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Please change the headline to "Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals" per Hacker News guidelines. From the guidel
by blendergeek 4y ago
Please change the headline to "Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals" per Hacker News guidelines.
From the guidelines:
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
- threatofrain 4y agoThat's past 80 characters, and I don't really think this is an interesting place to enforce the rules here — did your instincts tell you that HN readers are about to be bait-and-switched by the editorialized title?
- KirillPanov 4y agoCounting is very different from integrating. Lots of stuff in biology integrates continuous signals. Discrete counting of discrete events is quite rare. In many senses you can compute with things that count discretely: Peano Arithmetic is undecidable. Yet unbounded dense linear orders (i.e. the theory of the rationals) are decidable, so you can't embed "program X halts" into them.
- kazinator 4y ago"Dormant spores tally wakeup stimuli via EC potential"? Full disclosure: an important part of my job is fitting git commit messages to the 50 character rule.
- kingkawn 4y agoSo too us and our actions are decisions.
- anothernewdude 4y agoThat title is fucked. I prefer the English one.