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by _yb2s 2y ago
I agree, but as far as we know life evolved only once, and particular chiral orientations in central carbon metabolism were then locked forever, because they can't be changed without breaking everything else. The same enzymes won'
842.
by _yb2s 2y ago
I can see how they came to see it this way, since that is how science was taught to me in public school... I only knew better because both of my parents were scientists, and I grew up helping them with their research. I think that could be
843.
by _yb2s 2y ago
As a scientist this stuff irks me more than the openly anti-science people- because it deprives science of the whole point- to be able to question and understand things yourself. I dislike how every food item, exercise, etc. is now “scienti
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm going to assume this pedantic response literally citing a Seinfeld episode with a numeric footnote is intended to satire HN discourse
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Hmmm I see they do this off a VIN… ironic they expect people worried about vehicle privacy to put their VIN into a random website.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think there’s personality traits at play here also- simply being introverted means you are more focused on if your ideas make sense to you, than how they will be received or what they will make other people think about you. I think there
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Funny you should say that… besides driving old cars that don’t collect data, I also travel a lot by sailboat, and prefer to not even have an electrical system for simplicity/reliability. I like old diesels that also have no critical el
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’m guessing you are not in the Bay Area in the US like much of the people on HN?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I doubt it- I didn’t do a systematic comparison, but stuck with this because it was fast enough that it wasn’t the bottleneck
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Probably not, I’m not a CS person and just found a hacky thing that was surprisingly fast enough for my use. I didn’t do a systematic comparison with other methods.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I do a lot of high performance scientific computing and find the most flexible and high performance way to access data- especially in parallel- is often a read only sqlite database on a ramdisk. It feels super hacky, but it is easier to set
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think this is a general cultural phenomenon not specific to the sciences- people are told they need to be aggressively confident to be taken seriously. Even as a kid parents and teachers will suggest to kids to edit words expressing uncer
853.
by _yb2s 2y ago
I don’t want a car that is even capable of storing personal data… it has nothing to do with what it is used for.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I doubt the prowler was getting mocking comments… they are a cool looking unique vehicle. People didn’t buy many for the same reason most people don’t buy an actual 1930s roadster they’re based on: they’re expensive and impractical- even as
855.
by _yb2s 2y ago
Indeed, many of the successful people I know personally have struggled with some type of mental health disorder, and/or developmental disorder, but find it to taboo - and dangerous for their career to talk about it. I think once it is
856.
by _yb2s 2y ago
Except you only got to listen to a few industry approved ultra popular artists, and it was virtually impossible to ever discover unsigned or unpopular music you might personally enjoy more. About half of the music I listen to on Spotify, I
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I dislike how Spotify is seen as evil when they charge a low price people can actually afford, and pay almost all of it in artist royalties. They make music accessible and affordable, and actually provide a path for new artists to get music
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Life has to be monochiral because biochemical reactions are catalyzed by physical machines- enzymes, where an entirely different physical shape of the enzyme active site would be required for it to work with the opposite isomer. Any particu
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Or at least forming your own vision of what you want the world to be like based on your own values, and seeing the world move that way as "personal gain." I think people nowadays choose some generic and pointlessly bland vision of
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm skeptical of this, as I don't see how the oxidation state from the food will influence the resulting oxidation state once it is absorbed and in the blood stream, or in a cell. For digestive absorption Fe3+ is reduced to Fe2+,
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by _yb2s 2y ago
High iron intake also seems to be implicated in cardiovascular disease, and may be one of the reasons it is more prevalent in men, as women lose iron during menstruation, whereas men tend to accumulate it over time. Donating blood may be a
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Very well stated
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I grew up with a Scout when I was a kid and have fond memories of it - and its nearly unstoppable durability and offroad ability, and from what they're showing here it seems like they are doing right by the Scout heritage, and not just
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Thanks. That was really hard to guess from the website, but I supposed the intended audience already knows what this is.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Is this a reference to the racist/white supremacist "great replacement" conspiracy theory?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Indeed, that was my criticism- it is absurd to expect something to keep increasing forever just because it did increase for a short duration previously, especially given what we do know about how human brains work. Even the hypothetical exp
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The article is ridiculous- an obviously non-existent problem (why are they expecting IQs to continue increasing- why would they?), with a completely absurd and implausible speculative explanation.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The software on the high end euro in particular is light years ahead- and I don't mean the touch screen UIs (which I personally think are dangerous and should be illegal as you have to take your eyes off the road to operate), but the a
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by _yb2s 2y ago
You are correct after all. I setup some equations and solved for the interior steady state CO2 levels as a rough approximation the steady state interior CO2 levels are proportional to CO2_outside + generation rate / ventilation rate. T
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The history is important because Porsche and VW have been collaborating on cars since they were founded by the same person- and the “that’s not a real Porsche, just a VW” snobbery has been applied to almost every Porsche model since, even t

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