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  • Everyone has “cancer or whatever” resistance. That’s why DNA works, it has repair mechanisms.

    Getting cancer is when that mechanism either fails or isn’t good enough to repair the damage.

    Abnormal radiation levels can cause an excess of damage or different type of damage than what your natural mechanism is capable of fixing.

    We’re constantly being radiated, we’re constantly employing our resistances and defenses against radiation.

    We float around on a rock in a sea of radiation and even we ourselves emit low levels of (mostly harmless) radiation.



  • A mutation for having a higher radiation resistance or higher resistance to cancer is something that already happens in nature, but in most of the animal world those are relatively useless traits, normally cancer doesn’t develop fast enough to stop procreation.

    In Chernobyl, the highly elevated radiation would normally kill animals before they can even breed. The ones that don’t have the resistance die before they get the chance, the ones that do have a higher resistance breed.

    With humans in the modern age, a resistance to cancer or radiation trait never gets the chance to become a dominant evolutionary trait as most all people only develop the cancer later in life and the ones that do get cancer early more and more often can get treatment giving them a chance to procreate even when they got cancer young.

    Outside Chernobyl, there is no evolutionary pressure for a trait like that to become dominant.

    Living long enough to procreate is the primary drive in nature.

    We generally don’t see fast evolutionary changes in nature because nature doesn’t change quickly often.

    Leave it to us, humans, to create situations where the change is drastic and quick.




  • I’ve got exactly that running on my home network for tech stuff.

    I’ve thought of opening it up and even been thinking of building a group of people trustworthy to do the curation of sites, but I generally CBA interacting with people that much, I used to be highly active on forums like Madonion/futuremark, [H], etc, but those days are long behind me and these days, I post a bit on Reddit and talk to my wife and that’s about it.

    If things proceed to go to shit as much as it has, I may open it up anyway, mostly because maintaining and re-curating sites is a drag on its own.

    The amount of sites that were once great tech spots that then got gulped up by the same ol same ol big tech sites to be turned into generic shit, it’s not that they become uncountable, it’s that it’s almost every single one of them.

    The best still seems to be simply posting questions on the few OG computer/tech forums that managed to survive.

    For hardware and OS, places like ServeTheHome, [H], Anandtech, Techpowerup, etc.

    For programming information, it’s so murky I can’t even suggest any specific sites anymore, not even Stack.

    Phone/Tablet info, even XDA is getting murky, mostly because a lot of users there only watch the forum for their specific device, so if yours isn’t one that is used by a lot of people, info gets super limited.

    It’s gotten bad out there.





  • Imho you’re wrong there.

    Amazon has every incentive to write down Twitches infrastructure cost as far higher than it needs to be, to make Twitch look unprofitable.

    Both to audience and shareholders. It’ll allow them to force more advertising and push up sub prices while making the main corporation revenue look better.

    This while the long term plan looks to be more about getting an excuse to shut down the public facing side of Twitch and get rid of having to deal with the streamers and viewers as direct clients and renting out streaming infrastructure to other streaming sites instead.

    They want to condense their streaming services to simply be simple products they can sell or rent out to other sites rather than having to deal with a load of consumers and legal liabilities that come with them.