Then you'd agree with treating that illness with the most effective method we have available, right?

Your right, the cells probably don't go through the placenta. They are suspected to go through the blood flowing through the umbilical cord. It's called fetomaternal transfer.

And they can cause immune reactions. Or unexpected growths. See AC's links: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fc... or just try searching for "fetomaternal transfer" or "fetal stem cells in mother".

That the body responds to the vaccine with an inflamatory immune responce, and over time switches to a less-disruptive non-inflamatory antibody. I don't study immunology, but a quick search shows that specific IgG4 antibodies are involved in some autoimmune disorders and there were several papers about how it might be "something worth investigating" regarding orphan diseases. The bullshit briage, otoh, latch on to the fact that they can find the same four letters, IgG4, in papers about deadly disorders and skip right past cause or effect and go with "blame the vaccines." Never mind that lots of unrelated disorders cause the body to make IgG4, or that a paper suggesting a link to a certain disease is countered by another paper saying "we found evidence that paper_1 is wrong"; the antivax crowd just hopes to boggle a few people with bologna.

They would be validated the same way as before. Someone has sufficient need to know, gets the funding to do so, and puts a bunch of protein into the path of X-rays and looks at the patterns the refractions make. Then they can hope that they are reading those patterns right, and compare that knowledge to the analytical methods that folding@home have used, and the pattern-matching guesses that DeepMind is using.

Yeah, this is Slashdot, they should have used a car analogy.

Nearly 30 years ago, my parents would have told the same story. And it got worse after Napster came out and I could get recommendations from other goth and metal heads. Car trips where I had classic Cure and Bauhaus mixed with Cradle of Filth, Inkubus Sukkubus, along side London After Midnight and Green Day. They raised me listening to The Beach Boys . . . seems wholesome, except the sings about masturbating, or some rebound sex with Rhonda to forget about a recent break up. Other classics, like Under the Boardwalk . . sex in public. Chapin's Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas, hilarious song about a huge truck wreck where the driver gets smeared along the road. Music changes, but it doesn't change. There are always songs about sex, there are always songs that are trying to be "transgressive" to current social mores.

Sure, you get a map of the brain in one state and . . . hook it up to what? Video inputs aren't the same as eyes. MP3 or audio over I2C aren't ears. How do you even mimic the simple sensation of sitting in a chair? Sure, pressure on some nerves, thermal nerves sensing the change in temp from floor to head level, pressure nerves feeling the weight of shoes and other clothes. But don't forget that hair follicles have nerves reporting how each hair has been moved; shirts arent uniform so some nerves will disagree with the one right next to them. Even if you assume the brain will work semi-normally, what happens to a human who is suddenly missing some level of sensory information? If the brain map works, then the "image" being run was in an MRI or other scanner one moment, and the next is having an awful ketamine and acid trip as half their body feels like it is missing and their other senses are completely scrambled. If you think this model would resemble a functional human for more than a second or two of simulated reality, you may be more delusional than the model brain thinks it is.

IANAP either, but I think the reduced mass part is the point. This didn't require huge amounts of liquid helium, it didn't require moving heat with lasers. They cooled a large object without any of the "normal" methods of cooling. So they have a new method, so what? Well, if this works, what about cooling a small experiment space inside a conventionally chilled space. This may provide a way to experiment on human scale objects undergoing quantum effects. Just picture the future headline: scientist watches in horror as 10kg block quantum tunnels around lab.

Brownies sell cookies. It's the Daisy rank that are still too young to push controlled substances.

There was only one sticky genotype of HCV, Genotype 1. Labeled 1 because it was the primary genotype discovered in white Americans when doctors and labs started separating HCV apart from the generic category of "non-A, non-B viral hepatitis". Genotypes 2-4 actually responded really well to Interferon treatments, I recall G4 having around a 50% cure rate after just 3 months back in the late 90s or early 2000s, when even simple antivirals weren't around to augment it. But G1, whether the TC or CT variant, had a lower than 10% cure rate with Interferon and antivirals. No, I don't know where in the genome that pair of nucleotides is found, but it was an important part of testing G1 in the early parts of 2010.

Now, there are multi-drug, once a day, treatments that have a higher than 95% cure rate for even the toughest of the viruses. Medicare and Medicaid are both paying for even the newest pills on the market. Normal side effects, like nausea or dizziness are below 10%; I've heard doctors tell patients "No, you don't have to call if it feels like the medicine isn't doing anything. That's actually pretty normal and the one month blood work will tell us how well it's working. Yes, seriously, there are very few side effects if you take it with(without) food according to the instructions."

