Comment Re:Ketamine too, for PTSD. And LSD for depression. (Score 2) 114
Comment Re:ALL viruses trend to infect more, less deadly (Score 1) 207
Comment Re:ALL viruses trend to infect more, less deadly (Score 4, Insightful) 207
as a virus mutates over time, it infects more people but also becomes less deadly.
Statistically speaking, yes. That doesn't mean you can't get a mutation that becomes more deadly every once in a while.
Comment Re: So... (Score 1) 158
Comment Re:I'd call it 'evolution in action', except this: (Score 1) 162
Comment Re: Dont forget (Score 1) 443
Comment Re:Life on Mars (Score 1) 42
If there is bacteria, they will probably find complex creatures with some sort of intelligence
Non sequitur. The jump from single-celled organisms to multicellular life is difficult. Dolphins did not exist on Earth until 50Mya. Bacteria have been there for at least 3000Mya.
Comment Re:Seems like an easy scam to detect (Score 2) 142
Comment Re:Multiverse (Score 1) 209
The mere existence of this question, a variation on the liar paradox, suggests that the future is intrinsically unknowable, even theoretically.
Does the barber paradox make barbers impossible?
Comment Re:*gasp* Don't use those words! (Score 1) 160
All lossy video compression is purely integer-based.
Wait, whaaat? Aren't these purely FP transforms?