biohacker42

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by biohacker42 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=841287
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Still technically correct... the best kind of correct!
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by biohacker42 17y ago
This is great, uploading yourself into a computer is one step closer.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
No it does not. Beer being drunk openly in the street is not a crime. Just because the US has a crazy paranoid obsession with alcohol/sex/drugs doesn't mean that those things are culturally similar in Germany of all places. Now try breaking
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Keynes is self contradictory, he's not the most unambiguous of writers, a particularly bad case of the two armed economist. And as the parent pointed out, there are both anti-Keynesian theories, and there are also many post or neo-Keynesia
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Reminds me of the Ashkenazi. It's amazing how far humans will take the us vs them meme.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
This is not brief. It's not one of the better things I've red on Keynes. It doesn't treat alternative economic theories seriously. And lastly and most important of all, economics discussions on hacker sites are as bad if not worse then poli
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Articles like this is as good as it gets from Wired. To be fair, that's not worse then you'd get from almost any other publication. But crap is still crap. And Wired is kinda crappy even when it comes to their alleged core competency - tech
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by biohacker42 17y ago
It works to drive the point home, a perfect ending.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Great post, thanks for writing it. Anyone reading this, don't be intimidated by the wall of text, it is well worth reading.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Could I propose that what the article saves for last, because it's such a kicker, is that the sample size was tiny and thus the study is fundametally flawed. And this is almost always the case with these types of studies.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
What exactly is new here? I thought computers could identify and track an object in video already?
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Oh they did it the old fashioned way, neat but sadly not as interesting as gene splicing would have been. Gene splicing would make it possible to produce spider silk fabrics for less then one million. We have spliced some spider silk protei
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Maybe the best at MIT don't feel like being the new kids at a club full of Standford alumni.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Isn't Scala like Java++? Aren't both primarily aimed at enterprise server-side stuff? Any experienced Java programmers who have coded in Scala care to share their thoughts?
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Sure they are myopic, I'm human. But I was not talking of capabilities, but of things, anything, that transcends the flesh. Cheetahs are faster then humans and birds fly, etc, but that's not what I'm talking about. Or to put it another way,
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Diesels are already popular in Europe, so there's no problems there. I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but I suspect diesel is popular in most places outside the US. The US is the place built around cars, the US is the place that sp
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by biohacker42 17y ago
And what are they going to do to get more diesel pumps around the good old US of A? And the perception of diesel as dirty in the good old US of A? And why does it seem like there's an unwritten law that any sufficiently fuel efficient car h
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I agree 100%. Like the peacock's tail, if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing. It has to be hard to look good while not trying too hard to look good. It's all part of advertising exactly how high your social IQ is.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Well I might contribute something to the world, that is neither my flesh nor my bones, maybe a poem or a song or a widget, or a scientific discovery. What would anything in this world, that's not human, contribute besides its flesh and bo
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by biohacker42 17y ago
How we keep animals alive aside, do you think any form of natural death is better then a quick kill? Predation, sickness, old age? How common do you think is a painless, old age related, death during sleep?
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Fashion is complicated, certainly all the reasons in the article play a role. But it also serves as an advertisement for fitness, fitness in terms of energy and thought you can devote to staying in fashion. If you're a bit hurried and busy
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by biohacker42 17y ago
That is exactly what bad governments do. And it is exactly why the developing world is poor, because of bad governance. Not because of some other inherent quality of the climate, geography or people, but simply because of crap like this. St
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Hey I think I'm one of the people who flagged the rope story after the reading the post warning it's blog spam. And I still think it was blog spam despite the fact that it's pictures were bigger. The original source with smaller pics provid
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Perhaps it's deliberate? Can they really maintain their level of customer service if they get too big or grow too fast?
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by biohacker42 17y ago
The store varieties are absolutely bred for yield and looks but not taste. The most common tomato is called "bulletproof" and that's because of how well it ships without bruising, not how tasty it is.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Clearly there's no vital need for cheap asparagus. That's another problem. As the Irish say: God gave us the potato blight, the British gave us the famine. That is to say, whith great income disparity, even when millions of people can't get
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Except that deleterious mutations will be selected against. So only adaptations which make some sense will be passed on. That includes things like anemia which provides protection from malaria. And the title does very much imply some kind o
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by biohacker42 17y ago
is high yield even a good thing? It is if you want to feed more people, More people may not be a good thing, but it often just is an inescapable reality and if you want to keep them from death by starvation you need higher yield. And I'm
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by biohacker42 17y ago
This doesn't explain why nature is freakier, it's just a collection of freaky pictures.

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