yarp_001011
Re:Obama Describes the Trans-Pacific Partnership
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @01:42PM (#10515271)
We certainly need to initiate leadership in trade in the Asia Pacific region before China writes the rules of the road. If the last 7 years are any indication China's rulebook our inaction will result in them owning everything within a 1000 mile radius of their coastline and using dirty extraction and dirty construction to turn Vietnam, Indonesia and others into pollution leading concrete jungles similar to Beijing. Question is whether the measures to protect American manufacturing in key growth industries are enough to offset free labor, and whether they are truly market-based and therefore sustainable. I'll enjoy reviewing
Re:New Drug Uses Herpes Virus to Fight Cancer
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @01:35PM (#10515220)
i don't know if this is "new" so much as it is newly approved. There are at least two broad schools of thought in today's biotech discovery. The first is to reverse-engineer chemicals or genetic sequences that are found in the causal chain to contribute to certain diseases. Think synthetic estrogen. The second is to find naturally occurring chemicals, proteins, etc that the body already uses and re-purpose it. Think Bexion Cancer Therapeutics. This is of the second variety, and those tend to be more promising in that the body hasn't automatically rejected it outright. Coupled with the fact that the problem with cancer is the cells won't die, and that herpes basically tears the cells apart, and you've got a pretty intuitive thesis for this drug development. Will keep waiting to see if cancer adapts to this treatment, and whether the treatment spreads to infect other cells unwittingly. Always glad to see steps toward cancer cures though.
Re:Balboa – an end-to-end encrypted Slack alternative, written in Cloj...
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @10:46AM (#10513932)
sick. i'm going to start using this now for my team. we are spread out over 3 countries (including occasional trips to China...). we just need file sharing, chat and the basics for now. looking forward to the roll out in search function and others.