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Imagine if someone had said this about Tesla. They would have been swamped if wall of text responses. At least Nikola delivered what they promised.


They decidedly did not deliver what they promised. Their hydrogen truck did not work, which is why their promo video had to tow a truck up a hill and film it rolling down.


At least funnily the video delivered its promise as it was titled “Nikola One in Motion”


Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.


What did they deliver that they promised?


> At least Nikola delivered what they promised.

Ah yes. The Nikola Gravity Drive™ has been a roaring success and is now powering millions of trucks worldwide. This bankruptcy is merely a blip in their continuing success.


Imagine if Tesla copied another automaker's name then created a demo of their car rolling down a hill.


Trevor, is that you?


It almost worked on me.


Indeed it’s possible for Godot and Source to be good game engines and also not at all substitutes for each other.

The kind of discourse that litigates why that fact is true doesn’t serve curiosity or add knowledge.


How would this effect gut bacteria?


Gut bacteria will be happy, because their host didn't die from sepsis.


You are technically correct (the best kind of correct), but I guess parent was asking whether this has any anti-bacterial side effects that might affect the gut flora. I'm wondering about this as well. The drug in question isn't an anti-biotic per-se, it doesn't help fight sepsis by making your body even more indiscriminately angry at bacteria - quite the opposite. Based on that, my suspicion is that the gut flora would not be affected directly, and would be happy on the basis of the host itself surviving the sepsis.


There has, apparently, been some research on this, but (IANADoctor) it doesn't look conclusive.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6330042/ did mouse trials of fluoxetine and then checked the gut microbiome; they did find some changes in groups known to correlate with regulation of body mass. But, this is (a) mouse models and (b) a long string of correlations with (to my knowledge) no actual causal understanding.


Here's a primer on the brain - gut connection. It's well established, but maybe not well understood.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...


gut bacteria operate under the assumption that even if there host dies, in very many cases the host will be the victim of a preditor or a scavenger, and just hitches a ride up or down.the food chain, perfectly happy taking 100 bilion to to 1 odds on making it to the next perfect host bah!, its not even the sort of thing even worth thinking about going into suspended animaton for edit: on further consideration ,the situation is actauly reversed, our flora do survive us, but we will die without them, and they have other, rather gross means of survival, by ...raising the dead, literaly in the case of corpses in.the water, due to there continued activity, bloating a dead body wherapon they escape useing a balisic method, on decompression.


The mutualism of microorganisms and humans is a fascinating and relatively new sphere of research. One such space is the family of antibacterial (and antiviral) viruses that have apparently evolved into a mutualistic relationship with humans: their development and proclivity is tied to their hosts (they spread by direct placental diffusion from mother-to-fetus, or by milk, they're too fragile to survive in the external environment, and since humans eating humans is rare they don't have other avenues) and so they actually have features that attack harmful bacteria, attack and disrupt harmful viruses, or generate immune-system antagonistic chemical signals to attract our defenses to incoming infections.

They flew under the radar all this time because they're viruses; in general, the only viruses we're aware of in humans are the ones that cause harmful symptoms because actually visualizing the little bastards requires busting out the ol' electron microscope, so if they don't give us a reason to look we aren't looking!


I don’t have the freedom to say how I feel this. But I have been studying the great helmsman recently and soon we will all have an exchange of views.


In my experience good collaboration is the best for the team but an absolute dagger for your career. If you collaborate people who pretend to contribute take over. Theirs a reason this guy is writing blogs


> Theirs a reason this guy is writing blogs

They seem very successful:

> I am a principal research scientist at MongoDB Research. Ex-AWS. On leave as a computer science and engineering professor at SUNY Buffalo.


It’s a man. He seems very successful.


Thankyou for the correction, but the singular 'they' has been used in gender-unknown or gender-irrelevant cases for centuries. I was not aware this person was male -- but it did not matter to me. Ie, it matches both points.

My personal feeling is using a more widely applicable pronoun is more respectful, in general, so I use 'they' frequently, especially referring to people I don't know and so where I don't know their identity.

https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-the... is interesting reading.


My experience has been that in a healthy working environment, it’s clear who contributed what (I do make sure to communicate clearly what I achieve towards the team and above), and lifting the entire team up does not jeopardize one’s own position in that team.

Maybe the key here is a good work / team culture? I can also imagine some places or contexts in which the work might be more invisible / harder to attribute to specific individuals.


What’s the saying? Twice the work, half the credit?

In all seriousness tho, I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard to solo-achieve things in most complicated work environments. Saying you’re part of a group effort means more to those more interested in collaboration, good groups know to select on that criteria.


Make sure to put "I do not collaborate" in your resume.


No i disagree X.com is the worst, was the other guy on this sub and I think you are correct on the whole point is the people that have a right and the people that do have the ability and ability are not necessarily people that have a responsibility.


How is X worse?


They don't censor people. You can say anything as long as its legal.


Nope, it's just the weird outlier where "cis" falls foul of its hate speech guidelines but Great Replacement Theory doesn't



You can’t say anything, there are still rules.

You want them to censor more people?


Some real revisionist history as Rails cribbed most of those gems from Python. Now Python just rebranded for web and its doing everything Rails does and more.


The political aspect of these is what made them successful, not hard work. So they are evil.


These used used to apply, but you don’t even have to do this anymore. No court is going to see this type of case unless you pleed guilty, lazy DAs are the vast majority they will not prosecute cases if they won’t help them personally so just promise to drag out the case is an auto win. I beat 3 drug charges link this, doesn’t matter exactly what you say as long as you cast doubt on exact words and facts. Stonewalling isn’t as effective as just pretending to be innocent, don’t want them to think you’re a threat.


Name one successful company that doesn’t outsource developer labor outside America.


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