The page the map is on first caused my browser to alert me that it has an invalid security cert, and then was blocked by the security settings in my DNS filter (which is set pretty wide open for the most part, i mainly use it for blocking content I don't want to see). Thats a cool place to store a internet censorship map.
You missed the entire point of the project.
The idea is not to grow new organs in animals for transplant into people, but to develop the means to inject a 'starter kit' of cells into the patient, and have the patient grow a new organ right in their own body.
So, for someone missing a lung to cancer, or a kidney, or a thymus, (apparently this is what they grew in the test) maybe a spleen, those things you can live without for a bit, (aided by modern medicine obviously) while your body manufactures a new one using their starter kit of cells. I suppose, now that I think about it, they might even be able to eventually grow you a new heart while your body ran on an artificial heart for a bit. The end goal here is to end the need for transplants by being able to force the body to build a new part from scratch. They pointed out that, at this stage, the technique still has the risk of rejection by the body, because it starts with fetal cells (they did this in mice by the way) but their goal is to eventually produce the same results using cells from the end host, so there is no rejection issues.
Basically Nguyen has managed to commercialize the "deliberately worthless" control scheme of QWER that is "just" simple enough to make your brain say "hey, this is simple, so it should be easy!" QWER was magical because your brain says "I know how walking works, I can do this". same with Flappy Bird, your brain says "I get gravity" and you spend 30 minutes swearing at the screen, but sort of having fun. I tried Swing Copters, and it has none of the things that made the first two "addicting" because it lacks that little tiny bit of intuitiveness that the others had. While Copters has the same theory, in my mind, it lacks the core feature, thus making it infuriating, without any of the fun.
No shit. Using change.org for this sort of thing is like bitching to the manager of a Walmart about how the McDonalds in another town screwed up your order, and you expect him to fix it.
A better question might be; why is it that education is one of the few things we seem to be getting worse at as we advance? More hours in school does not seem to be translating into better trained, more educated, economically useful graduates, but rather the opposite.
I bought and downloaded and watched this almost two years ago, why in the world is it making the 'news' now? It's pretty, but the story felt kind of.. absent, like it was trying to riff off of some of the great sci-fi of the past and not really putting it all together. to make anything particularly coherent.
Yes, but if you use one of those, you won't look like a complete lunatic in public, which will make people avoid you, so you can type your passwords in peace.
Yeah, i don't see how their supposed 'netflix is going to extort us' scare is supposed to work. Everything I remember about how the internet works pretty much invalidates the idea.
We in the US have the "Do Not Call List" where you can opt out of telemarketing. All telemarketers are supposed to abide by the DNC list. This particular endeavor is targeted at finding and eliminating the groups that ignore the DNC list, and also are scammers. The "Rachel with Cardholder Services" scam is, if I recall, about fixing your supposedly damaged credit rating, or paying off an imaginary forgotten credit card or some other financial woe they invent to strip the gullible of their money.
which translates to 'No one had to bleed in a mine for seven cents a day to get this lab made gem, and as you know, bleeding in a mine is the definition of romantic."
Because I'm mildly insane or something, I bought a lab made sapphire online, and when it came in the mail, I promptly took it around to the local jeweler, and asked him to take a look at this stone I had. He sits down, looks at it for a bit, goes "Huh." and moves to a more powerful microscope, looks for a bit longer, and finally says, "I don't see any flaws or inclusions, but I also don't see and bubbles, so its not glass.... I guess we can send it to a lab in New York and find out what it is if you want?"
At that point, I said that it was not that important, and took my rock and left, because I was not really sure how he would react to being told I already knew what it was.
The point is, we can manufacture perfect gemstones, better than nature makes them.
exactly, try dragging the crazy old bat's who still write a cheque for 11.79 at the grocery store into the 21st century with this cashless shit, and you will discover quickly why we're not even close.
The argument that is going to get used against you next is something like:
" when I'm running, i can barely breathe, much less talk coherently enough to say 'skip' in a voice the computer will understand. "
and
the cord of the earphones with the controls is flopping all over while I run, i don't want to fumble for it. Proprioception on the other hand (sense of where the body parts are in relation to each other) will let me nail a button on my wrist really easily.
of course, the appropriate responses to those arguments would be:
"Get less fat, so you can breathe and talk while running, you stupid ugly lardo."
and
"Your momma flops around a lot also!" wait, that might be wrong, its probably "Well, run your headphone cords through an arm band or something to keep them under control."
to which I assume there is another layer of arguments and comebacks, ad infinitum, until the heat death of the universe.
Nah, Where I live, the city's water is supplied entirely by a well field, (no running surface water) which is well above, and many miles from, the outlet for the cities waste treatment plant, so there is little chance of it being treated sewage.
And to anyone who is all pissy about the chlorine taste of their tap water, follow these simple instructions:
Obtain 2 Glass or stainess steel water pitcher. One with a Lid, and one without. (I use a glass pitcher and a gallon glass Jug in place of a pitcher with lid)
Obtain 1 cheesecloth.
