lawpoop

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by lawpoop 6y ago
I'm mulling this over... It's an interesting idea for sure. I'm not sure that it can't be reduced to human populations in general, which makes it more like the super-organism Wilson describes. OTOH, not all human populat
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by lawpoop 6y ago
Viruses rely entirely on the host cell's proteins for all of their replication. They don't metabolize anything themselves, nor do they create their own copies of themselves. The host cell creates copies of the virus.
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by lawpoop 6y ago
> viruses are debatable under this definition I think it's a thin pro-argument. Viruses are completely dependant on the host cell and the host cell's metabolism. The host cell's protein unwraps the jacket, and the host cel
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by lawpoop 6y ago
Well EO Wilson posited certain eusocial insect colonies, including bees, as a super-organism. I think the idea has some currency in biology. The idea is that Darwinian selection is acting upon the colony, so it is the unit of evolution. Rem
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by lawpoop 6y ago
You mentioned "any time in history", and for most of its history, the US was explicitly a white supremacist state. Legal segregation only ended in the 1960s. Yes, other places in the world were like this, but that's irrelevan
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by lawpoop 6y ago
There was a definition I encountered in high school, which I never found a source for, but seems to be pretty robust and address many of the non-living things other definitions include. This definition is a rubric of several qualities: 1. M
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by lawpoop 6y ago
Even during times of black chattel slavery, when native Americans were forcibly removed from their lands, and Asians and Middle Easterners were suing in court to be recognized as white, so they could enjoy the benefits of first class citize
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by lawpoop 8y ago
The point of Elite colleges are the networking, not the education you get.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Linklater's Tape (2001) takes place entirely inside a hotel room, no cheating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_(film)
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> looking back, I feel quite foolish to ask too much information in one go To the contrary -- you are wise to learn from your mistakes : )
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Is the amount of chemistry, then, or length of signal transmission, the measure of consciousness? What is the implication for the conscious experience of the camera?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> While I am as baffled as any/many at having subjective qualia appear so "real" Appear so real compared to what? Are you claiming that your experience of your own thoughts are subjectively more real than your experience o
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by lawpoop 9y ago
If you don't think it's a problem, then it's not. There's no real way, presently, to prove there isn't a difference. Likewise, I could say there is no difference between my experience of satiation after eating, and
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by lawpoop 9y ago
"Tweatrise"? "Twitter" + "treatise". Just spitballing here.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
It's all relative. If you already have enough energy to crack water, fueling a rocket is not a worry.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
So fast food restaurants came into Europe without a concurrent marketing and advertising push? They just built the restaurants and people came, because it was tasty, fast, and cheap?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Neither of those are plentiful on Mars.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
How do you fuel the rocket on Mars?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Doesn't account for why this would be happening more recently. In the past in Europe, was fast food actually slow, expensive, and not that tasty?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
OP means cacao
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by lawpoop 9y ago
This is actually a genius application. I hope more HN readers read it and this meme spreads.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> Is that something being researched currently? Sort of, but actually more no. The way the equations in quantum physics work, this just happens, and there isn't any accounting for distance or space. That's just how it is. Now,
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Actually, I think this is more a risk of marijuana, which in the US, is prescribable in several states, legal in a few, and decriminalized in most. Which is not to say that I encourage recklessness with psychedelics, but that forasmuch as t
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by lawpoop 9y ago
One thing that jumps out in this sentence is that, grammatically, AAVE uses negative concords (double (or more) negatives), like Spanish or French, instead of the "standard" English "not any", etc. (which I forget the na
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by lawpoop 9y ago
How can one tell if the price coincides with intrinsic value? If you and I looked at a chart of the history of btc prices, where would the match points be? In between highs and lows?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
What is the "actual" price? Can you point to a day in the past when bitcoin was at its actual price, instead of in a swing? How about today's price? Is it in the swing, or is it actual?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
I suppose at a very high level your thesis might be true, but at a practical level, I don't think it is. The banks have simply seen it's cheaper to eat the cost of fraud (and ensure the victim has the burden of proof wherever poss
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Insofar as human history, there is pretty good textual evidence that a guy running around Palestine called Jesus attracted followers and was executed by the Roman state. We have as much evidence for that guy as we do many other historical f
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by lawpoop 9y ago
It's the recent "Zeitgiest" conspiracy theory "documentaries" that float around on the internet. They just note similarities with the New Testament and old Egypto-Greco-Roman myths/cultic practices and say &quo
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by lawpoop 9y ago
>> I'd like to know, how do you feel about the legality of cigarettes and alcohol. > I wish they were illegal. I don't see any societal benefit with cigarettes, and I don't drink alcohol so am only left to deal with

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