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Re:Peter Thiel Explains Biotech Investing Rationale: Get Rid... by zorked on Monday September 14, 2015 @06:02AM (#10214353)
Well, CPUs don't grow on trees. We got to the point of predictability through the same rocky, unpredictable process of eliminating randomness (a.k.a. science).
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Re:Peter Thiel Explains Biotech Investing Rationale: Get Rid... by srunni on Monday September 14, 2015 @11:00AM (#10215374)
I don't mean the fabrication of those components, I mean their operation.

In living organisms, eliminating randomness in their operation would change their intended behavior in several ways - randomness is a feature, not a bug, in living organisms.

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