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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Like go through IVF so that their children don't have to.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The fact it is so prevalent in the gene pool suggests there may be some benefit we are unaware of. Further study is needed.

No it doesn't. That's not how evolution works. It is not perfect, it does not march towards good, it rolls random die and sees if that leads to having kids or not. If you get old enough to have kids and have them procreate it very much stops caring.

Edit: and it doesn't 'cause', it puts you 'at risk for'.

And I said that the mutation causes massive increases in the rate of breast cancer. Which it does. Read more carefully if you're going to try to be pedantic.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That is what the gene does, the mutation does the opposite and causes massively increased rates of breast and ovarian cancer.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Yes, congratulations. Can you name a benefit of having the BRCA mutation?

If you had it, and you gave it to your daughter, how would you tell them that they have cancer because you thought the idea of using IVF to select against it was icky?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's already starting to happen and it's not this crazy mass casualty event you make it out to be.

People regularly do IVF and screen out embryos that have inherited horrific genetic diseases, or say, genes that they know make highly susceptible to cancer.

It doesn't mean it will inherently lead to a slippery slope. This article is literally about how the UK needs to update its laws to prevent people from getting IVF done there but getting the genetic analysis done elsewhere and then ranking their options based on that to avoid the UKs current laws that would prevent a UK clinic from ranking them like that.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (15 children)

This is asinine. Diversity is a strength, that doesn't mean that horrific genetic diseases that cause enormous pain and suffering are.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Claiming that VSCode is not an IDE is just pedantic.

It is literally just a modular IDE that lets you pick and choose which piece you want rather then being like Visual Studio or XCode that is tailored for a single language / development flow.

Hell you still have to download core parts of XCode / VS after you download and install them like the development frameworks for your targets, does that mean that they're not actually IDEs?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Drawing strong conclusions like 'VSCode is an abomination that runs like dogshit and is worse than an Oracle product', from an admittedly flawed comparison that does not demonstrate that, is inviting some antagonism.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The alternative to Electron not existing is that you have slower developed, clunkier software, that's buggier and has fewer features.

There is no magic bullet of being like 'just code the exact same thing in C'. There are tradeoffs to every development framework.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The upside to the situation is that electron has been a more successful cross platform development framework then literally anything that came before it, from Xamarin to Java. And it's entirely based on open source software, and open web standards.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Lmao this is quite frankly, horseshit, upvoted by people who have never used an IDE.

VScode is lightweight, snappy, and fast to open. VSCodium gives you all of that without any of the Microsoft. And even runs in a web browser.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Because we didn't evolve to live in lands of abundance. We evolved in scarce conditions and are attuned to that.

Food that delicious and high calorie would not be constantly available in the wild, so if we ever found anything close, it would be beneficial to eat as much as possible to store up calories and survive during periods of scarcity.

 

I can't be the only reddit migrant who often instinctually goes to a given community by typing /r/community, only to be 404d. If the /r/ path isn't being used for anything else, is it possible to have it dynamically redirect to /c/ instead?

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