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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Love it when they ask computer scientists about curing disease. Love it even more when they are silly enough to drum up some sort of answer.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

This interviewer is terrible, but it's not silly to ask. On top of the use of computers for projects like folding@home, there are cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident