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by kgin 5y ago
Most of the internet is actually a MMORPG where you use comment boxes to tell people why they're wrong. HN is a very advanced level in this game, with high standards for gameplay, but it's very much a part of the game nonetheless.
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by kgin 5y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-022-00002-4 Even though nobody is quite sure how it works, it's possible to reverse the epigenetics of a cell back to its original differentiated state and even back to stem
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by kgin 5y ago
I think this actually will succeed
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by kgin 5y ago
Listen, you are being overly harsh on yourself. You say that your intelligence was “given” to you, like a gift. But then you turn around and say the parts of you that made choices that didn’t result in the life you compare yourself to… thos
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by kgin 5y ago
This is a beautiful answer, thank you. It puts into words so much of what I’ve had at the back of my mind for awhile now.
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by kgin 5y ago
How does one “just get married”?
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by kgin 5y ago
Can you say a bit more about what happened when you confronted these feelings?
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by kgin 5y ago
Can you add a bit more about how this works?
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by kgin 5y ago
Possibly a case study for future space settlements.
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by kgin 5y ago
So you get to stay twice as long.
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by kgin 5y ago
For those reacting to the inclusion of "lonely" in the description: lonely isn't a dirty word. I worked at Meetup for over a decade and one thing I learned there was that loneliness is a normal experience when you start anyth
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by kgin 5y ago
Second one. Someone remote can help label and plan until the car has enough confidence to proceed.
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by kgin 5y ago
Get ready to be surprised. The routes are created by the car on the fly. There is no preset course. The service area is bounded by the current permit, but within those bounds, the car can go anywhere.
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by kgin 5y ago
Public, fully autonomous taxis in SF is big news regardless. Hard to imagine it not being extensively discussed here.
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by kgin 5y ago
Been so impressed with the Cruise approach. No hype, no promises, just keeping quiet, working hard on a very hard problem until it’s ready to launch. Congrats to everybody who’s been a part of this.
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by kgin 5y ago
I have to agree that. In some ways, there is more socialization in a small town than in a large city. The threshold for "having enough in common" is lowered to "we both live here". In a city, people often interact less w
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by kgin 5y ago
What are your views on the trial that reversed epigenetic age in optic nerves, allowing them to regenerate? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2975-4
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by kgin 5y ago
That's a lot of big claims about a very specific agenda. What are you basing this on?
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by kgin 5y ago
I’m not sure I understand what the proposed relationship is. Web access for most people has been essentially the same experience for years. Whether you have 5mbps or 1000mbps, Facebook pops up about the same. Why would having access to high
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by kgin 5y ago
This has real shades of Theranos
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by kgin 5y ago
The idea of the Monkey’s Paw / Deal With The Devil when it comes to medicine has a strong pull. The belief that cures of terrible diseases would come with a terrible price makes it easier to deal with the fact that we don’t have those
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by kgin 5y ago
Where can read more about this? I don’t see why blockchain would be necessary to handle transactions between trusted entities (like banks).
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by kgin 5y ago
Sometimes I have to step back and note the whiplash of future predicted problems. When I was a kid, it was overpopulation. Then it became overpopulation combined with the prospect of automation taking all of our jobs. Now, very suddenly as
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by kgin 5y ago
It’s beautiful to read even as someone older who hasn’t experienced it. I’m terribly jealous.
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by kgin 5y ago
Americans have one of the highest rates of higher education in the developed world. America just wants new grads to be indebted to motivate them to get to work.
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by kgin 5y ago
From what I’ve read, the additional biological advantages are small but the additional ethical issues are large.
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by kgin 5y ago
There isn’t any propofol at slaughterhouses
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by kgin 5y ago
https://twitter.com/dmarti/status/1477389651849756674?s=21 > An NFT is like being the Foursquare Mayor of a JPEG
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by kgin 5y ago
Or just put it in the file’s metadata. If we’re counting on social contract, I’m sure everyone will respect the metadata and never modify it.
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by kgin 5y ago
Am I being unreasonable to assume that if you’re unwell enough for another reason to be admitted to the hospital (especially right now) and then are also found to have covid, you’re going to have a bad time regardless of what brought you in

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