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Re:Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone witho...
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:29AM (#49920764)
Or just take a different phone with you if you're that worried about it.
Re:Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:48AM (#48980536)
I mean yeah, maybe, but this is how everything works
Re:USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment i...
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @11:23AM (#48872827)
So? What should be the correct rate of accepted claims? Or should companies simply accept all insurance claims?
Re:Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87
on Sunday June 21, 2026 @07:50AM (#48618092)
The Cheese and the Worms was lovely. It also dissuades you of any notion of the idyllic past, the sheer weight and organization of the totalitarian church was impressive.
Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @12:44AM (#47011935)
That's also what most grad students are doing. Even in the unlikely case they completely stop improving, it's still a massive deal.
Re:Pig Lung Transplanted into a Human in Major Scientific First: Scien...
on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:54PM (#45076669)
First heart transplant lived for 18 days post-op, it has to start somewhere.
Re:Why Romania excels in international Olympiads
on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:35PM (#45076477)
A lot of British bio/med researchers in the US too
Re:What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)
on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:58AM (#44899355)
This is a very utilitarian view of learning. Mass education isn't meant just to teach you marketable skills, it's quite explicitly designed to create a shared understanding of the world, a nation. Plus in "medieval" times people also went to church a lot where someone lectured you from a book, with similar goals in mind.
Re:H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House
on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:44PM (#44880249)
IF implemented in a sane manner, I don't see how this is worse than a lottery based system.
Re:Empire of the Absurd: A Brief History of the Absurdities of the Sov...
on Saturday August 09, 2025 @01:41PM (#44848472)
"Same in the West" lmao, when were scientists executed in the West? The 1500s?
Re:Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
on Saturday July 26, 2025 @05:28PM (#44697028)
Yes it is: "Group selection, which was once widely rejected as a significant evolutionary force, is now accepted by all who seriously study the subject." (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3110649/)
Re:Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
on Saturday July 26, 2025 @03:17PM (#44696333)
Menopause is also an obvious planned partial shutdown (vs males who can reproduce when they're 80) and we're no closer to "curing" it, turning it off.
Re:Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
on Saturday July 26, 2025 @03:14PM (#44696320)
Yes, it's widely accepted that you have variable proportions of individual vs group level selection depending on circumstances.
Re:Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
on Saturday July 26, 2025 @02:21PM (#44696010)
Height is controlled by genes too and you don't get people shorter than 0.5 m or taller than 3 m
Re:Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
on Saturday July 26, 2025 @02:00PM (#44695874)
It's very likely that aging is driven by some kind of scheduled gene program. It makes perfect sense to phase out individuals from a group-level selection point of view.
Re:Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why
on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @07:52AM (#44658169)
Nicotine by itself doesn't cause cancer.
Re:US Government announces $200M Grok contract a week after 'MechaHitler'
on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:50PM (#44576180)
Computers are just "doing math" too and the government uses them
Re:Holographic memory storage and information processing in Quantum Br...
on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:58PM (#44524850)
I never understood what the microtubule woo is supposed to answer that isn't answerable by neural network dynamics.
Re:Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp
on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:52AM (#44445252)
It would have been bright and shiny when new back then too
Re:Machine Learning: The Native Language of Biology
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @09:53PM (#44197188)
That's a lot of words, including a sentence that in which the author almost compares himself with Galileo. The proof is in the pudding no? What did you predict with it?
Re:Longevity Is Now a Factor When Picking an Embryo for IVF
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:46PM (#44193337)
One more way to scam desperate parents doing IVF out of their money.
Re:After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @10:17AM (#44191947)
"public interest" is a much more ambiguous thing than the written law
Re:After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @08:53AM (#44191209)
Regardless of the details of this specific case, the courts are not democratic and do not decide based on the interest of the parties or how many they are, they decide based on the law.
Re:How Should We Think About the Renaissance?
on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:36AM (#44181160)
Riveting bleeding edge research in the humanities - we now use one term instead of another for the same thing.
Re:Just how bad are we at treating age-related diseases?
on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:34AM (#44181132)
Most of the things you listed aren't aging related
Re:The Atomic Airplane
on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:55AM (#44159471)
Radiation effects are vastly overrated.
Re:Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent System for Scientific Manusc...
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @01:38PM (#44145793)
Just upload an already published paper to test it
Re:Designing Tools for Scientific Thought
on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:22PM (#44118370)
We must design better note taking software in order to continue improving our note taking software
Re:Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a 'Hoax'
on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @11:00AM (#44052216)
Why would they not think it's from the same word? Foresight, hindsight obviously come from 'sight'.
Re:Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles
on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:04AM (#43858625)
This is why I hate seeing all the medical people in their scrubs in the supermarket and coffeeshops around campus.