Optional: obtain 1 Brita water filtration pitcher and filter.
Sort your 2 pitchers into Pitcher A, the open top pitcher, and Pitcher B, the one with a lid.
Fill Pitcher A from the tap, place the cheesecloth over the top to block any invading insects or floating dust, and place on your counter, out of direct sunlight.
Wait. Overnight is long enough.
Pour the contents of Pitcher A into Pitcher B, and place Pitcher B in the refrigerator, refill Pitcher A from the tap, replace the cheesecloth, and set on the counter again.
Once the water in Pitcher B is cold, you are free to drink it, or use the optional Brita pitcher to add one level of filtration to it. The Brita is up to you, depending on how the final flavor of the water is after Pitcher B.
(it can take out a few more off flavors, but does make the water taste a little like potting soil if you let it warm up after filtering it with the Brita)
So what happens here is, Chlorine will evaporate out of water at room temperature pretty quickly, and because it has already done its job of killing whatever was in your water, it is free to go. The chlorine taste leaves faster with wider mouthed containers (more surface area exposed to air I suppose.) Couple that with the fact that the colder the substance, the less you can taste it, (which is why things like ice cream and popsicles require so much sugar) and this system works really well for making chlorinated water more palatable. If you drink a particularly large quantity of water, You may need a couple pitchers to let air, and stagger their filling so you always have one that has sat about 8 hours, but for 1 or 2 people, a gallon pitcher works well.
Popular Science just ran an article about Pharma in the drinking water, with a nice chart about how much water you would need to drink to get *one* pill worth of X drug. As it turns out, it takes years of drinking nothing but tap water to get a single dose of any of the detectable pharmaceuticals that make it through into tap water.
Buy one of those finished mini-houses they sell (for about the cost of a new car, check the internet), anchor it down on your mini-lot, and live in the sucker, and mow the grass yourself, with a reel mower, which uses manpower, not gasoline. That gets you out of 2 out of 4 of your problems, leaving you with the sewer blackmail and the hatred of mown grass, but at least you won't be paying a grass tax, and expensive rent, which will help your state of mind.
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The page the map is on first caused my browser to alert me that it has an invalid security cert, and then was blocked by the security settings in my DNS filter (which is set pretty wide open for the most part, i mainly use it for blocking content I don't want to see). Thats a cool place to store a internet censorship map.
it seems it has many incarnations.
You missed the entire point of the project.
The idea is not to grow new organs in animals for transplant into people, but to develop the means to inject a 'starter kit' of cells into the patient, and have the patient grow a new organ right in their own body.
So, for someone missing a lung to cancer, or a kidney, or a thymus, (apparently this is what they grew in the test) maybe a spleen, those things you can live without for a bit, (aided by modern medicine obviously) while your body manufactures a new one using their starter kit of cells. I suppose, now that I think about it, they might even be able to eventually grow you a new heart while your body ran on an artificial heart for a bit. The end goal here is to end the need for transplants by being able to force the body to build a new part from scratch. They pointed out that, at this stage, the technique still has the risk of rejection by the body, because it starts with fetal cells (they did this in mice by the way) but their goal is to eventually produce the same results using cells from the end host, so there is no rejection issues.
Basically Nguyen has managed to commercialize the "deliberately worthless" control scheme of QWER that is "just" simple enough to make your brain say "hey, this is simple, so it should be easy!" QWER was magical because your brain says "I know how walking works, I can do this". same with Flappy Bird, your brain says "I get gravity" and you spend 30 minutes swearing at the screen, but sort of having fun. I tried Swing Copters, and it has none of the things that made the first two "addicting" because it lacks that little tiny bit of intuitiveness that the others had. While Copters has the same theory, in my mind, it lacks the core feature, thus making it infuriating, without any of the fun.
Or to put it another way:
We still have no fucking clue how the planet works as a whole, so this new thing is scary.
No shit. Using change.org for this sort of thing is like bitching to the manager of a Walmart about how the McDonalds in another town screwed up your order, and you expect him to fix it.
I think I've developed a statement that may adiquately describe the correlation between FPS and real war.
"Killing in war video games is to holding your breath, as killing in real war is to holding your breath while someone holds your head under water."
Its a bit cumbersome, but it accurately describes it, as far as I can tell.
A better question might be; why is it that education is one of the few things we seem to be getting worse at as we advance? More hours in school does not seem to be translating into better trained, more educated, economically useful graduates, but rather the opposite.
I bought and downloaded and watched this almost two years ago, why in the world is it making the 'news' now? It's pretty, but the story felt kind of.. absent, like it was trying to riff off of some of the great sci-fi of the past and not really putting it all together. to make anything particularly coherent.
Get a less glare prone monitor.
Yes, but if you use one of those, you won't look like a complete lunatic in public, which will make people avoid you, so you can type your passwords in peace.
