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efvie t1_j6credv wrote

Reply to ELi5 : If you can access a website, why cant you steal the source code and make a 1:1 copy of it? by 13lettersinhere

While the other answers are correct in that there is typically a 'backend' that you don't have direct access to and is actually responsible for at least putting together the content that is displayed on the page (the 'frontend'), I think it's equally important to understand that what you do see you have full access to* and can copy exactly.

For example, you could take this comment page, save it with all the content, images, and so on, and put it up for yourself. You could even have it update itself to a degree (although there are some ways that sites could try to protect against that.)

The reason this is important to know is that it limits the data you can make available on the frontend. The backend, for example, has access to all Reddit users — the frontend can't be given such access (beyond public information) because if it did, anyone accessing the page could see it. You also can't store 'secrets' like credentials to access services on the frontend directly, and so on and so on.

* There's again ways to protect against some access, mostly by making it very inconvenient, but ultimately for anything to appear on your screen it needs to be transmitted.

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efvie t1_j05qs87 wrote

Reply to comment by _Atheius_ in New research shows why we hear “lemon” and not “melon” in processing incoming sounds: our brains “time-stamp” the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear by giuliomagnifico

This is a fascinating question both because the intuition might be that there is no need to specifically 'mark' sound, and on the other hand there's the question of exactly what can the body use as a timestamp. What mechanism can mark a signal to have occurred before another, if the signals arrive somewhere out of order?

I’d love to understand how these different neural areas work, exactly — is it a matter of the rest of the machinery effectively writing and reading these areas in a fixed order (and then looping back because it's not an infinite buffer, only long enough), or if there's a different sort of mechanism at play, like each of those different areas introducing a delay of its own. Sounds more like the former?

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efvie t1_iy8k0xm wrote

Reply to Research shows animals are key to restoring the world’s forests. The unique long-term data set revealed that animals, by carrying a wide variety of seeds into deforested areas, are key to the recovery of tree species richness and abundance to old-growth levels after only 40 to 70 years of regrowth. by Wagamaga

And the leading cause of deforestation and habitat destruction is animal agriculture.

Sounds like animals are both the latch and the key.

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