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>Humans are omnivores as far back as anyone can detect,

Untrue - it's been debated a lot, but the recent nitrogen isotope research shows forebears were strictly carnivore.
Adapting to tolerate plants certainly happened and was a good survival trait when you run out of big animals to eat.

Check out the research of Miki Ben Dor. He pulled together a lot of the data.

Paper here: https://www.pnas.org/content/1...
Discussion here: https://twitter.com/KetoCarniv...

Interesting stuff.

Nothing is apolitical anymore.

If someone told me that POTUS just said that cyclists should be ran over and encouraged his voters to do so then I would have to check the source, but my immediate reaction would no longer be that it probably is false.

He recently tweeted about water bombing Notre Dame.
He is completely clueless and butts in with whatever little brainspark he can muster.
There is a president that reasons like a pre-teen and doesn't know when to leave things to the experts.

Should be fine to dump them into LA then, amirite? https://twitter.com/cher/statu...

Better to distribute them across the country, rather than put them all in one city, but sure.

Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting “Better things aren’t possible”.

Shamelessly stolen from here

Should be fine to dump them into LA then, amirite? https://twitter.com/cher/statu...

Andrew Chael says you’re wrong on many points. First it was a collaborative effort of 8 telescopes and multiple teams and dismisses the idea it was based on his work alone. Second, Bouman’s work was important to the effort.

That depends on what you mean by "led." She only committed about 0.4% of the actual algorithm code (affecting 3675 lines [github.com]), and many of those commits were for superficial things like the font color of the output. Other commits were to place other people's code into the project. The other 99.6% of the code was committed by men.

I've been on many some coding teams, and I will tell you that not many of my bosses contributed a single line of code. No one however will question whether or not they "led" the team.

She did not lead in the sense that she did not do most of the work, or most of the programming. Perhaps she was appointed to supervise the people who actually developed the algorithm, and in that sense she "led" the development.

No one has claimed she did ALL of the coding. Her claim is she developed the algorithm. According to Andrew Chael who wrote much of the code, you're just wrong.

So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging ) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.

Our papers used three independent imaging software libraries (including one developed by my friend @sparse_k). While I wrote much of the code for one of these pipelines, Katie was a huge contributor to the software; it would have never worked without her contributions and the work of many others who wrote code, debugged, and figured out how to use the code on challenging EHT data. With a few others, Katie also developed the imaging framework that rigorously tested all three codes and shaped the entire paper (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e85 );

as a result, this is probably the most vetted image in the history of radio interferometry. I'm thrilled Katie is getting recognition for her work and that she's inspiring people as an example of women's leadership in STEM.

Source:

Important background for journalists covering the arrest of Julian #Assange by Ecuador: the United Nations formally ruled his detention to be arbitrary, a violation of human rights. They have repeatedly issued statements calling for him to walk free--including very recently. pic.twitter.com/fr12rYdWUF

The Google Chrome engineer who posted this ask to the W3C mailing list ( https://lists.w3.org/Archives/... ) also made a social media poll, https://twitter.com/estark37/s...

Essentially, they're reinforcing their own echo-chamber effect to only listen to confirmations of their conceived notion of correctness rather than truly encouraging discourse on the matter. Her poll options are, "yes" and "yes" -- and several Twitter replies have been deleted.

Personally, it seems they are an engineer looking for a problem to solve to help justify their job... and that's just sad in itself.

Telling someone three years before you release a game that you are going to put the ability to land on asteroids and make windows on starships transparent is not a "promise". People blasted Sean Murray for doing exactly what he said which was

"And when we ship the game not everything will be possible. But this is a game we will be making for quite a while, even after it comes out."

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMan...

"As for what it isn't? According to Murray, it might not be the game all the various trailers released for the PS4 and PC exclusive made it out to be."

'That means this maybe isn't the game you imagined from those trailers,' he writes. 'If you hoped for things like PvP multiplayer or city building, piloting freighters, or building civilizations ... that isn't what NMS is. Over time it might become some of those things through updates.'

http://www.gamenguide.com/arti...

