Nostalgia is surely as bad a vice as they come, but I can't help be a little nostalgic that marvelous hacks like these no longer have a place in our world. I'v

Nostalgia is surely as bad a vice as they come, but I can't help be a little nostalgic that marvelous hacks like these no longer have a place in our world. I've heard there are similar such hacks in the world microbiology, overlapping genes giving bacteria a selective advantage. But in the world of people, genomic code bloat is apparently not a problem.