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This makes total sense to me. The program lines are the really important stuff, and baseball stats and vestigial organs are like REM in BASIC.

10 Don’t forget to breathe

20 My name is Pico Paco, e/Lambda

30 Never more than 2 martinis unless I’m at home

REM What my appendix does is …

40 Heartbeat = ml/beat x VO2 exerted or whatever

REM Rod Carew batted .388 in 1977

50 Use right hand first if possible

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I love the idea of my genome encoding someone else’s athletic performance.

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18 points

Spoken like someone who doesn’t know shit about functional genomics

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22 points

my psychic powers tell me he doesn’t know shit about programming either

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12 points

the subtitle always makes me laugh in these contexts

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10 points

That is a delightfully ironic cover ^^, my headcannon is that someone in the distribution pipeline was intentionally taking the piss, surely no one can be that shortsighted; wait …

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@dgerard @Beryl do any of us, really?

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13 points

he would have been tweeting about how science can’t explain the mechanical turk

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you just transported my brain to a world where the orange site somehow existed before computing and started making prediction market bets on the mechanical Turk revolutionizing Chess

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12 points

“rip chess players”

“10 UX takeaways from the mechanical Turk impact on the chess world”

“stop playing chess and learn how to build mechanical Turks”

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“what I learned from building a chessboard in a weekend”

“chess with matchsticks - I really liked orangeposter42069’s weekend chess experiment but wanted to see if I could go even more extreme, [53000 word vomit continues, 3 Medium popover walls + coursebuy griftware on the side]”

“chess with matchsticks may be interesting, but AXESHOEWALLY bars of soap would be more period-appropriate”

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This has to be a joke, right? Somebody demonstrate seriousness on OP’s part before I craft a sneer, please.

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Ah yes, the same reason a caterpillar and a bison can produce offspring.

It’s not magic, it’s just like writing code for a business that has been pushing to production for millions of years, with millions of little scripts always running, fixing little things, fixing the things that fix the things, making sure you don’t have a tail, unless for some reason that works out, then sure, you should always have a tail.

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