Date: 2022-12-12 02:04 pm (UTC)
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First time your link posts include a link to a post on Mastodon!

Date: 2022-12-12 05:48 pm (UTC)
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3) What I was taught nearly 50 years ago is that the relationship between a given base sequence and what the gene would actually do was unknown, and it appears that's still the case. What we can do now that we couldn't then was edit the sequence to make the gene dysfunctional, and it's clever kludging that enables that to fix the problem out in the real world of the patient's body.

4) Weird. All the teaching skeletons I ever saw - I wasn't in medical school, but I did take physical anthropology - were made of plastic. This enabled them to have wires strung through them so they'd hang together. (You know Al Pacino's skeleton joke? "A skeleton goes into a bar, orders a beer - and a mop.")

7) Glad somebody feels this way. The bothersome thing for me about appropriation of my culture is getting it wrong, and members of the culture are also capable of doing that. (It's OK to change it, just as long as you don't claim you're being faithful to the original.)

10) This specifies something that used to puzzle me, which is, if you're going to send a message to your stolen smartphone to disable it, what do you send the message on? However, it doesn't specify this: if the thieves are sending phishing messages to the owner, where are they sending them to, and if the phone is disabled, how do they have its ID to know the owner and have fake ID on the messages?

Date: 2022-12-13 06:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
Yes, that is also true. The examples I was thinking of didn't carry that particular baggage. I suppose they could be thought of as sub-classes of the same more general principle.

Date: 2022-12-14 12:09 pm (UTC)
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1. I'm pleased that after taking more than a decade to build a new airport in Berlin at least sometimes we're still able to finish something fast.

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