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Barricelli presented a bold challenge to the standard Darwinian model of evolution by competition by demonstrating that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation. Somehow I th…

I will grant that the first form is clearly [0, 1, 2], while the second form could be construed as [0, [1, 2]]. HOWEVER, given that there is no "and" between 0 & 1, and that 1 & 2 …

I'm glad I experienced the old internet back in its heyday, when high quality sites linked to other high quality sites, and Google exposed this natural topology for all to explore.…

And with nobody having to worry about surviving without a job, it also frees up many people to explore ideas they otherwise would never have had time for. Well, even universal heal…

Yeah, I'm not sure how much it increase discoverability, plus users pay the cognitive cost of quirky patterns. I might have used an enum plus a second constructor to wrap the expli…

It still provides some of the same ergonomics. You can put away the mental cheat-sheet ("1: gold, 2: silver...."). Your IDE can find all uses of BookTypeId.Gold(), rather than text…

Not sure what the point of the implicit operator overloads was. I assume he didn't want to change the signature of the constructor for whatever reason, but still provide a small me…

Moreover, if a researcher shows up in a village offering cash, on the condition that player two doesn't refuse the split: a) the villagers know each other. b) the researcher is the…

Inflammation is rooted in acidity and promotes infection. Do you have any more on this? I have stumbled across the notion before. Someone typically counters with "but the body main…

That's an interesting piece. You can see how some lines of thought have become verboten in respectable society. This era might be considered the Rise of Fear and the Return of Auth…

Having to switch to the other side of the street or having to circumvent a dangerous block is a loss of freedom, a kind of coercion born of inequality, normalized by the very incon…

It also seems to me as if having to switch to the other side of the street or by having to circumvent a dangerous block as some form of coercion resulting from a very inconsiderate…

if more US citizens would travel their view on how much they're getting ripped off would change drastically. For many Americans, especially the richer ones that can afford a trip t…

Increasing year of birth means increasing human knowledge. What, since the 1990s? No, don't be silly. There may have been a bump due to improved access to basic human knowledge. Is…

The last time I looked for a senior sysadmin -- less than a year ago -- I didn't get anyone who was comfortable programming in Perl/Python/Ruby until I started using the term DevOp…

I love the camera on my 920, it takes great pictures (for a phone), and I have been wholly satisfied with WP as an OS. I have missed the integration with Gmail etc on Android. That…

Well, I love leaving tips. Leaving a five dollar tip for a five dollar sub is the highlight of my day. I love that my tip goes directly to people at the bottom of the totem pole, a…

my own charisma is inversely proportional to the hours I spend each day coding. more coding -> less charisma. so I don't think it is just a stereotype at all, but rather an emergen…

Right, so if the women's liberation movement hadn't made flat orgs so fashionable, then maybe Github would still be a nice place for all kinds to work, and we wouldn't have this wh…

Is there any reason to assume that LEGO is really evil? I for one am thankful for it's existence, because my kid is having a lot of fun with it. LEGO is not alone in this regard, b…

> Is it? At least on MSSQL, I would expect a query plan like so: 1. Index seek WHERE a = 123, yielding ~100 rows. [1] 2. Bookmark lookup with results from (1), yielding ~100 rows. …

I also answered "about the same", and no I didn't notice the bookmark lookup (so-called on MSSQL), but even if I had I'm not sure I would have changed my answer--well maybe I would…