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by enkid 3y ago
There's a definitional problem here. Would a book with instructions for how to order additional copies be a quine? What's the difference? I don't know exactly.
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by enkid 3y ago
There are a lot of processes I skipped over. One of those is how the body removes B-Cells that react to benign or helpful proteins before they mature. But yes, if you had a B-Cell that produces antibodies against some antigen in Chicken so
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by enkid 3y ago
None of those things except NATO is an actual alliance.
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by enkid 3y ago
DNA doesn't make a copy of itself, the cell makes a copy of the DNA. DNA doesn't really do anything, it requires RNA and proteins to actually do anything.
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by enkid 3y ago
You don't know how statistics work.
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by enkid 3y ago
Inflammation is an immunological reaction. It can be triggered a few different ways. Chronic inflammation is either because of a chronic infection or some sort of immune disorder. Chronic immune disorders don't just stop. They have
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by enkid 3y ago
With a lack of oxygen, the debris would last a lot longer than it does for stuff orbiting Earth I would imagine.
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by enkid 3y ago
That's the thing about apps like Blinkist - if the book can be condensed to fifteen minutes, it's not worth reading. If it can't, then I want to read (or listen to) the whole thing, not a summary.
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by enkid 3y ago
Song of the cell is quite good, as are his other books. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is an excellent intro to paleontology. The Story of Earth is an excellent introduction to Geology.
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by enkid 3y ago
Garbage collection, if well implemented, makes a program less buggy and more secure. Those are benefits to the user.
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by enkid 3y ago
I'm not sure 3d printing is going to help that much. Getting something tested and certified for flight seems like a much bigger cost than manufacturing in this instance.
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by enkid 3y ago
It's an example of people assuming a bureaucracy got something glaringly and obviously wrong, but when you dig into it, the bureaucracy probably got it right.
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by enkid 3y ago
Sometimes what's written on paperwork can be silly because it doesn't really matter and the cost to verify or correct stuff that is estimated costs more than an estimate. Other times it has to be more precise than is possible, so
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by enkid 3y ago
Is there any evidence it actually reduces those risks, or is it speculation?
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by enkid 3y ago
I mean, statistically illegal immigrants in the US are less likely to commit violent crime. [0] Truthfully, that audience probably isn't too concerned with statistics. [0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pna
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by enkid 3y ago
The US is a geographically very diverse country with high mobility. That means there are a lot of people living in climates they are not used to, so did not learn how to drive when it snows or that you need to change your tires during wint
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by enkid 3y ago
Yes, that's explicitly the purpose. It's intended to be much more likely a guilty person is released than an innocent is imprisoned.
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by enkid 3y ago
Plastic surgery is one of those things you are much more likely to notice if it's done poorly then well. This, ironically, makes people think most plastic surgery is "bad" when really most plastic ic surgery that you notice
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by enkid 3y ago
Yes, ironically among the finches that Darwin observed on his famous voyage. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42103058
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by enkid 3y ago
Having predictability and observability is key to a business though, as higher level decision need to be made based on progress of the lower level teams.
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by enkid 3y ago
It actually supports the opposite conclusion for me, the fact that physical differences causes experiential differences suggests experience, and therefore consciousness has a physical basis.
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by enkid 3y ago
I feel like you're being purposefully obtuse to not be able to say the human experience is fundamentally different than a bat's experience, even if it's difficult to articulate a bat's unique experience in a human langua
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by enkid 3y ago
It's less water, but wouldn't likely have a higher concentration of PFAS chemicals?
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by enkid 3y ago
The paper is clearly asking what the difference in experience is between humans and bats. Whether a process is a "thing" or not is kind of beside the point. The core question is can we articulate how the core experience of being
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by enkid 3y ago
Interestingly enough, humans have been able to use echo location, primarily in blind individuals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
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by enkid 3y ago
Disney is a media company that was dabbling in data science because of its name recognition. It almost certainly didn't have the strategic vision to care much about something as nerdy as the intellectual property being used to generat
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by enkid 3y ago
Also from the article you quote: "We find that as Black–White racial segregation increases over time, total per pupil expenditures and other per pupil expenditures shift in ways that disfavor the typical Black student’s district relati
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by enkid 3y ago
This guys argument is based on a meta-analysis which has nothing at all to do with the argument he is making. The meta analysis in question ( https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED610568.pdf ) is talking about how differ
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by enkid 3y ago
I mean, with a few notable exceptions, NASA's scientific missions have an amazing record of lasting much longer than they were designed for, Hubble and the Mars rovers & helicopter being amazing feats of lasting longer then they s
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by enkid 3y ago
That may be true for other months, but "therme" is Greek for heat and Thermidor would be the hottest month of the calendar.

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