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by reubenswartz 5y ago
>> coup attempt > it was neither a coup nor a coup attempt. i have a hard time fathoming the combination of ignorance and privilege that would lead a serious, thinking person to make this claim. I would take the opposite approach h
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
> This is perhaps too big a topic to discuss on HN comments, Ha ha-- so true. But thanks for making a valiant effort. ;-) > but the idea that there are absolute & unchanging truths goes all the way back to Plato. The Western Civil
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
I don't think I'm falling for the Nirvana fallacy, or mistaking the platform and the communities. Yes, FB has been pretty egregious in certain areas, but the question of how to prevent misinformation in online communities is a tri
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
I'm very wary of censoring ideas, but we do have laws around things like fraud and truth in advertising. Should we get rid of those?
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
I don't know if we currently operate under the assumption of a single truth. There's also a big difference between different perspectives and things that are blatantly wrong. Decentralization is interesting, but 20 years ago, ther
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
1. I agree, but they are also the business model. If one platform doesn't use them, another that does will come to predominate. 2. This has some merit and would be a great start (we can dream, right?), but I don't think it would s
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Stepping away from the specifics of Facebook's history, does anyone have solid ideas for how globe-spanning communities should function? It seems next to impossible to both allow individuals to share things and make sure that you only
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
That's why trump replaced his secretary of defense after he lost the election. That's why they didn't bring in requested national guard troops. (if I understand the situation, Trump never authorized the NG, as he was cheeri
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
There's a difference between suppressing a different view, suppressing a lie, suppressing someone yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, and suppressing someone yelling "let's go light the theater on fire". As fo
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
This is great stuff. Want to come on my Sales for Nerds podcast and discuss in more detail?
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Eukaryotes have lots of ribosomes, so I'm confused about why it would be easier to create eukaryotes. And while bigger cells absorbing smaller cells happens all the time, it seems extremely, extremely rare that those events lead to rep
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
I agree, and I'd go so far as to say that it's important for most office workers, even if you're not planning to be remote. Writing is a great proxy for thinking, and a lot of people have great thoughts, but aren't good
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
And what's up with the camera bumps? ;-) I know most people use a case, anyway, but I'd rather have an extra mm or 2 and a flat back, and either get more battery or just empty space...
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New clues about the start of metabolism at the dawn of life(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by reubenswartz 6y ago|0 comments
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Not trying to pick a fight, just asking a question-- if you think the natural world as we see it could not have arisen "on its own" through the laws of nature, how did something even more amazing come to be?
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Yeah, pretty crazy that these things have been turning like mad for billions of years... ;-)
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Not saying it's efficient, in the way we would think of "coding" things. One way I like to think of evolution is how long it takes to get from one state to another. So it took hundreds of millions of years for the first &quot
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Yeah, it's pretty mind boggling... Amazing that it "works". And I think debugging single-threaded code can be hard. ;-)
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
They must have achieved many replication cycles, but presumably proto-prokaryotes were much more efficient replicators and outcompeted their ancestors.
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Yes, because the "Hubble Constant" is expressed as km/s/Mpc (that's Megaparsec), and the value is thought to be around 70. 70km/s seems crazy fast, until you divide by the 3,300,000ish light years (each light y
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Moving from a manual ICE to electric, it's still night and day. And the manual felt like night and day compared to a lot of automatics...
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Yes and his book "The Vital Question", which covers some of the same ground. Highly recommend.
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but I think you have a typo in there. Most of the proteins in the mitochondria are coded by nuclear DNA, but the proteins themselves end up in the mitochondria.
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
I like the “blur” vs “pixelation” analogy. Maybe she will cover the time issue. :)
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Can someone explain this so a non-physics PhD can (at least partially) understand it? ;)
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New experiment places limits on the smallest possible increment of time(scientificamerican.com)
8 points by reubenswartz 6y ago|4 comments
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Have you driven one? There is plenty of (over)hype, but the cars are quite nice.
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
Typing this on my Mid 2012 rMBP, I'm very interested in the details. (I put off upgrading because of keyboard issues, and now with the new "Apple Silicon" coming, plus, the machine is great-- I did replace the battery at one
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
We don't get a practice life. There's no "play again." Make the most of it.
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by reubenswartz 6y ago
This is a helpful article and I would add to the general "value-based" pricing discussion: Price is limited by perceived differential value. So if there's value that the buyer doesn't perceive, it doesn't count. (Of

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