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  1. Re:Whole Foods on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    Do yourself a favor and look up "aquifer". Much of the water used in agriculture comes from underground aquifers that have been storing water for tens of thousands of years. Annual rainfall replaces but a tiny percentage of that.

    So they shouldn't be extracting more than a tiny percentage of the aquifer contents if they want the aquifer contents to remain at existing levels. However rather than being 'wasted', using that water more fits the definition of being put to use.

  2. Re:Whole Foods on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    >Once that water is gone, the farms will be gone as well.

    And it's the farms that are using the water right? So they are the one's responsible for their own demise.

  3. >I've never considered food to be part of the equation.

    I read it in a paper a few years ago and tried it out and it seemed to work well. Don't eat when you should be sleeping in the destination time zone. Load up at breakfast time in the destination time zone.

    This was at a time where I was effectively permanently recovering or in jetlag due to travelling internationally twice a month. So had plenty of opportunity to I try things. Sunlight, food and sleep at the right times were the key for me. Melotonin did nothing. Ambian was seriously addictive. Alcohol isn't a bad sleep aid if you enjoy experiencing bars in foreign countries.

    After a while I couldn't sustain it and I changed my role to limit travel.

  4. Re:Whole Foods on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    >Organic wastes more water and energy per kilo of crop yield.

    How the hell do you waste water? It just flows back into the sea and joins the sea -> cloud -> rain cycle all over again.

    By the same measure, rain wastes far more water than agriculture ever did.

  5. Re:That's why I'm sticking with my 1971 Datsun 240 on You Can Hack Some Mazda Cars With a USB Flash Drive (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    FWIW, Mazda went off the rails with the current MX5 styling too. I've had two MX5s (the pop up headlights one and the one after that) and they were both looked great. The high price and the fussy exterior steered me away from the MX5 this time around.

    My Z is bright orange, which was a significant factor in my choice. Convertible of course.

  6. Re:Just to keep it straight on my scorecard on Physicists Discover A Possible Break In the Standard Model of Physics (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    > being 5 sigma means that there's only a 1e-6 chance

    Umm that's 3E-7 actually.

  7. Re:That's why I'm sticking with my 1971 Datsun 240 on You Can Hack Some Mazda Cars With a USB Flash Drive (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an absolute blast to drive, those triple dual throat carburetors just freaking scream, it actually feels alive. Unlike to soulless crap that's sold today that's all larded up with electronics crap.

    I have a younger sibling of that car. The 350Z convertible. It's also a blast to drive and doesn't appear to be weighed down with electronics.

  8. 'nuff said.

  9. >I get severe jet lag only when I fly business.

    I do better in business class. In business I have the choice to sleep or eat. In cattle class, sleeping isn't an option.
    I find there are two major components to feeling crappy, first your body clock being off, second sleep deprivation. If I just sleep as much as possible, it won't improve my body clock any, but at least I'm not sleep deprived and it feels manageable. I try to travel a couple of days early if I need to be on top of my game in meetings.

    I do the usual things. Eat a big breakfast, stop eating a few hours before bed time, walk in the sun in the morning. Set an alarm.

    I tried drugs (ambien) and that was a disaster. Melotonin did nothing.

  10. I assume everyone who travels a lot knows this. Eat food at the time you want to be waking up in the new timezone. Your body get's a clue and goes along with it. That's why a fry up in LHR at 7.00am GMT after flying from the USA is ideal.

  11. Re: The obvious problem on Netflix Changes Course, Says It Will 'Never Outgrow' Fight For Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When the fuck is 28:00?
    When does that happen?

    Are you one of those primitive species that lives on Earth or something?

  12. Re:I'll be back... on Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    Vivaldi was a famous composer 1703-1741.

    Then he made a career change and was a famous decomposer.

    But I think he's long since retired from even that by now.

    He was a fan of the dynamics of climate science, he was always for seasons.
     

  13. Re: After all that time! on Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do people post unfunny crap like this, desperately trying to be witty and amusing?

    To test the sense of humour of anonymous cowards.

  14. After all that time! on Vivaldi 1.10 Released (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    >Vivaldi Released

    He must have been in prison for a long time

  15. Re:Cord cutting and sports on Netflix Has More American Subscribers Than Cable TV (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well many shows don't invite you to pick a side and split the protagonists into two sides with clearly distinguished colors and iconography to make it simple.

    Are you sure you're not watching Cops?

    Very sure. I mostly listen to music.

  16. Re:Cord cutting and sports on Netflix Has More American Subscribers Than Cable TV (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They are feeding off your tribal instincts.

    In contrast to every other thing on TV in what way, exactly?

    Well many shows don't invite you to pick a side and split the protagonists into two sides with clearly distinguished colors and iconography to make it simple.

  17. Re:How many Americans can't even get cable? on Netflix Has More American Subscribers Than Cable TV (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you get Netflix without cable?

    Are there places with broadband, but not cable?

    That'll be the fiber optic thingy that comes to the back of my house.

  18. Re:Cord cutting and sports on Netflix Has More American Subscribers Than Cable TV (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I want to watch live sports. How can I still do that while cord cutting?

    Reappraise your need to watch live sports. They are feeding off your tribal instincts.

  19. Re: Did she actually design gmail? on Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's Ex-CEO, Says She's Looking 'Forward To Using Gmail Again' · · Score: 1

    She was employee #20. Like it or not, Google wasnt hiring for random c-level positions that early on, so she mist have pulled her weight just fine. Maybe later on she transitioned into the typical useless manager role, but that's it.

    I seen several people do that. I think the common thread was that they didn't really enjoy engineering and were competent at it but no match for their peers. So they doggedly took the path to management where their engineering skills did not matter at all but their BS skills were paramount.

  20. I never thought I would see Nazi tactics return to Germany! Guess I was wrong...they have failed to learn from their own history.

    I've you've ever been a USCIS biometric center you would have seen that the US government fingerprints children all day.

  21. Re:Oh, BULLSHIT! on The Internet Of Things Is Becoming More Difficult To Escape (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I work around all the 'smart' in my smart TV. the video goes int the HDMI. I don't use a HDMI cable with the embedded ethernet wires. I don't let the TV connect to the internet. I use other devices (PC, Roku, HDHomerun) to get the video.
     

  22. Re:Why not discuss boobs on Japanese terrestrial T on Sharp To Americans: You Don't Want to Buy a Sharp-Brand TV (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Alas my Japanese is not that good. I'm still learning basic grammar, trying to get to grips with Kanji and my vocabulary is limited.

  23. Re:What happened next? on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You should hang out with more economists.

  24. Re:Convoluted law system on Microsoft Wins Xbox Class-Action Fight at US Supreme Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a lot more coherent. Thanks.

  25. Re:Oh, BULLSHIT! on The Internet Of Things Is Becoming More Difficult To Escape (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Again, what if the firmware only lets you download the "real" firmware, fitting your country of origin (doesn't make sense? 3 letters: DRM. You don't think that you'll forever be allowed to use VPN to watch content on Netflix that isn't supposed to be available in your country?), and without internet connection, you have no way of installing what's necessary to make your TV "whole" enough to actually display anything meaningful.

    WTF are you blathering on about? I don't find watching TV very challenging. Why do you?