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Applied to populations with recent hunter-gatherer ancestry...

This is incredibly dumb. Like, succinctly sums up why I don't take Curtis here seriously. First, agriculture popped up in many places almost simultaneously, so the only large area that has been mostly hunter gatherer until recently is Australia, and the population there came from boat builders. (Interestingly the population of Madagascar was settled by boat, from Polynesia, not from Africa.) Second, remaining hunter gatherer populations are small, and were incredibly ravaged by disease in the... (read more)

1wassname
Most sources say they came to Australia via land bridge. You may be thinking of Polynesians, which are another group.
7Said Achmiz
I think you’ve quite thoroughly misunderstood the significance of that line. It’s indicative, not explanatory. This is a really bizarre model, which seems to me to dramatically reduce one’s ability to understand how corporations work and what goes on within them. It’s much, much weirder than thinking of a corporation as a monarchy. The relationship of a CEO to his subordinates, and the nature and form of his authority over them, are defined in rules and formal structures—which is true of a king but false of a hunter-gatherer band leader. The President, likewise.

1GB for DNA is a lower bound. That's how much it takes to store the abstract base pair representation. There's lots of other information you'd need to actually build a human and a lot of it is common to all life. Like, DNA spends most of its time not in the neat little X shapes that happen during reproduction, but in coiled up little tangles. A lot of the information is stored in the 3D shape and in the other regulatory machinery attached to the chromosomes.

If all you had was a human genome, the best you could do would be to do a lot of simulation to recon... (read more)

It is in her brainstem. Which while that makes it very difficult to treat, it probably increases her chances of being revived intact.

Is it possible that you have an auditory processing disorder? My fiancee has it and this sounds pretty much like her experience with phones.

6Nisan
Mm. I'll make an appointment with my doctor today.

There is a conversation going on about her on the CI Facebook page that seems to indicate that she has been in contact with them. According to info there, her name is Kim Suozzi. Also they will set up a fund at CI for her, once she becomes a member and they vet her story. So If you are considering donating, but worried its a scam, it might be best to hold off until then.

6magfrump
This needs to be at the top of this page or linked in the main post.
5[anonymous]
I agree with this, this is why I've decided to wait with my donation.