IzyaKatzmann

@IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this goes hard fr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually called the ‘gradualist’ approach

  Doesn’t make some humans feel we are special though and thus non-viable…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy sun⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s beautiful, i can’t stop looking at it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He did though.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eyyy, coming in with a save! Thanks! I appreciate the info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He did though.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw crap, my bad, appreciate the correction. I thought they applied it in a novel way or something? Anyways Venter’s business practice sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He did though.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For folks that don’t know, Venter had a company, Celera, they competed with the Human Genome Project (HGP) run by the US Gov’t. They developed interesting techniques to sequence, I believe they are credited with shotgun sequencing.

  How were they able to compete?? The HGP published all their work openly, Venter and co used the freely accessible data alongside their own proprietary methods to try and sequence the human genome first themselves.

  If I recall correctly it was considered a tie and they both jointly published the first sequenced human genome in Science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t argue, I will say that Adam Smith is a notable figure who predates Marx, Ricardo, Madison, Stuart Mill, Hayek and Friedman, etc. All of whom were important figures who have shaped our current economic system and form of liberalism.

  Even if you don’t care it’s important to note the effect he’s had as it largely effects you even to this day. Warren Buffet, notable capitalist, said one of his two favourite books was Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Think of it like the Bible of economics.