linkdump, and genetics effects on MS

[cdave]

Useful addition to a hosts file to prevent anything from and ads server from being accessed. General info if you want to figure out what I'm talking about.

from Charles Stross's braindump.

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World’s oldest social network reconstructed from medieval land records.

May be of interest to medieval and social network scholars on my flist :)

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I just saw this snippet about MS:

Some populations, such as the Roma, Inuit, and Bantus, rarely if ever develop MS. The indigenous peoples of the Americas and Asians have very low incidence rates.

And immediately thought about the European mutation, that confers HIV resistance, and the way that a lot of stories end up with Natives catching diseases from the colonists rather than the other way round.

Could these three things be related?

Comments

[andrewducker]

Of course, installing AdBlock Plus has much the same effect :->

[cdave]

According to Charlie's post Adblock and NoScript dropped it to about 45%. Adding the host file dropped it to about 25% of the original size.

[andrewducker]

I actually got to the article this morning. Interesting stuff. I shall play later.