jononomo

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by jononomo 3y ago
Yes. There was a conference on this in 2016: https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-seek-to-update-evo... You can also read my other comment on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014
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by jononomo 3y ago
What do you think his conclusion is?
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by jononomo 3y ago
Maybe this means someone will make a non-superhero movie now.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Well, a lot of things don't square well with evolutionary biology, which is why the field is in crisis.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Wow, this is well-stated!
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by jononomo 3y ago
Even if this product were lightweight and had a 10-hour battery life and didn’t cause eye strain, I still don’t think it would be an improvement over the real world.
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by jononomo 3y ago
> the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know This is why the "god of the gaps" critique is so short-sighted. It relies on the assumption that as science progresses it will "close the gaps". I
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by jononomo 3y ago
LOL
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by jononomo 3y ago
You appear to be attempting to make a God-of-the-Gaps argument, but you are unaware that "scientific progress" is widening the gap when it comes to the origin of life question. For example, in Darwin's day it was assumed that
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by jononomo 3y ago
I wasn't referring to literal sophomores in college, but rather I was using the term metaphorically to mean "a person who has gained a little knowledge but now thinks they have a deep understanding." I understand that you ha
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by jononomo 3y ago
And what is your degree in?
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by jononomo 3y ago
I'm getting downvoted by sophomores, sigh .
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by jononomo 3y ago
Panspermia gets you nowhere and merely allows you to try to save face before what you suppose are your more sophisticated colleagues. Also, "no bounds on how long ago life may have formed" just displays ignorance of the fact that
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by jononomo 3y ago
Well, you could start by reading these books: 1. Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson 2. The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check by Tan & Stadler 3. Darwin's Doubt by Stephen C. Meyer
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by jononomo 3y ago
I often don't even know that I have received a phone call because my phone is always on silent.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Certainly. Please DM me and I'll tell you all about it.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Life is a profound mystery -- there is absolutely no explanation for it under a materialistic/naturalistic world view. The question of the origin of life is the most fundamental and interesting question because without life no other q
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by jononomo 3y ago
funny how evolution keeps species identical for tens of millions of years
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by jononomo 3y ago
Are you afraid they might hurt your feelings? Or show you up in some way? Or sexually harass you?
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by jononomo 3y ago
I think I'm going to throw my life savings into starting a new proprietary podcast app.
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by jononomo 3y ago
My synopsis: 1. The Apple Podcast app has been updated to longer automatically download episodes of a show if the listener has stopped listening to the show. 2. This has resulted in the "download count" metric crashing for several
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by jononomo 3y ago
Yes. I would say that it took more than ten minutes for the Roman Empire to collapse, for example.
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by jononomo 3y ago
If it is in human nature to never be satisfied, then why were Americans more satisfied a few decades ago?
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by jononomo 3y ago
I've often wondered about whether massive outdoor air filters (the size of multi story buildings) could be used to improved the quality of outdoor air. I don't want to breathe particulates when I'm outside my home, either.
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by jononomo 3y ago
This is not aggressive or vitriolic, lol -- this is just a writer with a point of view and a voice.
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by jononomo 3y ago
An excellent and informative article.
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by jononomo 3y ago
I think the seasons have shifted -- it used to get colder in December. I agree that for the last few decades December has felt like Fall, but I think 400 years ago it was a mini Ice Age and December was legitimately snowy and wintery. But
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by jononomo 3y ago
What do you mean on-site? Isn’t the whole point of Fly that you run your apps at the edge? Integrated billing is very nice, though.
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by jononomo 3y ago
The business logic has to live somewhere, and it makes sense to me to start thinking of everything in terms of PL/pgSQL if you're building with Supabase, which I'm thinking of doing. I suppose I would like to have the problem
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by jononomo 3y ago
How is this different from just deploying an application on a Fly.io machine and then giving it the DB credentials to connect to a Supabase instance?

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