Crito

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by Crito 12y ago
How do mitochondria replicate their own DNA? Do they somehow have the rest of the cell do it, or do they contain/produce and use all of the necessary enzymes/proteins/base-pairs/etc to do it by themselves? The relations
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by Crito 12y ago
Does anybody know why the "embryo repair" method would be used if the "egg repair" method was also an option? Is the embryo-repair method meant to weed out donor eggs that were not viable (by first ensuring that they ca
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by Crito 12y ago
I don't think junto has an issue with the concept of terrorism encompassing the blowing up of buildings. And I think that you know that.
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by Crito 12y ago
Being old of course does not entitle you to a job. However people being fired because they are old is something that should bother you. One day, you will be old. Walk into the office of an accounting firm, engineering firm, bank, archit
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by Crito 12y ago
You assume that all retailers have an accurate understanding of the law. Obviously this is not the case.
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by Crito 12y ago
Perhaps he initially did genuinely surrender, only to launch an escape seconds later, but claimed otherwise after the fact because it made a better story. ;)
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by Crito 12y ago
My life goal is to become a journalist and publish an article about Betteridge's Law that is titled "Is Betteridge's Law Correct?" . (One answer is seemingly contradictory, but actually consistent. The other answer is
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by Crito 12y ago
The ways they transmitted power from the engines to where it was needed was pretty cool too: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/02/the-mechanical-transm...
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by Crito 12y ago
> "I am conviced they realized that once a smarter-than-human A.I. will exist, one of the first things it will do is to ridicule our completely idiotic ways to use our resources " Or ridicule the way that we designed it , at
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by Crito 12y ago
A combination of both, something like Knuth's idea for Literate Programming, would be the best I think. Of course that would be way more work for whoever has to type it all up, so I don't think it has much of a chance to catch on
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by Crito 12y ago
Would people involved with Wikileaks actually change their behavior if they were given proof that the US government was spying on them? I assume they are already operating under the assumption that that is the case. From what I have seen,
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by Crito 12y ago
And if the police decide to do nothing? And what of states where creating that video in the first place is itself a crime? What if the abuse is not criminal, but you wish to convince the public that it should be?
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by Crito 12y ago
Seems reasonable to me that you could have a team of categorizers/critics. That'd be several times more expensive of course, depending on how many people you added, but I think it also might improve the results if the team was pic
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by Crito 12y ago
Or force.
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by Crito 12y ago
And of cars that don't have these sort of systems in the first place?
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by Crito 12y ago
I think "tinker" is a good alternative word. When you make the case about fixing your own car, you'll often get obtuse responses like "Why would I want to fix my car? I'll leave it for the professionals."
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by Crito 12y ago
Birdshot. Range would be an issue, but the higher up the target is the more margin of error you have. That or maybe falcons. Train birds of prey to knock drones out of the sky. Might not be safe for the bird, depending on the type of dro
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by Crito 12y ago
If I configure my home router to use OpenDNS, such that my children cannot access internet pornography or extremist forums (such as 4chan or 8chan for example), that is a form of censorship, yes? It is a form of censorship that the governm
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by Crito 12y ago
I more or less agree. I often ask this particular question because I find that many people disagree with us, or have not given the matter any serious thought.
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by Crito 12y ago
You suppose that banning discussion of 8chan actually drove adoption of 8chan, which might be true. Was that really what moot was banking on though? That seems like an unlikely bet. If I were moot and if I had wanted to get rid of these p
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by Crito 12y ago
Suppose a world where there are your vocal cords, pens, and printing presses. The sort of world that existed when these "free speech" ideas where first being seriously considered. Should you be under fire if you sell a printing p
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by Crito 12y ago
What is the line between "enabling" and "not stopping"? When the ACLU spends money defending the KKK's first amendment rights in court, are they enabling the KKK, or merely not stopping them?
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by Crito 12y ago
> "I've actually had arguments with people who believe drunk driving is the fault of "the system" for not making transit instant and free for everyone." "Fault" is a concept that I believes always l
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by Crito 12y ago
> "My guess is because 4chan was being used as an organizing nexus for a bunch of people widely seen as abusive and misogynist, and he just no longer wanted the headache." If I operated 4chan and wanted to get the racists out
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by Crito 12y ago
That article is about satellite internet using geostationary satellites. Those satellites are as much as 200 times farther away than satellites in LEO. 22,236 miles up, opposed to LEO which starts at about 100 miles up.
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by Crito 12y ago
The "giant squid was considered a myth" thing is much like the "the earth was considered flat" thing; both are largely myths themselves. Nobody who has put any research or thought into the matter has doubted the exi
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by Crito 12y ago
SpaceX retains ownership of the rockets, they sell flights on the rockets rather than the rockets themselves. My understanding is that this is a recent development in the industry. For example, the Shuttles were built by Rockwell but, as
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by Crito 12y ago
> "I dislike the "why aren't you using a real language" mentality - if we can make bash better, why not do it?" Because missing something is only one way that something can suck. Not everything can be fixed th
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by Crito 12y ago
Just let it bow up and down when it expands, and call it a rollercoaster. ;)
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by Crito 12y ago
More business sense than Tesla. Less in the way of personal technical/scientific achievements. He's not very popular on the internet for a variety of reasons, but I think that Edison is a better comparison. Not the first perso

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