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He's made it abundantly clear how much he despises the entire concept of labor, of having to pay money to people to do the things that actually make a company work. He will not be able to build a company that actually makes games with that kind of disdain for the single most important resource required to make them. And his strategy of acquiring an existing company and gutting it afterwards won't be nearly as effective in the games industry, where you have to be continuously producing NEW content.

I can't think of any time I've felt lile being left-handed is an advantage.

For Assemblers, no, I'm not sure how smart or programmable splitters would help anything. There's not much going on here that I would call spaghetti, just routing two types of items into a line of machines.

I'm guessing you're talking about like a sushi belt setup? I've done that once before, in a computer & supercomputer factory, it was quite tricky to get right. The whole belt kept jamming up from the sheer volume of screws, until I setup a loopback.

Can confirm. Use this one myself. Because of course my bank considers pasting into the password field to be a security risk.

Considering those quotes talk about defining "living systems" or "groups of organisms", as opposed to individual cells (and again, elaborated on even moreso within the full linked articles), I'm gonna have to say "no, they're not really excluded at all." Their entire purpose is to meet up and initiate replication. An egg and sperm cell are each one small part of a much larger system of ongoing life. The same can be said for a fertilized egg, an embryo, and so on for most stages of development in a womb.

If you want to insist on a definition that says egg and sperm cells aren't alive, or aren't an organism, you're gonna have a hard time saying that a fertilized egg or an embryo are. They don't replicate on their own, either, not without a very specific environment and set of stimuli.

Also, sperm cells DO replicate, to an extent. They undergo forms of mitosis and meiosis, during their growth. And an egg cell absolutely replicates. Like any other type of cell replication, it needs certain stimuli to initiate it. I.E. it needs to be fertilized.

"So, what you think you just explained was..."

"That's right. This box contains our own universe!"

From the National Institute for Health

In biology, it is generally agreed that organisms that possess the following seven characteristics are animate or living beings and thus possess life: the ability to respire, grow, excrete, reproduce, metabolize, move, and be responsive to the environment

The article as a whole elaborates that even trying to pin down a single definiton of life is a bit of a fool's errand, much less trying to use such a definition to support arguments about when life starts or stops.

From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (which actually is just re-quoting an entirely different article, one of many discussed within)

We propose to define living systems as those that are: (1) composed of bounded micro-environments in thermodynamic equilibrium with their surroundings; (2) capable of transforming energy to maintain their low-entropy states; and (3) able to replicate structurally distinct copies of themselves from an instructional code perpetuated indefinitely through time despite the demise of the individual carrier through which it is transmitted.

From a University of Minnesota Introduction to Biology course

All groups of living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to stimuli, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing. When viewed together, these characteristics serve to define life.

In short, there really isn't any unified definition of life. Comparing different definitions, there's common themes that emerge, but nothing that supports saying conception is when it starts. If you're going to use that definition, you can't support it by saying that "science" defines it that way.

It doesn't. Life is a continuum, it doesn't care what artificial labels we try to put on things. A fertilized egg is just as alive as an unfertilized one, or a sperm cell, by any scientific definition of life, highlights how useless it is to try and use that definition to argue about abortion.

Nah, it's a great example, for exactly the reason you said.

The argument for holding gun manufacturers liable is BETTER than the argument for ISPs, so if it doesn't work for gun manufacturers, it DEFINITELY doesn't work for ISPs.

The lights are just illuminate signage, with Lumen turned on, but I did have to make some settings tweaks to the engine to get the illumination back to where it used to be.

See here if you're interested.

Something will have to give

Can it be the AI?

I went back and double-checked, I don't THINK I first found you from here, I think you just popped up on YouTube for me.