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dcwardellon Gene linked to long Covid found in analysis of thousands of patients

> They would have killed me

I'm curious about this. Could you share more?

Is there evidence that hospitalization with COVID worsened the outcome?

As background, my father was hospitalized with COVID and passed away.

dcwardellon California cancels salmon fishing season

Reminds me of the Alaskan Snow Crab population collapse last year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33207372

dcwardellon Map of the observable universe

I always appreciate content like this which is easy to digest but still inspires awe in the universe around us.

Scrolling around the map and looking further and further back in time reminded me of this Kurzgesagt video [0]. It's crazy to think how much of the universe is lost to and unreachable by us.

Kurzgesagt has a lot of great content (even if it's a bit cartoonish). I'm sure they get things wrong, but I feel like they make an effort to research the topic first.

[0] https://youtu.be/uzkD5SeuwzM

dcwardellon How we detect, remove and report child sexual abuse material

They mention suspending accounts responsible for uploading CSAM.

I'm curious what their process looks like when their own bots crawl a domain, find the CSAM, and then make it available to users via their image search.

What action is taken against domains hosting CSAM? How quickly do they remove the content from search results, etc?

dcwardellon CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases

Crazy genetics ideas I would like explored

A modified tree that drops nuts of (nearly) pure graphite or some other form of nondecomposable carbon which we can easily harvest and sequester.

Photosynthesis in humans to supplement our energy consumption. Shoutout to Knights of Sidonia.

I understand the ethical issues surrounding the second one.