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by fbarred 2y ago
From the article: “It’s not the first cell, it’s not the first microbe, it’s not the first anything, really,” said Greg Fournier, an evolutionary biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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by fbarred 2y ago
You might avoid common pitfalls by reading "Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong": https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=458 .
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by fbarred 2y ago
Some of them can, if they are in good physical condition. There's a reason why there haven't been any females who swam across until now.
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by fbarred 2y ago
From the article: 'On Vancouver Island—about 10 times closer to the mainland—the genetic diversity of any future grizzly population shouldn’t be a problem. As we’ve seen, “there’ll be males coming over to mix up the genes,” McLellan sa
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by fbarred 2y ago
By that definition, horses that were introduced to North America by humans in 16th century are not invasive because they existed in North America 10,000 years ago.
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by fbarred 2y ago
Watch the video - this roundabout's islands are designed to be driven over by semis and trailers. (Hopefully the drivers of those vehicles know that).
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by fbarred 2y ago
Reminder to turn off f.lux or "night light" or "night shift". My score was at 98th percentile, and dropped to 75th after I remembered I had a blue light filter on.
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by fbarred 2y ago
Wikipedia thinks its the same language: "The original name SEQUEL, which is widely regarded as a pun on QUEL, the query language of Ingres,[14] was later changed to SQL (dropping the vowels) because "SEQUEL" was a trademark o
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by fbarred 2y ago
They aren't exactly passing the collection plate around. It's much more transactional: "So you had to have a special kind of paste before you went to go practice your Yogic Flying, and the paste cost, like, $150, and the Yogi
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by fbarred 3y ago
I assume you never heard of Roman Protasevich before the plane incident? Navalny on the other hand has done many notable things and was in the news all the time before his death. His is the first name you think of when you think of Russian
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by fbarred 3y ago
This sounds very similar to the books manually curated using Ilya Frank's Reading Method: http://english.franklang.ru/index.php/ilya-frank-s-reading-m...
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by fbarred 3y ago
"For instance, in Guyana (South America) it's ⱯI, and in Australia, IⱯ" That's a joke, right?
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by fbarred 3y ago
If this is real, what about this discovery that made it happen now? Is it a case that some technology is now available that unlocked this? Or is this trying something and seeing if it works? Could this discovery have been made 10-20 years a
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AI apocalypse is more likely than nuclear apocalypse(economist.com)
4 points by fbarred 3y ago|1 comments
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by fbarred 3y ago
https://archive.is/NGDoZ
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by fbarred 4y ago
20 hours??? Your comment makes it sound like you think it's a small amount? I get that it's over 35 years, but still!
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by fbarred 4y ago
Free downtown bus service stopped in 2012 (after being free for 40+ years).
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by fbarred 4y ago
The text says "kotlety" which are basically meatballs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutlet#Cuisines_of_Russia,_Ukr... . But I don't understand what I'm looking at either. Maybe it's the ground m
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by fbarred 4y ago
Resubmit with "Show HN" in the title? Then it will be visible in https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew and https://news.ycombinator.co.m/show
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by fbarred 4y ago
The large teeth may have been useful to hit vital organs on large prey that used to be common but now extinct. No large prey - no sabre teeth needed.
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by fbarred 4y ago
Wikipedia has a few convincing hypothesis. One is that sabre teeth are important for biting deep and reaching vital organs on large prey. After the megafauna went extinct, so did saber-toothed animals, and this adaptation was no longer need
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BBC Basic(bbcbasic.co.uk)
2 points by fbarred 4y ago|0 comments
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by fbarred 5y ago
This is amazing. I think it is trained on well-known works. Opening of the Raven, translated to English->Emoji->English: Once upon a night of despair, while I was thinking, weak and weary, Over the many compelling and curious volume o
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by fbarred 6y ago
Until fairly recently clickbait didn't exist in English too. Once the concept got a catchy English name it spread to other languages.
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by fbarred 6y ago
I really like the story of how Stardew Valley was created. Programming, music, writing and art was all created by a single person. It started as a project by an unemployed man to improve his programming skills. The game is just so warm and
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by fbarred 6y ago
Pearl Harbor is not seen as terrorism. It's seen as a military attack on the United States, and an act of war. United States hasn't declared war since 1942: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_
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by fbarred 6y ago
My first reaction was to look for a Wikipedia article for an overview of this. I couldn't find one yesterday, but one was created today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia
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by fbarred 7y ago
Trust but verify: I will trust you will do X, and will do Y in return, but I will verify that you are actually doing X. Example: mutual disarmament treaties with Soviet Union, Iran nuclear deal. Don't trust: I will not even engage with
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by fbarred 8y ago
The library was named for Kenneth S. Allen, Associate Director of Libraries from 1960 to 1982, in recognition of his years of service to the Libraries, and in appreciation of a generous gift from his son, Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Micros
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by fbarred 8y ago
"I would love it if I saw a new version of a language come out and it removes language features, wouldn't that be a change!" "I am still bitter about the initial .NET core rollout which was a crapshoot and had no parity

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