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by tait 4y ago
Thanks! Your comments are encouraging. [1,2]: Most people don't have antibodies, so big K+ blood is fine for most people (we worry about avoiding transfusing big-K positive blood into big-K negative people who will be transfused many
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by tait 4y ago
The number of circulating CD34+ cells varies by individual, and by age. I volunteered for an unstimulated collection when we were validating the process of stem cell collection at my work. I was at the upper limit of normal, but I technica
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by tait 4y ago
Plasma undergoes extensive processing that inactivates many viruses that would not be inactivated by current blood processing. See https://www.pptaglobal.org/safety-quality/pathogen-safety
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by tait 4y ago
Some can and do, but there are some challenges for it being a general solution: - Some people don't know they need rare blood (because they didn't have the antibody at first, then found they had it later). - Some people may donate
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by tait 4y ago
> so they either need to take on the financial burden of flying to wherever their blood is needed or refusing to take on the financial burden and knowingly allowing someone to die. Is that a real case or hypothetical? If real, I would l
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by tait 4y ago
I would love to see more donor centers allow hemochromatosis patients to donate. I think there is not actually regulatory ban. Last I looked into this, it was because of the conflict of interest - the FDA requires blood from donors with he
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by tait 4y ago
That's right, and I have taught that point to trainees. However, there is a subtlety and I am sharing it as penance for having taught incorrectly: The FDA does allows blood donation by paid blood donors. The blood must be labeled as
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by tait 4y ago
Ask and ye shall receive! To answer [1] Why?: it's complicated. There are more than 35 red blood cell groups (see https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/blood-typ... for a nice writeup). For each
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by tait 4y ago
Right idea, but I think maybe you may have used the wrong word. The donation is to get antibodies. Antigens are are the stimulus that causes the body to form antibodies. We give the Rh- mom antibodies so they bind to antigens on the blood f
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by tait 4y ago
TIL: I'm old.
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by tait 4y ago
I have a copy of the book… I would be happy to sell it for US$1 million. That's like 95% off!
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by tait 4y ago
Hi! This is interesting and I plan to use it for work. Today. In answer to my above inquiry: It looks to me like this section causes consecutive 'v's to be interpreted as text; it might be nice to carve out v's or give alte
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by tait 4y ago
In the section on Line Ends, https://code.sgo.to/typograms/ shows a box surrounded by arrows and a dot surrounded by arrows. The arrows that point down (down and left, down, and down and right) are rendering the arrow
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by tait 4y ago
Like Charlie's wife in the Kingston Trio song about the MTA...
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by tait 4y ago
> "can get the ax" We see what you did there.
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by tait 5y ago
I think this is really cool and I would be interested in a set of cards - I emailed the address listed on the page.
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by tait 5y ago
Love love love me a Graphgear 1000, I keep buying them so I can have one in every car, one in every desk, one in workbench, one in my pockets - bought three for my daughter for Christmas so she'd quit borrowing mine. Protip: The pencil
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by tait 5y ago
Looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while - that's a shame, it was fun to learn from new posts. I guess my failing to notice that it wasn't updated for 5+ years may correlate, somehow, to the reason it was down...?
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by tait 5y ago
+1 for obscure references
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by tait 5y ago
I remember a version of this happening with PDFs
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by tait 5y ago
Did anybody else find the changing tab title annoying?
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by tait 5y ago
We had a legitimate Michael Hunt at our school. He went by Mike.
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by tait 5y ago
your post didn't specify infinite... ;)
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by tait 5y ago
<captainobvious to the annoyance!> Maybe it would be more clear to state that there are areas of Navajo lands with very few trees. We drove through Navajo land twice in the last week, and there were several trees. Since a pine tree ca
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by tait 5y ago
Good points. On the other hand, I couldn’t fit your whole comment on one screen. I did scroll down to tap reply. Please stand by while I go recover.
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by tait 5y ago
Epic over Citrix… I think it’s a stretch to call Citrix a traditional desktop app in this context.
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by tait 5y ago
Wow. Who could have imagined?
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by tait 5y ago
Hi - glad to see you here. I just posted a comment about the sample code on the home page - your comment wasn't up when I started writing it or I might have replied here. Does the sample code need updating?
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by tait 5y ago
Hmm. The first sample code on the home page looks a bit odd - can we really create arrays with an unspecified number of entries and fill in every other entry? obj = {} for n in 1..10 { if n % 2 == 0 { obj[n] = rand(1
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by tait 6y ago
Does anybody else agree the name "Time Crystal" could be better somehow?

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