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> If you take those genes and put them into organisms like bacteria and yeast, which normally do not have these proteins, they actually become much more desiccation-tolerant Well I…

Crypto never fails to impress me with how many problems it creates for itself.

(This is coming from someone with ADHD but not dyslexia) It's harsh, but it isn't wrong, right? The reason that these states of being are considered 'disorders' is because they int…

TIL about Normal Mapping, which to my layman eyes kind of looks like computing a hologram on the flat surface of an object. In the coin example in TFA, even though I now 'know' tha…

I very infrequently watch the news. it is obvious to me that major news outlets, at least in the US where I am familar, are definitely attempting to push political agendas and shap…

IMO the "main source of inequality" is that tech allows a small number of people to use technological and fiscal leverage to make an outsized impact on society as a whole. Anyone w…

Another tech CEO realizing that the only way to sustain growth is to reject reality.

Right, and this is why they fundamentally failed. If their main depositors were traditional businesses and individual accounts they wouldn’t be an issue today. They invested their …

I think of the hiring loops that I am a part of as paid interview practice.

I hate to jump on the bandwagon here, but imagine if Instagram released an update to their app to make it look like it did in iOS7. People would uninstall the app. They would be la…

If you read it aloud, I think it is very punchy. I’m guessing considering the authors pedigree that his writing style was a conscious choice.

The one thing about sushi and peanuts is that they both have a weight…

I do use an external keyboard and mouse with a laptop stand when I am at my desk. When I am out I just type on the laptop stand

Its funny. I have programmed for a decade and at no point I have ever found that an external monitor was the solution to my problems. My coworkers think I'm crazy, but I do all dev…

I understand your point, and I'll agree to disagree. I think it just has to do with what we value. Even though it is a tool, tools change what options we have. If you have a shovel…

Chicken and egg, I think. I am a firm believer that people don't have much better or worse mental health now over-all. But I do think that in the past mental health was something t…

There's few thing people like more than for someone to tell them what to do.

I might sound a little bit 'tinfoil hat' here, but I believe that what follows is not hyperbole. AI is already the 'Architect' more than most of us would like to admit. Even if it …

It's funny that we are always chasing after 'personalization', which is of course only a problem created by industrialization and massive scale.

For anyone disappointed by the headline and who wants to know the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star

By which metric a tree is very intelligent and a man with a private yacht is not.

It's not that they don't exist, but the easiest way to gain access to a computer system is always going to be to ask for the password. https://xkcd.com/538/

And what about as the rock crumbles? Rocks are constantly eroding and re-amalgamating. What is it like to be sandstone? What is it like to be a magma flow? Is there something it is…

Screw that. Unless I can refuse to be tried in a sticky but necessary situation, the cops don’t get that option.