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  1. Re:I read this a few days ago on Return To Sender: High Court To Hear Undeliverable Mail Case (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    The novelty is in the stringing. Every new invention is at least partly going to build on existing ideas. Patents can be awarded on processes, not necessarily an "invention."

  2. Re:Ownership on Return To Sender: High Court To Hear Undeliverable Mail Case (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If it's returned, it's no longer in their care. They're not sneaking into a mail facility in the dead of night.

  3. Re: generation mismatch on Samsung To Stop Making 4K Blu-Ray Players, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They said streaming SD is fine. VHS is nowhere near that good.

  4. Re:If my Samsung Blu-Ray is an indication - Good on Samsung To Stop Making 4K Blu-Ray Players, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't get that cold.

  5. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're at frying temperature, it's sauteing. Low and slow is sweating.

  6. But if you set your initial price to $6, and the competitor raises their price to match, that is closer to what is happening. The price that settles is one of one-upping until something gives. And since the AI bots are set to maximize profit, they will not undercut each other as a primary strategy unless sales numbers start dropping. If the competitor used a similar AI, you get the same behavior on both sides.

  7. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The specific wording is "except for those occurring naturally in celery juice" or whatever. They're not adding nitrates, just an ingredient that happens to contain them. And of course that's the only reason that ingredient was added, so there's no important difference between cured and "uncured" except that cured meat has limits to the amount of nitrates you can use.

  8. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They have to claim both and then say "except those naturally occurring..."

  9. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a marketing scam that's literally mandated by law. Any meat using natural sources of nitrates must be listed as uncured under 9CFR317.17.

  10. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    As for Coke, caffeine is a really bitter alkaloid (as are some of the remnants of the coca leaf, most likely). Gatorade has roughly 3 times the sodium - which is kind of the point as an electrolyte replenisher. It wasn't designed as a casual beverage.

  11. And we can't manufacture things using non-industrial processes.

    Isn't that the point? Cook your own food.

  12. Re:Deficiency disorders? on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that the cholesterol feedback systems are thrown off by too much saturated fat. But dietary fiber helps reduce the impact of saturated fat.

  13. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    45mg of sodium per 12 oz, even in salt form, is not enough to make anything taste salty. Canned vegetables have roughly 10 times the sodium.

  14. Re:LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's a common term in wide colloquial usage. It's easier to redefine the word than to stop using it.

  15. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's called sauteeing unless all the water in the veggies evaporate. As long as there's still water content, the temperature of most of the celery won't go above 212*F.

  16. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Except when it's used to make "nitrate-free" sausages.

  17. Re: LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Just about all ice cream these days uses carrageenan (a seaweed extract) in place of a large portion of actual cream. Nobody more guilty than McDonald's milk shakes since around 2005. They're already supposed to be half liquid but also don't really melt.

    It was bad enough being whipped to the point of being 40% air.

  18. Re:LOL industrial processes on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    * More alleged oil/fat

    Doubtful. These are French people eating French food.

  19. Re:How about.... on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    This is how I got stuck with a Pixel 2. I loved the Nexus 5. No bloatware, just Android. But the hardware choices to keep plain Android keep getting more and more limited and more expensive. I think they dropped the name Nexus so people wouldn't complain about how expensive their new phones are in comparison.

  20. Re:Twitter is a dumpster fire on How Hard is it To Have a Conversation on Twitter? So Hard Even the CEO Can't Do It. (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Our President has proven that our race toward a leader like Zaphod Beeblebrox was inevitable.

  21. Worse, it doesn't make a provision for emergency services, so it will actually make their service worse because consumers who have exceeded their cap will be a bigger burden.

  22. PCI rules have some insane requirements if you need to keep the whole card number, but it's not outright banned. Digital wallets need more than just a single-vendor token.

  23. A disaster area isn't known in advance would be the point. And the proposed law says nothing of infrastructure.

    https://capitol.texas.gov/tlod...

  24. Isn't that a bit dodgy?
    Apple shouldn't even be storing the full credit card number.

    Not if they force you to use Apple Pay as your digital wallet when signing up. Which I'm sure they do. However, the article does not say that Apple keeps the credit card number - only that they're not providing it to the newspapers.

  25. Wouldn't it quadruple? Depends on whether you're talking about square miles or radius. If it's radius, then you have to double across two axes (like doubling horizontal and vertical screen resolution is quadruple the pixels).