It's so funny, in almost every Linux related discussion these is at lest one who says that his distro is the best. And some wonder why Linux is so fragmented and can't conquer the desktop.
Some acquired changes can be actually passed via gene methylation, chemical switches that can enable or disable genes without changing the sequence of the DNA. This changes sometimes are acquired and sometimes can even be passed to the next generations without being being reset. But this isn't about complex skills and memories.
Mostly if not absolutely, no, but some epigenetic changes can be passed to the next generation, such as stress. But complex skills can't be inherited. They copied the DNA because that particular combination of genes was successful and it's very difficult and costly to reproduce a similarly gifted dog with just selective breeding.
The problem is he is just too idealistic, he only says what's good in ideal. However, he fails to provide any practical solution, his logic is "all or nothing", even if the reasonable solution was 99,999% FOSS, he would still refuse because it's not exactly 100%. This doesn't work. We need more pragmatic FOSS leader like Eric Raymond.
There are quite many people who use other OSes, and for that it's not necessary to be nerd, geek or even advanced user. I personally use Windows 7. For most users even Windows 10 works good enough, better than GNU/Linux. Most people for whom Windows 10 didn't work good enough, have already switched (often with somebody's help) to something else. The point is that all that consumers care is that the software is good regardless of its license.
Yeah, it's much easier to do creative things by adding shiny new features. But what about fixing the horribly inconsistent GUI, old bugs and doing proper QA? It seems that MS stopped caring seriously about its users and fired people from the QA department. Now the user is the tester. Of course, there is LTSB, but even there most of the shit still remains. I'm not implying that Google or others are much better, but this company cares about quality and I haven't seen Android/Chrome/Chrome OS having such horrible bugs and user interface inconsistencies.
But can it serve to billions of people simultaneously? It's no question that such things can be done at least for the fraction of population but I think we are far from this becoming mainstream. It's still technologically challenging, it needs very fast, stable and low latency internet everywhere, a huge amount of server computational power (including streaming and graphical processing). Compared to local computing, this will require much more electricity for the same performance.
As long as most of the global computing power doesn't physically belong to corporations, the average internet isn't accessible everywhere and its speed isn't high enough, this won't happen to this extent. Also you'll still need some local client even this happens.
BTW, why post a link to a site (vice.com) asking for registration/subscription? Some users like me haven't the habit of subscribing/registering in random sites.
There are two kinds of cholesterols depending on the kind of cholesterol containers (lipoproteins) is cholesterol transported in: LDL (low-density lipoprotein), sometimes called “bad” cholesterol and HDL (high-density lipoprotein), or “good” cholesterol. Lipoproteins' walls, as you can guess from the name, are made of proteins. When your diet lacks proteins or has too much cholesterol compared to proteins, then your organism produces more low-density lipoproteins (LDL) which have greater capacity but much thinner walls. This is when the atherosclerosis starts. But when your diet contains enough proteins you'll be fine. Eggs have very high biological protein value among natural products and that amount of protein is much more than enough to compensate the cholesterol. This study might have methodological flaws since many other studies didn't show such findings, some even showed the opposite.
Of course, we should be cautious, firstly, because we little understand how most human genes work and interact with each other and thus mistakes can screw up peoples' health. But it's actually a bad idea to rely on incompetent peoples' opinions. Other than that, I don't see anything wrong with the idea of enhancing ourselves in the genetic level. There are numerous diseases/disorders/weaknesses which are at least partially genetic. They have screwed up lives of tens if not hundreds of millions of people and also are burden to our society.Diabetes, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, ADHD, do i need to say more? And finally, as someone with a neurodevelopmental problem, I consider diversity(pathological)/neurodiversity advocacy a dangerous thing.
According to my PI-nary conversion algorithm the comment scores in Slashdot would be: -1 - -1 0 - 0 1 - 1 2 - 2 3 - 3 4 - 10.22012202112111030100001011... 5 - 11.22012202112111030100001011...
My ID would be 11213000130002.2221120030010203010210012201....The world becomes strange and ugly when you look at it through PI except that only PI based numbers are beautiful.
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It's so funny, in almost every Linux related discussion these is at lest one who says that his distro is the best. And some wonder why Linux is so fragmented and can't conquer the desktop.
Not surprising. Even Google knew from the beginning that it was an experimental project and had doubts about that model success.
It won't pass but some dogs are better and faster learners and that has genetic factors.
