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totetsu • today at 11:08 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

What if the white supremacists make a retro virus, that for instance only kills people with sickle cell anemia..


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alansaber • today at 1:13 PM

This happens in Deep Space 9.

ben_w • today at 11:38 AM

That doesn't really engage with "there's easier ways to attack" or "and this tech is currently hard enough this is not a realistic attack".

That said:

What if a different group near simultaneously makes one targeting people with no copies of the HbS/HbA gene?

(One copy: resist malaria; two copies: sickle cell anaemia)

dzhiurgis • today at 11:25 AM

In case anyone wonder what op means - lyfgenia is a virus for treating sickle cell, a disease thats more common among black population.

41353aab • today at 12:23 PM

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Jerrrrrrrrry • today at 12:33 PM

TIL God is a white supremacist