I have never come across anyone claiming the strength distribution curves don't have significant overlap. When people claim men are stronger than women, aren't they just referring to stats like mean, median, maximum, etc.?
What do you call significant overlap?
I'd be very surprised if you took a group of same-age individuals- say one hundred 25yo men and 100 25yo women- if more than 10 women were stronger than the weakest 10 men- if we're looking at pure strength. If we're looking at stamina based "strength" challenges that number would probably be higher. There are some things, like ultra-long distance running, where women would actually do better than men...... but if we're looking at who can lift the most, or who can push harder with their legs... the overlap is surely lower than 10%. I'd be open minded to be convinced otherwise if anyone has any knowledge of studies saying to the contrary.
..and we've been evolving into omnivores for at least a million years. You can't just decide you're going to be strict vegetarian and not expect to have health problems related to that.
Well, you can, you just have to pay more attention to what you eat to not be deficient you can get what you need being Vegetarian. Vegan is perhaps more serious. You probably should be taking supplements if you go vegan.
What the studies are suggesting though, are not that we necessarily go vegan or even vegetarian, but cut back on meat. If the average person was willing to eat half as much meat as they do now, it could make a difference, there would be no negative health-consequences; actually, for most people it would be a health benefit. The longest lived societies on earth all eat mostly vegetarian based diets supplemented with just a little meat.
, but why does Bing or Google care what their key word searches return?
Because that's what the majority of customers want... or rather- more people don't want to see "offensive" pages in a search than people who would get upset about "offensive" pages being removed. It's all about money; neither Microsoft or Google are doing this (or not doing this) because of politics. They just want to maximum number of eyes, and the maximum number of ad revenue flowing through their web pages.
As a test, I searched 'girls licking tits' on both Bing and Google.
Thank you for doing this in the name of science!:)
I was obviously exaggerating the difference between Google and Bing; however, I've learnt the hard way not to use bing image search when I have people in my office and I need to look for an image for a project. Innocent search terms seem to pull up less than innocent results. It could be anecdotal, I've heard other people have the same issue.
It would be interesting to do an in depth study on this. How do I get government funding?
Google and Bing are very different in wholesomeness.
Googling "Girl Licking Tits" would probably show you pictures of a girl licking British song birds as top image result. Bing search "McDonalds" would probably show you a picture of Ronald having a threesome with the Hamburgler and that purple blob creature as top image result.
FYI I, for good reason, haven't actually done either of the searches above- these responses are dramatazisations.
I love red beans and rice (and black beans and rice too).
You can't really make red beans and rice without andouille sausage, that's a HUGE flavor component.
You can try vegetarian RB&B, but it really isn't worth eating. I've tried.
You gotta have sausage, and even maybe a little pickle pork in there too.
That's very true... but it doesn't really need a lot of sausage to improve it. Compared to a hamburger and fries, or a steak dinner with potato and salad... RB&R even with sausage uses a lot less meat...... assuming the goal here is to cut back on meat eaten rather than go cold turkey vegetarian- red beans and rice (even with sausage) is a step in the right direction.
What about people who can't digest beans easily? As far as I know there are quite a lot of them. I would think that a far more sensible solution is lab-grown meat, which wouldn't contain the fibrous material in beans that is indigestible to many.
Gluten! It was a popular healthy protein used in vegetarian "pseudo-meats" before new age millennials invented having gluten-sensitivities.
Rather than exterminating hundreds of existing species of animals, how about we reduce our population growth to a number less than zero, and bring our own population down to sustainable levels?
What happens when we get to 20 billion and can no longer subsist on soy protein and rice rations? Going after all of these leftist utopian dreams of state control over personal living is not going to solve the problem of how to feed an unsustainably-growing human population.
It's happens naturally as populations join the first world. Japan's population is shrinking and much of the Western world would be experiencing shrinking population without immigration (immigration increases population now- and immigrants tend to have more children than people who have been living in the West for generations).
It's not about stop eating meat dumbass, it's about reduction. Eating meat isn't really the issue, depending on the place you live in, meat is the only really viable source of calories anyway, because humans can't process the shit that grows there naturally. Thinking that eating a bucket of chicken wings every day should be the norm is a problem.
Mass livestock farming of pigs, cows, or even chicken is an environmental issue because it wastes a huge amount of resources that could be used otherwise and creates huge amounts of waste in form of animal shit and piss. But who cares about clean water, right?
I could really do this. I could easily cut half... three quarters of meat out of my diet. I love meat- but there are lots of meatless dishes that are good too. India has some fantastic vegetarian dishes. I could quite happily eat some vegetarian Indian meals a couple days a week. I love red beans and rice (and black beans and rice too).
I love meat- but I could adapt to eating less without it impacting my life in a major way.
So in otherwords it is useless in a room with other people (unless you want to hear them giving commands or them hear you giving commands) - and it runs contrary to the standard of ever larger screens because consumers like more screen space.
How am I supposed to browse the web on this at night while my partner sleeps? As an insomniac, sometimes at 3am after failing to sleep all night I tend to give up and start to surf the web until 5 when it's time to get up.
I'm just going to quote myself replying to another poster, since it completely addressed your points as well. Hint: don't regurgitate activist points as your own. They've been long debunked. Formulate your own.
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Better than what? US?
