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Many cancers are heterogeneous. Once a malignant community forms the established organized population deteriorates into chaotic competition.
by signal_space 7y ago
Many cancers are heterogeneous. Once a malignant community forms the established organized population deteriorates into chaotic competition.
- asdfman123 7y agoWait, are we back to talking about how to organize programming teams again?
- leggomylibro 7y agoWell, you do hear humanity likened to a cancer fairly often. Look at what we do to other species, and we're even trying to metastasize to other planets. Lucky for us that this universe doesn't go in for it's millennial checkups, huh?
- stcredzero 7y agoIf cosmic things had millennial checkups, they'd be cosmic-scale in their hypochondria. That would be like me getting a checkup every second.
- lioeters 7y agoI wanted to find out the unit of time of "every billion years" - first thought was "billennial". Apparently, a millenium is otherwise known as a kiloannum; a megaannum is a million years, and a gigaannum is a billion. So, a reasonable universe should be getting gigaannual checkups.
- stcredzero 7y agoThis is why Valve hires at its current rate?
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe reason disease, viruses, technologies, and team organisation are likened to Darwinian information transfer systems is because that's what they are.