Re: The Joy of *small* business

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:40:57 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/20/24 3:30 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 03:22:40 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    I laugh at those 'ancestry' companies who will tell their clients
    that they're "12% French" or whatever.

 
But the percentages are so precise! And the story changes! The last
time I looked it said I-M253 was very rare among 23andMe customers. I
found that odd since it can run to 50% in parts of Scandinavia. Didn't
they have any Scandinavian customers? Today is says
 
'I-M253 is relatively common among 23andMe customers.'
 
Dammit, I'm not special anymore!

 
 
   But they got your MONEY - and, briefly, appealed to your vanity  :-)

I was curious about one of my grandmothers more than anything. She was
from Quebec with no backstory. They still are looking for money. 'We've
got the new v6 chip which will give even better results. Since you're an
old customer, only $79 for the upgrade'


There was quite a bit of chatter on the subreddit when it first came out
where people got completely different results from the last time around. I
don't know if they tuned up the algorithm but I satisfied my curiosity
years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsblood_Royal

Sinclair Lewis wrote that about the surprises you might find if you go
digging long before DNA.