I don't think it's that at all. Pun threads generally make for very boring reading/discussion and tend to rise to the top because they're quick to digest, uncontroversial and mildly amusing. If you're looking for more substantial comments (arguably most HN users are) these can be a real chore to slog through.

You misspelt "people who like intelligent discussion". A joke now and then is okay, but try to give it enough redeeming value. (And for the rest, don't worry too much about downvotes.)

I upvoted the puns, don't worry.

No one should entrust their health solely to a doctor. It is like entrusting our life to technical support, which half the time is terrible.

No, not instead of as in "never see a doctor" but rather as trying to be smart about things you can do yourself. For example:

Healthier lifestyle: do you need to consult a doctor to decide to cut down smoking or even stop it? (No) Start exercising? (Most likely, no, thise few who need will likely know.) Changing your diet? (No, unless you are doing something very special.)

Picking up some basic skills also means you can treat smaller issues yourself. I keep iodine solution, painkillers, and wrapping bandages for smaller sprains readily available at home. Leave antibiotica, wounds beyond scratches (could have been infected by tetanus or other nasty stuff) to the professionals.

Having cured all of the physical injuries that one would encounter from having an active lifestyle (knee injuries, head trauma, etc.) we now have more time to focus on things that are more esoteric and only manifest in subtle ways. Cancer, autism, etc. are the problems of the first world, industrialized, and coddled demographic that a site with this title would have.

Does no digital copy of this exist to the public?

There are digital copies if you search around the Internet (at least a couple have been linked in other comments).

For me the most interesting part is that there are hand-written notes in this version which are from the development process.

There's always something on Earth to remind me that I'm an idiot. The first page of this is a disaster.

How absolutely British of you to do that for the sheer eccentricity of it.

Not when your browser fork is re-purposed for something else almost entirely, like an inline image or documentation viewer. As I understand it, organisms often have novel uses for old tools.

Well if you didn't misplace the /s you could try his blog. It will be more about DNA lounge and Pizza than about tech though. Not worth linking it here though unless you want more facefulls of hairy eggs...

What does the resurrection of a flower have to do with the origin of life?

Nothing. But, Panspermia is not meant to address how life began, just the method that may cause its distribution in the Universe. - from the Panspermia Wikipedia article

I'm sorry, I still don't understand the connection. Aliens buried the flowers under the tundra in the ice age? Why bring it up?

If the DNA in a seed is still in good enough shape to support blooming after being frozen 30,000 years, perhaps a seed frozen in a meteorite [1] could also survive long enough to be spread between solar systems.

[1] maybe after glancing off a planet or created by the collision of two large objects

I'm no expert, but wouldn't said seed first be baked by the heat of an impact strong enough to launch a chunk of planet to space?

Could survive long enough to be toasted when the meteorite finally falls to the promised land planet, in form of fireball.

Inner ice of sufficiently large comets can survive atmospheric entry.

I'm not an expert on comets, so I might be wrong, but I guess that we talk about recycled ice; that would be sterilized each time the comet orbit pass closest to the sun and the water is (partially?) boiled, to become frozen again later.

There would be probably other consequences if a such large comet will fall in a planet. I can't see any happy ending for this organism to surviving its travel just by chance. If the comet is small or disintegrates in smaller pieces the plant is roasted and dead. Otherwise if fallen in one piece, all the life in the impact area of such large comet should be crushed by the pressure wave and vaporized also, including our plant

Ah, I see. Thanks!

What is wrong with Apache Geode?

How does pointing out a systems use imply something wrong with it?

It was randomly pointed out in the context of a discussion that might be summarized as "the problems India has," so it could reasonably be read as a slight on Geode. I don't think it was meant that way, but I had to read it a couple of times to determine that it wasn't.

Nothing. The article mentioned Indian and China and trains and I learned from some Geode guys at a talk a while back that both their government use Geode as their ticketing backend store.

I just thought it was a fun fact. I haven't used Geode myself, but it looks fairly well designed.