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Comment help is coming Jan 20th!! (Score 0) 117

Don't worry, the zero empathy billionaire cartel that believes in firing as many people as possible instead of figuring out how to utilize them is going to save you from being stuck at your job! If you aren't 8-figures wealthy something must be wrong with you. You are either dumb or lazy. And if you are broke, in-debt, or on any kind of assistance you’re a parasite unworthy to be alive. They keep pounding this BS about meritocracy, that your value comes from your economic productiveness, and if you have no economic societal value, your life is a waste.

Comment A herculean tasks (Score 2) 5

This task seems very hard to complete. But of course whatever they produce can be very useful. I've been looking at cells for a decades, looking at their genetic expression profiles. I'm really thinking cell types are fluid. You look at the RNA-seq and proteomics of two cells even in the same tissue and there are always some differences. It's a questions of how many differences make the threshold of being called a different cell type? Well some change their profile enough that it's a temporal thing. I mean to the point where I'd call it de-differentiation and differentiation across types.

Comment Air should be the least concern (Score -1, Troll) 60

The biggest problem in India is the insane lack of basic hygiene practices -- that's leading to a high morbidity and chronic illness issue there. I don't believe the lack of hygiene is genetic, could be cultural acclimation -- which is far worse. If it was genetic, it's fixable using CRISPR technology. But the problem with cultural issues is that it can't be fixed, as the brain rejects any sort of criticism of it no matter how much statistics and evidence you present. Note it's not related to finance as there are poorer countries with better practices.

Where was the racism in what I said?

Is not behavior of a majority of Indian households measurably hygienic https://borgenproject.org/wate... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... ?
Are many Indians (who live in a democracy and can make rules) tolerating it?
Does India have a high rate of communicable disease? (Hint .. the answer is yes: https://jhpn.biomedcentral.com... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... )

No amount of lame excuses about population density suffice. If anything high population density requires extra attention to hygiene. You can't accept realities and facts, and resort to calling me racist. Fuck off. Are you OK with the unhygienic practices? Yes? Then you're part of the problem. I suggest you recognize it as a problem and advocate for it to be solved you piece of shit. It's dirty, it ought to be embarrassing, and it needs to be fixed.

That place needs a hosing down with a giant pressure washer. Plus 99% of structures need to be torn down https://www.theguardian.com/ci... , modern (1950s designs will suffice) sewage system put in, buildings/housing rebuilt with wide roads, and street vendors forced to USE FUCKING UTENSILS (not gloves, as the gloves quickly get as dirty as hands) and comply with decent hygiene standards. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
WARNING DO NOT CLICK ON THE REFERENCE LINKS IF YOU HAVE A WEAK HEART, ARE EATING, ATE RECENTLY, OR INTEND TO HAVE A MEAL SOMETIME IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS.

I only put multiple links to show it isn't a one-off. India should fucking learn from places like Singapore which has a much higher population density yet the place is pristine in most places outside of pockets of "Little India".

Like I said, I don't believe it's genetic .. there are many clean Indians, but the MAJORITY don't follow good practices .. heck Mohenjodaro one of the most ancient civilizations is in India and it had a sewer system. Something most of India doesn't have. https://www.euronews.com/green...

Comment Re:We Need to do Better (Score 1) 39

How would additional reviewers help? Not all lies are revealable by scrutinizing the lying statement. If I state I was abducted by aliens, you can't assume it's true just because I said it. If I claim I had a lump of sulfur and it turned into gold when I farted over it, how would you disprove it just by adding more people to read my statement over and over? All they had to do was require a sample, or if he was unwilling to part with his own sample allowed reviewers to test the sample (while he watches).

Comment Ranga Dias (Score 5, Interesting) 39

I've posted about him specifically before .. the reason he does this .. and gets away with it is simple. When he was at Harvard, he and his professor (Isaac Silvera) made a claim that they had created "metallic hydrogen" and subsequently lost the sample in a lab accident and were unable to recreate it. Doesn't matter though .. they still got published in the journal Science. So of course that may have made him realize that if you submit from a top institute like "Harvard" you can make any wild claim and get published easier (and that in turn gives you an upgrade as well). But maybe there were no investors looking to invest in metallic hydrogen production, so he must have thought superconductivity is the way to go. And so he makes a wild claim about achieving room temperature superconductivity under high pressures .. and sure enough Nature published his work. Shortly afterwards Nature had to retract it when nobody else could reproduce it and there were inconsistencies. Nature though, rather than learn its lesson, a year or two later AGAIN accepts a publication from him! No checking, nothing! Oh and he has a company Unearthly Materials .. not sure if he got investors though. Though I'll bet he has. I know 20 years ago, any Nature publication was on average capable of generating $1 million in investor money.

A lot of people say "you can't really blame Nature or Science .. the article reviewers can't run costly experiments themselves so they have to assume the submitters are not engaged in willful fraud!" .. A somewhat worthy point, but I believe these journals of high prestige must make exceptions for extraordinary claims. They should go visit the lab and obtain a sample. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. (that's a quote btw, I can't remember from whom). You don't just publish a claim about room temperature superconductor discovery based solely on the word of the submitter.

Comment Re: Not the only one (Score 1) 256

False. From wikipedia: The "Eye of the Needle" has been claimed to be a gate in Jerusalem, which opened after the main gate was closed at night. A camel could not pass through the smaller gate unless it was stooped and had its baggage removed. The story has been put forth since at least the 11th century and possibly as far back as the 9th century. However, there is no widely accepted evidence for the existence of such a gate.[9][10][11]

In other words, it's something some rich guy came up 1000 years ago to justify keeping their wealth. The context of the passage if very clear, Jesus tells the person to sell all his possessions.

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