People adapt to getting an upgrade in life almost immediately. If you walked down the street and someone handed you $80 and the next guy $100, you'd be mad that he got more even though you just got free $$.
I'm trying to fix this aspect of myself. I was bowling in a tournament over the weekend that was way out of my league but I wanted the challenge. I was struggling all day and got kinda mad because I missed a really easy spare in my first good game of the day.
Lucky for me the guy on the other team was so positive and a much better bowler than me and he asked "That's ok, would you have been happy if I told you at the start of the game you'd have 107 in the 5th?" and I realized hell yeah I'd be happy. Same applies here. Of course I should be happy with a free $80 even if I know everyone else is getting $100.
Leetcode interview questions will adapt to ask for the wrong answer. You'll have to write broken code to prove you can code better than the correct code AI can spit out.
Lanes in heavy snow covered roads are more of a suggestion. You can either drive on the bare 'wagon tracks' of road, or on the proper lane (that you can't even see) with 6-12 inches of snow on them.
Often when driving like this, you see a glimpse of the middle-yellow line inside one of the wagon tracks, and you realize that you're actually driving in part of the other lane. Fortunately the opposing traffic's wagon tracks are also shifted so that they're driving partially on the shoulder.
A GPS guided car would make a mess of the wagon track pattern that all the humans decided to just go with.
I am not talking 6-12 inches, when it’s 4+ feet of snow even pickup trucks need to stick to the valley’s which rarely have much to do with traffic lanes.
Trees follow a slow-fast-slow pattern for capturing carbon.
Small new trees don't capture much.
Middle-aged trees capture a lot as they grow.
Old-growth trees don't capture as much as they reach the end of their life-cycle.
As others have said, trees are only temporary as they eventually die and need to be replanted. They're also slow to start, and need to be maintained (which costs carbon as well).
These people spent 37 days in a 9ft dinghy in the ocean. A ladder rung, plus the rain water mixed with turtle guts from the bottom of the boat saved their lives.
"What kept them going was grit, determination and turtle blood. "You have to knock it back quickly, otherwise it sets into blancmange," Douglas explains. Plus it's got an "aftertaste that makes you want to wretch". Their mother rubbed turtle oil on the salt-water boils, and tried to keep them all hydrated with makeshift enema tubes made from the rungs of a ladder. "It was her nursing background. She knew the water at the bottom of the dinghy was poisonous if taken orally because it was a mixture of rain water, blood and turtle offal. But if you take it rectally, the poison doesn't go through the digestive system."
Coronavirus: How the common cold can boot out Covid
Think of the cells in your nose, throat and lungs as being like a row of houses. Once a virus gets inside, it can either hold the door open to let in other viruses, or it can nail the door shut and keep its new home to itself.
Influenza is one of the most selfish viruses around, and nearly always infects alone. Others, such as adenoviruses, seem to be more up for a houseshare.
If rhinovirus and Sars-CoV-2 were released at the same time, only rhinovirus is successful. If rhinovirus had a 24-hour head start then Sars-CoV-2 does not get a look in. And even when Sars-CoV-2 had 24-hours to get started, rhinovirus boots it out.
"Sars-CoV-2 never takes off, it is heavily inhibited by rhinovirus," Dr Pablo Murcia told BBC News.
He added: "This is absolutely exciting because if you have a high prevalence of rhinovirus, it could stop new Sars-CoV-2 infections."
It's very much disputed how much 'viral interference' was or is an influence in the current pandemic, and this effect (to my knowledge) has been only studied in animal models and human tissue [1], paper from the article [2].
Or to put it another way, the influenza season was already under way when SARS-Cov-2 hit in Feb 2020, but there is no indication the influenza virus slowed the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic.
The exciting thing about viral interference is that no genetic similarity between the viruses is needed, however, the effect is only temporary (days to weeks) and limited.
Unfortunately viral interference is also being misused as an 'alternative explanation' by folks that do not want to see the evidence that non-pharmacological interventions (hygiene, social distancing, quarantine, masks, large gatherings etc.) are effective against a whole host of respiratory diseases.
It seems possible. Timing would need to be right though so you would probably need to purposely infect that person with the dangerous one at the right time.
This has been a great site for exploring various microgenres.
I forget which service offers this -- is it Pandora? Sometimes I have some pretty hyper-specific requests that I have a hard time describing, and most of the "if you liked X you will probably like Y" are entirely too clunky for it.
Whenever I come across a picture of a location that looks cool, whether it be a castle/ruin/beach/city. I search Youtube for 'place name walking tour' and then filter by Long videos.
Usually gets some good results. Sometimes the camera person is too chatty, but you can always mute them.
It takes 2 weeks to adapt to a loss though.
Humans are strange.