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by crusso 9y ago
No, because characteristically, organisms dominate niches. Previous generation's ability to move out of the way prevents new generations from getting a chance to try out their new mutations.
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by crusso 9y ago
Sure, some previous generation specimens could be better survivors than their progeny - but for the most part, the cycle of the creation of many offspring with mutations and the dying off of the previous generations provides most of the evo
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by crusso 9y ago
So you're saying that Koch brother audiences are less hateful? Have you spent any time on twitter? Have you found a particularly virtuous and polite political camp that doesn't vitriolically attack their opponents?
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by crusso 9y ago
Are you wondering if there are lots of political cartoons for them? Seems to be. https://www.google.com/search?q=koch+political+cartoons&sour...
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by crusso 9y ago
The less your job requires understanding advanced ML concepts, the more likely you won't comprehend what it's capable of or where the technology is going. That's why your average dishwasher is blissfully unaware of what'
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by crusso 9y ago
Do you think it would be any different for a speech from one of the Koch brothers? People who use their wealth to directly influence the political process are particularly reviled by their ideological opponents.
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by crusso 9y ago
The whole point of the article was how kids these days don't get going on learning to program until later. While I like a nice UX as much as anyone, I think that the challenge of using a computer back in the day had its beneficial outc
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by crusso 9y ago
I'm not saying kids have it too easy in getting to the programming layer of a computer. I'm saying that kids have it too easy in terms of being able to use their computers without having to even learn what a command line is. The
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by crusso 9y ago
When you booted up an Apple II+, you were dumped immediately into a command prompt. To do ANYTHING useful, you needed to learn to type a few commands like looking at the directory contents or running a program. If you just typed in the lin
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by crusso 9y ago
Probably a lot of animals will be used at first. Then, human tissue samples can be grown and kept to test results on actual human DNA. As time goes by, computers will model more and more of the problem space. I still wouldn't want to
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by crusso 9y ago
That's a good point. Then there's no mutation advantage to the organism for the payload filter to attach to new binding sites. The organism will infect everyone and any increase in its virility won't make the payload any mor
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by crusso 9y ago
I'm not saying that we're going to be writing genetic Perl scripts. I'm saying that the basics of looking at genetically-based organisms as a type of programming/engineering is inevitable. You may not have an "if&q
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by crusso 9y ago
We are in the infancy of genetic manipulation. A working understanding of CRISPR only developed in the past few years. There were some significant hurdles to getting to that point. In the coming decades, we shall be programming genes like
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by crusso 9y ago
That still didn't work for me in Chrome - even in incognito mode. I copy-pasted the link to a normal Firefox window and it worked from there.
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by crusso 9y ago
IANAGB (Genetic Biologist)... but pathogens rely on markers for identifying targets susceptible to their attacks and sometimes for finding their specific attack points. Additionally, some types of attacks are only viable for specific organ
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by crusso 9y ago
I spent a huge amount of time in my 20's writing Perl 4 & 5 scripts. Even though I no longer use Perl, I still feel nostalgic about it. That said, I can't find any reason to pick up Perl 6 and start learning it. With so many
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by crusso 9y ago
Yeah, who knows what entities may arise to support crypto currencies. Perhaps, multiple governments, conglomerates, or cooperatives may participate in stabilizing a crypto currency. Instead of a central bank, a currency may develop a &quot
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by crusso 9y ago
Maybe not, but I bought an electric car because I got $12k in tax credits from state and federal. If the law allowed me to set up a company facade so that I could keep more of the money that I earn, I'd do so in a heartbeat.
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by crusso 9y ago
The marketing blurb mostly mentions new stuff like new expenditures and new employees. But the $350B is their total contribution to the US economy and I'd guess it includes current employees, programs, and infrastructure.
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by crusso 9y ago
they finally pay for part of what they owe You only owe the taxes that the law compels you to pay. There's no obligation whatsoever to pay a dime more. Do you personally look to pay the maximum amount of taxes that you could possibl
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by crusso 9y ago
1. There's $160B of BC out there and it's still a pretty novel thing. 2. People say this every time there has been some volatility in BC. There's been a bubble that is bursting. It doesn't mean that the currency doesn&
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by crusso 9y ago
I'm sorry, but the incentive is right there: curing a person's blindness. Curing cancer. Curing HIV So is that what you spend all your time on? If not, why not?
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by crusso 9y ago
The mistake you're making is in ignoring the consequences of the decisions you imply. for those who can afford it. The rest can go get stuffed. Originally, computers were huge, laughably simple, and could only be afforded by governme
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by crusso 9y ago
Semantics is important when you're trying to change the definition of a word that is rigorously defined I'm not changing the meaning of "lens". First-of-all, I don't have that kind of authority. Second-of-all, t
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by crusso 9y ago
I don't think you know what the word 'lens' means I'm not really interested in having a semantic argument about the meaning of lens, but what the heck... To be a lens the object has to focus or disperse light via refr
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by crusso 9y ago
You still need the diffraction grating-like piece in front of the sensor array.
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by crusso 9y ago
It depends on your definition of "lensless". You know those kids' books that have the bumpy plastic coating and when you turn the book one way you see one image - look at it from a different angle and you see another image? T
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by crusso 9y ago
Honestly, I had a hard time telling whether or not you were being sarcastic. I find the notion that the media can be trusted as being responsible to be inconsistent with my observations. The media is made up of people. They fall along a s
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by crusso 9y ago
Write an article that generalizes male traits to explain a negative like eco-conscious behavior and it's an SA article worthy of front-page HN. Write an internal letter that generalizes female traits to explain a negative like the lack
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by crusso 9y ago
Katy Perry has a massive amount of political power compared to you as well. How should we handle her and other celebrities? How about unions and union bosses? News media heads? If we're going to be fair, shouldn't we control an

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