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I'm mulling this over... It's an interesting idea for sure. I'm not sure that it can't be reduced to human populations in general, which makes it more like the super-organism Wilso…

Viruses rely entirely on the host cell's proteins for all of their replication. They don't metabolize anything themselves, nor do they create their own copies of themselves. The ho…

> viruses are debatable under this definition I think it's a thin pro-argument. Viruses are completely dependant on the host cell and the host cell's metabolism. The host cell's pr…

Well EO Wilson posited certain eusocial insect colonies, including bees, as a super-organism. I think the idea has some currency in biology. The idea is that Darwinian selection is…

You mentioned "any time in history", and for most of its history, the US was explicitly a white supremacist state. Legal segregation only ended in the 1960s. Yes, other places in t…

There was a definition I encountered in high school, which I never found a source for, but seems to be pretty robust and address many of the non-living things other definitions inc…

Even during times of black chattel slavery, when native Americans were forcibly removed from their lands, and Asians and Middle Easterners were suing in court to be recognized as w…

The point of Elite colleges are the networking, not the education you get.

Linklater's Tape (2001) takes place entirely inside a hotel room, no cheating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_(film)

> looking back, I feel quite foolish to ask too much information in one go To the contrary -- you are wise to learn from your mistakes : )

Is the amount of chemistry, then, or length of signal transmission, the measure of consciousness? What is the implication for the conscious experience of the camera?

> While I am as baffled as any/many at having subjective qualia appear so "real" Appear so real compared to what? Are you claiming that your experience of your own thoughts are sub…

If you don't think it's a problem, then it's not. There's no real way, presently, to prove there isn't a difference. Likewise, I could say there is no difference between my experie…

"Tweatrise"? "Twitter" + "treatise". Just spitballing here.

It's all relative. If you already have enough energy to crack water, fueling a rocket is not a worry.

So fast food restaurants came into Europe without a concurrent marketing and advertising push? They just built the restaurants and people came, because it was tasty, fast, and chea…

Neither of those are plentiful on Mars.

How do you fuel the rocket on Mars?

Doesn't account for why this would be happening more recently. In the past in Europe, was fast food actually slow, expensive, and not that tasty?

OP means cacao

This is actually a genius application. I hope more HN readers read it and this meme spreads.

> Is that something being researched currently? Sort of, but actually more no. The way the equations in quantum physics work, this just happens, and there isn't any accounting for …

Actually, I think this is more a risk of marijuana, which in the US, is prescribable in several states, legal in a few, and decriminalized in most. Which is not to say that I encou…

One thing that jumps out in this sentence is that, grammatically, AAVE uses negative concords (double (or more) negatives), like Spanish or French, instead of the "standard" Englis…