Do you have a link to the scientific paper(s) that this article references?

I'm a neuroscientist, and my microbiologist girlfriend and I always debate about the importance of microbes to neuroscience.

I'm generally against the idea of planting as many trees as possible.

Trees are not very good carbon sinks because they decompose and burn. Also, there are also some ecological communities where adding trees makes the land a worse carbon sink.

Avoiding cutting down forests to build suburbs is something I can certainly get behind though.

something like 15,000 empty houses right now

This statistic is meaningless because many of the cities with excess housing are in places with no jobs

building brand new single family homes doesn’t empower the working class, it empowers landlords

This is incorrect. The important statistic to look at is vacancy rate In almost all the major cities in the US vacency rates are well below the tenant empowering 8% and many are below the 5% rate where tenant have a fighting chance. We absolutely need more housing. I'd prefer duplexes, triplexes, row houses and apartments for urbanist reasons, but the idea that building more houses empowers landlords over the proletariat is ridiculous.

That is not an example of market capitalism. It's an example of regulatory capture by homeowners: capitalist developers would like to build more housing, but homeowners cause the local government to block this.

With housing, we are in an unusual circumstance where both less government intervention (let people build more housing) and more government intervention (build public housing) would be better than the status quo.

I mean the policy in question was to tax second homes at 10,000%

Presumably that includes houses an organization wants to rent out. It's hard to imagine that this policy wouldnt make it very difficult to rent

Because it's good for people to be able to rent a house, and we already subside home ownership enough in the US

You don't need to "tie a specific neuronal activity to a thought or memory" to know whether a set of neurons can have humanlike memory or emotions. We know that specific brain regions are required for specific brain functions. Most famously, we know that hippocampi are necessary to form new episodic memories due to Patient HM. This organoid does not have anything like these necessary specific brain regions, so we can be pretty sure they don't have these human brain functions.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "tie a specific neuronal activity to a thought or memory" We've known examples of single unit neural activity being correlated with thoughts for many years, see place cells and Grandmother cells. Really, the whole field of systems neuroscience studies this at some level. And I think that field has made some progress.

We have lots of evidence from legions (like a stroke or surgery) that show that various brain regions are necessary for the different brain functions you mentioned. These organoids have nothing like those brain regions.

I don't find brain organoids to be disturbing or all that interesting. Organoids are not very different from classical cell culture. And organoids of human neurons are not very different from organoids of mouse neurons.

This is not anything like a human brain living in a dish.

Yes, so I can probably plan for it.

I found Google messages to be unreliable: refusing to send a SMS if the Internet connection is bad. The signal that the message failed to send is a single hollow checkmark.

I switched to fossify messages, which just sends SMSs or MMSs and doesn't create its own flawed messaging protocol

Here's a quote from the Wikipedia page:

In 2016, Opera was acquired by an investment group led by a Chinese consortium, the consortium included several Chinese companies such as Kunlun Tech and Qihoo 360.

That's crazy, were they arboreal?

Do you know the benefit of this over cython?

I'm not suggesting static timestamps, but small audio files of the podcast about to enter, and just exited an ad.

The app could then search for the clips in the podcast to get the timestamp.

If there are copyright issues of sharing small clips, you can just save a hash of a clip, which will allow the app to find a match, but is not itself the Intelecual property of the podcaster; The hash cannot be turned back into the audio file. The hash would be smaller than the audio clip anyway, so sharing hashes would be better

Maybe if you could distribute audio files (or hashes of audio files) that mark the start and stop of ads, that would solve the problem.

I guess podcasters could combat this by inserting random noise into their audio files, but they probably wouldn't do that.

As a fuckcars moron, I think that society would be better off if that bridge doesn't get rebuilt.

Suburban ring highways are bad because they encourage car dependent development.

My comments are being pushed fine, but maybe not everything is being pulled

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tutanota didn't require a phone number, last I checked