notquitehere

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by notquitehere 5y ago
What kind of clean room do you think your DNA originated in?
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by notquitehere 5y ago
There's a tradition of Jewish mysticism that says the Universe was created out of letters and numbers, by combining them and permuting them. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah . Gospel of John also s
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by notquitehere 5y ago
I think the hard part of that is socializing the definition of "areas of importance" Also getting everyone to accept one worldview. Maybe the most important area of importance would be educating people to see things the way you se
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by notquitehere 5y ago
I don't know about the rest of my large FAANG company, but in my meetings only managers turn their cameras on. I know another high profile tech CEO recently told his employees to feel free to turn their cameras off (in an internal town
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by notquitehere 5y ago
A sci-fi future where men were indistinguishable from women was brought up in The Three-Body Problem series.
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by notquitehere 5y ago
The word is "idolatry"
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by notquitehere 6y ago
"...as a consequence of the pandemic, tons of organizations will rely on proof that you’re vaccinated to grant you access. This includes flights, cruises, sporting events and other scenarios where strangers congregate. None of these or
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by notquitehere 6y ago
This is kind of out there, but this book provides a cross-cultural overview of the idea of collective beings created by human religious practices, nationalisms, etc. https://www.amazon.com/Egregores-Occult-Entities-Watch-Des
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by notquitehere 6y ago
That sounds interesting, do you have any more information that would help me find it? Edit: is this it? https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
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by notquitehere 6y ago
The article discusses a 2014 U.S. ban on virus gain-of-function experiments. Looking it up, I found this 2015 Nature article which also mentions the ban. https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...
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by notquitehere 6y ago
I switched into a computer science major after taking an intro class that used Python to make pictures and videos (CS1315 at Georgia Tech). I think this is the book from the professor: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos