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Please edit the title to fully spell out Multiple Sclerosis. At first I thought what does Microsoft have to do with nerve coatings?

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I see your point as I thought it for a second as well. At the same time, MS is quite a well-known acronym for Multiple Sclerosis even among lay people (anecdata: I am a layperson and know no one who has MS).

I know this is a tech/curiosity forum, and that it might be confusing for a second, but I feel a bit "Black Mirrorred" if the acronym MS fully belongs to Microsoft on Hacker News. I'm against giving them that power when it's in conflict with a scientific concept such as Multiple Sclerosis as scientific thinking is part of Hacker News.

With that said, I'm fine with whatever the mods decide, I simply want the mods to have considered my argument.

Just to nitpick, if you're not a native english speaker MS may not even mean multiple sclerosis to you. In my language the acronym would be "SM".

Later edit: and I've never seen the name of the disease acronymed, it's always been in full.

I'm Dutch and we know it as MS, as we also call it Multiple sclerose [1], so I wasn't aware of that.

Good nitpick :)

[1] https://www.hersenstichting.nl/hersenaandoeningen/multiple-s... <-- I know that sourcing this is a bit much, but I figured that some of you non-Dutch speakers might feel whimsical enough to look at some Dutch text for funzies. Or maybe it's just me who looks at random texts of other languages O:)

Well, in my native language SM is something _very_ different. :)

Good point, had no idea what was MS until I read the comments. In my language it's "esclerose múltipla", and have never seen it acronymed.

In French this is obviously different than elsewhere: SEP.

I like that you got all the way to nerve coatings before you were confused. "MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to..." was all fine :)

I had a slightly different misinterpretation: that Microsoft was working on a treatment for some (unspecified) disease.

Everybody knows that the treatment for MS is Linux

You’ve overtrained your neural nets on technology.

Please update your training set by reading more generally.

I don't read my medical info in English, generally. And as i said, the acronym in my native language is different.

You didn't hear about the recent acquisition? This is to support their new biotech program: "Pool at Bethesda".

I've only seen M$ used for Microsoft.

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