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by b800h 1y ago
It did fizzle out the first time round. It won't on this occasion.
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by b800h 1y ago
Seriously, what would happen if we swapped out human mitochondria from a zygote for bird mitochondria?
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Ask HN: I'm suddenly hearing a lot about Quantum Computing again. Why?
3 points by b800h 1y ago|4 comments
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by b800h 1y ago
Blimey, I didn't realise the entire thread was saved when you edited a prompt. Very good! Mind you, it feels "unsafe". I'd like to be able to clone a thread.
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by b800h 1y ago
I've been saying for ages that I want to be able to fork conversations so I can experiment with the direction an exchange takes without irrevocably poisoning a promising well. I can't do this with ChatGPT, is anyone aware of a pro
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by b800h 1y ago
So they're moving to a 36-hour work week, which is actually an hour longer than some Britons who work a 35-hour week over five days.
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Covid-19 vaccines associated with a reduction in ovarian reserve in rats(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
7 points by b800h 1y ago|5 comments
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by b800h 1y ago
There was a horrendous problem with gambling on the election at one point. I believe the most recent episode of "Tasting History with Max Miller" covers this.
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by b800h 1y ago
>No, the point is that women and men should be treated the same wherever physically possible, to get as close as possible outcomes. That doesn't seem to make sense. If women and men are different, then to get the same outcomes, sure
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by b800h 1y ago
Came here to say the same thing - this is uncanny. In some of his novels - most notably A Fire Upon the Deep (from 1992), he imagines the galaxy as divided into concentric zones, each with different physical laws and limits on intelligence
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by b800h 1y ago
Chess has been mastered by computers long ago, and yet people still play it.
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by b800h 1y ago
I did wonder about this, it was driving me up the wall! Glad it was an error and not a decision.
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by b800h 1y ago
Presumably this is a satire of confounding variables?
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by b800h 1y ago
When is this map from? 1955? Essex accents had travelled well into Hertfordshire by the 1970s. Cockney has evaporated and the condensate largely landed in Essex and Hertfordshire. Do people really speak Kentish in most of Kent? Or is it a m
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by b800h 1y ago
I agree with you to some extent, but I'm also alive to the problem of how you achieve what you're talking about when chords can change at any point in a bar.
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by b800h 2y ago
Yes, this - OS X wouldn't have become a near-ubiquitous developer desktop. That would have been very bad for Apple.
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by b800h 2y ago
That's the original meaning of the word, but it has come to be a synonym for overemployment.
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by b800h 2y ago
Bluesky is as bad as Twitter. The conspiracy theories and absurdly-biased takes are equally pronounced. Someone should start a social media site where you get booted for political talk, like you would from a decent gentleman's club.
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by b800h 2y ago
I'm suggesting that the organisation is not the one that existed 100 years ago, even by a very large stretch of the imagination. The title is emotive largely because of the reputation of the organisation. If the headline was "poli
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by b800h 2y ago
The Quakers are fairly heavy politically invested, and most of them aren't even theists any more. There's no right of sanctuary in the UK, and if a group is sheltering criminals or providing them with premeses to plan criminal ac
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by b800h 2y ago
Not the case at all. I'd say, of those people who are familiar with the word, fewer than 5% are aware of its origins.
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by b800h 2y ago
Not many people are aware that Berk is a piece of Cockney rhyming slang, although perhaps more now that it's listed on that Wiktionary entry. Berkeley Hunt => C.. My grandmother used to use it all the time; she'd be horrified.
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by b800h 2y ago
This sounds like it would merit inclusion in Derek Lowe's "Things I won't work with": “Only a few facilities around the world can protect both the compound and the worker while managing the combined hazards of a highly r
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by b800h 2y ago
Well I'd downloaded our family genomes a while back, and had been attempting to get 23andme to respond in what I consider to be a proper way to GDPR disclosure requests. I've now just used their internal tool to delete our data. I
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by b800h 2y ago
Obligatory UK translation here: If you're reading this in the UK, when he writes "Director", the nuance is different. In the UK, this means Company Director most of the time, although the US influence is changing this.
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by b800h 2y ago
Strangely limited region of focus.
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by b800h 2y ago
Perhaps all that Neanderthal DNA we assimilated changed us. Cold-adapted mammals tend to be more cooperative within their species.
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by b800h 2y ago
I think "than us" here is quite mistaken reasoning, particularly for those of us with lots of Neanderthal DNA.
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by b800h 2y ago
It's entirely possible that they were more intelligent in some ways than contemporary Homo Sapiens. How they were overwhelmed is open to question. Perhaps just numerically - they were adapted for cold environments and may have been les
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by b800h 2y ago
"Tiny" is understating it, given that 2% of my genome is Neanderthal.

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