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by epgui 1y ago
Philosophy is not bs, but there is a lot of bs philosophy and this paper is a great example of it.
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by epgui 1y ago
This is… nonsense…
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by epgui 1y ago
In the extreme, a perception can be very interesting even if it’s delusional.
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by epgui 1y ago
You’re talking about different things. The study and the topic at hand is not addiction or cancer, it’s COPD, emphysema, and lung volume. Any smoke (anything hot, even steam) will cause lung damage. They’re incredibly fragile organs. (bioch
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by epgui 1y ago
Opinions aside, it is objectively an increase in syntactical complexity, and many people who love lisp enjoy its relative syntactical simplicity. Whatever is gained in exchange for this additional syntactical complexity may not be valued in
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by epgui 1y ago
The nesting level doesn’t necessarily impair legibility, it depends how it’s done. Nesting levels in homoiconic & referentially transparent languages have an impact more comparable to nesting levels in yaml or json than nesting levels i
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by epgui 1y ago
That's putting a lot of words in a lot of people's mouths.
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by epgui 1y ago
I suspect one day we will need human identifiers (eg.: like digital passports) to meaningfully participate on the internet. I'm not saying I like it or that I want it. But I'm not seeing how else to fix the problem.
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by epgui 1y ago
Everyone writes real programs that have side effects. Functional programming is no different. But the side effects happen in specific ways or places, rather than all over the place.
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by epgui 1y ago
It would be much easier to package those into extracellular vesicles (exosomes or microvesicles) than into mitochondrial-like vehicles. That has been an active area of research for a fairly long time (decades), and there are already clinica
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by epgui 1y ago
I did my MSc (biochem) on freeMitos and mitoMPs in a cancer immunology context, and I'm not really seeing the clickbaitiness here. The text seems totally reasonable. You need to realize you're reading editorial content, and not a
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by epgui 2y ago
Rt is just basic science, and basic science doesn’t change depending on the year.
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by epgui 2y ago
This is charitable.
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by epgui 2y ago
It’s not at all the same, that’s a terrible example. Child vaccinations help reduce the Rt, regardless of whether the benefit to the individual is significant. Statements to the contrary have just confused the public. (biochemist)
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by epgui 2y ago
None of this is really related to TSLA.
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by epgui 2y ago
The bullying is not possible because the argument made is weaker, bullying is possible because the argument is made by a party with fewer resources.
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by epgui 2y ago
What do you think the word “scam” means?
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by epgui 2y ago
This is totally detached from reality.
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by epgui 2y ago
Essentially yes, and the article makes pretty clear that the changes last for generations. It's in the title and it's clear throughout the text of the article. So that's a totally moot point.
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by epgui 2y ago
If you think it's fake you're misunderstanding its purpose. Its purpose is not to describe how the brain works at a mechanical level, its purpose is to be a useful concept. And it is a useful concept.
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by epgui 2y ago
> "Encoding" is a CS term that doesn't come up much in biology I am a biochemist. The term is absolutely used all the time, in the CS sense, in biology.
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by epgui 2y ago
> they don't change human genes, at most they change gene expression. This is an extremely pedantic distinction, especially since the article as a whole is pretty clear. In nearly all cases, what matters is whether we're talkin
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by epgui 2y ago
This is such a bizarre comment through and through.
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by epgui 2y ago
RIP rule of law.
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by epgui 2y ago
That makes it a great point, not a horrible one.
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by epgui 2y ago
An army of pharmacists ought to do the trick!
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by epgui 2y ago
It was a targeted murder, it was not terrorism.
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by epgui 2y ago
Clojure, Scheme, CL, Haskell, Lean, Janet... An argument could be made for Go, although personally I don't find it simple in the ways that matter most.
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by epgui 2y ago
> Python is just... complex, like every real world language is. No, there are many examples of extremely simple languages. A modern lisp like Clojure would be near the top of my list. Even Haskell, with all of its warts, is much simpler
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by epgui 2y ago
I also consider these two languages to be on a similar level.

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