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by whyenot 3y ago
An evolutionary biologist might say (in a candid moment), that our purpose is to increase our fitness (=fecundity) and the fitness of those genetically related to us.
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by whyenot 3y ago
Humans are also machines. Some might give us special properties such as souls, depending on your religious beliefs, but there is no science backing that up. All living creates are incredibly complicated and convoluted biochemical machines,
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by whyenot 3y ago
I don’t think another bold statement, phrased as a question, is what most people would consider “evidence.”
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by whyenot 4y ago
Some of the wild corn (maize) relatives are also perennial, for example Zea diploperennis . I wonder if there are efforts to also create perennial corn. I'm not sure how advantageous perennial corn would really be because of increased
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by whyenot 4y ago
> science is the search for being right Is it really though? To me science is more about asking questions and then figuring out how to answer them. Both right and wrong answers tell us something potentially new about the world around u
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by whyenot 4y ago
> It’s a bummer, but can you really sell a small company to a tech giant and then be any sort of surprised when this happens? For most of DPReview's life, the site has been owned by Amazon, and at least from the outside, everything
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by whyenot 4y ago
What do you think that will tell you? For example it seems to me that people born in more rural area a century ago are both less likely to have accurate birth records, and less likely to have good access to health care. There are probably m
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by whyenot 4y ago
What is so interesting to me about generative AI is that the jobs that are the most difficult to automate are trades like plumbers and electricians. The group that is the most vulnerable is knowledge workers. It’s a lot easier to replace a
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by whyenot 4y ago
No. If the goal is to stop this practice, then the doctors and administrators responsible should lose their licenses and be criminally prosecuted. Money and civil cases do not solve all problems. The responsible parties must be accountable
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by whyenot 4y ago
Ok, let's play this game. I don't like what Apple did to Darksky, so I'll switch to Android. What do I do when Google inevitably does something similar, who do I switch to then?
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by whyenot 4y ago
Euthanasia by "cervical dislocation" is killing animals by breaking their necks. It may very well be the most humane option, but nothing is gained by using jargon and obfuscation.
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by whyenot 4y ago
Yes, they are all in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae). One has to be a little careful, though, because many of the seeds of plants in this family contain bioactive compounds that can be quite poisonous. For example, in ackee. By the way,
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by whyenot 4y ago
> There's no such thing as a progressive company Patagonia.
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by whyenot 4y ago
Who? Maybe the “problem” is that most people don’t listen to classical music, and among those who do, most wouldn’t know who Joshua Bell is or be able to recognize him. IWO maybe it’s not a problem of not noticing but rather one of not cari
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by whyenot 4y ago
Because Amazon makes money whether they are fake or not. If they were held liable for the scam products sold on their platform, things would change.
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by whyenot 4y ago
ChatGPT is also (superficially) good at grading high school essays. I find it slightly amusing that students may be submitting essays written by AI, that then some instructors may be grading it with the help of an AI. BTW ChatGPT does not
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by whyenot 4y ago
Cool! If they ever come out with a more robust version that works well on trails and unpaved surfaces, I'd look into it. Depending on the range, it looks like it would be pretty useful for doing fieldwork like rare plant surveys.
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by whyenot 4y ago
That has not been proven. He hasn’t had a trial yet. Maybe you are unfamiliar with the US justice system, but at least in principle the idea is to only punish after someone has been found guilty.
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by whyenot 4y ago
I had it write a letter of recommendation. Give it some details in a sentence or two and it can produce a surprisingly good result. I didn’t actually send it, doing so would have been wrong and unethical. I really just wanted to see if it
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by whyenot 4y ago
I appreciate your substantive comment. Many public residential streets are not designed for heavy traffic use. I don't think it's unreasonable for local residents to be upset by the noise and congestion of people taking a shortcut
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by whyenot 4y ago
Wood structures in Switzerland can last an extremely long time. My relatives own a farm in the Bernese Oberland and the main farmhouse/barn is made almost entirely from wood and is at least 300 years old. There is a neighbor's far
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by whyenot 4y ago
According to the original report on Business Insider, Bezos has now moved on to backing "Astro," the $1,000 "home robot" that is supposed to patrol your house. I am not sure there will really be that much interest in thi
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by whyenot 4y ago
I used to own a Bronco SQ-Ai 6x6cm roll film camera. This camera had removable backs so that you could fairly easily switch between say 64 ISO slide film and 400 negative film mid roll. To be able to do this, each film back had two dials on
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by whyenot 4y ago
I am not aware of any statement from her or those close to her that confirms your assertion. She is 38 years old. If she wants children, it's now or never. She might be a terrible person, but that doesn't change the realities of f
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by whyenot 4y ago
I have a golden delicious tree in my yard, and the apple are amazingly good. I wonder if there isn't a bias against apples like red delicious, yellow delicious and Granny Smith that store very well and may be getting stale at the time
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by whyenot 4y ago
r/bitcoin did that in one of the early downturns, and with good reason: at least one person on r/bitcoinmarkets did take their own life, and several more in the cryoto subreddits talked about it.
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by whyenot 4y ago
Looking past the snark of your comment, I think the person you are responding to has a legitimate point: the cap doesn't apply to 8 hours of the day. Actually, it isn't even a cap, it's just that traffic after 1TB is de-prior
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by whyenot 4y ago
Managing other people can be difficult, especially when you need to make decisions that are in the best interest of the organization (and its owners), but what may not necessarily be a popular choice among the employees you are responsible
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by whyenot 4y ago
Obviously there is a little more to it than that. Oklahoma and North Dakota have both banned noncompetes for 130 years or more. no nexus of tech in either place. ...and then there is Michigan where they were banned beginning in 1905, but th
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by whyenot 4y ago
Chesa left office in early July. That's only a little over 3 months ago. If the situation hasn't improved in a year or two, you would have a point. Right now, it looks more like you are bending the facts to fit a particular politi

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