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Thanks for replying. Would like to learn more about the carcinogenic aspect of these stem cells. Can you share any pointers.

There was some research that indicated stem cells can be made from skin cells. Is there a chance this field will eventually catch up by the time stem cell therapies become more widely accesssible?

As a caring child of old parents, you should get your parents to NL where you can provide the best possible care for them, instead of letting them die in a place where they can't even get a COVID test done.

Regarding China, most Hollywood studios seem to be kowtowing Chinese line these days. I have noticed a clear trend in Hollywood movies where they don't portray anything negative about China, and usually project things in positive light. This same trend can be observed in most mainstream media's projection of China. Worldwide, China is definitely reaching proportions that were only possible for the US earlier in influencing, or arm-twisting influencers like media, and movie makers.

>Another country that comes to mind is India - but I've never been enough of a Bollywood fan to be able to make any assessment on this topic.

Curious why India came to mind especially if you are not able to make an assessment of this topic as you put it.

Thanks for these thoughts. Resonated well with me. I feel we are sleepwalking into major fiascos, when a simple doorbell needs to sit on top this level of complexity. It's in our best interest to not tie every small thing into layers, and layers of complexity. Mundane things like doorbells need to have their fallback at least done properly to function locally without relying on complex cloud systems.

Are we using Wikipedia as a reliable source of hard metric data these days?

The link is yet to be proven: "Some testing remains to be completed. The positive reading from the aromatherapy bottle was done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing. <b> CDC labs are trying to extract genetic sequence data from the PCR finding to compare to the bacteria from the Georgia patient, as well as the other three. McQuiston is confident it will prove the link. But even if it didn’t </b> the discovery of Burkholderia pseudomallei-contaminated room freshener being sold at one of the country’s largest big box chain required urgent action."

>One day the VP eng just showed up at my desk and started chatting, I didn't really know why. Turns out he was interested in knowing why it was so stable

Kudos to him, he paid attention, and noticed something that was stable. Usually something has to be broken to get attention at that level. Can't imagine leadership at most places thinking "hmm, this project we did several years ago had been running without bugs, let me go bring best practices from this developer."

I don't think this is practical for any reasonably sized company to hire all their lead/manager positions from outside. I agree, it is probably better to follow your option (a), but does not looks like companies do that proactively. Looks like the whole edifice is centered on the fact that people don't have enough time in their hands to go find a job somewhere else.

>To management (especially with wrong incentives) this seems like a perfect worker, because management usually doesn't understand the connection between lack of engagement and planning at design/development time with their later problems (or they don't feel it is them that is going to pay the price).

This is how management is in most places I feel, especially when it comes to evaluating junior, and early senior engineers.

> Who's going to write the fine-detail code if they whole day is a meeting?

Reminds me of the time I worked at an early stage startup. I used to take official vacation time, and disappear from company collaboration tools to get real work done.

Is there any App that can do the same on Smart TV? Getting tired of ads on Youtube's ads.

Are the CO2 levels mentioned in [2] above from an air conditioned room? This detail is not mentioned in the article. I am trying to understand if air exchange provided by the air conditioner makes any difference on reducing CO2 levels in the room.

I remember watching a TED video where the speaker mentioned that Google experimented with this kind of manipulation on people consuming content that was deemed radicalizing.

I tried doing that on my android TV. There is no option in YouTube app on TV to turn off viewing history. Do you know if it is hidden somewhere?