Cogito

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by Cogito 6y ago
There is a question of where does the first self-replicating molecule come from, and how do we get to DNA from that, and how do we get the diversity of proteins that we see today. Creating random DNA sequences and showing they don't pr
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> We haven't found that, and apparently aren't even close. We do have ideas! Specifically, within the RNA world hypothesis, the transition period is called the virus world [0] > given all the incredibly, insanely, unbelievab
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by Cogito 6y ago
But some DNA sequences are privileged over others! The mechanisms for producing new DNA sequences involves copying existing DNA sequences. Thus, the ones that exist are privileged over the ones that do not exist (yet), and the adjacent sequ
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by Cogito 6y ago
> The usual explanation is that the "first copy" arose randomly, and then kept going. Do you believe that? I believe a variation of that. I believe that the first copy arose through physical processes . Evoking 'randomnes
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You see the difference between this argument and what you wrote above though? Perhaps I'm reading your original post too strongly, so please correct me if so. In the first post you compare the number of valid DNA chains to the space of
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by Cogito 6y ago
The framing you have here is an attractive one, but I don't think it makes much sense in the context of reproducing molecules. There is no reason to posit random DNA chains. The statement that "the number of DNA chains that produc
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by Cogito 6y ago
How do you get to the outer solar system without going through the asteroid belt? We don't worry about hitting an asteroid if going through the belt, because the density of objects is so low. If you wanted to stay in the asteroid belt
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'Speculative' is an interesting word choice. There are assumptions in play, but I doubt they are the ones you are thinking of. The two main ones are that physics is the same everywhere, and physics is the same all the time. We h
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by Cogito 6y ago
If I understand your argument, you think that: (1) there is no way an acquaintance would remember your child's birthday organically, (2) so if they do remember they have taken actions to remember, (3) and the reason they took those a
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by Cogito 6y ago
Paper, and now computers, are one of the best ways we have learned to augment the human mind. Is it creepy for someone to (with their brain alone) remember a personal detail like a birthday? If not, it shouldn't be creepy to remember i
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by Cogito 6y ago
I get your point, but this sounds like you didn't read the post you're replying to. At least the way I read their post, snori74 isn't presenting some absolute position of authority, but rather is describing their experience
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Happens here too, as others have pointed out. Just yesterday an article that went in depth on all different kinds of atmospheric water harvesting was filled with comments on how this was 'debunked', despite some of the methods bei
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Not sure what you are commenting on here - this article is a review of three different types of technology used to pull water from the air. I found the discussion far more interesting than this dismissal suggests they would be, in particula
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I know that underwriters will use google maps (and other services) to check for things like fire risks (overflowing bins). I also know that some try to automate aspects of this, for example using image libraries to detect large trees that a
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by Cogito 6y ago
I mean, feel free to be annoyed with the commentary, but there was no official live stream of the event. There were 3-4 non-official live streams, I think all of them provided by people who have streamed every single one of these tests live
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In addition to the other replies, it is also standard for rockets to 'clear the pad' as soon as possible, to avoid damaging the ground support equipment as much as possible. The amount of kick to the side is almost certainly due t
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The 'thrust puck' the engine is mounted to is designed for multiple engines, none of which are in the centre. They are only using one engine this test, but are testing the flight-design thrust puck (as opposed to some interim stru
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by Cogito 6y ago
If they had a rover that could do all the same science and collect and return all the same samples as Perseverance, well they would send that instead of Perseverance. The mass budget for a return-to-earth mission is tiny. While simply s
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The history of 'master' in Git – Git Rev News: Edition 65(git.github.io)
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On similar shops operating in close proximity - it makes sense to cluster in order to maximise the number of customers you have access to. Imagine two ice-cream vendors on the beach, selling identical ice-creams for the same price. Since nu
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by Cogito 6y ago
I'm really coming from another direction. I don't think you need racism or classism to describe the behaviours that lead to neighbourhood shops disappearing from suburbs, or not being planned for in the first place, though examp
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When I was consulting in Oaks PA I tried to walk from my hotel to the local pub. It wasn't particularly far, but walking along unlit and unpaved tracts of land wasn't particularly appealing. I would have walked if there were any a
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In my experience, the licensing laws typically deal with this. If a restaurant or bar, they can't serve alcohol or have live music after 9pm, or similar rules. Works pretty well, and I'd much rather have the small restaurant or ba
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> The rise of the automobile and destruction of commuter rail lead to a ton of land accessible to people who worked in cities. And in conjunction with the exclusionary zoning that was used to protect the capitalistic gains of property va
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Pluto is inclined at 17 degrees to the ecliptic plant. Haley's Comet is inclined at -18 degrees, and is highly elliptic which means that most of the time it is south of the ecliptic plane. The Kuiper Belt and Scattered Disk have a lot
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It doesn't belong in the same way that Debian doesn't. The good ones in the list are good because they are not obviously a name of a person, the name of the thing makes sense independently to it being named after a person. "L
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by Cogito 6y ago
Good point. This would potentially add a lot of friction for those users, but maybe that is a fine thing. Unless we hear more details, it sounds like this attack was able to get around the 2fa for the authentication, so it seems likely th
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many of the affected accounts had 2fa.
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if you click into that comment (through the timestamp) you can vouch for it, which if vouched by enough people will show the comment. The account is likely shadow-banned or similar, so their comments are dead by default.
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I remember them talking about this complaint on one of the episodes, or maybe in an interview. They explained that the episodes definitely don't always show rigour in their tests, and that there probably wasn't the rigour you woul

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