"It’s not really a multiplayer game, that’s not really the way to think about it. There are infinitesimal chances, very, very small chances of you even coming across a place that another player has been to . . . The most likely thing that is going to happen is you are going to come across a planet and some other players has been there and they’ve named that planet and the creatures, and I’m sure they’ve given it a good name."

https://gamerant.com/no-mans-s...

"To be super clear - No Man's Sky is not a multiplayer game. Please don't go in looking for that experience."

https://twitter.com/nomanssky/...

This is Chris. The AC you're replying to is not Chris. Thanks for the laugh!

Creimer posted a sneak peek of the thumbnail for tomorrow's video. It's bladder time, bitches!

Musk tweeted: "Starhopper completed tethered hop. All systems green." suggesting the results were good.
A decent quality video of the test fire can be seen here. The 'hop' is presumably mere inches, as the tether has essentially no slack.

This is the first known vertical test-fire of the Raptor engine, the first engine firing at the Boca Chica facility, and AFAIK the first time a full-flow rocket engine has been test-fired while attached to a rocket of any sort.

Great progress all around.

Given the orbital hopper is planned to complete construction in June, it's likely the current one will complete its hops by then, suggesting frequent tests rather than the ~40 days inbetween tests of the original Grasshopper.

If 3% of the population is unvaccinated, and another 3% has vaccines that don't work, I would by probability expect about 50% of the sick cases to be among vaccinated people. It looks like the vaccines are working.

You may be committing base rate fallacy: An Intuitive (and Short) Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem

The vax gets credit for all negative cases (including unvaxxed)? Clearly there are positive cases for those who were vaxxed; that is the vax did not work for them.

Some people have natural immunity, and dont need a vaccine. Some people are asymptomatic carriers - they carry a virus, but it doesnt make them sick. Some people have defective immune systems, and vaccines dont work. Vaccines operate at population level, not individual.

— Mactator (@MactatorMaximus) February 1, 2019

The "you can even get sick from the vaccine" only relates to a small fraction of vaccines (Attenuation Vaccines) where the virus in the vaccine is not euthanized. The Measles Vaccine happens to be this special type, however AFAIK the patient have to suffer from immunosuppression in order to be susceptible for being infected bu such vaccines.

THE VAX ISSUE FOR ME IS SIMPLE: The issue is not the efficacy of vaccines but the vaccine obligation. Why are they mandatory when they have no undergone RCT or double blind testing like any other drug? Why "confuse" two subjects so differently? We dont because of profit. https://t.co/1AFfBlwI1V

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) March 5, 2018

Some people have natural immunity, and dont need a vaccine. Some people are asymptomatic carriers - they carry a virus, but it doesnt make them sick. Some people have defective immune systems, and vaccines dont work. Vaccines operate at population level, not individual.

— Mactator (@MactatorMaximus) February 1, 2019

I got mine 3 years after the vaccine.

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) February 1, 2019

Some people have natural immunity, and dont need a vaccine. Some people are asymptomatic carriers - they carry a virus, but it doesnt make them sick. Some people have defective immune systems, and vaccines dont work. Vaccines operate at population level, not individual.

— Mactator (@MactatorMaximus) February 1, 2019

I got mine 3 years after the vaccine.

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) February 1, 2019

For the most part, vaccines also work at the individual level. In most individuals, the vaccine actually does prevent them from getting the disease.

Except for the ones that they don't work on. How does one validate they are getting the therapeutic effct from the vax and not the side effect?

Some people have natural immunity, and dont need a vaccine. Some people are asymptomatic carriers - they carry a virus, but it doesnt make them sick. Some people have defective immune systems, and vaccines dont work. Vaccines operate at population level, not individual.

