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My son (8) has a peanut allergy. I asked his allergist about the cause and was told me that there's no clear consensus. There is apparently lots of evidence pointing to environmental causes and also lots of evidence pointing to genetic causes, while the actual truth probably has elements of both. It's also possible that different people have different causes.

In a way he's lucky because he's repulsed by even the smell, and his reaction seems to be to vomit instead of going onto anaphylactic shock. I'm very aware though, that the next time could be much worse, so I do carry his epinephrine as a matter of routine. We also have taught (and continue to teach) him that he needs to be careful about what he eats (eg: ask the wait staff / cook, read the labels).

Perhaps I was just a little too young to really get into Myst, but The 7th Guest really grabbed my attention! I never managed to beat the microscope puzzle, but it doesn't affect the story much to just skip it.

The song at the end (Skeletons in my Closet) is also excellent!

I remember hearing about analog chips for applications like AI, where digital precision is unnecessary and analog uses orders of magnitude less power. Does anyone have any updates or insight into this?

It's always nice to see my alma mater in the national news again, and bonus points for the news item NOT involving the administration!

Last time it was for being one of the worst colleges for free speech, and the time before that it was for having the highest paid president.

Progress!

I wonder why that might be...

This is interesting and I havn't heard it before. Do you have links so I can read more?

The airspace is controlled by the FAA but as soon as the drone touches the ground the jurisdiction changes.

IANAL, but I fully expect to see future /. articles announcing laws/ordinances to effectively limit drone delivery, and I also expect some of them to hold up under scrutiny.

I asked a similar question years ago and got some very good replies. One of the best was about the computer hardware on an Ariane 5 rocket which experienced a rapid unplanned disassembly.

I didn't know so I checked.

According to Merriam-Webster censor is:

• (noun) a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as:
  1. an official who examines materials (such as publications or films) for objectionable matter. Usage example: "Government censors deleted all references to the protest."
  2. an official (as in time of war) who reads communications (such as letters) and deletes material considered sensitive or harmful.
• (verb) to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable. Usage example: "censor the news"
• (verb) also: to suppress or delete as objectionable. Usage example: "censor out indecent passages"

This differs slightly from this definition, but in both cases it looks as if there is no comes-before requirement for an act to be censorship. Perhaps it was the case before the information age but no longer, it appears.

The white supremacists hear the codes. The difference is that they don't go spouting off to the media about what the codes are, because then they might have to come up with new ones.

I hate the whataboutism that's rampant in today's political discussions, but it does put a smile on my face when it backfires on the person doing it. Holder was indeed found to be in Contempt of Congress for that.

In NY, the list of jurors comes from a few sources other than voter rolls:

• Board of Elections
• Dept of Labor
• Dept of Motor Vehicles
• Department of Social Services
• Department of Taxation & Finance

I can't speak to how other states run their jury pools.

I'm a sucker for heist movies, and Spike Lee made one where you end up rooting for the cops AND for the robbers by the end. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, & Christopher Plummer give memorable performances, and yet so few people know about it.

The only people I know who have seen the movie are: 1) the friend who told me about it and 2) the friends/family I've talked into watching it with me. I don't usually watch movies more than once, but I've seen this one at least half a dozen times.

*sigh* OK, the analogy isn't perfect. I was simply trying to illustrate by example the principle that expensive new technology tends to get cheaper with time. It's true that we may never cure all cancers but I firmly believe that the available treatments will get better and dramatically cheaper given enough time.

You clearly have more thoughts on this issue, but we'll have to agree to disagree with one another. I trying to help you see GP's point, not debate the merits of his argument.