There's a number of "immortal" human cell lines dating back to as far as the 1950s (you may have heard of Henrietta Lacks? [1] and the immortal HeLa cell line).
Today there are several
immortalized neuron cell lines used in research to model neuronal function, like HeLa but of neuron type obviously, that are also typically derived from tumours (e.g., SH-SY5Y, PC12) or immortalized via genetic modification (e.g., v-myc) like CTX0E03 [2] which was designed to allow for continuous growth in the presence of particular reagents.
Besides not getting consent in the case of HeLa, which part do you find problematic? Cancerous cell's ability to self-clone/grow is as much a feature as it is a bug in this particular use case.
I ask as someone who's has personally experienced loss of several loved ones from cancer (as most people my age probably have), but doesn't share your aversion to this particular use case (research.)
Yeah I do feel the OA is being overly flippant with their use of human cells here, likely for PR sake, which would be an ethical breach for me personally. Overall though, I find most research cases for human cell lines to be in line with my personal ethics. Neuron lines can certainly be used for good or ill, and this case leans towards the latter, although understanding the human brain may justify this line of work in the long term. If only we didn't live in a militaristic late stage capitalist society...
I think the Thought Emporium youtube channel has some explanatory [videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw) of the whole process. I couldn't wrap my head around the thing tho.
Would promoting Twitter Blue Subscribers content over non-subscribers be promoting specific accounts? Musk has said this was going to happen and I think we saw it in the code + it sure feels like when using the site.
Seems like that would could even be considered hardcoding - Buy Twitter Blue get higher on replies on threads.
Congrats on launching - Its so hard to get this far!
A few points of feedback:
- Some real world use cases would be helpful to people frame your product. I saw your guide but that isn't a really something useful and could do in my app itself.
- You should add how this service compares to other function as a service SaaS's on the market. I'm not sure why I would pay $10 a month when AWS lambda can offer the same features.
- Whats a project? The pricing page mentions it but I don't see it anywhere else
- Is their a free tier? I see it mentioned on the change log but no where on the site.
Thanks for the feedback! You're right, there are many assumptions in my head about what the product is intending to be, and looks like I need to be more explicit in the marketing materials :)
Right, it'll be tricky to compete with other SaaS that offer code execution, since they have free tiers and a lot of mindshare already. Other feedback is also hinting that I should focus more on workflows/process automation for non-developer users, rather than code actions. This is the direction I want to go anyway, but I decided to launch with what I have already.
The project term is a bit premature, since I haven't fully finished. Essentially, a separate collection of workflows/jobs, meant for team accounts that can have multiple users.
There's no free tier, but there's free credit on signup so you can try it out without any payment or credit card. Maybe I should have a free tier? My overthinking brain is worried about abuse, but maybe I shouldn't care at this point if nobody is using it yet... :)
Yes, I understand that. Here no location meaning remote jobs that allow working from anywhere.
Most of the remote jobs only allow working from a certain location. That's why I am curating this to help digital nomads literally work from anywhere.
Not sure if you wanted the challenge, but this doc 1 has been floating around for a while. I've used it and been told by people who know that it works but is slight out of data as they added new features.
I agree with you, but for the foreseeable future this will remain easy to test. Just ask the caller something out of it's domain. Get a call about life insurance? Ask about ratios of trail mix.
This great, I like the design. Removes clutter that most dating sites are filled with.
I would highly recommend implementing phone number verition on signup. I know its its hassle on the sign up flow but for a dating site the worst thing is for it to be covered with "hot single in your area" profiles.
I downloaded and looked around the app a few days ago, it seems really consumer media focused. Where Twitter allows you to post just text and later added photos, links and videos Vero seems to be taking the opposite and forces you to pick a category for the post.
It also encourages sharing movies and music but that's not what I go to social networks for.
There is something to be said for physically holding an item. Recently I was on the fence about getting some Lifx light bulbs, but I was in Best Buy holding the box and found myself at the registrar before I knew what happened.
Does anyone have insight into how you would even start to source or grow/create the cells?
Also the machines look very organic and clearly have to keep the cells alive. Do they have to change them out every so often?