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by D-Coder 4y ago
Elephants have solved cancer. Their larger size is due to more cells (not bigger cells), so they would be more at risk of cancer. But they've evolved to have more TP53 genes, so their lifetime risk of cancer is around 5%: https:/
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by D-Coder 4y ago
African or European?
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Or a local speech course. I took an eight-week course in public speaking in college, and it was probably the most useful course I took there. I can do talks in front of tech groups or hobby groups... not without some sweating, but still mor
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by D-Coder 5y ago
> At a minimum, you can tell potential customers that they are a paying customer when asked about them (that’s the best way for them to find out, you know). "Even our competitors are using our product!" I love it.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
"First you cut the tree down, then you cut the tree up."
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by D-Coder 5y ago
One does not "dig up" brine. And I'm pretty sure most of it gets recycled. How does this compare to a non-EV?
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by D-Coder 5y ago
"There were rats in the souffle again." Again . Short story in Analog SF&F, but some searching suggests that it was a meme for writers for a while.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
"It was a dark and stormy night." A perfect opening line. Followed by a long paragraph beating the same topic to death. And who remembers the rest-of-the-story.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
If you planned your refactor AND testing and bugfixes to take half a day, and it is going to go way over, you (a) tell your boss your estimate was off and the refactoring needs to be a separate task, and (b) revert it.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
So everyone gets the death penalty instead.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
No one is talking about immortality. The point is life elongation (in good health).
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by D-Coder 5y ago
> Young adults are having less sex than prior generations. The birth rate is collapsing. You say that like those are bad things.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
I can get 1.02065e-11 lightyears per hour in my Prius.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
I think they shut down that app.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
It also misses that it's not an _ordinary_ sweet potato.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Put the solar panels over parking lots. Production is very near the usage sites (for BEVs, very near). It keeps the cars cooler in summer. And you can't make the parking lots any uglier. (I am aware there aren't enough parking l
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by D-Coder 5y ago
LiveCode is great. I have half a dozen LiveCode apps (some originally in HyperCard!) that I use every day. Disclaimer: Just a happy customer.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
> we had frequent "please bring it back" requests that came a few months after things were removed (also by request) Not exactly relevant to this discussion, but it sounds like a good case for a config flag. Let them turn it on
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by D-Coder 5y ago
We're gonna need a bigger b/o/a/t/ webpage.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Evolution is not going to evolve longer-life genes beyond a certain point. Something's going to kill you: disease, accidents, predators. Any gene that would, for example, help humans to live to 200 in the wild is useless. If it did evo
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Sounds like that could have been automated down to one command. And then put into cron.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Is he a "coworker" if he isn't working?
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by D-Coder 5y ago
That's a good thing.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Making EUV chips is hard: https://semiliterate.substack.com/p/why-cant-china-just-reve... . (Note, “BLUF” at the start means “Bottom Line Up Front.”)
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by D-Coder 5y ago
The first page of HN has thirty articles. I can't read all of them. I don't recognize the author's names, so I can't judge by that. The number of comments does not tell me if I will be interested in the article. The titl
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by D-Coder 5y ago
This is scary. What has dissuaded Putin from this kind of thing in the past (if anything)?
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Being worse at spending military dollars could be a good thing.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
There were so many people involved, they should have just waited a year for the election and voted him out.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
> By the time it comes naturally, around 80 y/o 90 tops it would be a relief...you'd be so tired after a lifetime of fighting and you'd be such a second class citizen and excluded from all the fun and the social relevance
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by D-Coder 5y ago
This feels like saying that a five-year MTBF estimate for a disk drive is meaningless until it's been tested for five years. No, we don't truly know if the estimate is correct, but nothing in life is truly known: some level of

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