Non-IT News Thread
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Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against all types of flu, including new pandemic
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against all types of flu, including new pandemic
That's huge. Like, I could be convinced to actually get a flu shot.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against all types of flu, including new pandemic
https://i.imgur.com/ePJTB9x.gif
That's actually pretty cool that they've found this.
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Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way.Kinda common sense there. How could a filter possibly change what colour receptors are in your eye? What were people thinking?
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
Oh Harvard.
Predictably, online media go nuts over ‘Oumuamua and Harvard scientists
Modern U.S. media truly is becoming the enemy of the people.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way.Kinda common sense there. How could a filter possibly change what colour receptors are in your eye? What were people thinking?
Actually these do work for some folks. My FIL has a pair and without them, he's totally color blind -- I'm talking shades of gray color blind. He got a pair a couple of years ago and he could make out colors with them. He mainly uses them now when working on vehicles or electronics. He never realized his kitchen was bright pink, lol. (That's another story though).
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way.Kinda common sense there. How could a filter possibly change what colour receptors are in your eye? What were people thinking?
Actually these do work for some folks. My FIL has a pair and without them, he's totally color blind -- I'm talking shades of gray color blind. He got a pair a couple of years ago and he could make out colors with them. He mainly uses them now when working on vehicles or electronics. He never realized his kitchen was bright pink, lol. (That's another story though).
They don't ACTUALLY work, they can't, that's the point. Colours aren't sensed that way. It's impossible for something like this to allow someone colour blind to see colours for which they do not have receptors. It can enhance colours, shift them, or filter out noise making people feel like maybe they see more colours - but it's cones in the eyes that allow you to see colour and if you don't have them, you simple don't have them. No shift or change in light coming into the eye can affect that.
If you think about it, someone who is colour blind cannot possibly tell you if they are seeing the colours or not, that people who use the glasses report a change is one thing, but reporting new colours is simply something that they cannot assess.
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Jeff Sessions has been made to resign. Buckle up.
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If a game was at 3 million sales in a week in Japan, are you excluding Japan sales numbers in announcing that the game now has 4 million worldwide sales?
Because if not, that means the game tanked outside of Japan.
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That definitely sounds like it did not sell well outside of Japan.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
That definitely sounds like it did not sell well outside of Japan.
This article seems to confirm that, but still calls it a hit?
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2018/11/07/dragon-quest-11-sales-numbers-4-million/
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Sounds like it might be enough to keep them doing localizations. I guess that that is a win.
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@Reid-Cooper said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sounds like it might be enough to keep them doing localizations. I guess that that is a win.
/me needs to spend more time in DuoLingo
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Reid-Cooper said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sounds like it might be enough to keep them doing localizations. I guess that that is a win.
/me needs to spend more time in DuoLingo
Lol me too, i just can't right now, when I need to the most!
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As if heroin weren’t dangerous enough, it may come with lead poisoning
Woman in Tehran swallowed 30 lead-laced opium packs.
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