No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
4d ago
If such a gene drive were introduced to humans, genocide would be necessary to save the species.
How would you even introduce it in sufficient numbers? Also given that it only spreads during reproduction, it's really not that dangerous.
With humans, more of a big deal.
He's not talking about CRISPR in human context, but in general, no? And there it's a widely used tool.
No_one
5d ago
Captain of Industry. It's an early access game, sort of 3d Factorio / with a dash of colony sim and resource management(unlike Factorio, quite difficult on higher difficulties). I reviewed it here. Since the review was written, the devs added trains and made solid performance improvements, allowing more vehicles/larger maps. Next are, iirc, bridges and amphibious vehicles, sometime this spring.
Made it 2/3rds of the way through Encased. I'd say the criticism is somewhat warranted but more in the sense, by the second half of the game the whole things get repetitive. If the story and setting was engrossing, it'd be no issue.
But the writing was never that great to begin with and the story is uninspired. The combat gets laughably easy once you get a few companions. There's no scaling and the XP given is too large. Quests are mostly uninspired. It's sad that the development was unfinished as, with some effort, the game could be 7-8/10, instead it's like 6/10.
I might finish it eventually but I'm not expecting it to get much better tbh.
No_one
5d ago
I thought LTSC Windows doesn't have that. That's the stripped down one without all the fake BS like Store, Onedrive etc.
No_one
5d ago
- Things that are dangerous and forbidden Here is where we can put CRISPR and other weapons of mass destruction
This was in the email. Germline engineering was 'harmless and forbidden'.
No_one
5d ago
Because
- NSA can probably learn a thing or two from Google
- you can't always get a warrant
- you can't plant backdoors in Google systems with a warrant. Well, you sort of can but Google is going to make a huge stink and sic lawyers on you if you try. If you have agents, you may have the capability if they're good enough.
Even today you could probably take the cells of the affected individuals, excise the gene drive and do IVF.
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