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k_process
·2 года назад·discuss
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/ "Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance"

Here, we propose that glyphosate is the most important causal factor in this [celiac disease and gluten intolerance] epidemic.
k_process
·2 года назад·discuss
or like a … road train https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
k_process
·3 года назад·discuss
Because Dropbox acquired Boxcryptor -- one of the tools that easily let people encrypt files before upload -- to be replaced with "plans for end-to-end encryption"

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/dropbox-acquires-boxcrypto...
k_process
·3 года назад·discuss
The challenges with the post's suggestion are (1) it accounts only for the time of the person needing information, not the one providing it, and (2) a specific question takes a small time to answer, but pre-documenting everything that is needed to answer any question takes orders of magnitude more time.

Some of this is outlined in Snowden's (not that Snowden) Laws of Knowledge Management.

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-seven-princ...

These two are especially relevant:

2. We only know what we know when we need to know it.

7. We always know more than we can say, and we always say more than we can write down.
k_process
·3 года назад·discuss
Ditto 1.20, and when interpreted as floating point the trailing zero loses significance. So as a version this is indistinguishable from 1.2
k_process
·3 года назад·discuss
Not in the US where health insurance is tied to your job and career gaps are perceived as substantially negative.