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Have not opened the original links and papers, but valacyclovir only works on some of the human herpes viruses. There's something like 6 or 8, and for example the drugs that do exist that tream HHV 5 aka CMV effectively are highly toxic, and are/were only mostly used during the AIDS epidemic because it destroys various vital organs in immunocompromised patients, so the tradeoff is worth it.
Re:Fabric (YC S16) Is a Home for All Your Memories on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:34PM (#12271366)
Hello, thanks for your thoughts.

1. Have not checked out the foursquare or LiveTrekker stuff you mention--will do, thank you.

2. Nothing is visible to anyone, but yourself. Just like your text messages, Facebook messages, or email.

This is a large question in tech that we are only a part of--how do we build tools going forward in this environment of ever more granular and structured data, so that we can enjoy the benefits of better memory without introducing new issues.

As I mentioned already, we are not a social network exactly because of that, and the industry as a whole has been working actively to address such concerns as soon as they show up. Another example is the end-to-end messaging encryption being adopted by the messaging apps.

Anyways, we're very cognizant of that kind of issue and will continue to address them proactively.

3. The temporary sharing issue with family--it is indeed a fun scenario we have heard suggested before. For the time being, we're staying away for the reasons just discussed.

Re:Fabric (YC S16) Is a Home for All Your Memories on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:24PM (#12271317)
Hey, thanks for your thoughts. The other team member here.

1. Onboarding: thanks, we thought really hard about what to do there.

2. Images on the cities too big--can you clarify that one, you mean on the intro map you will see an image that is not necessarily representative of your entire time there as you'd like?

3. FB data missing--is that still the case? It's possible you looked while it was still importing where you were expecting content. Basically everywhere you go in the app, Days (when you posted), Cities, Places, People should have data from Facebook if the intro map indicated that the import was working. Feel free to send us a message to [email protected] to follow up if that still looks broken.

4. Reminders: Great ideas, noted. We have also noticed that when we're missing Fabric, the best ways to remember what we were up to are our calendars, emails, and messaging.

Thanks again!

Re:Fabric (YC S16) Is a Home for All Your Memories on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:18PM (#12271298)
Hi, one of the team members here.

Very insightful thoughts. We actually agree that there is a way to over-robotize this space and an app like ours, and we are in fact very cognizant of that fact. We think there's something there that explains why none of the apps in the quantified self space (which we see as tangential to ours) have quite lived up to their potential yet.

But we started from the original angles we could offer as highly experienced engineers, and we're working from there.

Re:Fabric (YC S16) Is a Home for All Your Memories on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:14PM (#12271281)
Thanks! I believe both Facebook and Twitter have the options to export your data.

That's definitely something we would like to make available at some later point for the content you generate within Fabric. Realistically though, because of just keeping something like the current thing between a team of 2 is a massive challenge, it would be later down the line.