Does not matter. All these natural rubbers are very similar in how they work, you can find a paper on the polymerization in chicle here if you don’t believe me.

Yes really, still a polymer: it forms polyisoprene upon drying. You also find the stuff (synthesised from oil, yes, but chemically indistinguishable) in tires and condoms.

Also, chemically they are identical. Plastic made of a plant is still a plastic.

But no-one is hiring professors because they are good at peer reviewing. Spending time on research is simply a ‘better’ use of your time.

Counterpoint: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/

Come on, this is just a joke adults will understand while children will not. If you think double entendres are censorship, I don’t know what to tell you.

Probably, although there would still need to be some evolutionary pressure for forward facing eyes… I wonder what it is.

I don’t know if first authorship needs to go away. I’ve definitely been 2nd or 3rd author for a few days of work (as compared to months of work for the first author).

You can give detailed attribution (many papers require them nowadays), but no-one ever reads them.

A candidate for genuinely Dutch hot dog-like food are maybe broodjes rookworst:

Or maybe even worstenbroodjes, now that I think of it…

The WHO discourages this because people will start associating the name with the disease. Which sucks if you happen to have this name. See Tourette’s, or Chagas disease.

You can read a bit about it here.

Somewhat relevant XKCD

This is how I started in a tiny room. I am not proud, but maybe good to show between all the shiny things here.

Unfortunately there are many counterexamples, large animals that live long in the wild tend to have shorter lives in zoos, like elephants, hippos, and monkeys.

Most consumers are familiar with the 802.11 standards

Lol, no. Not in any way.

Anyone have an recent example of FDC Willard being thanked in a paper? I couldn’t find any, sadly

Christian Horner?

Yeah, F1 driver Max Verstappen is in a similar situation. Clearly insanely talented, but probably got there by having a childhood which was pretty fucked up (left at gas station by father in Italy if he lost a karting race, etc.).

Maybe we miss out on a couple of savants without this kind of treatement, but it is a pretty good tradeoff, especially if you think about all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

Wikipedia actually has an article about it. They are mainly bothered by the unreadability of it. Editors can indeed bundle citations as you suggest, but it takes some manual effort.

Citation overkill is also a bit of a red flag for edit wars, or barely-notable things that someone really wants to have on a wiki page.

Uhh, yes they do. This does not take much googling to find out. Capitalist companies produce spices in the east too.

Bullshit. I can use docker without the docker hub very easily. Anyone can host docker images, and docker allows this, no weird hacks needed.