— Mactator (@MactatorMaximus) February 1, 2019

THE VAX ISSUE FOR ME IS SIMPLE: The issue is not the efficacy of vaccines but the vaccine obligation. Why are they mandatory when they have no undergone RCT or double blind testing like any other drug? Why "confuse" two subjects so differently? We dont because of profit. https://t.co/1AFfBlwI1V

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) March 5, 2018

For the most part, vaccines also work at the individual level. In most individuals, the vaccine actually does prevent them from getting the disease.

Except for the ones that they don't work on. How does one validate they are getting the therapeutic effct from the vax and not the side effect?

Some people have natural immunity, and dont need a vaccine. Some people are asymptomatic carriers - they carry a virus, but it doesnt make them sick. Some people have defective immune systems, and vaccines dont work. Vaccines operate at population level, not individual.

— Mactator (@MactatorMaximus) February 1, 2019

THE VAX ISSUE FOR ME IS SIMPLE: The issue is not the efficacy of vaccines but the vaccine obligation. Why are they mandatory when they have no undergone RCT or double blind testing like any other drug? Why "confuse" two subjects so differently? We dont because of profit. https://t.co/1AFfBlwI1V

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) March 5, 2018

https://www.cnet.com/news/face...

You won't need to give your email to sign up for a new account anymore.

After a Twitter user called out the social media giant over the practice on Sunday, Facebook has backtracked on the verification requirement.

The fact that they did at one time is enough to condemn them.

And why isn't there more on LinkedIN's bullshit. I wouldn't sign up because they wanted access to my contacts list for my email. When are we all going to realize that ALL social media platforms and ALL websites that require registration of some sort is going to abuse and pimp our data?

https://www.cnet.com/news/face...

You won't need to give your email to sign up for a new account anymore.

After a Twitter user called out the social media giant over the practice on Sunday, Facebook has backtracked on the verification requirement.

Some people have natural immunity, and dont need a vaccine. Some people are asymptomatic carriers - they carry a virus, but it doesnt make them sick. Some people have defective immune systems, and vaccines dont work. Vaccines operate at population level, not individual.

— MactatorðY (@MactatorMaximus) February 1, 2019

Actual quotes from Kay Coles James Twitter feed (did you know she was a female? I did not):

"We are committed to solutions that give Americans access to higher-quality health care. Letâ(TM)s lower premiums, increase choice, and protect people with pre-existing conditions."

"Women deserve opportunities and recognition for their valuable contributions, not rigid pay scales, inflexible jobs, & barriers to getting their foot in the door"

"Congress should pursue real reforms that put people in charge of their health care dollars & decisionsâ"while still protecting the vulnerable."

If caring about people and looking out for the well being of women is "so far right" then what the hell are you?

Total nonsense: the idea in #SkinIntheGame about the Popper-Godel metaproblem: those whose platform is against democracy should not be allowed to get there using democracy ...much like Salafis in Europe. Shd not be an argument to exclude pple you demonize as “Nazis”.

Gabish? https://t.co/9DFsX4cgqZ

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 5, 2018

Godel-Popper rule:
No freedom to the enemies of freedom
No rights to the enemies of rights
No democracy to the enemies of democracy
Kapish?

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 14, 2016

Total nonsense: the idea in #SkinIntheGame about the Popper-Godel metaproblem: those whose platform is against democracy should not be allowed to get there using democracy ...much like Salafis in Europe. Shd not be an argument to exclude pple you demonize as “Nazis”.

Gabish? https://t.co/9DFsX4cgqZ

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 5, 2018

Godel-Popper rule:
No freedom to the enemies of freedom
No rights to the enemies of rights
No democracy to the enemies of democracy
Kapish?

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 14, 2016

Total nonsense: the idea in #SkinIntheGame about the Popper-Godel metaproblem: those whose platform is against democracy should not be allowed to get there using democracy ...much like Salafis in Europe. Shd not be an argument to exclude pple you demonize as “Nazis”.

Gabish? https://t.co/9DFsX4cgqZ

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 5, 2018

Godel-Popper rule:
No freedom to the enemies of freedom
No rights to the enemies of rights
No democracy to the enemies of democracy
Kapish?

