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Mark_Wallace wrote: Use of "more powerful" antibiotics just results in the evolution of bacteria that are more unstoppable.
The world changed quite after penicciline, and most of those diseases have not evolved to ignore it. So, history shows otherwise. There being something near that poisons you doesn't mean you will evolve to ignore that.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: most of those diseases have not evolved to ignore it
In point of fact, they all have. New and resistant strains are encountered every year, and are mostly the result of overuse of penicillins and antibiotics.
Try reading medical journals for a few months, and you'll encounter at least one article about a new and nastier strain of a bacterium, which only exists because it survived treatment.
Bacteria want to live, too.
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That happens; but doesn't mean that there will be a supervirus that evolves simply because we identify a new antibecterium.
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Time will say. Evolution works for every life form, even bacteria.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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True, but doesn't change the point that most of the bacteria still won't like penniciline.
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Nelek wrote: Evolution works for every life form, even bacteria.
... And for bacteria, it works bloody quickly.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: doesn't mean that there will be a supervirus that evolves simply because we identify a new antibecterium
Actually, it kinda does. Think of it as an arms race, but a heavily one-sided one, because bacteria can breed and evolve faster than we can keep coming up with new antibacterial agents.
I shouldn't worry, though. We'll all have drowned, frozen, or fried long before super-bacteria can become a problem.
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Yes, but can they keep up with new forms of Essential Oils?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Not if you keep repeatedly mixing the essential oils with water, until there are no essential oils left in the solution.
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Blasting laser pulses at aluminum skin on a quantum cascade laser modulates light faster than electronic circuits can The engineers are restless
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Them ain't clouds, they's smoke signals.
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So basically an acoustic coupler strapped on fiber optics..... "You've got mail"
Director of Transmogrification Services
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Our annual analysis of the O’Reilly online learning platform reveals Python’s continued dominance and important shifts in infrastructure, AI/ML, cloud, and security. Or: people just like books with snakes on the cover
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Remarkable!
No icon-designing roles. That's really unexpected.
David was right.
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Microsoft focused on depth and a unified look for its new icons. "Happy Happy Joy Joy"
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I was hoping that the rest of that subject line read "extends across time and space."
Phooey.
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How come I never see 'Icon Designer' in the best job lists (like at the top)? There seems to be a serious oversight somewhere. 
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And they're still going at it.
This is such a complete and utter waste of energy; they're trying to improve their image, from one of pratts who f*** up thousands of computers every time they issue an update, by showing that they're doing a great job in aesthetics.
But they're not even managing that. The icons are dull and lifeless, lacking in colour and vibrancy -- they're better suited to horror games than to programs people need to use to earn a living.
And all this cr@p about "across all platforms" is just marketing bull (as in, the kind of cr@p that comes out of marketeers' mouths when they have to justify their huge bill for having done very little work, and none of it the least bit creative -- say anything, just make it sound clever and keep the customer talking!)
A calendar icon is a calendar icon; a calculator icon is a calculator icon. How much more "cognitive load to scan and find applications" does anyone need? Or am I missing some superbly ingenious tweak that makes the icons look more like calendars and calculators?
Um, no, I'm not. The incompetent idiots found the term "cognitive load" in a piece by someone intelligent, and have decided to use it as a buzzword, in the hope that the original writer's intelligence will reflect from them into the customer's eyes.
Me, I can't wait for the next wave of emojis. I'll need them for when I have to remind the high court that it needs to pay its bill.
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Dozens of studies find remote workers happy and productive. Why not let them be? "Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements."
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But quick chats at the coffee machine are one of my main sources of information and inspiration!
Standing by my coffee machine at home and talking to myself won't be half as useful.
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The browser wars are starting to heat up again as both Google and Microsoft promote their software at the expense of their competitors. Good news for those who missed the browser wars the first time
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I don't use browsers (or derivatives) from either google or microsoft, so colour me Swiss, and send me all your money -- I'll keep it in an account so secret that even you will never know you've got it.
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ISPs say that a law requiring users to opt-in to having their location and financial data sold is a 'burdensome restriction' on their 'protected speech.' "Has commerce hitherto done anything more than change the objects of war?"
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I can't wait to see them try that argument in Europe.
First amendment? First amendment of what, you say?
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Data is not speech, and companies aren't humans; so no, wouldn't apply even if you tried real hard.
Protection of saying what you want is absolutely not the same as the right to sell data. Imagine the other way around; employees should be able to share any insider-trading numbers based on free speech.
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