Palomides

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by Palomides 16y ago
I think it is supposed to mean a cell in which the amino acids have D chirality (as opposed to the more common L amino acids); the fully 'mirrored' cell the link is suggesting doesn't seem fully thought out.
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by Palomides 16y ago
I'm not buying the idea that simply having mirrored proteins is enough of an advantage for an organism that it would be able to completely out-compete the majority of already existing natural organisms.
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by Palomides 16y ago
interesting how it is pertinent again with the .p2p effort to make a decentralized DNS system, independent of governmental authority.
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by Palomides 16y ago
one of the issues with non-hierarchal filesystems is that the idea of tagging stuff seems like too much effort. for this to appeal to me, there'd have to be some big shift in the GUIs for it to be easy to tag/group files
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by Palomides 16y ago
if only malware writers would write better code! oh wait... :P
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by Palomides 16y ago
I just read all of Peter Watts' books (Blindsight and the Rifter triology), very hard scifi, you can find them all free online at his website: http://www.rifters.com/
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by Palomides 16y ago
what sort of programs are you working on that must run on platforms that lack a C++ compiler and need to be portable? (I am legitimately curious)
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by Palomides 16y ago
you can play single-player and on non-authenticated multi-player servers without the central authentication server being up.
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by Palomides 16y ago
not really a new concept; one of the defining features of roguelike games has always been permadeath. I do agree with the article in that the risks of bad decisions makes games way more engrossing; if you can't make a bad decision it'll fee