First, viruses are not alive, they're just DNA or RNA with a protein coating. Neither the DNA, RNA, or the coating are produced by the virus - they're produced by the host cell. Viruses are like bricks - they're inert objects made in a factory.
Viroses neither "eat", nor "excrete". No metabolism. They cannot move on their own. They literally go wherever the environment carries them.
We know what ebola is, and how to treat it - and people can survive without treatment, same as some (a very few) survive for decades with HIV because they have a natural immunity . We don't know what you get when you just randomly generate dna sequences. Most will be harmless, but there is absolutely no guarantee that some won't, just as it's guaranteed that some will find their way into the environment (there is no hard drive, not even the new helium ones, that is perfectly sealed).
If you don't see the relevance of prions, you should look it up.
So yes, viral DNA does indeed seemingly "magically worm its' way into human cells", and your statement "I'm not convinced it's a mathematical certainty that the sequences for any pathogen WOULD be generated. They're extremely long sequences." by demanding mathematical certainty, shows you are foolish, same as the statement that pathogens have extremely long sequences is full of shit.
You completely ignored the fact that people tend to deteriorate physically as they get older, so they need more care, and more attention from doctors and nurses. Since people should be the same as animals (they live 2x as long in disease-free environments), the concept of being disease free is not going to help reduce the demand for care.
You ignored it because you can't defeat it, which is why you concentrated on trauma.
Stackoverflow is not a valid metric. People who know their language well enough because they use it every day at work as well as on anything else they want to create are not going to need stackoverflow, so you fail to capture the best.
You could show recruiters a bunch of code samples written in c, tell them that they were written in java, python, bash, sql, and the framework du jour, and they wouldn't know the difference. After all, how much intelligence can they build into their resume keyword search tool?
I'm very happy with the outcome of the election too. I predicted that it would result in the Republicans self-destructing. Just look at how far they've gone so quickly. Trump has had a worse first 100 days than even the 9th president - and that guy died after a month. This fiasco will force both parties to change.
Bernie was not a Democrat until he ran for President. Why is it that the Party is supposed to get behind someone like that?
Because they had the choice. Bernie or Trump...
But they knew that under Bernie, the democratic party would have been forced to radically change direction, leaving the "leaders" behind, and they prefer the devil (and campaign donors) they know...
Shut up! "There are much better alternatives now: instant messaging" - do you really want to get 1,000 text messages a month from these idiots? The longer they think that voicemail works, the better. After all, they're already biased to using it because they like the sound of their own voices... it may not be why they originally became politicians, but it sure factors into why they stay.
I wouldn't call the OS a commodity when it enforces tight vendor lock-ins.
Lock-in has nothing to do with whether something is a commodity or not. Example: roundup-ready corn. Last I looked it was both tightly protected via patents and restrictive contracts, and a commodity. Ditto for books, music, movies, smartphones, etc.
I just find it interesting that neither the story, nor the comments, reflect on the consequences of this
Finding something interesting is NOT a complaint, at least in my world. Good sex, good food, and good company are all interesting to most people, and would hardly be regarded as complaint-worthy.
Read it again - the few contaminants are easily removed. Most of them go away on their own, since they're gases, not solids, and the only one that isn't is removed by heating and it too becomes a gas. For the quantities needed, it's more than good enough.
Animals raised in disease-free environments live twice their normal lifespan, so when you posit the elimination of diseases, then a limit of 250 years is reasonable.
You'd need the same number of doctors and nurses in the long run, so it's your response that's meaningless. People not dying of diseases will end up needing a lot more medical support over their greatly extended lives. We're already seeing that with aging populations putting large demands on health care, where only 3% manage to live past 100. What happens if you eliminate diseases and this becomes commonplace? Live long enough, you'll probably need a few hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery, and treatment for everything from accidents to intentional violence, plus accidental and intentional poisoning, burns, replacement of amputated limbs lost to trauma, fire, frostbite, fractured skulls, backs, arms, legs from falls, etc.
Given that this could in theory produce DNA more dangerous than anything found in nature, you'd damn well better have a level 5.
There are some plant viruses IIRC that can reproduce simply by injecting their DNA or RNA sequence into plant cells. But I didn't hear about any such human viruses
The flu virus hijacks your body's cells to reproduce pretty much the same way. Surely you've heard of the flu virus.
Prions also aren't living, just chunks of protein, but they cause mad cow disease, and they can be distributed by eating infected meat, by blood transfusion, and experiments have show that it can be distributed and successfully infect mice in aerosol form.
Imagine a situation of Trump's equivalent there President of the Solar System or the like.
Entropy in action. Who knows - maybe once you hit a critical mass of population and technology, you have the means to try to force stupidity and servitude on the population. Would explain all the oligarchies, including the one in the USA.
Hint: The OS wars are over. They died of boredom. It's just not interesting any more. Sorry, but the world has moved on, and an OS is just another boring commodity, easily replaced, with less and less to get excited over with each new iteration.
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First, viruses are not alive, they're just DNA or RNA with a protein coating. Neither the DNA, RNA, or the coating are produced by the virus - they're produced by the host cell. Viruses are like bricks - they're inert objects made in a factory.
Viroses neither "eat", nor "excrete". No metabolism. They cannot move on their own. They literally go wherever the environment carries them.
