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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.

Re:The AI Trust Crisis on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:40PM (#38649025)
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...

Re:Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @03:39PM (#38618143)
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.

Re:A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:38PM (#37859536)
Ditto 1.20, and when interpreted as floating point the trailing zero loses significance. So as a version this is indistinguishable from 1.2
Re:Layoffs.fyi on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:06AM (#37542297)
Not in the US where health insurance is tied to your job and career gaps are perceived as substantially negative.