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by mmooss 2mo ago
Thanks for explaining the naming of protypical species, though I think terms like 'typically', 'weird' and 'special case' overstate the case significantly. Though I'm not an expert in the field (maybe you
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by mmooss 2mo ago
> I don't know when it changed between the 1st and 10th editions If we're talking about Linnaeus's Systema Naturae , quite a bit: Binomial nomenclature wasn't included until the 10th edition, for example. And from an
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by mmooss 2mo ago
> The normal thing would be for the species name to be identical with the genus name What does this mean? Most species names differ from their genus name, for example Homo sapiens . But I suspect I misunderstand you. Binomial nomenclatu
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by mmooss 2mo ago
True, but I think it's still centered very much on SV. For example, those Chinese engineers aren't here.
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To me, the choices of names for clades seem like madness: All apes (superfamily): Hominoidea; great apes (family): Hominidae; African great apes (subfamily): Homininae; Pan‐Homo clade (tribe): Hominini; human clade (subtribe): Hominina. [
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Here's the paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13485234/ Towle I. Clades, Grades, and the Genus Problem: A Case for Revising Hominin Taxonomy. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2026 Aug;190(4):e70344. doi: 10.
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by mmooss 2mo ago
If this Silicon Valley forum is full of people denying the achievement, and the US goverment is banning the technology and competition, I expect the engineers and scientists in China will pull much further ahead. The US is behaving like an
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> anyone can build a purpose-built robot to beat specific human limitations Anyone could build a robot that could run on two legs at that speed for 100m? I think someone would have done it before. Even the other robots in the race were s
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> The jury’s role is advisory, which means they will give recommendations to the presiding judge, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who will make the final decision on the verdict and damages. What kind of trial is that, and what provision i
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They were not prepared and at least had to mitigate immediate harm, while preparing their economies, security, etc. to be less entangled with the US. But once they are 'prepared' as best they can, one approach is for other countri
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> deteriorating strategic situation. The big money will be going into defense and economic sovereignty That's not incidental, but a situation pushed for by people that will benefit from defense spending and from giving ordinary peop
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by mmooss 2mo ago
Why do you think they invest so much messaging bandwith on disparaging CA (and NYC, and all 'blue' places)? It's hard to reconcile the superiority of the right-wing policies with the overwhelming economic and quality-of-life
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by mmooss 2mo ago
Per the OP, New York is second with $27 billion, so even without OpenAI and Anthropic at the figures you list, California's lead is still enormous: $149B to $27B.
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California Draws More Startup Investment Than All Other 49 States Combined(wsj.com)
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The Guide describes in detail how Apple protects confidentiality of Apple Intelligence cloud transactions. Just the stated guarantees are impressive: * Stateless computation on personal user data: PCC must use the personal user data that it
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Private Cloud Compute (Apple Intelligence) Security Guide(security.apple.com)
1 points by mmooss 2mo ago|1 comments
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I get your idea but I wonder about the construction of this argument: Is it the complexity itself people value, or the rewards of things that are complex? IME, the most valuable things are complex. Maybe that's because there is not eno
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By rejecting postmodernism and even the Enlightenment (due to the overwhelming reactionary messaging) most people have unilaterally disarmed themselves, or so I hypothesize. It's hard to talk about these things in any specific, evidenc
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Related: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/us/politics/trump-crypto-...
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Crypto's (and AI's) midterm PAC machine(politico.com)
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You're citations, if accurate, show only that some regulations don't work well. We already know that. But it's not a reason to do nothing. > Bad regulation typically tries to nudge either consumers or producers in a direct
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by mmooss 2mo ago
> Undoubtably We need a better argument than that. HN are obsessed with the 'unintended consequences' argument against regulation, a very general idea applied to an actual situation, and as if people can't and don't a
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by mmooss 2mo ago
All you need is gender, birthday, and zip code to uniquely identify ~85% of the Americans (per some study). There is far more data in these records, even before AI there were far more detailed marketing profiles of people, and with AI softw
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So what is included?
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Google will now connect your HN username to your Spirit customer service records.
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That's been true for much of the history of cellular networks, as far as I know - universal standards in Europe, US phones can't (always) be moved between service providers. It used to be even worse in the US, with phones locked t
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by mmooss 2mo ago
Can you name any politician or leader, of any signficance, who opposes "any controls on immigration"?
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There's also a racist element (I know that's a politically incorrect word here, but such things happen). People don't want to fund services to the lazy ______s - fill in one or more of many groups toward whom hate is promoted
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There are many reasons Jeffries might change positions; why do you say the reason was that he was bought? Is there evidence? Many Democratic politicians are moving away from progressive positions, including Ocasio-Cortez. They seem to be fo
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by mmooss 2mo ago
> The "narrative" above is that they're both made by seemingly well-intentioned solo developers Our comments don't disagree (though I was only responding to the comment parent to mine). My point is to question how &#x

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