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by dbingham 5y ago
Selective breeding is not the same as transgenic modification. Selective breeding more closely mimics natural evolution, and while there is still a possibility or unintended consequences, that possibility is a lot lower. It's all gene
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by dbingham 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not arguing for abandoning genetic engineering entirely. The potential for it change the world in beneficial ways is huge. The mRNA vaccines are a great example where the risk is worth the reward and the possibilities of uni
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by dbingham 5y ago
In this case, it is a very apt analogy. It's literally code. It's biological software. And I have some experience on which to base that: I worked in a university genetics lab while I was in high school writing bioperl to track
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by dbingham 5y ago
Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that any software engineer could be okay with us releasing anything genetically engineered into the wild. We can't manage systems that we designed to be highly decoupled and very manageable with out
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by dbingham 5y ago
The matter is conserved: it becomes soil. Most of the carbon an individual plant absorbed when it was growing will become soil when it dies and decays. (Should note "absorbed" here refers to the carbon that became part of the st
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by dbingham 6y ago
Ceros ( https://ceros.com ) | Senior DevOps Engineer + Senior Devops - Systems Engineer | Full time | New York, New York | REMOTE first Ceros is a 240+ person software product company that develops several products - the flagship
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Ask HN: How are you writing documentation? What tools do you use?
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by dbingham 6y ago
Ceros ( https://ceros.com ) | Senior DevOps Engineer + Senior Devops - Systems Engineer | Full time | New York, New York | REMOTE first Ceros is a 240+ person software product company that develops several products - the flagship
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by dbingham 6y ago
1. Europe has healthcare but not basic income. 2. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not the same thing. Innovation is coming up with something new, entrepreneurship is starting a new business to make money. The former does not always lea
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by dbingham 6y ago
It says that they've had better things to do with their time than waste a lot of it on the internet.
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That has actually nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with experience in certain arenas. You haven't fallen prey to scams because you are experienced with avoiding scams. I guarantee there are people who are a hell of
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by dbingham 6y ago
That's the popular understanding, but genetic studies caused science to move away from that explanation some time ago. Dogs seem to have evolved from a common ancestor with wolves quite a ways back and show a good deal of genetic dive
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by dbingham 6y ago
They are engaging in collective bargaining. And they are bargaining around how the wealth and power they help generate is used in the broader society. A union is a PAC. It's a PAC that allows the workers to exercise some level of col
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by dbingham 6y ago
Unions are political pressure groups. Collective bargaining rights are not just limited to worker compensation, they touch on every aspect of business - including how the business wields its power in the larger society.
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by dbingham 6y ago
Ceros ( https://ceros.com ) | Senior DevOps Engineer | Full time | New York, New York | REMOTE first Ceros is a 240+ person software product company that develops several products - the flagship being the Ceros Studio which is an
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by dbingham 6y ago
I live in a liberal urban area. We have a ton of right wing people who aren't adhering to even the most basic containment measures. It only takes 50% to 60% of a population to share a certain set of political views for that area to be
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by dbingham 6y ago
A system that requires outside manipulation to keep it functioning is not a good system. The fact that capitalism inevitably converges towards monopoly (and therefor the concentration of wealth and power) with out the intervention of the go
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by dbingham 6y ago
I don't work at Facebook, but I have found it to be an essential political organizing tool. In my small city, Facebook is the public square. It's where policy conversations happen. And it's how I've built relationships
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by dbingham 6y ago
Hey Mitchell, It's an interesting idea, but as a Devops Lead, I'm not sure this is any where near our biggest pain point. We've been in the midst of a Devops transition from manually managed EC2 and chef towards CI/CD a
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by dbingham 6y ago
Good read, but it still doesn't address the issue of what happens when there are two of you - the copy and the original from the same pattern. Does consciousness split at the moment the patterns diverge? Is it shared? The analogy to
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by dbingham 6y ago
The problem comes when that plant is non-native and not in that region. Why is it growing so well? Is it because it's unavailable to the insects and micro-organisms in that region, and thus not contributing to the natural environment
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by dbingham 6y ago
Former permaculturist here - who at one point was working on this very idea, as it happens. I think permaculture appeals to a lot of programmers, because it's almost like programming with plants. It presents itself as "these plan
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by dbingham 6y ago
The article I posted also looked at what parties controlled the Senate and Presidency and quoted more recent precedents where the parties were split, and the president got to appoint. Moreover, stopping a vote entirely? That's unprece
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by dbingham 6y ago
The National Review became dishonest propaganda some time ago. They are going back 150 years to find a precedent and ignoring many more recent precedents. https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/supreme-court-vacancies
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by dbingham 6y ago
No, they're not. Yes, most of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy comes from the growth of share prices. But that growth didn't just materialize out of thin air. It comes from other wealthy people and institutions (primarily the larg
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by dbingham 6y ago
What was that we were all saying about Microsoft being on an upward trend? Years and years of stability to the point where it starts to taken for granted. About a year post Microsoft purchase, and here we are.
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by dbingham 7y ago
Fair critique. For the record, I'm an introverted manager (and seemingly a decent one judging by my record and the feedback I receive). I do find the people managing aspects to be pretty exhausting (though also fulfilling and totally
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by dbingham 7y ago
Well, here are two things to think about that may salve your fears: 1) There are just as many extroverts as introverts. You are very much not alone in your desires. 2) Management is overwhelmingly extroverts, because of the people managing
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by dbingham 7y ago
Extrovert / introvert. You're clearly more towards the extrovert part of the spectrum. Please try to have empathy for people on the introverted part of the spectrum who cannot fathom being forced into an office with tons of peopl
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by dbingham 7y ago
There has been a geological extinction event associated with high levels of atmospheric carbon - it was the biggest one of all time, and it nearly wiped out all life on Earth. Look up the Permian Extinction. (Yes there are multiple theories

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