Wisdom for the ages.

New comment by sdhfjg in "The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it"

sdhfjg — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 03:57:49 +0000

>> Use among 15-24 year olds fell throughout the decade,

>This implies that use among other groups than 15-24 year old had not fell throughout the decade.

Within the context of logic, that is not an implication.

New comment by sdhfjg in "Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19"

sdhfjg — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:37:10 +0000

Are the people participating in the scientific studies of the drug participating in alternative medicine?

New comment by sdhfjg in "Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19"

sdhfjg — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:36:18 +0000

I didn't bring up Hydroxychloroquine. My point was that it wasn't "alternative medicine" for the time it was authorized by the FDA.

New comment by sdhfjg in "Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19"

sdhfjg — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:46:50 +0000

>"Alternative medicine" like ivermectine or hydroxychloroquine have no scientific, properly studied basis for being used.

When a medical doctor prescribes a drug for a purpose that is currently being studied scientifically, that is not "alternative medicine". Ivermectin is still being studied. Hydroxychloroquine was emergency authorized by the FDA.

New comment by sdhfjg in "Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung"

sdhfjg — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:38:27 +0000

This data should reflect changes in risk to the young as the distribution of variants changed.

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html

New comment by sdhfjg in "Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung"

sdhfjg — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:35:49 +0000

>No one bats an eye taking it today because it saves lives.

It saved lives in 1955. No one bats an eye taking it today because we know it's safe.

New comment by sdhfjg in "I deleted data from production"

sdhfjg — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:33:39 +0000

Read the article. We're not talking about formal verification.

>It's Sunday morning and I just discovered that I've lost 3To of data and that all data pipelines have stop working because on Friday I ran for no reason

  hdfs dfs -rm /data

This is profound incompetence.

New comment by sdhfjg in "Hertz orders 100k Teslas"

sdhfjg — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:26:44 +0000

Tesla might be "...doing it...", but that doesn't mean the stock price isn't confusing.