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Please remember that science is under attack in the United States - new proposals would gut the nih even beyond the horror that is ongoing. As a scientist I am horrified and I trul…

The funding environment in Canada is quite simply abysmal. You don’t need a politician to kill your grant, the money doesn’t exist in the first place. Canada could do so incredibly…

Heritability is the proportion of variance in a trait that can be ascribed to genetics. So if you increase or decrease the total variance in the population u change heritability by…

Seems like a great idea. The police should do this… bring back red light cameras and automated speed traps.

I have perhaps unpopular additional suggestion. If you break any traffic laws your tesla should automatically report u to the police. Shouldn’t a car w AI capabilities be committed…

Folks agreeing with this take should take a hard look at their attention spans and ability to focus and comprehend - it’s honestly really shocking to see how many people can’t hand…

This is a long winded “permission slip” to avoid any personal responsibility for our actions. The fact is whether it’s eating beef or writing code for Raytheon you actually do have…

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Why don’t we preemptively put anyone who works in finance in the hall of shame. Unpopular w the hn crew I’m sure, but the field does disproportionately more harm than good.

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I have loved watching space x launches for years. And here I am, scrolling around on my phone and I can’t for the life of me find a stream that opens- this is just so sad

“CRISPR-based genome editing tools developed by MIT professor and McGovern investigator Feng Zhang, Abudayyeh, Gootenberg, and others have changed the way scientists modify DNA, ac…

Good lord the horror - devil horse is going to haunt me

The article is a “tree…”

You seem to be missing the forest though the trees. https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1679816678023000065...

What is your point? He deserved to be murdered? This seems irrelevant, “he likely was maybe guilty of something…” and?

Just think how much worse it’s all going to get with the ubiquity of AI

Why do u need a blockchain? Why not just torrents for sharing.

This is nonsense - none of this is possible - eg, there is no way to make gametes from stem cells

Where’s the control? 100% of long Covid patients also had 2 arms and 10 toes

I find your title and discussion of “mommy blogs” to be extremely misogynistic. This has no place on hacker news.

There is a great deal to be suspicious of in all “fee for service” healthcare to be frank. I am particularly skeptical of dentists, they take on enormous debt to run their business…

Good thing I grew up in zip code with super positive vibes

Epic lol - it goes up. It goes down. “The hardest part of my life was pushing the single button when a random timer went off- fortunately I have a lot of free time” rofl