To summarize: it's not yet possible to isolate only embryonic DNA from the mothers' blood, so using the father and mother's DNA sequences, they can tell which sequences are from the mother and which one are from the embryo.
Without the father's sequence, the confidence in the sequencing probably goes down, but is still possible.
Actually no, in the movie, they were only able to sequence your genome after you were born.
Also, call me a technophile, but I don't think the problem with Gattaca's dystopia was that sequencing was possible. I think the problem was how people used the technology. Much like, oh, every technology ever invented.
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I disagree with you both. I find nothing ethically wrong with abortion or screening for diseases. How about we let parents decide whether it's ethical for them?
They're hardly the first to try to reproduce tourist destinations and landmarks. Tokyo has an Eiffel tower and a Statue of Liberty.
There's also name stealing. Missouri has a town called "Versailles." I hear the way it's pronounced in Missouri is "Ver-sales" rather than "Ver-sai." Probably to cut down on confusion. "Damnit! I meant to go to France! Ah well, guess I'll see the birthplace of Bud Walton, co-founder of Walmart."
Many people who *aren't* prodigies display self-destructive behaviors *all the time*.
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people who excelled when they were 16 years old were four times as likely to go on to develop bipolar disorder
The story here is that people who are gifted are more likely to be cursed with bipolar disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. No one is saying the reverse is true, that people who are bipolar or depressed are more likely to be gifted.
There seem to be multiple causes of bipolar and schizophrenia. Perhaps some combination of genetics may predispose one to genius and also increases the likelihood of a disorder. That doesn't mean ALL the causes of disorder will have increased creativity or intelligence too, in fact they probably don't.
Now that you mention that, the only time I've run into anyone on the nintendo DS chat channel that I didn't already know (in an attempt to set up a multiplayer game)... it was two little kids who just scrawled misspelled curses.
Government agencies have little problem with antivirus software for consumer, and you say you don't have much faith in AV? Well, wouldn't it be far more disconcerting if $20 a year software COULD defeat the CIA's (or whoever) malware?
I mean, a story about how the CIA can get past your deadbolt and home alarm system wouldn't be shocking, would it? News that the US army can outgun the security guard at your job... no shit.
Of course, the problem is that it DOESN'T require a multi-billion budget to defeat Avast or others, but security isn't simple.
And BRB, no-scoping some noobs that said they slept with my mother.
There is only one reason that applies more to the 360 and PS3 and not the wii. And that is because the wii wouldn't let you talk to the people you were playing with online. It has nothing to do with anything other than nintendo didn't put that feature on the wii.
But they seem to have included it on the wii U, so you nintendo fans will also get to experience preteens with high voices excitedly jabbering on voice chat about how they slept with your mother.
Bug their politicians to do something about the monopoly. Obviously they won't fix the problem immediately, and if we're not careful, they'll make it worse, but the voters and consumers are largely apathetic about it now, and things are going from bad to worse. After all, the telecos aren't apathetic, and they have plenty of lobbyists and money. More public attention on the issue doesn't seem like it could make the situation any worse.
Simple supply and demand? The supply is defined as the top, I dunno, 10 players out of a gigantic pool? Most sports players, the vast majority, aren't going to be good enough to go pro. The supply of competent actors is probably bigger, but the ones that are competent and good enough at marketing to be real assets to a movie (celebrities) and get paychecks is also by definition low. Not everyone can be as famous as Tom Cruise or else that wouldn't be that famous.
Demand is absurdly high too. I'm not sure why so many of us like to watch men toss balls around, and it also doesn't make a whole lot of logical sense to watch people pretend to be something or someone they're not, but it's entertaining to our primitive brains.
Thieves with a sense of entitlement stealing imaginary items from other, richer thieves with bigger senses of entitlements then, if you prefer. Either way, girlintraining is morally in the clear.
In the world where Opera, my old logitech mouse, and windows 7 got together and decidea that I probably didn't mean to select the first digit in that number, and I decided to not proofread that carefully.
Since there's not much competition there either, they're working on making that less of an option. At home, my cell phone connection is, at all times of the day, faster than my router as measured by speedtest.net. Both home connection and cell phone are AT&T. We're not talking comparing LTE to wifi, we're talking HSPA to ethernet connection.
7,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths.[6]
Disclaimer: I'd probably be labeled as a gun-control extremist and enemy of freedom by the NRA and plenty of slashdotters, but a massively flawed study is a massively flawed study.
So you're saying that democrats acted like democrats and republicans acted like republicans... why does that mean Obama would have an interest in keeping the bill secret? His base knew it wasn't a home run, the failure of the public plan and medicare buy in were front page news quickly. I think it would be the republicans who would have had the interest in keeping it's contents secret: Joe Wilson yelling out "You lie" when Obama said illegal immigrants would not be covered for example.
I think a poorly-worded soundbite is a bit different from actual legislation to that effect. Kind of like how it was funny when Gore seemed to be saying that he invented the Internet, but wouldn't be funny if he tried to pass legislation giving him full ownership and control of the Internet.
Ravenshrike wasn't making nearly as broad a statement as "everyone from chicago is corrupt." He's just saying Obama and a few others are a specific breed of corrupt politician.
Ravenshrike also appears to either be trolling or suffering from delusions, and either way it would probably be in everyone's interests if he weren't allowed to vote, but at least he wasn't making such a broad stereotype.
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To summarize: it's not yet possible to isolate only embryonic DNA from the mothers' blood, so using the father and mother's DNA sequences, they can tell which sequences are from the mother and which one are from the embryo.
Without the father's sequence, the confidence in the sequencing probably goes down, but is still possible.
Actually no, in the movie, they were only able to sequence your genome after you were born.
