mikeyjk

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by mikeyjk 3y ago
Wouldn't we expect to see substantially more than 30% of the DNA be different. I don't think carbon dating can be used to extract DNA. I also would have thought DNA would have degraded significantly over that period of time. There
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by mikeyjk 3y ago
Not that this is really the core of your point at all - but I believe the state of the science currently suggests that pheromones in humans are a myth at worst, at best unproven. We only have a vestigial vomeronasal organ, which no longer f
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by mikeyjk 3y ago
Is this also an argument for determinism in the Bible? I'm guessing not because that would somewhat goes against some of the bigger messaging.
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by mikeyjk 4y ago
How has it sped up your writing of software? It's not integrated into an IDE like GH co-pilot yet is it? I only find I reach for it for stuff like navigating some curly regex or forgetting date time format syntax for the millionth time
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by mikeyjk 4y ago
Seems reasonable. Although I would tweak it to say you can't control when each turn ends.
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by mikeyjk 4y ago
That is not a clinically recognised term.
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by mikeyjk 4y ago
You are responding to a satirical comment, riffing on the 'hacker news famous' comment that was criticising Dropbox during its infancy.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
That is hilarious. Can we use deep fakes combined with trump's spite to move him closer toward the left??
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
The "agree?" is quintessential LinkedIn. Such an utterly shallow pretence for engaging a discussion.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
I feel like I've missed the context leading to this perspective. Where was the discourse on t-cells shut down?
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
What makes it important? Isn't protein really easy to get from veges? Like chickpeas, tofu, tempeh, quinoa, edamame, lentils, etc
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
As a young boy I was convinced this was a conspiracy. Until I saw the PBS documentary and a 90s website debunking the JFK movie (which I really enjoyed). Helped set me on my journey of learning and appreciating critical thinking skills.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
What level of testing would make these vaccines non experimental in your mind, and what other vaccine do you know that has had that level of rigour applied? I'm genuinely curious
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
Jetbrains is trying to catch up on this, and in some cases has.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
There's no way to be notified of comment replies, or see votes, though. But otherwise I love it as well.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
This, imo. Netflix did the exact same thing.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
This makes me think of how steam does indeed have some smarts to warn users when a game may be getting review brigaded. I think it's a combination of volume of reviews by time, and perhaps the referrer (?). It does seem to work fairly
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
Agreed, people made the same argument for removing 5 star ratings from Netflix ('people only ever vote 1 star or 5 stars'). If this were an input for the decision making, these platforms could very easily present that evidence. I
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
I felt like Lex just took him on faith for so many points. This was a hard listen to me. Some really interesting points were raised but I didn't feel like there was much fleshing out of how certain the conclusion was not exactly how an
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
It must only be pretty extreme cases as Russel Brand and Brett Weinstein still have their videos up.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
That blog is horrific on mobile
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
Are there any examples of people doing this? Sounds interesting
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
Sometimes in Western Australia I forget covid is happening if I don't check the news. Brief, sweet moments. We haven't been in a lockdown longer than 3 days in quite some time.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
I thought Gmail was much worse, scanning email contents etc.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
Afaik they operate out of the US. I'm not sure if the NSA is really any better, perhaps just less forthright. I mean, I don't know what to believe, the whole FBI app.le thing makes me feel less cynnical about the chance of NSA kno
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
I find it a bit disconcerting you responded defensively to a quote to prove you know it - choosing to not respond to the more consequential data, which seems to address the heart of your argument.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
In WA we've been pretty much living a normal life sans about ~4 lockdowns, most of which went for 4-7 days. It feels like ancient history. Last one we had was around April 24
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
In Western Australia locking down hard and early has meant we have more freedoms in the long term (thus far). So while we have less freedom initially, it seems to play better in the long term.
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
This seems like the classic 'what happens when your freedoms encroach upon my freedoms' discussion beginning
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by mikeyjk 5y ago
I don't think this is a fair equivalence... But nonetheless I'm grateful you linked that! That's fascinating to read in hindsight.

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