TravisCooper
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It's all designed. Top down, one mind. Designed. That's why it all works.
Think about all the cells, and the thousands/millions of jobs they do, in perfect coordination just in your fingers or hands.
It's all designed.
They should make recommendations, and then before anything goes into effect, these recommendations must be passed into law (Congress passes bill, President signs it).
They could bundle these up regularly.
Starting at the bottom with basic facts helps build understanding.
Almost seems too-good-to-be-true right? Such a tight margin-of-error...
CO2 is 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere, amazing!
79% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
0.9% Argon
0.1% Other (includes CO2)
Amazing how precise we can get these number with what appears to be a very tight margin of error.
The temperature estimating margin-of-error for sponges must be super tight! ;)
CO2 is 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere, amazing!
79% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
0.9% Argon
0.1% Other (includes CO2)
Spoiler: There's no life on any of those planets.
This is the correct take. Well said.
Another great memory was writing "broken" HTML comment tags so you could disable "auto-inserted" ads from Geocities and Angelfire (and other) sites so you could look cool with your premium, ad-free site.
So, so much time spent on DynamicDrive. It was the future. Thanks for the reminder!
Agreed. Glad to see the "opening up" of Aerospace/Military that SpaceX has enabled by simply being extremely competent. Anduril is also making great plays in the Military contractor space. They don't do "cost plus" projects, but design and build the entire POC themselves then offer it to US Armed Forces.
Agreed. This is absolutely immoral. I don't know how we can trust that this evidence is useful in an "real" sense.
Just put this out there:
The higher the stakes, the less we should trust what we're "told". Esp if we're told to "believe and don't question".
It won't always be obvious to you directly, why something is wrong or corrupt, rather this is a sense we have to develop over time: question the people and ideas that we're supposed to "trust".
Yes. But you have to know how to use them. And I don't mean "pressing buttons".
This is the correct take.
This is awesome. A lot of good comes from colocating office work into a central building so the outlying areas can be used for "life affirming" purposes.
Housing, parks, churches, restaurants, entertainment etc.
We should want more "lone wolf" office buildings like this in every city.
If you have an erroneous view of life and it's origins on earth, you'll come up with variations of this type of thinking.
However, life didn't evolve through a random walk of chemical reactions turning into complex systems with the ability to replicate and gain ever increasing complexity over time. Not possible.
Entropy is increasing.
Glad to see that SpaceX has lit a fire here. We'll look back and marvel at how much SpaceX accelerated our technological timeline due to aggressive optimism and engineering leadership.
Terrible for personal freedom and autonomy.
We have to mandate that sellers of essential goods (grocery, fuel) must always accept cash.
Obvious that this will be used against "anti government forces" in the future... which will grow over time to encompass everyone. CBDC discussions already market their ability to limit what/when/how you can use your "money".
Killing cash is just step one. Watch this space.
Yeah, this should be read that the Federal Govt has to have access to national borders, full stop (agreed).
It doesn't (and can't) address the fact that the reason the Federal Govt wants access in this case is to help non-nationals BREAK FEDERAL LAW.
Impossible. DNA degrades very quickly. Half-life is ~520 years, and you'd assume any "storage" done quickly and ad-hoc (as these things always are) would not be ideal conditions to maximize this number.
>An appeal to incredulity is not an argument.
It IS strange, using the evolutionary framework itself, that useless mutations will hang around for thousands or millions of years (countless generations) before dropping perfectly into an extremely complex system, that itself is but a small part of a larger complex system.
Evolution teaches that small, immediately useful mutations build upon one another, reinforcing the beneficial nature of the mutation. It's impossible to build large, complex life systems (with a large number of prerequisites at each step) this way. For example, the Heart, Blood Vessels and Blood. They're each extremely complex but useless without the other two.
How would evolution slowly evolve a heart with no blood or blood vessels?
How would evolution slowly evolve blood but no blood vessels or heart?
How would evolution slowly evolve a network of blood vessels but no blood to carry or heart to pump?
If you don't mind, please add a few of your cited sources.
Want to make sure I consult the experts before forming any opinions. ;)
This is absolutely untrue.
It's strange that an uncoordinated, random walk of mutations would keep a profound number of changes in tact, ready for some other random bit to take place and it all just "fall into place". The eye didn't evolve. Hearing didn't evolve. Smell didn't evolve.
These explanations are always full of "must have" and "must have been". This line of thinking is just hopeful projections of desired causality.
Strange that an uncoordinated, random walk of mutations would keep a profound number of changes in tact, ready for some other random bit to take place and it all just "fall into place". The eye didn't evolve. Hearing didn't evolve. Smell didn't evolve.
This line of thinking is just hopeful projections of desired causality.
It didn't. Boggles the mind that some folks can pretend that the level of complexity we find in life used a "random walk" to get where we are. Which came first, the Heart, Blood Vessels or Blood? Which ones were "selected for" before the others arrived? How would a random process, uncoordinated through time select for these things and keep them while they're "not useful" until they are? etc etc
Random mutations LOSE information over time. We're currently devolving not evolving ;)
Is there an API to get the compiled and bundled sources into one output/result?