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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by xipho on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @01:51PM (#30858503)
> Certainly DNA sequencing for health has been a really mixed bag.

Ah, the old why bother since it's a "mixed bag" argument. If it wasn't a mixed bag I'd be really worried, as someone has some pretty good snake oil.

I vaguely recall something about sequencing and its role in creating a vaciine that turned out to be pretty useful, something recent maybe?

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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by dekhn on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @02:57PM (#30859378)
I don't have a complaint about sequencing that leads to vaccines. That's what sequencing is for.

What i'm troubled by is the projects that sequence a million people, using $1B to do so, and then just dump a bunch of genomes with some hand-wavy claims about how it's going to cure cancer. The costs here are rathre significant, but the health outcomes are not.

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