Borrelia burgdorferi (the pathogen that causes Lyme) was named after Willy Burgdorfer. Burgdorfer claimed that the disease was the result of a biological weapons program that went awry. This is an interesting read: https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea...
>Some claim that Lyme disease was introduced into the northeastern region of the U.S. by a man-made strain of Borrelia burgdorferi that escaped from a high containment biological warfare laboratory on Plum Island. However, there is ample evidence to indicate that both Ixodes ticks and B. burgdorferi were present in the U.S. well before the Plum Island facility was ever established.
What a lazy "debunking". Of course creating a strain of bacteria would require the original bacteria to already exist.
Discredited and debunked are words that desperately need to be retired. The vast majority of the time, they much more accurately could be replaced with "unpopular" or "disliked by the authority I'm about to appeal to".
Bear in mind that the term comes from "utopia," which was always an imaginary construct. The original idea was that dystopia would be an equally impossible/imaginary negative society counterpart to a utpoia's impossible/imaginary positive society.
It would probably be most correct to say that societies can be "dystopian" but never "dystopias," because of that part of the definition, but I think we're at a point where that's splitting hairs somewhat.
I'd argue Laravel and Symfony's development are tightly coupled to a single person / company (Taylor Otwell / SensioLabs). If CMS & ecommerce are a big portion of this project I'd easily pick WordPress. The only requirement it fails to meet is "no php code in templates". WordPress meets all the other criteria and it is generally great for spinning up a MVP.
Wordpress is good if you need posts/blog-like site, but if you're going to scale up to something really huge like Groupon did, you'd be better off with a custom framework w/ full control, better caching, etc. -- Wordpress is a hog on resources, and very easily hacked as well. My laravel sites all perform light years better/faster.