And I'll throw my voice behind the "GET TESTED" bandwagon. Sometimes newborns were given a liter of blood, just because. And if there were any complications, you can be certain you got some, and that often doesn't show up in your medical records in the places that it should. I know one PT who was diagnosed at 4 with "viral non-A, non-B" but didn't get even a drop of blood till age 5; whole family tested clean including a younger sibling not born until after the first hepatitis flare. No blood transfusion listed on any medical record from any hospital, anywhere. Either there was a nurse with a dirty needle, or an unmarked transfusion, or they are one of several thousand patient zeros.

The problem is, they aren't checking people at the borders. They aren't giving border crossers the time to get to a legal place to check in. We have tons of laws and treaties establishing how refugees can cross our border, how they have to do that on their own, and how they have to then report themself to the government; and instead we are arresting them at the border for a crime that is a misdemeanor. Instead of giving them time to make their case about what they are fleeing from, why, and how they got here, we have border patrol and ICE agents just sweeping people up and tossing them in jail.

Oppose illegal immigration all you like, these refugees are trying to do things the legal way and are being stopped and jailed in the middle of the process simply for following the rules.

If you are completely replacing most of a midrange PC every 18 months, it is dramatically more expensive than a console. Even with the extra cost of an online membership.

On the other hand, if you just replace the graphics card when you need to (I'll ditch my 1080 with AIO liquid cooling when the next generation drops) then the cost is a bit close to the cost of a console. But it is still no where close; because by then I'll have probably ditched the intel 7600K for a Zen 2 CPU with better IPC; meaning new mobo and everything. I will be able to keep the case, power supply, storage, and maybe the RAM since I bought pretty high speed stuff late in the 7xxx series life-span

You don't need Threadripper to game on. You don't need the top-end Intel i9 series chip, either.

My i7-7600K does amazingly well at 1080p paired with a GTX1080. I spent extra getting an AIO water-cooled graphics card: EVGA GTX1080 Hydro. I think I spent well under $2000 when everything was done. Just a decent microATX board, 32GB RAM at not-quite top-end clocks for the time.

Sure, if money were no object, if I wanted something really bleeding edge I would probably go for dual GTX2080 Supers in a Zen 2 Threadripper; whenever those come out. But it would be outdated when ever Nvidia releases the next generation of graphics card. Better to just spend a little money on whatever will push your games at 60fps on your display resolution of choice, and worry about "next generation graphics" when those next generation games finally show up.

I hope you are just reading things wrong and aren't so inept at reading (or good at trolling) that you believe something is added to street heroin to kill police officers.

The side product in street heroin, that is so toxic to the police, is fentanyl and it's analogues like remifentanil. Fentanyl is a powerful narcotic, remi is about twice as powerful; both are different from more common medicinal analgesic narcotics in that they are absorbable through the skin. In fact, remifentanil is a really useful surgical drug because the average human can get rid of half of what is in their body every four minutes, even if they have been sedated by it and getting a constant drip for over four hours. But, that hospital dose is measured around 0.025-0.1 (g/kg)/min; meaning a 60kg person might get a whole 87 micrograms over a 4 hour surgery (assuming 0.1(g/kg)/min which would need other sedation as well). That is just about 1/10 of a milligram.

No one, though, is "adding" this to heroin. The problem is that opium poppies are now so controlled that the drug market has switched to producing the drugs from precursor chemicals. The reason this is problematic is that purity can never be 100% in this manner UNLESS the drug maker is using very strict purity control guidelines similar to what the pharmaceutical industry is supposed to do.
So, this cheap heroin imported from who-knows-where brings along chemicals that are very similar to heroin. That includes the whole morphine sub-group, fentanyl and -fentanils (remi-, car- and the rest), prodrugs like codeine, and who knows what else. The stuff that is absorbable through the skin isn't required to be there in that much of a percentage yield; 10 milligrams spilled on the skin could deliver a one hour surgical dose of remifentanil if it made up just 0.25% of the total product, while an overdose would require much, much less than that.

Unfortunately, this is a problem caused by the war on drugs. The CDC admitted they caused people with legitimate pain to go untreated because of the mid-2000 opioid scare and the limiting of medications over the past 5 years. Those people have turned to what ever they could get their hands on because life in extreme pain is not livable. And clean heroin hasn't been available on the streets since the beginning of the war on drugs, the wars in Afghanistan have made it even more rare.

But synthetic chemicals, made in the back alley of Asia, using very well documented chemical processes but with no quality control over the end product? That has just started flowing into the streets and we act like we're powerless to stop it.

Modern feminists do work to critique and counter the arguments of the anti-sex, anti-sexworker feminists of old. The problem is with boys who think "femnazi" is a form of address; who seem willing to ignore modern feminists and focus only on the stuff from twenty years ago that they can nit-pick to prove their points.