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What kind of clean room do you think your DNA originated in?

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/Sefe…

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 woul…

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 f…

A sci-fi future where men were indistinguishable from women was brought up in The Three-Body Problem series.

The word is "idolatry"

"...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…

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.am…

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...

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/new…

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 profes…

How can I switch to some lower-level systems programming job, after working several years in backend web programming (python/java APIs, AWS infrastructure)? I see that unlike web, …