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Re: [Humor] Kennedy's New Legislation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (? the Platypus {aka David Formosa})
Mon Jan 12 21:43:45 1998

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:11:24 +1100 (EST)
From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980111002305.007ca5f0@otc.net>
Reply-To: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>

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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, David Honig wrote:

[...]

> At 01:28 AM 1/11/98 +1100, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
> > If you have a population of unchanging clones (your typical 'master
> > race') you don't get any evoltion or improvement.
> >
> 
> A population *must* undergo variation in its
> heriditary units since 
> 1. there's always errors in copying the code
> 2. equivalently, you can't drive the error rate
> of a channel down to 0, just arbitrarily close.

This is true,  of cause if you have a population like this that will most
likely get killed off by the next pathogen.

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