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The reasons are complicated and evolutionarily symbiotic.

Lure a "pollinator" to protect and spread it. Avocados were the diet of some unknown animal that no longer exists. Avocados shouldn't exist except for humans preserving and exploiting them.

Well, look at capsicum. Birds can't taste it but mammals can. Even so, most deer and some humans sure do like jalapeños.

Some compounds are deadly poisons to particular predators while merely annoyances to others. Beyond deadly poisons, there are deterrents like emetics, anticoagulants, dissociatives, and paralytics aimed at defending from particular predators.

These are evolutionarily-conserved because they add to the fitness of a species.

Nature is a hacker: it reuses (mutations) a lot of pathways and molecules for different purposes. We just hack compounds out of nature intended for other functions that also happen to serve our purposes at therapeutic doses.

Every study works in mice.

Human trials, not so much. Also, who would volunteer for depression + psychedelics before and after brain biopsies to prove this thesis? Maybe try it on the "before" sample in vitro first?

Vaporware that can't make vapor. It's just invisiware.

Edit / PSA: These type of sensationalized, "miracle" invention articles attract idiotic questions and uninteresting discussions. Please stop posting this kind of rubbish because it brings down the quality of the site.

FUD and outrage sell newspapers and buys eyeball virality.

Sounds like burnout and an inability to discover less-than-mainstream films.

Maybe this is a bullshit troll paper or was written by an up-and-coming comedian GPT3.

There are different kinds of intelligence: fluid, crystalized, mechanical, verbal, sensory, data, intuition, social, emotional, and so on.

Maybe it's _______ that's a signal... (body symmetry, comedy, spoken cadence, anxiety, economy of speech, economy of motion, anticipation, etc.)

The bigger question is: Why promote or condone the gating of view access to published research at all? It's not okay.

That is a genius hack. ("Genius" might be redundant.)

Publishing papers in journals isn't about scientific development, it's about publish-persish. The issue is the journals suck-in the papers and then walled-garden them like they were their original research when they are simply the publisher.

Academia needs to throw away for-profit journal publishers and leave it with social co-ops and nonprofits.

Legal gofundme.

Congress people or local representatives.

Talk about it.

- Forward declarations and header files. Two code files to manage for the price of one

- Impure macros

- Macros so pure you can't do token pasting and templating expressively

- Computed GOTO... ugh

- Indentation-based syntax isn't a programming feature, it's a lexical/parsing style religion. In my religion, it looks much cleaner than extra punctuation, superfluous keywords, and the visual noise of curly braces. What's worse is special column flags.

    C F90 sucks
    C F95 still sucks
    C F18 probably still sucks

Flying, in-general, is inefficient unless it's a large, lifting body in ground effect.

Ricin, anthrax, or polonium in FAA documents.

Anyone who says they're "unbiased" is lying.

Everyone has biases.

Is whether someone has the integrity to recognize and air them, while reporting matters of import that go against their own views/agenda.

Witch-hunt by the powerful backed by party of money.

It maybe a partisan issue at the grassroots, but it's not really such in government where the majority of politicians are in the same bubble of silencing dissidents and whistleblowers using any means to the end.

The whole fiasco is a "This is what happens to you... reporters, publishers, and snitches.. when you threaten to expose our lies and our crimes. We invent crimes and murder you slowly."

The only way to prevent this from happening again is to overthrow the powers-that-be because it will keep happening.

Agnostic of actual political nonsense, an email scandal finally gets someone in leadership. That's the unluckiest SOB ever.

PS: After an experimental physics colloquia on their campus up the hill, IBM Almaden offered me a paid dark matter RA job when I was 15. It didn't happen thanks to sabotaging parents. Also, a computer scientist-programmer lady from IBM volunteered her time at my high-school which was really cool.

Absolutely. Then no. :)

I wish I had a 4000 lasers plaid-mode FDM printer able to work in titanium, PLA, ASA, styrofoam, carbon nanotubes, steel, copper, wood, concrete, borosilicate, and EPDM at micrometers.

Bioavailable copper, I assume.

Copper pipes should scale over.

Waiting for blancolirio and mentourpilot analysis.

If you can ditch a part 121 in the Pacific at night and survive a DEF/NR, I should buy you beers.

QA is different for every type of engineering organization.

It shouldn't be automatically thrown around or diffused as something tertiary that can be subordinate wherever it lands. That works in a 3 person startup, but not if you're building an aircraft carrier or an iPhone.

Anecdotal.

Embedded QA doesn't scale for projects where the teams are larger, or the concerns and complexity are significant.

https://qualitysystemsanalyst.com/2017/10/06/independence-th...

What about ongoing quality and quality regressions of existing functionality?

What happens when the dev mgr asks QA to rush testing? Been There, Done That, Bought The T-Shirt, Said "No," and Tendered a Resignation

Yep. People aren't rational, compliant, cooperative actors 24/7. Agendas. Bad days. Illnesses. Family events. So then it's unreasonable and foolish to extend trust unconditionally, perpetually, and without auditing.

If all people were angels, no government (or whoever regulates) would be necessary.

If all people (and systems) were perfect, no backups would be needed.

Well, of course. This is the way it is in much of the world already.

I wouldn't let excellent internal IT to do a massive, specialized, critical migration because of the finger-pointing risks and pressure to fire should there be an unforeseen, unmitigated problem. When something is as mission-critical as email, use a lifeline and phone a consultant who does this regularly.

IBM should use this crisis as an opportunity to fire horrible IT resources, e.g., managers and staff.

But it's the most expensive machine that goes "Bing!" in-case the director walks by.

My Prusa can print a 1mm cube. Is the complaint that the resolution of hobby machines aren't good enough or that it's using a thermonuclear rocket launcher to squash an ant?

And also:

Giardia

Legionella

Norovirus

Shigella

Campylobacter

Copper

Salmonella

Hepatitis A

Cryptosporidium

E. coli, excess fluoride (tie)

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_disea...

Telsa, yes, I wave the EV flag and kill-off the ICEs... pour one out for the Saturn EV1 homies that GM embraced, extended, extinguished.

1. The shuttlecraft giant screen in the middle is a distraction crash waiting to happen, and it's very difficult for older people to use.

2. Safety, simple, mechanical > clever over-engineering.

3. Why aren't regulators reviewing and approving firmware updates? For example, if Tesla management decides to brick all cars or an engineer is bribed to hack a particular Tesla to crash.

4. Why are moving vehicles being "live patched" over SSH? This seems insane like "I don't always test my code, but when I do so, I do it in production."

Fair enough. Atari 2600 was very cool.