Yeah, i don't see how their supposed 'netflix is going to extort us' scare is supposed to work. Everything I remember about how the internet works pretty much invalidates the idea.
We in the US have the "Do Not Call List" where you can opt out of telemarketing. All telemarketers are supposed to abide by the DNC list. This particular endeavor is targeted at finding and eliminating the groups that ignore the DNC list, and also are scammers. The "Rachel with Cardholder Services" scam is, if I recall, about fixing your supposedly damaged credit rating, or paying off an imaginary forgotten credit card or some other financial woe they invent to strip the gullible of their money.
I'm going to assume a 30/70 split, where 30% is better technique, and 70% my local jeweler not knowing to look for it.
which translates to 'No one had to bleed in a mine for seven cents a day to get this lab made gem, and as you know, bleeding in a mine is the definition of romantic."
Because I'm mildly insane or something, I bought a lab made sapphire online, and when it came in the mail, I promptly took it around to the local jeweler, and asked him to take a look at this stone I had. He sits down, looks at it for a bit, goes "Huh." and moves to a more powerful microscope, looks for a bit longer, and finally says,
"I don't see any flaws or inclusions, but I also don't see and bubbles, so its not glass.... I guess we can send it to a lab in New York and find out what it is if you want?"
At that point, I said that it was not that important, and took my rock and left, because I was not really sure how he would react to being told I already knew what it was.
The point is, we can manufacture perfect gemstones, better than nature makes them.
exactly, try dragging the crazy old bat's who still write a cheque for 11.79 at the grocery store into the 21st century with this cashless shit, and you will discover quickly why we're not even close.
The argument that is going to get used against you next is something like:
" when I'm running, i can barely breathe, much less talk coherently enough to say 'skip' in a voice the computer will understand. "
and
the cord of the earphones with the controls is flopping all over while I run, i don't want to fumble for it. Proprioception on the other hand (sense of where the body parts are in relation to each other) will let me nail a button on my wrist really easily.
of course, the appropriate responses to those arguments would be:
"Get less fat, so you can breathe and talk while running, you stupid ugly lardo."
and
"Your momma flops around a lot also!" wait, that might be wrong, its probably "Well, run your headphone cords through an arm band or something to keep them under control."
to which I assume there is another layer of arguments and comebacks, ad infinitum, until the heat death of the universe.
Wasn't there a Kickstarter for someone wanting to make a real pip boy 3000?
Nah, Where I live, the city's water is supplied entirely by a well field, (no running surface water) which is well above, and many miles from, the outlet for the cities waste treatment plant, so there is little chance of it being treated sewage.
Water! the bud lite of the soda world!
And to anyone who is all pissy about the chlorine taste of their tap water, follow these simple instructions:
Obtain 2 Glass or stainess steel water pitcher. One with a Lid, and one without. (I use a glass pitcher and a gallon glass Jug in place of a pitcher with lid)
Obtain 1 cheesecloth.
Optional: obtain 1 Brita water filtration pitcher and filter.
Sort your 2 pitchers into Pitcher A, the open top pitcher, and Pitcher B, the one with a lid.
Fill Pitcher A from the tap, place the cheesecloth over the top to block any invading insects or floating dust, and place on your counter, out of direct sunlight.
Wait. Overnight is long enough.
Pour the contents of Pitcher A into Pitcher B, and place Pitcher B in the refrigerator, refill Pitcher A from the tap, replace the cheesecloth, and set on the counter again.
Once the water in Pitcher B is cold, you are free to drink it, or use the optional Brita pitcher to add one level of filtration to it. The Brita is up to you, depending on how the final flavor of the water is after Pitcher B.
(it can take out a few more off flavors, but does make the water taste a little like potting soil if you let it warm up after filtering it with the Brita)
So what happens here is, Chlorine will evaporate out of water at room temperature pretty quickly, and because it has already done its job of killing whatever was in your water, it is free to go. The chlorine taste leaves faster with wider mouthed containers (more surface area exposed to air I suppose.) Couple that with the fact that the colder the substance, the less you can taste it, (which is why things like ice cream and popsicles require so much sugar) and this system works really well for making chlorinated water more palatable. If you drink a particularly large quantity of water, You may need a couple pitchers to let air, and stagger their filling so you always have one that has sat about 8 hours, but for 1 or 2 people, a gallon pitcher works well.
Popular Science just ran an article about Pharma in the drinking water, with a nice chart about how much water you would need to drink to get *one* pill worth of X drug. As it turns out, it takes years of drinking nothing but tap water to get a single dose of any of the detectable pharmaceuticals that make it through into tap water.
Buy one of those finished mini-houses they sell (for about the cost of a new car, check the internet), anchor it down on your mini-lot, and live in the sucker, and mow the grass yourself, with a reel mower, which uses manpower, not gasoline. That gets you out of 2 out of 4 of your problems, leaving you with the sewer blackmail and the hatred of mown grass, but at least you won't be paying a grass tax, and expensive rent, which will help your state of mind.
Died "near" a Tesla.