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  1. Re:Omg, the racism! on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    They performed a radical and unauthorized medical experiment al la Joseph Mengele on some foreign little brown kid and not a single one of you finds anything grotesquely sick with this!?

    Every medical advance began with researchers toying with some cohort of patients. This little boy was about to die after all conventional treatments had failed. All patients who fit this criterion get experimented on. I have a brother who is alive today because when all else had failed was the subject of a radical experiment.

    Interestingly, the technique used in the German case was genetic engineering. People like you will refuse such a treatment, and therefore will not be around to influence future generations. This is a good thing.

  2. Re:Hey! As a grumpy old-inside man ... on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The nationalism you're seeing now in Europe is a reaction to the less savory aspects of a new insurgency, rather than being internally whipped up hatred for a minority that had been a productive and peaceful part of your society for hundreds of years.

  3. No. Publishing history isn't news.

    The news is that an in situ gene replacement technique has worked in one patient and is the subject of a paper. The implications of this are very large.

  4. No, Nevada rules would apply: a recorded voice from the shuttle screams obscenities at the backing truck, and then if that doesn't work riddles it with bullets.

  5. Re:Too young to know on Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    perhaps your an old fart who doesn't understand where the future is headed.

    Old fart who understands both weighing in here.

  6. The upcoming bitcoin kilonova may restimulate interest in investing in the real economy.

  7. There is a perception out there that Wall Street has lost touch with the idea that out there beyond the Hudson there are factories which make things, retailers who sell them and IT people whose data installations keep it all coordinated. Instead the glamour boys of Wall Street are the faceless people who dream up derivative financial "products" that have replaced analysis of the real economy with manipulating paper.

  8. Re:Didn't pass the test on SpaceX Rocket Engine Explodes During Test (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously failed the test.

    We learn about flying from that.

  9. Re:Did everyone fail math in school? on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I am surprised your edits were not reverted; according to Wikipedia's rules, they should be.

    Wikipedia won't let you make error fixes based on firsthand knowledge? Even if supported by pictures, in this case?

  10. Re:Self driving cars are impossible. on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Automated cars can, after you arrive at a destination, buzz away to park in a nearby garage rather than right in front of your stop. When they let you off at work, they can head for the recharge plugs in a distant corner of the parking area to spend the day.

  11. Re:As someone who lives in Florida on Florida Attempts the Largest Hydraulic Restoration Project In the World To Save the Everglades (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly this. If you like the environment, vote for things like this. Take down things like dikes and dames and allow Nature to return to itself.

    All genders bear equal responsibility for this problem.

  12. Re:Good news on Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Brain-Cell Communication, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if you got more sleep you wouldn't be an AC.

  13. Sci-hub is on tor

    scihub22266oqcxt.onion

    So I guess this court action will result in a whole new group of people getting on tor.

    I've never had a personal need for Tor before this, but I'm downloading it now.

  14. Re:What a terrible headline on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Bad link! Got a correction?

  15. Re:What a terrible headline on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an XKCD reference.

    The line was supposed to be, as a response to a woman who asks her frazzled husband at 3 am as he maniacally types away in his mancave, "Somebody is wrong on the Internet!"

  16. Re:Figures on The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the modern right anti science, anti education policies in action/
    Trump is the the last straw that will break America, sad.

    No, our attitude is that science is for Asians, while we're the hipsters off campus shopping for food labeled No GMO.

  17. Re: News that Matters on Afghanistan Clarifies It Will Not Block WhatsApp, Telegram (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, whatthis means is that the NSA has broken the encryption on these apps and is hoping the Taliban keep on using them.

  18. Re:How Eclipses Show the Flat Earth on China Plans to Also Launch Reusable Spaceplanes by 2020 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    With a few careful observations, you can begin to understand that the
    heliocentric model is a lie, and you live on a flat plane.

    I bet your bridge is just a drawing on a flat plane.

  19. Re:no people please on China Plans to Also Launch Reusable Spaceplanes by 2020 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As of last summer, the ISS has given us thousands of manhours of zero-G experience by 222 people. This is hardly baking soda volcanos.

  20. The problem for Gottesfeld is that the headline “Hacked A Children’s Hospital” has such terrible optics that most people will not read past it to the details of the story. This is undoubtedly why the Swartz Day organizers didn’t want to include him in the observance.

  21. And on a fortnight hike across the UK a couple of years ago, I encountered this one:
    http://www.alamy.com/stock-pho...

  22. Re:Nazi Gay Marriage on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What if an LGBTQ Nazi wants to announce their marriage over Twitter? Wouldn't that be discrimination?

    I would love to have that happen just for the smuggled viral video of heads exploding on the Twitter censorship staff.

  23. Re:The REAL question is on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I anticipate no legal consequences. Is 11 minutes without Twitter even justification for a torte?

    So far as I’m cincerned, it would justify a pizza.

  24. Re:The REAL question is on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Because it’s controversial enough that private companies can censor people by hiding behind the “we’re not the government, so the First Amendment doesn’t apply to us” argument, but it’s definitely UN-okay for petulant individuals with corporate powers to go around deleting people they don’t personally like.

  25. Re:To put into perspective... on Five New Asteroids Surprise Astronomers In Hubble Images (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It’s newsworthy because, after all these years of detailed searches for asteroids using different instruments, some of them specially optimized for the purpose, we find a few new ones unexpectedly using Hubble. How many more, including Earth crossing threats, have been missed?