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 14, 2016

Creimer left Slashdot for YouTube four months ago. Creimertards are still trying to stir up shit in his name. Here's a perfect example that got them all triggered for April Fool's Day.

Given that Conservatives think there are multiple Mexicos, I'd say not. (Not an AF BTW, this happened yesterday)

How about this;
Don't moderate!

Internet is for 14 year-olds and older.
your child - your problem & responsibility to .. Parent.

If a company is not a #Publisher,
they can not Censor - unless illegal in the USA.

What the F is wrong with U people? Really, U power grasping evil.

https://twitter.com/StevWork/s...

"Unscheduled learning opportunities"
Good lord take the sock out of your mouth you inhuman fuck

I don't know if this sounds soooo bad. It could be used as a more polite title for all the articles fact-checking presidential rally speeches and tweets -- or, literally, just about anything he says. For example, from Trump says Great Lakes have 'record deepness':

I support the Great Lakes. Always have. They're beautiful. They're big. Very deep. Record deepness.

(a) The Great Lakes are not among the deepest lakes in the United States, let alone the world. The deepest lake in the country is Crater Lake, a volcanic crater in southern Oregon with the deepest measured depth of 1,949 feet, according to Geology.com. Lake Superior is the Great Lake with the largest surface area in the U.S. at 31,700 miles. Its maximum depth is 1,332 feet, but it doesn't make the record books. (Even Lake Superior itself agrees.

(b) His 2020 fiscal budget proposal calls for a $270 million cut to the $300 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, according to The Detroit Free Press. So he doesn't actually support them.

South Australian grid using wind mills widely separated was the first one to go in with a 50 MW system. It stabilized the grid and flattened the spot market prices so much they saved millions of dollars. Every dollar saved by the utility is a dollar NOT EARNED by gas powered plants. The ROI on natural gas plants are going to take a serious rework, they are losing juicy profits in the spot markets.

Now, Florida. Cost of storage batteries is falling so rapidly, it is like the micro chip revolution in computing. There is a Moore's Law for batteries, with a time period of about 7 years.

The neck of the famous "duck curve" is after sunset in CA. Solar has stopped, but a/c load is yet to peak. That one hour after sunset is the last critical piece needed for solar to become totally effective against natural gas. It is at hand. It is very exciting for the renewable energy fans.

Some of the gas plants operating in the peak load are "quick response" gas turbine plants. Their quick response is still measured in tens of minutes. The batteries are responding in milliseconds. The key thing about spot market electricity is, the price can go negative. If the gas plant is producing power and the grid could not absorb it they need to pay someone to take their power. The gas plant will not throttle down for several minutes. Who can absorb that power and get paid? The Batteries! Once the battery systems reach a critical mass, all natural gas fired power will be sold at long term pre negotiated fixed contract prices. Not the spot market. This will seriously change the ROI calculations of these plants that were already built. I am expecting the owners of these plants to cry uncle and come with hat in hand asking for "relief" from the utility rate payers.

This is my favorite tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/not...

I wonder if Microsoft is in CYA mode or full totalitarian true believer mode?

GAB.
  Do you know their history?

Payment processors, GoDaddy, MasterCard,.. Witch family corp owned Dragon Cnts work together to Censor Free Speech, but you couldn't be bothers to know this before commenting.

Take thumb out of A S S, and pay attention.

#KillCorpDragons, remove Speech & Immunity of major Owners and Managers
https://twitter.com/StevWork

Nope, my claim is that light is neither novel or unnatural and that there is research and empirical evidence available to build from. I have also previously in the thread claimed that with a minimal amount of research you should be sceptical about Kruse.

That's called genetic fallacy. Whether Kruse's narrative is correct is less important than the question that is raised of the long term health effects of artificial lighting, particularly in the blue spectrum.

Posting links to other peoples research has not changed my mind about any of my previous claims, in fact it seems to validate at least one of them.

