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kyleyeats··on Comets that 'bounce' from planet to planet could spread life across the universe
The idea is that it puts Earth at the center of the biological universe.

Generally the idea is that abiogenesis is very rare. I don't think any panspermists are saying that it only happened in one spot. As you pointed out that's basically the same belief as thinking it happened just once on Earth. The two 'versions' (they're not mutually exclusive) I'm familiar with are spreading via waterbears on comets or whatever, and also seeding by intelligent life. I think we have evidence for both in our own solar system, although the life we've seeded probably didn't take hold for very long.

kyleyeats··on Comets that 'bounce' from planet to planet could spread life across the universe
Some user posted here about how thinking of Earth as the origin of life is the last remaining piece of geocentrism and I can't stop thinking about it.
kyleyeats··on Restricted Ketogenic Diet Therapy for Primary Lung Cancer with Brain Metastasis
Have you tried the other end for your diet?
kyleyeats··on Restricted Ketogenic Diet Therapy for Primary Lung Cancer with Brain Metastasis
No, it's not. When diet is the treatment, they call it that. There's only a distinction when some huckster like you comes along.
kyleyeats··on Restricted Ketogenic Diet Therapy for Primary Lung Cancer with Brain Metastasis
The diet combined with the treatment does make things worse in the case of the condition I'm talking about. The world isn't black and white over here either. It's not cancer stakes but there are lots of people making themselves miserable with this "do both" approach.
kyleyeats··on Restricted Ketogenic Diet Therapy for Primary Lung Cancer with Brain Metastasis
I'm active in a community for a health condition. There's a very standard, very effective treatment which is mildly uncomfortable and time-consuming.

You can also do diet stuff. The diet stuff is about 20x less effective than the actual treatment, but that doesn't stop people from selling diets or not doing the treatment at all in favor of the diet.

That's what I worry about with studies like these. If you have a thing, do the actual treatment, don't mess around with diet. Diet impacts everything but that doesn't mean it can do anything. Do the treatment! Not the diet. This thinking can corrupt anyone, famously even Steve Jobs.

kyleyeats··on HTML First
Thanks for the note! The left padding and margin situation on the ul is the bane of my existence.
kyleyeats··on HTML First
I made an atomic CSS library that doesn't need a build step, if anyone wants one (spoiler, nobody does): https://casscss.github.io/cass/
kyleyeats··on Ask HN: What is your standard for judging when AGI exists?
When it mysteriously switches off. The AGI running the simulation wouldn't allow it.
kyleyeats··on 'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires
Would you say that believability is very important to you?
kyleyeats··on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
As someone from Florida, I'm disappointed. I clicked in here for some cryptobro hate.
kyleyeats··on Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling
So what would the mechanism of enforcement be?
kyleyeats··on Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling
If it's not, how would they possibly enforce it?
kyleyeats··on Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling
At first the government came right out and asked for an internet kill switch. Then they got smart and called it net neutrality.
kyleyeats··on The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days
The months named after 7, 8, 9 and 10 are the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months.
kyleyeats··on Show HN: Web app to generate AI pictures with logos "hidden" in them
You have to with this tech. If your thing takes off and you don't, you're stuck with a huge bill. Then you get leapfrogged anyway.
kyleyeats··on Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs
Lots of people forget that Breath of the Wild was developed for the Wii U. The engine for TOTK is actually two generations old.
kyleyeats··on Running Speeds
Do squats and deadlifts. You can't hope to get anywhere near an ideal form without a whole lot of leg strength.
kyleyeats··on Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"
We actually breathe out most of our previously-us mass.
kyleyeats··on Meta reveals serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day
How do you know the difference between stupidity and ambition unless you try?
kyleyeats··on China is becoming a data black hole, says short seller Aandahl
The China and the US are both doing this in some kind of twisted PR standoff. The only way anything the US is doing makes any sense is through this lens.
kyleyeats··on Google owes executive $1M after losing gender bias lawsuit
It's okay to be racist and sexist as long as it's in the "right" direction. This is standard-issue morality in California and it applies to absolutely everything including hiring and the courts.
kyleyeats··on Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig
"It's so easy guys!" - a neurotypical person with all the answers
kyleyeats··on Why BMI is flawed – and how to redefine obesity
Muscle is about 15% more dense than fat.
kyleyeats··on California mandates VC firms to release investments' diversity information
victimhood ideology + government = hate ideology
kyleyeats··on Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists
Solid take. It'd be much more fine if that 90% could convert over to something useful in times of crisis. But recent public health events have suggested otherwise.

I think the government could make progress by focusing on just cutting costs or just reducing inefficiencies. When the two are conflated and attempted at the same time, the incentives don't actually line up so nothing happens.

kyleyeats··on The CEO of Airbnb wants you to charge less for your house
We'll defeat them alright. I've already invested 7 million in katatonick's vision.
kyleyeats··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
Does this enable you to hate people more efficiently, or...?
kyleyeats··on Being a bash developer in the 21st century (2021)
I did use the file extension thing recently to differentiate between HTML and Markdown files. Very handy.
kyleyeats··on Being a bash developer in the 21st century (2021)
This is quaint, like an article about how bad opiates are, but it's from before fentanyl.

We bash developers are in a really bad spot. If you know one of us, please check on him or her. ChatGPT has enabled our digital hoarding like never before (some of us call it a "scripts folder"-- check for files like build5.sh or *.yml for really bad cases).

I don't know how to write bash. But I'm doing for loops and if statements like never before. I justify it by saying I'm only hurting myself. I've already gone through one hard drive, writing a new index.html over and over and over to the same spot, burning it into the device like the "2" in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on a 90s CRT.

I lost one of my best friends after I asked him why we don't just use string literals and yaml files for everything. Another when I told him to just put his CSS in a style tag. I can't stop. I can't go back. All I can do is stay away from Makefile people and hope it doesn't get even worse. Don't write shell scripts, kids.

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