WClayFerguson

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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Actually the only one making a nuisance of themselves on this thread is you 'dang'.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Right, that's the obvious argument against gov't regulations, that applies to all monopolies and is exactly what you'd expect their lawyers will say. My counter to your argument is that Twitter is "effectively" a mo
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I have no idea whether you're an admin, or just a prankster "dang", but it's true no one should kick the progressives while they're down. The important thing is they now realize BigTech censorship is a problem for a
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
It's the scale that matters. Once a company starts serving many millions of people, and becomes a nationwide backbone for some type of communications like Twitter, Facebook, Amazon services, email providers, telephone companies, etc. t
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The MSM has only themselves to blame for their record low levels of trust by Americans. You're right that the term MSM is basically a slur at this point. Great point. Thanks again for helping me make my points.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Well as long as you're on the side if freedom, free speech, small government, capitalism, and patriotism, you're one of the good guys. I think the biggest "story-telling" that's going on lately is in our schools by
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Well, if you watched the M5M you won't really know about any of it. lol. Thanks for helping make my point!
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Our founding fathers and subsequent forefathers fought wars to protect our freedoms, and sadly the current generation don't value or even want to preserve that freedom. Good times create weak men, and weak men will happily surrender to
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
To me "The Left" means the set of beliefs more than it means the set of believers, but you can't have a belief without a believer.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Labels can be divisive and tribal when used against individuals, to smear them by saying they're guilty of the bad actions of a few in a group. However language itself is built on "labels", so they're required. It's
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The Hunter scandal was just one random example of countless examples of censorship by BigTech and M5M. I could care less about the laptop story. I care about the censorship story. One corrupt family can't destroy a democracy, but a los
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The left wing is still not wanting to rise up against censorship because they believe it's still benefiting them, since BigTech (+M5M) is their leftist ally...for now. What they need to realize is that once you give Tyrannical Control
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
You can tell this article is well over a year old, because it doesn't mention the words Fediverse, ActivityPub, Mastodon (or Quanta.wiki!) It was summer of 2019 when the vast majority of those who are most 'plugged in' realiz
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I never said RNA was built on two types of molecules. I said DNA was.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
AT and GC never concentrate spontaneously. Brownian motion makes them 'find' each other and immediately snap together like tinker toys when they find a partner that fits. That's why you need warm temperatures, and it's w
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
There's two kinds of base pairs, is identical to there's 4 kinds of bases.
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
> Thermodynamics would beg to differ It's already experimentally proven you can mix up N, H, and O and it spontaneously forms RNA. We've even found entire RNA and sugars on meteorites. It's not rare in nature, it's ab
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
It's perfectly legitimate to say life stores information using only two "types" of things (AT or GC) which can be oriented one way or another, which is a "binary choice of the type". I explain it that way because it
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
About the 'card deck' combinations: That's why we can be virtually certain there are no life forms in the universe that consist of a chain molecule (as it's version of "DNA") where there's more than a ha
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
AT and GC are such simple molecules we can assume wherever we find 50 of them in one place (first replicator) you're going to have not just 50 but an abundance of them in that place too. And since that's what the replicator needs
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
I agree with what you said. Even the concept of "God" seems like it's been 're-framed' by science lately (in a good way) with many scientists having to admit that a simulation theory is as good as any other theory f
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Humans can't conceive of large timescales nor large numbers. That's why I use my Rubik's Cube example. A single glass of water contains enough molecules that if they were each a random Rubik's cube then there's a ma
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
It's purely the math probabilities I was getting at above. If you take the number of molecules in a large swimming pool, that is the same number of 50-long RNA molecules it would take to statistically cause at least one RNA to accident
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
The fact that life is right-hand twist DNA probably means left-hand was unsuccessful due to chemistry either in itself or in the environment, because an inversion of a molecule (chirality, twist, etc) means it will behave completely differe
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Thanks for that link! That's amazing. I had no idea that work had ever been done. According to my math 10 million moles of random sequence 50-base pair RNA segments would be required to ensure a correct 'Hit' on a replicator,
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
That's right. Once you have a replicating strand that's modular (linearly able to glue end-to-end) it can also recombine randomly with other completely different replicators to see if the "offspring" can replicate. We kn
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
If we found a sequence of DNA on some sample, and another identical sequence in that same sample, we still wouldn't know replication is happening. However there may be slightly more requirements like the sequence has to be found in an
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Yep, most every serious Physicist today agrees, it's more likely we're not "seeing" everything. Slit experiment, Entanglement, etc. prove we're missing lots of the picture. All the particles popping in and out of ex
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
People also underestimate how easy it is for life to get started by accident. Let's say you need a short segment of DNA to randomly pop into existence, capable of nothing but self-replication. What are the odds? Here's my best ana
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
DNA is basically digital information. Every rung on the helix ladder is either an AT or GC. Nature found the simplest say to store information in our chemistry set. Couldn't really store any field patterns though.

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