if you are a cynic, lots of people not doing much, keeping people from working at competitors, employees won't tell the world that the company isn't that great, as long as you are hiring more people you can convince investors that company is doing great and growing so the company will grow in value

>janitors, etc.

As a custodian, thank you for remembering us.

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in the case of the goldfish though, if only 1% carry the gene, then there's almost no bright gold ones and when there are, the birds can see them and eat them easier. the bird is unlikely to push away from the behaviour of 'being able to see brightly coloured things more than dark things.'

if the other 99% aren't carrying the gene at all then they carry on reproducing dark colours with absolutely no chance of their offspring being gold coloured.

Dominance & recessivity of alleles simply have nothing to do with their inheritance. Neither is inherently tied to selection advantage.

Recessive genes are, in fact, tougher for natural selection to completely eliminate than dominant ones.

If you have only 1% having the gene, only 1% of carriers will express the gene and be selected against. Meanwhile, any predators exploiting that gene would be getting almost no benefit, pushing them away from that behaviour.

Fear, anxiety and paranoia. That’s why the only sure fire way to stop a bad trip would be to take a Xanax

the recessive gene is still within the person and can be passed down to the offspring. if both parents carry the recessive gene (ie, blonde hair) and a copy of the dominant gene, (ie, brown hair) then both parents will have brown hair. however, they can both pass on the blonde hair gene to the offspring resulting in a child with blond hair.

the recessive gene would only die out if we had, say a predator that found it easier to find and eat blonde haired people. then those people would get plucked out of the gene pool while brown haired people were more likely to reproduce.

this happens a lot with goldfish. goldfish can be gold or brown. birds find it easier to see and eat the gold ones, leaving the brown ones behind. a pond full of mixed colour goldfish will eventually become all dark colours after time as the gold ones get eaten off by birds more easily.

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Software companies also have a lot of compliance folks, and legal teams to make sure they’re following the laws in the all the countries they operate. They also often have in-house data science/R&D teams that crunch numbers and help the company make decisions about how to innovate

The worse problem is when one wheel is pointing left and the other right. If the only problem was the car not rolling straight the driver could turn the steering wheel, and then it‘s straight. When the wheels are facing in opposite directions the driver can’t correct for this and actually may not be aware of it as it may not cause the car to turn, but with the tires (slightly) sliding to the side instead of rolling straight ahead, they will wear out much faster then they should.

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Live supplies the electricity.

Neutral returns the electrical path to ground and is a grounded conductor. It completes the circuit.

The earth or "grounding conductor" is another grounded conductor that normally doesn't carry any significant current (except perhaps a small bit of leakage). It's there for safety so that if there is a ground fault that the circuit breaker can trip (or fuse blown). The metal chassis of an appliance will be tied to earth for safety reasons.

The earth and neutral are tied together at the panel and nowhere else.

So, you need hardware that physically houses the software. That means you need maintenance workers. Then you need customer support, which will be a large portion. You need people who can fix and improve the software, lots of them. You need people who will maintain your cyber security.

Then all the normal company stuff: HR, Accounting, Management, real estate, sales, marketing, janitors, etc.

They are still producing a product, and as with a lot of other companies a lot of the workforce isn't directly involved with the actual production.

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Because recessive genes are still passed along to the next generation with the same frequency that dominant genes are passed along. The only way in which natural selection will select against a particular allele is if carrying it decreases the odds of that individual reproducing and passing along their genes. In other words, natural selection only cares if a recessive gene is harmful even when the dominant gene is present, and the harm has to happen before the age of reproduction.

Yes. You have to put it on a lift, level the steering wheel, attach sensors to each wheel, calibrate it, and pull up the specs for the vehicle. The actual alignment part involves then adjusting a bolt or two, unless it’s really badly out of spec.

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Is it true that setting up a car to have the alignment checked is most of the work of adjusting it too? Like you pretty much pay for an alignment regardless if it needs it.

Dang, thank you!

TAKING TOO MUCH

You must use a scale to dose. You don't need anything else. You don't need a pipe, you don't need a lighter, you don't need a cup, you don't cook it - but you must use a scale. Every dose. Most, if not all, "bad trips" are people who took way too much and the number one reason for that is they eyeballed the dose. Get a scale with 0.01g if not, at least 0.1g accuracy.

Number two reason is intentionally taking too much - don't do that either. Work your way up to higher doses.

You rock. Thank you!

A car's wheels have to be alligned properly, with each other and the steering wheel. Driving around, hitting potholes, debris, curbs and other things cause a lot of wear and tear and can cause the wheels to go out of allignment, which causes worse handling and accelerated tire wear. So cars have to have their wheels checked and alligned regularly.

To my knowledge, it's the sort of rare thing a very small percentage of people with preexisting neurological conditions would have to worry about (e.g. heritable schizophrenia risks). Generally speaking, that "neverending trip" stuff is fear-mongering anti-drug propaganda from the days when the War On Drugs first started and programs like DARE were used to try and scare kids away from experimentation. But don't take my word for it; Spend a bit of time learning about psychedelic compounds and how they interact with the brain. It's pretty interesting stuff, actually.