I'm not interested in changing your mind. But, other people may be interested or have raised similar doubts themselves.

The way that that light cycle affects your brain is to use vitamin A inside your eyes to communicate to your brain that it is daytime when the blue light is on, and then it is nighttime when the blue light is gone. https://t.co/yg7kjNsDum

— Chris Masterjohn (@ChrisMasterjohn) March 7, 2019

PlanetVision has myopia. The net result is there is no energy savings and we are causing massive circadian sickness because of the new additional man made blue light. LED are deadly because of the biology of the retina. The reality is due to melanopsin, neuropsin, Vit A biology https://t.co/g7VAGuzUhv

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) January 28, 2018

Are LEDs safe?

PlanetVision has myopia. The net result is there is no energy savings and we are causing massive circadian sickness because of the new additional man made blue light. LED are deadly because of the biology of the retina. The reality is due to melanopsin, neuropsin, Vit A biology https://t.co/g7VAGuzUhv

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) January 28, 2018

A minimal amount of research should make you highly suspicious of any claims made by dr jack https://jackkruse.com/store/

PlanetVision has myopia. The net result is there is no energy savings and we are causing massive circadian sickness because of the new additional man made blue light. LED are deadly because of the biology of the retina. The reality is due to melanopsin, neuropsin, Vit A biology https://t.co/g7VAGuzUhv

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) January 28, 2018

PlanetVision has myopia. The net result is there is no energy savings and we are causing massive circadian sickness because of the new additional man made blue light. LED are deadly because of the biology of the retina. The reality is due to melanopsin, neuropsin, Vit A biology https://t.co/g7VAGuzUhv

— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) January 28, 2018

Hey so over on fb im bombarded with "Turn off your lights for an hour" for "Earth Hour."

lights on for an hour is not the problem. We have to rebuild a world which works normally at a lower-energy level, rather than do these little time-wasting games.

— BuildSoil (@BuildSoil) March 25, 2019

The real question is why did our president just have a Twitter fight with a dead man?

I think George Conway has you covered on that subject: https://twitter.com/gtconway3d...

https://twitter.com/kylegriffi...

This David Cameron?

The Leave campaign is wrong to say there'll be a 2nd referendum if we vote to remain in the EU. This is a referendum and not a neverendum.
6:24 AM - 17 May 2016

To the celebrating parrot

https://twitter.com/albertvaka...

Cry me a river...

In two years they went from "easiest trade deal, we hold all the cards, germany has to sell us cars, have our cake and eat it" to "we always knew our economy would crash and we would lose jobs, we never promised a deal, we will survive just like the blitz". Fucking idiots and grifters all of them.

It could easily have been easiest trade deal in history, since the deal we wanted was on offer. EU Council President Donald Tusk made clear in a Tweet that a Canada style deal had been on offer from the start, which is exactly what we voted for:

https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1047825916905357312

So, the deal we wanted was on offe, and we were already in regulatory alignment with the EU, so this should have been a simple proccess. The problem isn't the Brexiteers, but the bitter remainers, who flat out refuse to accept the results of the referendum. The key problem is most MPs are remainers, and they're doing everything in their power to prevent Brexit. The biggest saboteur has been Teresa May herself, who is a staunch remainer and who has been the biggest obstacle to us leaving the EU.

The Department for Exiting the European Union was created to negotiate a trade deal with the EU, and was headed by a leave voter David Davis. However, in parallel with those negotiations, Teresa May was engaged in a separate negotiations headed up by the unelected civil servant, and fanatical remainer, Olly Robbins (a man who has expressed his admiration for the Soviet Union, which is probably why he likes the EU so much). May and Robbins 'negotiated' their own deal with the EU, though 'negotiated' is the wrong word since all they did was to give the EU everything they asked for, keeping us permanently shacked to the declining block.

