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0d311 | 5 years ago | on: Software Is a Superpower

+1 on this, paragraphs are meant to group ideas. The way they’re used here, there might as well be just a wall of text with no paragraph delineations at all.

0d311 | 7 years ago | on: Using spinach leaf as scaffolding, scientists built a mini heart (2017)

I actually graduated from WPI at the same time as this research was going on (2017), and I remember discussing this with a few graduate students who worked in the same lab but on other research.

All the students in the lab knew the research wasn't particularly exciting but that the research space had a lot of potential. There was a lot of hype on the campus when this article (and I think a few other similar ones) came out and started circulating, but I think it made the students who actually did the research uncomfortable, because it was made clear that their advisor had hyped the research for funding purposes.

Academia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

0d311 | 7 years ago | on: My Parents Give Me $28k a Year

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, last month, a year ago. Stop comparing yourself to others, remap comparing yourself against others to comparing yourself against your past self.

0d311 | 7 years ago | on: My Parents Give Me $28k a Year

"A study of young, urban injection drug users interviewed in 2008 and 2009 found that 86 percent had used opioid pain relievers nonmedically prior to using heroin... Of people entering treatment for heroin addiction who began abusing opioids in the 1960s, more than 80 percent started with heroin. Of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s, 75 percent reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug."[0]

What if they're being intentionally coerced by pharma?

[0]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/rela...

0d311 | 8 years ago | on: Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)

As a software engineer who graduated college about a year ago -- with a degree in robotics engineering -- somehow the end has always seemed both near and far. Botnets and massive hacks aren't something I grew up with, but they feel commonplace ever since my introduction to the world of tech. I don't know if I'll even be surprised when the grey goo starts pouring out of my USB port, other than the surprise something else malicious didn't start pouring out first :)
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