Iama_traitor
Iama_traitor t1_iye7n96 wrote
How much of the world economy or your life do you think would be possible without the chemical industry?
Iama_traitor t1_iyd88ws wrote
Reply to comment by WinterWindWhip in The Decline of British Blue Collar Stories On Screen: 25 years since NIL BY MOUTH first hit screens, Gary Oldman’s film has become a relic of a time when working-class stories were major cinematic events. What happened? by Bullingdon1973
It's essentially saying "Let the market decide", which isn't the worst idea considering the computational power of markets. Just look at LGBT/racial representation in media. That's a decision made by the market. Me too movement also ushered in quite a bit of change with pressure from the market. It's not morality by fiat but by the distributed intelligence of the market.
Iama_traitor t1_izl93ek wrote
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OP isn't exactly correct, there is coding and noncoding DNA. Coding DNA makes proteins, noncoding DNA doesn't, but it plays the vital role of gene regulation and expression, codes for all the RNA produced in our cells, and includes all the introns for coding genes. So you can't live without noncoding DNA.
However, there are plenty of paradoxes that first arose, like how closely related species have vastly different genome sizes. Turns out they had roughly the same number of genes, just huge variation in repetitive DNA. So, along the lines you were thinking of, if there's even a .00001% error rate of transcription or mutation and all of your DNA was 100% necessary for survival, there's no way you could survive or reproduce. So large genomes actually end up requiring more and more repetitive DNA to hedge the odds.