Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

Re:Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this soon... by gohrt on Friday July 29, 2016 @06:45PM (#12190599)

Why do we eat food at all? It seems self-evident that a biology that didn't synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide would be outcompeted by those that did.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this soon... by qbrass on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:50AM (#12192329)

>It seems self-evident that a biology that didn't synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide would be outcompeted by those that did.

Their shortsightedness poisoned the Earth with the waste products of their energy production, changing the world's climate, and driving many of them to extinction. It also skewed the efficiency numbers towards organisms that didn't need to sit around synthesizing carbohydrates when there was so many free carbohydrates just sitting around for anything able to digest them.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this soon... by kaybe on Friday July 29, 2016 @08:27PM (#12191025)

It's more efficient to let others do the work and simply steal, which is what we are doing, up to the highest level.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this soon... by jklein11 on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:30PM (#12191484)

I'm no biologist, heck I didn't even study science in college, but wouldn't entropy suggest that adding another layer would be less efficient?

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