Teresa May then called the cabinet together at the Prime Ministers country residence and revealed her deal, which was substantially worse than remaining in the EU. David Davis resigned as Brexit Secretary the next day (he couldn't resign immediately because May had confiscated the phones of the cabinet members and had said anyone who disagreed would have there ministerial cars taken, leaving them stranded). Since then May has taken control of the process and has been trying to force her Ultra Remain deal through parliament. However, the terms of the deal are so bad that both leavers and remainers are united in rejecting it, leading to the biggest defeat in parliamentary history. Despite this, May is still trying to sell the country out to the EU, and still trying to force her terrible deal through parliament, bringing it back for a second vote, and then trying to bring it back for a third vote on the same deal.

Of course, it's not just May who has allowed this to happen, but most other MPs. Notably, there's Speaker of the House John Bercow, who has a "Bollocks to Brexit" sticker on his car. As speaker, he is responsible for selecting the amendments to be voted on, and he consistently selected pro-remain amendments. Then there's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, who has refused to unlock funds for preparations for a WTO Brexit, meaning few preparations were made.

Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that we knew what we voted for, the deal was on offer, and the remainer parliment has steadfastly refused to honour the results of the 2016 referendum and has done everything possible to prevent us from leaving. It could have been the easiest trade deal in history, but instead it's a fiasco.

So who's the problem here, the Brexiteers, who simply expect the result of the referendum to be implemented, or the remainers who are attempting to subvert democracy simply because they didn't like the result?

@Microsoft @JavaScriptDaily been programming in Javascript for 20 years and they finally come up with TypeScript -- of all things... when I was at Microsoft I told them that back in 1995-1997, they finally agreed in 2017... https://twitter.com/Reno89512/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No, this particular kind of lawsuit wasn't predicted by Popper circa 1945, but it's a great example of how it works in action.

I actually think Trump's so-called free-speech executive order is a slightly more sophisticated attack on tolerance. The real idea is to make is easier for intolerant people to attack tolerance. NOT to suggest that #PresidentTweety possesses the sophistication. The executive order was probably dictated over Trump's iPhone by Steve Bannon, that poster child of intolerance.

Next amusing thought of the day: Steve King is actively campaigning for Pence's job in 2020.

By the way, there are a number of cow-related Twitter accounts you might want to follow. https://twitter.com/search?q=%... is obvious, but if you search on Twitter for "DevinNunes" you'll see an entire herd of them.

Jesus H. Mother Fucking Christ, how brain-dead do you have to be to think that "progressives" are "tolerant".

Saying, "No, you don't deserve FWEEEEE STUFFFZZ!!!" isn't racist, bigoted, or intolerant.

The fact that "progressives" are so thin-skinned while being so damn easy to mock over their dreams of authoritarian, statist, forced wealth redistribution is obvious to anyone not drowning in the "progressive" Kool-aide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No, this particular kind of lawsuit wasn't predicted by Popper circa 1945, but it's a great example of how it works in action.

I actually think Trump's so-called free-speech executive order is a slightly more sophisticated attack on tolerance. The real idea is to make is easier for intolerant people to attack tolerance. NOT to suggest that #PresidentTweety possesses the sophistication. The executive order was probably dictated over Trump's iPhone by Steve Bannon, that poster child of intolerance.

Next amusing thought of the day: Steve King is actively campaigning for Pence's job in 2020.

By the way, there are a number of cow-related Twitter accounts you might want to follow. https://twitter.com/search?q=%... is obvious, but if you search on Twitter for "DevinNunes" you'll see an entire herd of them.

Why do you still post your stupid drivel here Chris?

I'm not creimer. If I was, so what?

I can assure you that you would then be left alone.

So you weren't involved with this thread that creimer noted when he recently lurked on Slashdot?

I don't read Slashdot on the weekend. Creimer claims he haven't been on Slashdot for six months because he's too busy making videos. So that just leaves you and your multiple penis disorder.

Bonus:

Stop harassming me. If you don't, I'm going throw away all my karma from "karma whoring" to go after you. Who knows? I might even get modded for going after penis envy trolls.