Also, call me a technophile, but I don't think the problem with Gattaca's dystopia was that sequencing was possible. I think the problem was how people used the technology. Much like, oh, every technology ever invented.
I disagree with you both. I find nothing ethically wrong with abortion or screening for diseases. How about we let parents decide whether it's ethical for them?
I also like Nevada Missouri, which seems to be pronounced "Nevehdah." That's not even a foreign word.
They're hardly the first to try to reproduce tourist destinations and landmarks. Tokyo has an Eiffel tower and a Statue of Liberty.
There's also name stealing. Missouri has a town called "Versailles." I hear the way it's pronounced in Missouri is "Ver-sales" rather than "Ver-sai." Probably to cut down on confusion. "Damnit! I meant to go to France! Ah well, guess I'll see the birthplace of Bud Walton, co-founder of Walmart."
That must be why internet explorer is still the dominant browser.
Hey now, some of us liked PBR before it was cool with hipsters!
Many people who *aren't* prodigies display self-destructive behaviors *all the time*.
Quote from the article
people who excelled when they were 16 years old were four times as likely to go on to develop bipolar disorder
The story here is that people who are gifted are more likely to be cursed with bipolar disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. No one is saying the reverse is true, that people who are bipolar or depressed are more likely to be gifted.
There seem to be multiple causes of bipolar and schizophrenia. Perhaps some combination of genetics may predispose one to genius and also increases the likelihood of a disorder. That doesn't mean ALL the causes of disorder will have increased creativity or intelligence too, in fact they probably don't.
Now that you mention that, the only time I've run into anyone on the nintendo DS chat channel that I didn't already know (in an attempt to set up a multiplayer game)... it was two little kids who just scrawled misspelled curses.
Government agencies have little problem with antivirus software for consumer, and you say you don't have much faith in AV? Well, wouldn't it be far more disconcerting if $20 a year software COULD defeat the CIA's (or whoever) malware?
I mean, a story about how the CIA can get past your deadbolt and home alarm system wouldn't be shocking, would it? News that the US army can outgun the security guard at your job... no shit.
Of course, the problem is that it DOESN'T require a multi-billion budget to defeat Avast or others, but security isn't simple.
And BRB, no-scoping some noobs that said they slept with my mother.
There is only one reason that applies more to the 360 and PS3 and not the wii. And that is because the wii wouldn't let you talk to the people you were playing with online. It has nothing to do with anything other than nintendo didn't put that feature on the wii.
But they seem to have included it on the wii U, so you nintendo fans will also get to experience preteens with high voices excitedly jabbering on voice chat about how they slept with your mother.
French soldiers use their stomachs to march? That explains their military history...
Bug their politicians to do something about the monopoly. Obviously they won't fix the problem immediately, and if we're not careful, they'll make it worse, but the voters and consumers are largely apathetic about it now, and things are going from bad to worse. After all, the telecos aren't apathetic, and they have plenty of lobbyists and money. More public attention on the issue doesn't seem like it could make the situation any worse.
Simple supply and demand? The supply is defined as the top, I dunno, 10 players out of a gigantic pool? Most sports players, the vast majority, aren't going to be good enough to go pro. The supply of competent actors is probably bigger, but the ones that are competent and good enough at marketing to be real assets to a movie (celebrities) and get paychecks is also by definition low. Not everyone can be as famous as Tom Cruise or else that wouldn't be that famous.
Demand is absurdly high too. I'm not sure why so many of us like to watch men toss balls around, and it also doesn't make a whole lot of logical sense to watch people pretend to be something or someone they're not, but it's entertaining to our primitive brains.
It is mind boggling the amount of creativity hollywood puts into legal and financial shenanigans and does NOT put into the plots.
Thieves with a sense of entitlement stealing imaginary items from other, richer thieves with bigger senses of entitlements then, if you prefer. Either way, girlintraining is morally in the clear.
In the world where Opera, my old logitech mouse, and windows 7 got together and decidea that I probably didn't mean to select the first digit in that number, and I decided to not proofread that carefully.
Yeah, but this is former whitehouse chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel's brother and is far richer and better connected to politicans than you are.
He might not get a magic button, but he's more likely to get something acceptable to him than you are to get a pony.
Since there's not much competition there either, they're working on making that less of an option. At home, my cell phone connection is, at all times of the day, faster than my router as measured by speedtest.net. Both home connection and cell phone are AT&T. We're not talking comparing LTE to wifi, we're talking HSPA to ethernet connection.
Seems to be more of a correlation, but if this graph generated at gunpolicy.org is at all accurate, that would be interesting.
7,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths.[6]
Disclaimer: I'd probably be labeled as a gun-control extremist and enemy of freedom by the NRA and plenty of slashdotters, but a massively flawed study is a massively flawed study.
So you're saying that democrats acted like democrats and republicans acted like republicans... why does that mean Obama would have an interest in keeping the bill secret? His base knew it wasn't a home run, the failure of the public plan and medicare buy in were front page news quickly. I think it would be the republicans who would have had the interest in keeping it's contents secret: Joe Wilson yelling out "You lie" when Obama said illegal immigrants would not be covered for example.
I think a poorly-worded soundbite is a bit different from actual legislation to that effect. Kind of like how it was funny when Gore seemed to be saying that he invented the Internet, but wouldn't be funny if he tried to pass legislation giving him full ownership and control of the Internet.
Ravenshrike wasn't making nearly as broad a statement as "everyone from chicago is corrupt." He's just saying Obama and a few others are a specific breed of corrupt politician.
Ravenshrike also appears to either be trolling or suffering from delusions, and either way it would probably be in everyone's interests if he weren't allowed to vote, but at least he wasn't making such a broad stereotype.
No, fortunately it just means we're hypocrites. And we already knew that.