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  1. Pubic educator? on Pioneering Data Genius Hans Rosling Passes Away At Age 68 (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    "professor-turned-pubic educator".
    Okay. I'll definitely not RTFA.

  2. Re:And this explains... on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Let's electrocute rats every now and then during 10 days, and fail to mention it in the abstract!

  3. Re:History lesson on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Fun fact : In 1933, German journalists were also laughing at anyone saying Hitler was dangerous.

  4. Re:And this explains... on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    "Not getting any sleep is fatal."

    We don't know much about sleep, and we don't even know if sleep deprivation can be lethal.

  5. Re:By "reduce symptoms" do they mean "die earlier" on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Many (all?) antipsychotic drugs have some heavy side effects. Patients pretty much have to decide between illness, obesity, parkinson symptoms or any combination of those 3. No wonder they might get heart diseases.

  6. I parsed
    "Mark Zuckerberg Drops Lawsuits To Force Hundreds of Hawaiians To Sell Him Land"
    as
    "Mark Zuckerberg Drops Lawsuits (To Force Hundreds of Hawaiians To Sell Him Land)"
    instead of
    "Mark Zuckerberg Drops (Lawsuits To Force Hundreds of Hawaiians To Sell Him Land)"

    Can the title really be undestood both ways?

  7. Re:By "reduce symptoms" do they mean "die earlier" on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed. Suicide, accidents and overdoses have been shown to be very effective at reducing lung cancer rates!

  8. Re:This is not news on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife has schizophrenia and I still laughed real loud after reading the gp joke.

  9. Re:Hey look! on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been using Ruby every day for more than 10 years, and I'm still learning new stuff every day.
    It's possible to write beautiful, productive, readable and maintainable code with it.

    Rails is a cool project, but what bothers me is that it changes a lot between versions, sometimes just for the sake of changing stuff. For many people, Rails is the only Ruby project they know, and this might be very confusing because so much "magic" happens behind the scene. 6 months later, this magic has been changed to something else.

    My story is basically the opposite of what you described. I love Ruby, but I'm in the process of learning Python, just because it's so widely spread in academia and in the industry. I find the language kinda boring (almost FORTRAN like), but it sure gets the job done. It's simply incredible how many cool projects there are, and how much can be done just by importing 2 libraries and writing 5 lines of code. It's also pretty cool to ask a question about graph theory and have Ron Rivest (R from RSA) replies with a Pygame example.

    To me, Ruby is like Italian : I find it expressive and beautiful, but it's not so useful outside of Italy. So I learn Spanish :)

  10. Re:There's no logo per se on Mozilla's New Logo Reminds Us that It Is, In Fact, a Web Firm (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A huge percentage of "logos" are just names written in some fancy font.

  11. GNU/Linux distro without a Linux kernel on Windows 10 Gets A New Linux: openSUSE (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 2

    If I understand it right, it's a GNU/Linux distro without a Linux kernel on top of a compatibility layer on Windows, right?

    What should it be called? It's not exactly Linux, and we don't say that WINE is a Windows on Linux. It's also not only GNU.

  12. Re:...without sacrificing photo quality on Google's New Compression Tool Uses 75% Less Bandwidth Without Sacrificing Image Quality (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    +1.

    It's really impressive how much a difference sharp eyes make. I like taking close-up portraits with my 85mm f/1.4 on a full frame sensor.
    99% of the whole picture is basically completely out of focus. If the other 1% falls on the eyes, the picture looks perfectly sharp.
    It's junk otherwise.

  13. Re:Main application? on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hard to answer. Nobody who spent many thousand bucks on a audio setup will admit it's impossible to tell the difference!

  14. One missing today doesn't increase the chance of one hitting tomorrow.

    Are asteroids truly independent from each other? Couldn't they come from the same asteroid "cloud" or "belt"?
    I'm honestly asking, I have no idea.

  15. Re:Or people are just under/wrongly medicated. on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, Plan B for doctors was "Get out of her life, leave her to rot and try to build a happy family without the mother!"

  16. Re:Or people are just under/wrongly medicated. on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish you and your family luck, strength, and hope!
    Once it gets better, you really have a different point of view and find it easier to concentrate on the important stuff in life.
    I wish it'll soon happen to you!

    PS: Meds are important at first, but pets/music/sport/travels/whatever could help relieve the pain/anger/fear in the long term.

  17. Re:Or people are just under/wrongly medicated. on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a huge asshole. Try empathy for a while.

  18. Re:Or people are just under/wrongly medicated. on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Depression != psychosis.
    She still takes on meds and probably will be for a long time, but there's no noticeable side effect.
    We changed our lifestyle, and try to minimize stress sources as much as possible.

  19. Re:What about the ones we have now? on The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots (hrw.org) · · Score: 1

    An unpresidented twitter, at that!

  20. I don't get the joke. Could you please explain it?

  21. Re:BS on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    +1. The US is responsible for almost 30% of all the historical emissions :
    https://www.theguardian.com/en...

  22. Re:Or people are just under/wrongly medicated. on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    'try this for two weeks and come back to see me'

    100% true. My wife has been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis 5 years ago.
    She spent 2.5 years in a clinic, trying new medication every 3 weeks or so. I've seen dozens of symptom you don't want to see, especially not on a young woman who happens to be the mother of your child.
    Somehow, her 4th psychiatrist managed to find the right combination, very possibly thanks to sheer luck. My wife's now perfectly healthy and we're a happy family.
    I still cannot believe it, even though it's been 3 years now. I had lost any hope after 1 year of different treatments. Almost every doctor told me "Time for plan B". What the **** is a plan B when you're alone with your child at home, and your loved one in the clinic, looking like a zombie?

  23. Re: Better up the Military Budget on Climate Change Will Stir 'Unimaginable' Refugee Crisis, Says Military (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    `This is a slow change, by human measure`
    Plants also need to migrate, and they might not move fast enough :
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  24. Simple and correct explanation. I mean, it's not like it's rocket science.

  25. Re:Impressive on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, planners can avoid those pitfalls easily. They might not always do so, though.
    The difference between practice and theory is bigger in practice than in theory ;)