Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
I try to post as sincerely as possible.
Historically, playing by Chicago Rules when reacting has done pretty well. It’s certainly worked pretty well for me.
I’m in a similar situation these days. Things are too crazy these days for that kind of risk.
That’s a really good question, the article doesn’t go into specifics.
Then the body’s own repair systems recognize the damaged DNA as foreign and get rid of it.
This is somewhat ambiguous. It could mean that human DNA polymerases see the damaged DNA, scroll backwards and forwards to the START and STOP codons, and break the bonds to snip out the bits of viral DNA. Then endogenous DNA ligases patch the ends together. It could mean that it affects DNA in the viral particles themselves (but from the context in the article I don’t think this is the case). Or it could be the case that the process triggers apoptosis to eliminate the infected cells entirely; I don’t think this is the case because then you have necrotic tissue all over the place, and given that we’re talking about herpes viruses this means fragile skin in tender places… ouch. That’s kind of like using thermite to roast a marshmallow: Fun but overkill and potentially hazardous.
Or there were very different ways of interpreting and managing them.
Open a ticket, the rest of us will jump on and +1 it.
Except they don’t, because insects and corpses are animals too.
I get the point you’re trying to make but it falls flat if you peek in on that part of the world once in a while.
It’s the internet.
Probably. Somebody’s got to get that promotion by launching something before the next round of layoffs.
A little bit later than expected, but overall a good thing to see.
Could’ve been the journo. Could’ve been one of the editors.
Where even the mosquitos have health bars.
Unskippable modal.
Nah. I don’t care that much.
Not quite. A useful tool, though.
That’s still too far.
That remains to be seen. I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
That was one of the first things they put in place when they started accepting samples from people: Detect and filter out every sample of non-human DNA to keep people from messing with their data set.
As a general rule, when someone says that data is anonymized, they’re one part lying and one part clueless. It sounds great when they say it, but ultimately it’s bullshit. Maybe if we started calling claims like this lies when they were made, a few more people would pay attention.
Probably jet lagged, too. A lot of pre-prods are worked on during the flight home from a conference and after one gets home when they can’t sleep.