We know what ebola is, and how to treat it - and people can survive without treatment, same as some (a very few) survive for decades with HIV because they have a natural immunity . We don't know what you get when you just randomly generate dna sequences. Most will be harmless, but there is absolutely no guarantee that some won't, just as it's guaranteed that some will find their way into the environment (there is no hard drive, not even the new helium ones, that is perfectly sealed).
If you don't see the relevance of prions, you should look it up.
So yes, viral DNA does indeed seemingly "magically worm its' way into human cells", and your statement "I'm not convinced it's a mathematical certainty that the sequences for any pathogen WOULD be generated. They're extremely long sequences." by demanding mathematical certainty, shows you are foolish, same as the statement that pathogens have extremely long sequences is full of shit.
Hard drives have never been hermetically sealed. Even the ones that use helium today leak.
Neither is your helicopter - unless it's already exploded.
You ignored it because you can't defeat it, which is why you concentrated on trauma.
Stackoverflow is not a valid metric. People who know their language well enough because they use it every day at work as well as on anything else they want to create are not going to need stackoverflow, so you fail to capture the best.
You could show recruiters a bunch of code samples written in c, tell them that they were written in java, python, bash, sql, and the framework du jour, and they wouldn't know the difference. After all, how much intelligence can they build into their resume keyword search tool?
Is it also commercial advertising, or just political ads?
There's a difference nowadays?
Even if they did, would you trust them not to change their position in the future? They're politicians - self-interest is their strong suit.
Flat 50c fee to leave a voicemail. Statutory enforcement.
Credited to the account of the recipient of the call.
I'm very happy with the outcome of the election too. I predicted that it would result in the Republicans self-destructing. Just look at how far they've gone so quickly. Trump has had a worse first 100 days than even the 9th president - and that guy died after a month. This fiasco will force both parties to change.
Bernie was not a Democrat until he ran for President. Why is it that the Party is supposed to get behind someone like that?
Because they had the choice. Bernie or Trump...
But they knew that under Bernie, the democratic party would have been forced to radically change direction, leaving the "leaders" behind, and they prefer the devil (and campaign donors) they know ...
Trump was a star? In what alternate reality?
Shut up! "There are much better alternatives now: instant messaging" - do you really want to get 1,000 text messages a month from these idiots? The longer they think that voicemail works, the better. After all, they're already biased to using it because they like the sound of their own voices ... it may not be why they originally became politicians, but it sure factors into why they stay.
Have you tried sharpening the top first? If not, don't. Just push harder next time.
Is that you, Vlad?
In a small population, they can just up and leave, since your population of enforcers is also small, and the land is large.
I wouldn't call the OS a commodity when it enforces tight vendor lock-ins.
Lock-in has nothing to do with whether something is a commodity or not. Example: roundup-ready corn. Last I looked it was both tightly protected via patents and restrictive contracts, and a commodity. Ditto for books, music, movies, smartphones, etc.
I just find it interesting that neither the story, nor the comments, reflect on the consequences of this
Finding something interesting is NOT a complaint, at least in my world. Good sex, good food, and good company are all interesting to most people, and would hardly be regarded as complaint-worthy.
Read it again - the few contaminants are easily removed. Most of them go away on their own, since they're gases, not solids, and the only one that isn't is removed by heating and it too becomes a gas. For the quantities needed, it's more than good enough.
I suspect that many of us will not use the 3 shells. Expect much profanity as people collect "bad language violation" tickets to wipe their asses.
Animals raised in disease-free environments live twice their normal lifespan, so when you posit the elimination of diseases, then a limit of 250 years is reasonable.
You'd need the same number of doctors and nurses in the long run, so it's your response that's meaningless. People not dying of diseases will end up needing a lot more medical support over their greatly extended lives. We're already seeing that with aging populations putting large demands on health care, where only 3% manage to live past 100. What happens if you eliminate diseases and this becomes commonplace? Live long enough, you'll probably need a few hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery, and treatment for everything from accidents to intentional violence, plus accidental and intentional poisoning, burns, replacement of amputated limbs lost to trauma, fire, frostbite, fractured skulls, backs, arms, legs from falls, etc.
Try enough different combinations and you're going to get some that are not junk. It's like the million monkeys typing on a million typewriters.
Given that this could in theory produce DNA more dangerous than anything found in nature, you'd damn well better have a level 5.
There are some plant viruses IIRC that can reproduce simply by injecting their DNA or RNA sequence into plant cells. But I didn't hear about any such human viruses
The flu virus hijacks your body's cells to reproduce pretty much the same way. Surely you've heard of the flu virus.
Prions also aren't living, just chunks of protein, but they cause mad cow disease, and they can be distributed by eating infected meat, by blood transfusion, and experiments have show that it can be distributed and successfully infect mice in aerosol form.
Imagine a situation of Trump's equivalent there President of the Solar System or the like.
Entropy in action. Who knows - maybe once you hit a critical mass of population and technology, you have the means to try to force stupidity and servitude on the population. Would explain all the oligarchies, including the one in the USA.
Hint: The OS wars are over. They died of boredom. It's just not interesting any more. Sorry, but the world has moved on, and an OS is just another boring commodity, easily replaced, with less and less to get excited over with each new iteration.
Q: So who won the OS wars? ...
A: Who gives a sh*t