I keep an eye on these types of treatments. Type 1 diabetes being autoimmune and all.
So far, I’m putting it in the bucket with all the other “cure is just 5 years away” things we hear about.
It’s promising, and neat it’s worked in these cases, but I remain skeptical. Twice over as it appears to be research from China, who doesn’t have the best track record for robust scientific integrity. We’ll see how repeatable this stuff is soon enough.
The tricky part about T1 is… We don’t know why the immune system is malfunctioning, only that it is. Without that vital piece of research, everything that presents as a cure is temporary at best.
Dr. Faustman out of Mass General has been conducting some trials into phase two or three using the BCG vaccine to treat / cure the immune response.
There’s a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of “The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don’t trust the government.”
If they put up a notice saying, “This domain was seized, here’s the real facts!” the target of the propaganda isn’t going to buy it for a hot minute.
If they put up replacement content that doesn’t mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, “Fake news!” at anything that disputes their existing worldview.
It’s best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.
A “Library of Congress” for published web content maybe. Some sort of standard that allows / requires websites that publish content on oublic-facing sites to also share a permanent copy with an archive, without having the archive have to scrape it.
Sort of like how book publishers send a copy to the LoC.
I find the AI summaries of reviews Amazon does on product pages to be fairly inoffensive and generally a decent use of AI.
But it’s also clearly marked as auto-generated.
I see. It seems like you may be one of the people that try to coerce relational models into nosql stores like Dynamo.
Or course it’s possible. They even trick you into thinking it’s a good pattern by naming things “tables”.
But if you’re using Dynamo to its fullest an ORM is not going to be able to replicate that into a relational store without some fundamental changes.
I am literally in the middle of swapping DynamoDB for a RDBMS.
The idea that you can abstract away such fundamentally different data stores is silly. While I hate doing it now, reworking the code to use relational models properly makes for a better product later.
Thomas Jefferson never added airplane safety regulations to the Constitution ergo, it’s completely unregulated. Also, Justice Alito would like to cite a man with tapestries tied to his arms as he jumped off a cliff in the 9th century saying of course it’s safe.
RFC 1925(11) —
(11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.
My principle dev asked if we could figure out how to invoke Lambda functions from within postgres trigger functions.
I was like, “Probably. But it’s like putting a diving board at the top of the Empire State building… doable, but a bad plan all around.”
It sounds like you are advocating for primaries.
Primaries are held by the states, before the Convention. It’s… kind of the whole point?
Replacing nationwide primaries with a private 400-person schmoozefest at the last minute is moving in the wrong direction.
So what do you do?
You advocate for replacing him at the convention.
With whom? How do you select this person?
So unilaterally picking someone else will make it… better?
You think people got mad when Hillary Clinton was “selected” at the Democratic Convention after a nationwide series of primary elections and delegates all voted with her as the winner, can you imagine the shitstorm unilaterally picking some other candidate to replace Joe Biden without even the pretense of a primary process?
I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn’t make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.
The episode that really nailed down what a talented actor Jeri Ryan is was the time she had all those assimilated personalities surface and was switching back and forth rapidly, and the bit where the Doctor “took over” her body when they were in prison.
Both times, it was absolutely believable that someone else was at the wheel, and “Seven” wasn’t there.
That’s all well and good, but remember,
concurring opinion
…is what matters at the end of the day.
A huge swath of Republican voters are not voting for Trump. They are voting against “Democrats”. Propaganda in the US has turned politics into a team sport, and you always root for your team, even if your team is having a rough season.