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  1. Short googling indicate that lesbians are less fertile than straight women.

    http://genesis-fertility.com/diagnostics-and-testing/same-sex-couples/ - approximately 1 in 6 lesbian women will have a fertility issue.

    http://www.abc.net.au/health/library/stories/2007/05/30/1919840.htm - one of six couple are infertile, 40% due to women infertility.

    Straight women are twice more fertile as lesbian women.

  2. It took too long. on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    The tech was there from the very beginning.

    Ethernet encoding allows for pause in the data and also allows for canceling transmission of the packet by utilizing Link error code (risking that routers will complain about too many link errors).

    Very strange, I'd say.

  3. Re:Huh? on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 1

    You can as well use Haskell, where you write quickly, code is succinct and program runs fast.

  4. Re:One Suspect Dead on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1
    The people died not from opiates per se, but from dehydration (I believe the gas was used in fourth day or so) and vomit choke and other complications related to their conditions.

    For example, the friend of friends of mine died there, but he was well-grown man more than 200 lbs (90 kg). He died from complications - lung burn from vomit choke, I believe.

  5. Re:Have some shame on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    1) I think that issues have a range, from benign ones to pretty big. There should be issues that do not need to be worked on, minor ones, benign ones.

    This makes us to come to 2) could there be a person who reached an adulthood and has only minor issues?

    If so, then your reasoning is wrong. And, actually, this precisely is the kind of reasoning that should be ridiculed at any time, especially in context of psychology.

  6. Re:Cost of living on GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works · · Score: 1

    It is still easier to generate energy to heat than to cool. The difference is about threefold, I believe.

  7. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive? · · Score: 1

    This is a tactic of Makarenko. You direct a pressure from group to individual members.

    Most probably your employers hate you for that.

  8. Re:Faulty Reasoning on Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money? · · Score: 1

    In the case of CEO and Wall Street they do not recognize their deeds as mistakes.

  9. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 1

    In the defense of original idea, I should note that you can combine paragraphs or sentences by theme or feeling. Combining only two sentences from 5TB data will render brute force attack useless.

  10. Re:Recapturing the glory days? on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1
    On the other hand, West wasn't able to produce even somewhat functional clones of any of Russian computer systems.

    Not that West suffered from that, but there were great ideas out there.

  11. Re:Old news from Ancient Greece on Do Spoilers Ruin a Good Story? No, Say Researchers · · Score: 1
    I HAD to ask. I just had to.

    What character you're talking about?

  12. What is the ratio #peers/copies sold? on Study Links Game Piracy To Critics' Review Scores · · Score: 1

    That would be interesting. Does review score affects sold copies more than torrents, or not?

  13. Re:All of those studies are the same on Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice · · Score: 1

    He described general intelligence, which measure is most closely approximated by IQ.

  14. Re:Uses advanced protection technology. on White House Releases Trusted Internet ID Plan · · Score: 1

    It is your responsibility to protect your username.

    I sense something ancient here, some magic. Like anyone who knows your name could do anything to you.

  15. Re:Not A8 on Apple iPhone 5 To Flaunt New A8 Processor · · Score: 1

    I think that this new iPhone will be highly portable, featuring six comfortable handles for hand transportation.

  16. Re:good riddance on Microsoft IE Browser Share Dips Below 50% · · Score: 1

    Market share of any browsers other than IE should be as high as possible, otherwise MS will just screw the web like they have done before.

    To achieve that the very web technologies should be as simple as possible so that barrier to entry will be low, so that new players can come in at any time.

  17. Re:With x86....else is it really Windows? on Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass' · · Score: 1
    There was a CPU called Dragon chip, it is a basically MIPS CPU with special support for QEMU to emulate x86. They bolted over 200 instructions to help QEMU speed up emulation and they succeed: "With additional improvements in QEMU from ICT, Loongson-3 achieves an average of 70% the performance of executing native binaries while running x86 binaries from nine benchmarks." For 500 MHz Loongson you'll get 350 MHz x86.

    Intel could go that way - ARM and x86.

  18. Re:Hmmm... on VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg · · Score: 1
    And enough of these fucking asinine claims about the x264 developers being out to get your poor, precious VP8 that crop up every time someone posts that link. They don't work for MPEG. They don't make obscene mounts of money off of all the people using their free (as in both sense of the word) open source software.

    But those x264 devs have some vested interest in H264. They invested a great deal of their time into x264 and they don't seem to want anything other to succeed.

    By analysing their analyses I concluded that they do not research outside of x264 improvements. They criticise, their critique is valid, and that's all. They do not offer ways for other codecs to overcome their points of cencern.

    My favorite example is here: "Wavelets don’t seem to code visual energy effectively." Okay, looks he's right. But what steps should Dirac and Snow developers do to overcome that?

    I understand that it is not their direct responsibility - to help others do their job. But they demonstrate such high level of curiositylessness in other approaches so that I conclude that they do not want others to succeed.

  19. Composing contracts. on SEC Proposes Wall Street Transparency Via Python · · Score: 1
    A work from Haskell Community definitely should be mentioned here: Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering.

    It's pity that they used Python while Haskell has more formal semantics and an implementation that already used in financial sphere.

    There is a free implementation of Composing Contracts code.

  20. F#'s main weakness is the .Net. on An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme · · Score: 1
    F# does contain holes in its type system.

    I've read (Russian) that the following code crashes in runtime:

    let comp x y = x > y
    let result = comp (new Dictionary<object, object>) (new Dictionary<object, object>)

    (I am not an F# expert, I am a Haskell user;)

  21. Re:I don't get it. on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Here we go again on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 1
    Actually, he provided a rationale for a DSL right in the article where he tells about it.

    And he tells there that they done that precisely to create more revenue.

  23. Re:Rule of thumb on Defining Useful Coding Practices? · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Nice of them to change the color on Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Is it just me ? on Haskell 2010 Announced · · Score: 1
    Scala does not scale comparing with Erlang/Haskell. F# also shouldn't, because it uses .Net (see C# up there).

    Also, Nested Data Parallelism won't be available in programming languages sooner that in Haskell. And I look for NDP as an unique way to make heterogenous parallel environments work (those like IBM Cell BE, for example).