Some acquired changes can be actually passed via gene methylation, chemical switches that can enable or disable genes without changing the sequence of the DNA. This changes sometimes are acquired and sometimes can even be passed to the next generations without being being reset. But this isn't about complex skills and memories.
What about cloning Einstein and other bright minds?
Mostly if not absolutely, no, but some epigenetic changes can be passed to the next generation, such as stress. But complex skills can't be inherited. They copied the DNA because that particular combination of genes was successful and it's very difficult and costly to reproduce a similarly gifted dog with just selective breeding.
The problem is he is just too idealistic, he only says what's good in ideal. However, he fails to provide any practical solution, his logic is "all or nothing", even if the reasonable solution was 99,999% FOSS, he would still refuse because it's not exactly 100%. This doesn't work. We need more pragmatic FOSS leader like Eric Raymond.
There are quite many people who use other OSes, and for that it's not necessary to be nerd, geek or even advanced user. I personally use Windows 7. For most users even Windows 10 works good enough, better than GNU/Linux. Most people for whom Windows 10 didn't work good enough, have already switched (often with somebody's help) to something else. The point is that all that consumers care is that the software is good regardless of its license.
Exactly. Please, mod up the parent comment.
Yeah, it's much easier to do creative things by adding shiny new features. But what about fixing the horribly inconsistent GUI, old bugs and doing proper QA? It seems that MS stopped caring seriously about its users and fired people from the QA department. Now the user is the tester. Of course, there is LTSB, but even there most of the shit still remains. I'm not implying that Google or others are much better, but this company cares about quality and I haven't seen Android/Chrome/Chrome OS having such horrible bugs and user interface inconsistencies.
But can it serve to billions of people simultaneously? It's no question that such things can be done at least for the fraction of population but I think we are far from this becoming mainstream. It's still technologically challenging, it needs very fast, stable and low latency internet everywhere, a huge amount of server computational power (including streaming and graphical processing). Compared to local computing, this will require much more electricity for the same performance.
As long as most of the global computing power doesn't physically belong to corporations, the average internet isn't accessible everywhere and its speed isn't high enough, this won't happen to this extent. Also you'll still need some local client even this happens.
BTW, why post a link to a site (vice.com) asking for registration/subscription? Some users like me haven't the habit of subscribing/registering in random sites.
Wow, we already have time machines?
There are two kinds of cholesterols depending on the kind of cholesterol containers (lipoproteins) is cholesterol transported in: LDL (low-density lipoprotein), sometimes called “bad” cholesterol and HDL (high-density lipoprotein), or “good” cholesterol. Lipoproteins' walls, as you can guess from the name, are made of proteins. When your diet lacks proteins or has too much cholesterol compared to proteins, then your organism produces more low-density lipoproteins (LDL) which have greater capacity but much thinner walls. This is when the atherosclerosis starts. But when your diet contains enough proteins you'll be fine. Eggs have very high biological protein value among natural products and that amount of protein is much more than enough to compensate the cholesterol. This study might have methodological flaws since many other studies didn't show such findings, some even showed the opposite.
Welcome to the USA...
I live in Armenia.
I am so glad that I no longer live in Russia since the age of 3-4 years, though its my birthplace.
Yeah, all you said is there: http://wasdarwinwrong.com/kort... .
Of course, we should be cautious, firstly, because we little understand how most human genes work and interact with each other and thus mistakes can screw up peoples' health. But it's actually a bad idea to rely on incompetent peoples' opinions. Other than that, I don't see anything wrong with the idea of enhancing ourselves in the genetic level. There are numerous diseases/disorders/weaknesses which are at least partially genetic. They have screwed up lives of tens if not hundreds of millions of people and also are burden to our society.Diabetes, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, ADHD, do i need to say more? And finally, as someone with a neurodevelopmental problem, I consider diversity(pathological)/neurodiversity advocacy a dangerous thing.
According to my PI-nary conversion algorithm the comment scores in Slashdot would be:
.The world becomes strange and ugly when you look at it through PI except that only PI based numbers are beautiful.
-1 - -1
0 - 0
1 - 1
2 - 2
3 - 3
4 - 10.22012202112111030100001011...
5 - 11.22012202112111030100001011...
My ID would be 11213000130002.2221120030010203010210012201...
considering that DuckDuckGo uses other search engines underneath, especially Google.
Am I the only one who's new tab page shortcut add/remove is broken?
And also replaces it with Windows 7.
And finally hack NASA with HTML.
Also JS.