chaosfactor

You do not understand medical ethics.

And I do, because I've actually run human subjects experiments as approved by an IRB. QED.

You do not understand medical ethics.

The surgery requires a staff of 150 doctors and nurses and exclusive use of a state-of-the-art operating theatre. The doctor clearly can't afford to go testing on animals.

You do not understand medical ethics.

The worst-case cost to the patient is miniscule relative to the benefits to society.

The slavery analogy holds because in both cases we are talking about freedom. A word you aren't using.

The patient is of sound mind and agrees to the transplant. That makes it ethical.

Costs vs benefits.

Did you just say that allergies are never genetic?

Wikipedia articles have topics, this does not.

It's not gratiutously negative - or even negative at all. It's a matter of fact. The advice in that column will not lead you to create a successful company, so take it with a healthy dose of humility and with a grain of salt.

Indeed, while your post can be considered harmful, mine cannot.

P(you create a successful company|you read this guys post) ~= 0

I have theorized that allergies, such as cat allergies, may, in some cases, be your body's way of warning you that there are Big Cats in the vicinity and you should GTFO.

Hahaha is rsync's comment for real? Also, how meta can we get here?

What would be really awesome is to have the ability to fire up a cloud instance and do computations on the Internet Archive.

This talk is fantastic.