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"The team was able to isolate two colorless molecules called benzoquinones—heterocyclic compounds that do not contain amino acids"

Hats off, not only were they able to isolate just two molecules, but also established that they were colorless.

I don't think this is a usual definition for benzoquinones:

"heterocyclic compounds that do not contain amino acids".

I can smell Sam Altman's socks reading this article.


"colorless molecules called benzoquinones"

...and then dozen of words further on:

"blue benzoquinone has the capacity to act against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, while the red one is effective against Staphylococcus aureus."

How quaint! Blue colorless molecule is different from the red colorless molecule!


Maybe you should not omit those "dozens of words" that clearly explain what you're trying to portray as a contradiction.

> These molecules have a particular property: When they come into contact with air, they oxidize and change color. One becomes blue and the other red.


You are absolutely right.

Maybe I shouldn't. But then I have to deep-dive into yet another flagrant cheap hallucination. You see, when a molecule oxidize, it becomes a different molecule.

It is impossible for a benzoquinone to oxidize, yet remain a benzoquinone. There are just two of them [1], and the two are isomers [2]. Transforming one into another would be isomerisation, not oxidation.

Not to mention — "oxidize on contact with air" is such a pile of nonsense. Just look at those things: benzene ring with a couple of oxygens sticking from it. [1] That stuff is pretty darn stable in presence of atmospheric oxygen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzoquinone

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomer


In chronological sense.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989

Round Table agreement, which paved the way to the partially free elections in 1989 won by the opposition, preceded similar events in other countries by several months including Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the Fall of Berlin Wall.


Very good point. As an added benefit, new accounts would be gathering karma slower by creating valuable comments as opposed to some more or less random submissions.


Reminds me of this superb part of the Odyssey where Odysseus is reunited with his dog, Argos, after 20 years of absence. Odysseus was in disguise, but it's only him that could pass the test and recognize the returning king, after which he died.

https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.t...


Still preferable to just pasting it without revealing the source. LLMs have become a brain prosthesis for some people which is incredibly sad.


Horned sphere is a recursive beauty. Nice thing to refresh my memory on path-connected vs simply connected propety.


We don't know what happened with the bulk of Epstein's private island videos. Who knows, they may well have resurfaced in Tel Aviv or Moscow. Both countries have a lot to gain from this disastrous campaign.


Pizza like its predecessor Focaccia (panis focacius in Roman times) was initially tomato-less. Even today many pizzerias offer pizza bianca in their menus


Bloom was a rare exception to Lem's law: nobody reads anything and even if they read they don't understand, and even if they understand they immediately forget


“This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’”

— Matthew 13:13 (NIV)



Already told about this already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287309


You're recursively funny :]


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