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Comment Re:Why was he running Firefox? (Score 1) 234

FWIW, I didn't detest Pocket. OTOH, I never used it, either. But "universally detested" is wrong. I thought of it as "dead wood", but that's a very different category. There are LOTS of software capabilities that I don't use.

To me, panning a browser because it isn't optimized to run on a phone is silly. Saying I prefer a different browser on my phone would be sensible (if I though web browsing from a phone was sensible...but with my eyes that's never going to be true).

Comment Re:Climate change accelerates evolution (Score 1) 28

Well..."sort of virus first" is probably correct, but that doesn't mean that things don't sometimes go into reverse. The "sort of virus" couldn't be like the current stuff, because it couldn't be parasitic. And there are arguments that a "sort of cell" evolved before the genetic machinery. Nobody really knows, (See "metabolism first" https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fui.adsabs.harvard.edu%2F... for one argument.)

I, personally, suspect that the proto-"cell walls" and the proto-"genetic machinery" evolved their first stages independently, and mixed together later into something with superior "stability".

Comment Butter and margarine all over again (Score 1) 46

the past repeats . . .

margarine was supposed to be better for us than that awful butter.

But, gee whiz, when we got down to it and actually looked, this chemical concoction designed to mimic the taste chemistry of butter also mimicked other properties--and was *worse* . . .

now, we make a fuel to mimic the combustion chemistry of current fuels, and, well, . . . surprise!

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