Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr...
by latexr on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:39PM
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> the boiling frog death
That metaphor is based on a false premise[1]:
> While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to contemporary biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Indeed, thermoregulation by changing location is a fundamentally necessary survival strategy for frogs and other ectotherms.
That metaphor is based on a false premise[1]:
> While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to contemporary biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Indeed, thermoregulation by changing location is a fundamentally necessary survival strategy for frogs and other ectotherms.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog