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Other research teams are working on lettuce that wilts more slowly, bruise-resistant apples and potatoes and identifying the genes that determine how quickly grapes and blueberries…

Discussed at length at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741910

I'm not dead, so by some metric, yes.

“If forty thousand dollars of student loan debt paid for anything, it’s to be able to eat chocolate chip cookies again,” he says. That's sort of how I felt about my student loan. D…

Supposedly one past extinction event killed off all dinosaurs, leaving rats and other small mammals to take over the world. Dragonflies used to have like two foot or four foot wing…

Nature doesn't do selective breeding. "Survival of the fittest" means "whatever doesn't die, wins." First you need things capable of not dying in x circumstances. After adversity k…

Try to promote walkable, mixed-use development that supports a car-optional lifestyle.

I tried to edit my comment and missed the edit window. I was looking at the wrong sub. R/programming is currently 6.5m, which doesn't matter because it doesn't invalidate my statem…

Yes, it's extremely hard to get an apples to apples comparison of data across different platforms. I do my best to account for that. I remain mystified by people who compare HN siz…

Funny I just looked and Reddit says r/programming is 4.1m which last I checked is less than the 5 million unique visitors HN was getting a few years ago when I last saw stats by th…

It really depends on a lot of factors but I generally agree that many people vastly overestimate the time savings of taking a car. And that's before we get into questions like "How…

Transient: a person who is staying or working in a place for only a short time. I don't think most people mean someone is only temporarily homeless when they call them transients.

I wish public transit served homeless people as well as a lot of folks like to imagine it does. A lot of homeless aren't "transients." They aren't just passing through. If we had e…

It's possible they didn't know they were infected.

Wetlands do a better job of carbon sequestration than trees. Globally, we've lost 85 percent of our wetlands since the 1700s. Maybe we should restore them.

It's not really that small and I don't know why people say that. Last time I saw stats, it was five million monthly visitors. It's small as a platform. It's smaller than Reddit or …