al3xandre

... or there was and they consolidated to increase profits since antitrust is rarely enforced these days

What difference is there between information stored as proteins in a chains or as bytes on hard drive / neuron configuration in your brain.

We just got used to the DNA=life, but is this a valid assumption?

Some exotic lifeforms could encode their self-defining information on silicium magnetic polarisation, electron spin or whatever. And you would call them life if they were standing and moving in an animal-like way.

If virus are alive, then internet memes are alive. —They reproduce not by themselves but by infecting other organisms -- They evolve / mutate

This is actually higher cost than your typical American house, which is just built with panels of wood put together haha

Always found it weird to see governments paying for PR consultants.

It's like : I give you tax money to do a good job, but you spend it to convince me that you're doing a good job instead of actually delivering getting shit done.

Competition pushing price down to a near-zero cost base? like the $1 microcontroller you can buy today.

How can outline be even legal? They basically steal the content of a website and create a new page on their own with it. It just happened that the content is stripped of ads for readability, but still.