I'd say that's a good point, and probably not necessarily overlooked. In Guns, Germs, and Steel the author makes a point about animal domestication as a precursor for dominant cultures. He had an amusing example of how different history would have gone for Africans if rhinos could've been domesticated into cavalry.
In tribal conflict a pack of loyal dogs would be a huge boon to those that had them. Dogs also tend to be very protective of human children in my anecdotal experience.
It's more like burning down derelict farm houses for fire department training rather than taken apart for the 2x4s and copper pipes. The materials aren't worth the labor to extract them and the structure/house is too obsolete to overhaul or continue using.
Just that I don't think your solution would solve anything. I don't know anyone under psychiatric care because I work at a place where it would have to be reported and they could lose their job. This is different from working at a place where no one would benefit from psychiatric care...
People have to seek help initially to ever get a psychological diagnosis, though. Under your schema they have no incentive to even look into it, for fear of losing their job.
So you put your sequences into a database and are a few queries away from determining if everyone with a double deletion in one position always has an active copy of a gene only likewise required in the converse situation. I've not read the original source but I imagine they already did this. Your username implies virology background, why would you think they would be smart enough to do the first step and not smart enough for the second? The second requires a more robust dataset but isn't really any harder otherwise.
I know at work the travel loaner laptops are to remain clean and used only to access the secure data on the corporate network, to prevent this sort of thing. They could seize the entire laptop and it wouldn't matter.
I, too, was confused by the post using Hacker as the primary term, the circles of the web I read that are about DIY woodworking, smithing, etc use the term Maker if they are trying to identify with the modern resurgence of interest in such things.
You are probably right about scaremongering, but wrong about a few things:
lactose tolerance results from a mutation that allows (some) humans to persist in making the required enzyme, lactase, after they wean. Mostly mammals stop, even most humans, when they wean. This is a very useful mutation for settled humans and has spread relatively quickly as far as alleles go, and cultures that could ingest lactose do tend to since it is so useful for cultures with domestication. For someone whose genetics allow lactase persistence, I assume that levels of lactose ingestion influence enzyme levels but it won't work for, say, a Han.
Nut allergies, and some food allergies, turn out to be dependent on prevailing tree species and their pollen. Google search about the distribution of people allergic to apples in Europe (mostly unheard of in the US). It follows tree demographics. Making yourself anergic via ingestion of small amounts of your allergen will work but can be dangerous depending on your reactivity/titer, so I wouldn't advise it without consulting an allergist. For example, if I injected you with a large amount of harmlessly killed bacteria, you would die of shock as your immune system overreacted. Thusly a severe allergy cannot be treated as a DIY procedure.
Eh, I suppose I'm thinking more of a technical than layperson's definition. It isn't really a stretch to consider nicotine a toxin for the layperson's definition you cite, though.
I'd say the safety component of vaccine research is as expensive as the efficacy component. Once those are out of the way the manufacturing isn't too bad, but those first two are very costly and where you find out all the work so far was a waste on a product line and have to start over again.
I don't know the details of the various sizes of the active components of these drugs, but if they are too small to cross link the arms of an antibody then you can't make a vaccine against them. At least, not unless they commonly crosslink with something in the body that you don't mind nuking alongside them.
I'm not joking: they gave us pedometers at work to get a lower rate on our health insurance. It is optional, of course. You can look it up, they're using Virgin Pulse, I imagine there are many others. You get even more discount if you make up meal plans and on and on.
We also have a universal genetic code and that doesn't stop biological forms from evolving. You just don't get anything that transcribes the DNA backwards or what have you.
I use Slacker's offline mode on an old iPod shuffle. You don't need an internet connection and don't need a smart phone. Then I listen to it in my car, where it basically is like a satellite radio I can skip songs on with customized stations. Since it updates the cache based on listener actions like banning songs and artists or favoriting items, then it updates itself with fresh music to my tastes too.
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I'd say that's a good point, and probably not necessarily overlooked. In Guns, Germs, and Steel the author makes a point about animal domestication as a precursor for dominant cultures. He had an amusing example of how different history would have gone for Africans if rhinos could've been domesticated into cavalry. In tribal conflict a pack of loyal dogs would be a huge boon to those that had them. Dogs also tend to be very protective of human children in my anecdotal experience.
It's more like burning down derelict farm houses for fire department training rather than taken apart for the 2x4s and copper pipes. The materials aren't worth the labor to extract them and the structure/house is too obsolete to overhaul or continue using.
