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by fifnir 8y ago
We went from not knowing how hereditary information is passed on to actually manipulating it in humans in the span of a few decades, don't be so pessimistic !
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by fifnir 8y ago
People can still claim their own real-estate ;)
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by fifnir 8y ago
There was this documentary about a first contact with an amazon tribe. I remember an interview with the (very young) leader of the tribe who was talking about how life was in the jungle and iirc he described it as very miserable, they
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by fifnir 8y ago
I'm not against value, I'm against the term "provide value" because (to me, and I'm probably a huge minority in HN) it is a term loaded with capitalist meanings. We don't talk about providing value in academia,
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by fifnir 8y ago
I am currently doing some literature research for my phd thesis and all I have to say is : "fuck pdfs in the face"
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by fifnir 8y ago
They have stablished in other studies that the epigenetic marks can last for a few generations (at least in c.elegans) so the simplification is that the system works in 'lamarkian ways'. This is not biologists trying to refute evo
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by fifnir 8y ago
Yeah, I'm gonna need a better source than what you sent to consider this "facts".
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by fifnir 8y ago
So choosing to believe that a person 900 years ago actually talked to animals (and incidentally had nothing better to say to them besides how god is great) is now "knowing the truth" that there are molecular systems that
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by fifnir 8y ago
I agree, but I'm not too sure about that, but I also don't know enough chemistry to convincingly argue for the opposite.. Are there many varieties of self-replicating molecules? (which I understand is needed to start life) Maaaayb
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by fifnir 8y ago
That's like saying that milk is free because if you visit a farm the farmer will let you milk a glass out of his cows
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by fifnir 8y ago
> We will decide it is alive but not understand fully what that means. I don't understand fully what this comment means. If alien life has DNA (chemistry) like ours, we learn that life as we know it either started somewhere and
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by fifnir 8y ago
> perhaps the ability to query the other for specific information would be a good litmus test for it? Do you know of Alex the grey parrot? It seems to be the only animal that we have recorded actually asking questions: https:/&#x2F
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by fifnir 8y ago
Ants also have wars: https://www.quora.com/Do-ants-ever-go-to-war https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160130-animals-i...
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by fifnir 8y ago
Life feeds on life. No animal would hesitate for a second to eat you, if it could without risk. Even herbivores, have you seen cows/deer/horses eat little chicks? Life then replicates without limits until all resources are c
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by fifnir 8y ago
In the north you get paid more but I think your buying power is pretty much the same. From a quick google, a postdoc can expect something like 2500per month in sweeden, but how much do you need to spend on rent and food etc there? I
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by fifnir 8y ago
Academia: Oh you have a degree, a masters, a PHD, knowledge in super-niche molecular technology techniques, speak 3 languages and can code in a couple more... Best I can do is 1200 per month
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by fifnir 8y ago
>It's not being given away. How are the roads, police, schools, defense budgets funded? Domino's streets, McDonalds Police, Facebook Schools, Nestle Fire department, The army is the only taxes they are okay paying b
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by fifnir 8y ago
Well have fun paying off your student debt and ridiculous health insurance
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by fifnir 8y ago
I don't know how to make my own words, can you elaborate please?
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by fifnir 8y ago
I really dislike when people make arguments along the lines of "it works, why are you complaining". It's not about convenience it's about how some of us things should be. Which is that (at the very least scientific)
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by fifnir 8y ago
It would be great if it worked, but it forgets the link to the article and redirects you to the home page in plain text instead which is completely useless...
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by fifnir 8y ago
Yes it is: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pira...
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by fifnir 8y ago
People tried to sell just as much back then. But they were only about 2billion so the average person didnt have to wade through a swamp of thirsty advertising 24/7. Maybe the whole thing is unsustainable, maybe we can control oursel
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by fifnir 8y ago
Do the words "provide value" make anyone else puke in their mouth a little bit?
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by fifnir 8y ago
Sites are not marketing, they are the shop itsself in most cases.
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by fifnir 8y ago
Hm, this reminded me of the "A placebo can work even when you know it’s a placebo" case: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn... We take a pill that we know will do nothing, and ou
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by fifnir 8y ago
Isn't MD for..like.. medical doctors ? If he's an MD but without a medical degree (which I guess is the case), then what's the difference betweeen MD, PHD or 'professor' ??
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by fifnir 8y ago
'Based on this map that i found in the tomb, I pose the theory, that the holy grail was burried on the spot marked with x' 'Let us test your theory by digging there' 'We found it! Yeah! Science bitch!' Se
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by fifnir 8y ago
Ask him how much he pays for health/car/home insurance as well :D
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by fifnir 8y ago
did anyone vote for more taxes on themselves to cover the cost?

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