chr1

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811.
Roscosmos accuses spacex in dumping prices using governmental money(sputniknews.com)
2 points by chr1 8y ago|0 comments
812.
Domesticating a plant no longer takes a millennium(futurism.com)
1 points by chr1 8y ago|0 comments
813.
by chr1 8y ago
What would be the incentive for living off earth for such a large number of people? I really wish for you to be right, but with population growth slowing down, and possibility of building floating cities or terraforming Sahara, building la
814.
by chr1 8y ago
We need to invest more into development of gene drives for elimination of agricultural pests. The recent development of gene drive on doublesex gene for mosquitoes gives hope that it can work for majority of insects. And if we find a way to
815.
by chr1 8y ago
chances of sitting in jail are not very high, as it is completely abandoned and empty, see https://web.facebook.com/100010579710319/videos/702215633474... https://web.facebook.com/100010579710319&#
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Working gene drive for elimination of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes(nature.com)
1 points by chr1 8y ago|0 comments
817.
by chr1 8y ago
> as if a painter or a musician is going to see something different from a regular astronaut The point isn't that they'll see something else, but that they may tell about it better.
818.
by chr1 8y ago
Ancestors of ostriches were normal birds that could fly, relation to dinosaurs is more distant.
819.
by chr1 8y ago
Roads are huge and are deteriorating all the time. Keeping the road in a state suitable for people to sleep in a normal bus would not be cheap, and maybe even impossible.
820.
by chr1 8y ago
> It tries to address something that was always considered a hard limit and the perfectly natural thing Death being "perfectly natural" is not a good argument, having slaves, eating people, not allowing women to vote, all have
821.
by chr1 8y ago
- Not allowing people to live longer than is otherwise natural is not the same as killing. The problem with this argument is that it is not clear what is a "natural way". By that logic one can argue that letting half of the childr
822.
by chr1 8y ago
> allowing the rich to live longer and accumulate more wealth, from a societal standpoint Accepting this line of reasoning means accepting that there are situations where society is allowed to kill some people for some greater good, whic
823.
by chr1 8y ago
The only thing wrong with vampires is that they unnecessarily kill people, if they used their amazing tallants productively (working as historians, spies, converting people into vampires, or just touring) they would easily earn enough money
824.
by chr1 8y ago
Are you answering to the question "who __would__ want to cure old age"? Because having kids or parents usually means that you don't want them to die ever.
825.
by chr1 8y ago
Why is this disturbing at all if it is "for real" (which i agree seems unlikely)? People already donate blood to cure other people, and old age is the deadliest disease possible since it kills in 100% of cases.
826.
by chr1 8y ago
'snide, sarcastic, and condescending' was not just the authors view, but the way involved scientists view theories of each other. So it's unfair to blame the article for that, which is an article about a scientist and not sci
827.
by chr1 8y ago
This is not a problem with geo-engineering as a whole, but only with one of the methods. Other methods like sea fertilization, or building large number of solar updraft towers are much more promising.
828.
A Radical New Scheme to Prevent Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise(theatlantic.com)
61 points by chr1 8y ago|74 comments
829.
by chr1 8y ago
There is no good reason to be happy about having less people. Most of the earth is empty now due to desert belts, and we almost have the technology for terraforming them but do not have enough people to need that. Losing people instead is r
830.
by chr1 8y ago
Internet access should be one of inalienable human rights. And prisioners should be able to call home any time in addition to normal visitations.
831.
by chr1 8y ago
this is indeed a very interesting idea. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-rea... was describing something similar several years ago.
832.
Inside Armenia’s Improbable “Velvet Revolution”(the-american-interest.com)
2 points by chr1 9y ago|0 comments
833.
A scientific breakthrough may lead to an effective anti-obesity drug(cnbc.com)
1 points by chr1 9y ago|0 comments
834.
by chr1 9y ago
Sometimes people use compare view and accidentally create pull requests without description from branches on which they do not have any commits. On popular projects this happens often enough to become annoyance for maintainers. I don'
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by chr1 9y ago
Having harmful genetic mutations widely spread in population is indeed a risk, but it's a problem with medicine in general, and we are not close to that point yet. Also a common cause of infertility that this technology will be helping
836.
by chr1 9y ago
sure it depends on field, on journal and on reviewer, and but with a github like interface, and public reviews it will only get better.
837.
by chr1 9y ago
It's unfair that your comment is downvoted because it's spot on. Hiding code, obfuscating language, fudging data, all are symptoms of the same problem: of being interested in getting paper on cv instead of doing research. There ar
838.
by chr1 9y ago
Then do we even need peer review? In my experience it is always superficial, people just feel that they have to say something, so they say something about writing style, or similar trivia. The way it should work is you put your stuff with c
839.
by chr1 9y ago
By providing opportunity to find errors in research of people you don't like! More seriously though, peer review is usually free or almost free, reviewers do not get anything near to the ridiculous amount of the money that "open a
840.
by chr1 9y ago
while idea of injecting sulfates into atmosphere does not sound promissing, idea of not doing any geoengineering and trying to just keep the current climate is even worse, because huge portion of the earth is inhabitable now. And there are

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