Just that I don't think your solution would solve anything. I don't know anyone under psychiatric care because I work at a place where it would have to be reported and they could lose their job. This is different from working at a place where no one would benefit from psychiatric care...
People have to seek help initially to ever get a psychological diagnosis, though. Under your schema they have no incentive to even look into it, for fear of losing their job.
Would this not merely cause people to avoid psychiatric care?
So you put your sequences into a database and are a few queries away from determining if everyone with a double deletion in one position always has an active copy of a gene only likewise required in the converse situation. I've not read the original source but I imagine they already did this. Your username implies virology background, why would you think they would be smart enough to do the first step and not smart enough for the second? The second requires a more robust dataset but isn't really any harder otherwise.
Give the starving chloroplasts! The gift that keeps on giving.
Not at all: complying with NZ law might make you violate US law, depending on what is on the laptop.
Nicer than how in Windows 7 you hit the Windows key and then type the first few letters of your app and hit enter?
Ah, but doesn't everyone go through at least a mildly awkward adolescence? You'd see all their "crappy poetry written in blood' moments, too.
I know at work the travel loaner laptops are to remain clean and used only to access the secure data on the corporate network, to prevent this sort of thing. They could seize the entire laptop and it wouldn't matter.
You'd just have to stay on the treatment until all of your already infected cells die.
I, too, was confused by the post using Hacker as the primary term, the circles of the web I read that are about DIY woodworking, smithing, etc use the term Maker if they are trying to identify with the modern resurgence of interest in such things.
You are probably right about scaremongering, but wrong about a few things: lactose tolerance results from a mutation that allows (some) humans to persist in making the required enzyme, lactase, after they wean. Mostly mammals stop, even most humans, when they wean. This is a very useful mutation for settled humans and has spread relatively quickly as far as alleles go, and cultures that could ingest lactose do tend to since it is so useful for cultures with domestication. For someone whose genetics allow lactase persistence, I assume that levels of lactose ingestion influence enzyme levels but it won't work for, say, a Han. Nut allergies, and some food allergies, turn out to be dependent on prevailing tree species and their pollen. Google search about the distribution of people allergic to apples in Europe (mostly unheard of in the US). It follows tree demographics. Making yourself anergic via ingestion of small amounts of your allergen will work but can be dangerous depending on your reactivity/titer, so I wouldn't advise it without consulting an allergist. For example, if I injected you with a large amount of harmlessly killed bacteria, you would die of shock as your immune system overreacted. Thusly a severe allergy cannot be treated as a DIY procedure.
That sport stat nerds don't realize that they're as nerdy as the guys spouting MMORPG stats has always amusing me.
Eh, I suppose I'm thinking more of a technical than layperson's definition. It isn't really a stretch to consider nicotine a toxin for the layperson's definition you cite, though.
I'd say the safety component of vaccine research is as expensive as the efficacy component. Once those are out of the way the manufacturing isn't too bad, but those first two are very costly and where you find out all the work so far was a waste on a product line and have to start over again.
I only read the journal abstract but it appears you're using personal definitions for those terms if you don't think it fits.
Antibodies bind pretty quickly, if the titer was strong enough it'd work. You'd only have to get some percent of it to be effective, anyhow.
I don't know the details of the various sizes of the active components of these drugs, but if they are too small to cross link the arms of an antibody then you can't make a vaccine against them. At least, not unless they commonly crosslink with something in the body that you don't mind nuking alongside them.
I think that would work, but it'd be even better to put it on one of the kids. They'd take more steps and at least they're on the health plan...
I'm not joking: they gave us pedometers at work to get a lower rate on our health insurance. It is optional, of course. You can look it up, they're using Virgin Pulse, I imagine there are many others. You get even more discount if you make up meal plans and on and on.
That's certainly an esoteric idea about how caffeine works... It is just an adenosine antagonist. Wikipedia has a good write up.
We also have a universal genetic code and that doesn't stop biological forms from evolving. You just don't get anything that transcribes the DNA backwards or what have you.
I use Slacker's offline mode on an old iPod shuffle. You don't need an internet connection and don't need a smart phone. Then I listen to it in my car, where it basically is like a satellite radio I can skip songs on with customized stations. Since it updates the cache based on listener actions like banning songs and artists or favoriting items, then it updates itself with fresh music to my tastes too.