Compare it to people in US receiving medical care rather than entirety of population, so you can compare apples to apples - people receiving care to people receiving care. You'll find result flipped. US is one of the best places on the planet to get best care, if you can afford to pay for it. And most people in US can in fact afford to pay for it. They don't have to wait three years and six months for their next dental check like I do in finnish public sector.
This BS arguing based on weird extreme ideologies omnipresent in US is really strange from European view. Of course everyone should be covered publicly. But to pretend that this is going to give median person better care is just utterly wrong. It's going to make median person's care worse, unless they opt for a private option anyway. What it will ensure is that outliers on the lower end of the distribution will be much better off, which lifts the average.
I live in the US and so I know what goes on in the US. I've lived in several European countries and so know what goes on in them. In the US you pay far more (double on average) and the nurses and doctors are all great and very personable, etc... but, the majority of people don't go to the doctor for things that one probably should go to the doctor for.
Case in point, I have pretty bad tendonitis at the moment. I could probably get something to help, or get it confirmed that it is not something more serious by going to the doctor. However, I'm 90% sure the doctor will just say "rest it and take anti-inflamtories" and then in a few weeks my insurance company will bill me an extra $500 for daring to go see the doctor. There is a small chance it's something else and I'm making things worse on myself- but it's too costly to go to the doctor just for tendonitis. In Europe I would have gone and got it checked out just in case.
Solar power. Won't need much energy to test pulse and temperature- especially if it only does it once every time contact is established after contact lost.
The stores are lit and the parking lot is lit... and half the shoppers are lit.
Those creepy aliens who abduct people and shove probes up their asses? They are actually just doing cutting-edge research for what will become the future of retail.
And let me just say, I, for one, welcome our new alien-engineered, pulse and temperature-measuring shopping-cart overlords.
I've always wondered- what if most species in the galaxy speak from out of their rear end? Or if most species have their brains in their butts?
Aliens might just be sticking a voice recorder up there hoping you'll talk... or trying to do a brainscan to see if they find any intelligence. They must be really confused doing a brain scan and finding nothing but poop...
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I have never come across anyone claiming the strength distribution curves don't have significant overlap. When people claim men are stronger than women, aren't they just referring to stats like mean, median, maximum, etc.?
What do you call significant overlap?
I'd be very surprised if you took a group of same-age individuals- say one hundred 25yo men and 100 25yo women- if more than 10 women were stronger than the weakest 10 men- if we're looking at pure strength. If we're looking at stamina based "strength" challenges that number would probably be higher. There are some things, like ultra-long distance running, where women would actually do better than men... ... but if we're looking at who can lift the most, or who can push harder with their legs... the overlap is surely lower than 10%. I'd be open minded to be convinced otherwise if anyone has any knowledge of studies saying to the contrary.
Seriously, "sub-moon" or "secondary/tertiary moon" weren't good enough?
I thought these guys were writing stuff for scientific journals, not the Urban Dictionary.
I would have gone with "Satellite" myself. We already have a word for small bodies in space that orbit another.
Can you make 3D printed devices that vibrate?
As an exhibitionist I regularly dance naked in front of my internet connected cameras. Unfortunately mine aren't on the list provided by ZDNet.
So, Trump isn't going to use music illegally at his rally's or has he built in a way to get around that?
He can legally pardon his event organizers if they get found to be using music illegally.
..and we've been evolving into omnivores for at least a million years. You can't just decide you're going to be strict vegetarian and not expect to have health problems related to that.
Well, you can, you just have to pay more attention to what you eat to not be deficient you can get what you need being Vegetarian. Vegan is perhaps more serious. You probably should be taking supplements if you go vegan.
What the studies are suggesting though, are not that we necessarily go vegan or even vegetarian, but cut back on meat. If the average person was willing to eat half as much meat as they do now, it could make a difference, there would be no negative health-consequences; actually, for most people it would be a health benefit. The longest lived societies on earth all eat mostly vegetarian based diets supplemented with just a little meat.
, but why does Bing or Google care what their key word searches return?
Because that's what the majority of customers want... or rather- more people don't want to see "offensive" pages in a search than people who would get upset about "offensive" pages being removed. It's all about money; neither Microsoft or Google are doing this (or not doing this) because of politics. They just want to maximum number of eyes, and the maximum number of ad revenue flowing through their web pages.
As a test, I searched 'girls licking tits' on both Bing and Google.
Thank you for doing this in the name of science! :)
I was obviously exaggerating the difference between Google and Bing; however, I've learnt the hard way not to use bing image search when I have people in my office and I need to look for an image for a project. Innocent search terms seem to pull up less than innocent results. It could be anecdotal, I've heard other people have the same issue.
It would be interesting to do an in depth study on this. How do I get government funding?
Google and Bing are very different in wholesomeness.
Googling "Girl Licking Tits" would probably show you pictures of a girl licking British song birds as top image result.
Bing search "McDonalds" would probably show you a picture of Ronald having a threesome with the Hamburgler and that purple blob creature as top image result.
FYI I, for good reason, haven't actually done either of the searches above- these responses are dramatazisations.
You can't really make red beans and rice without andouille sausage, that's a HUGE flavor component.
You can try vegetarian RB&B, but it really isn't worth eating. I've tried.
You gotta have sausage, and even maybe a little pickle pork in there too.
That's very true... but it doesn't really need a lot of sausage to improve it. Compared to a hamburger and fries, or a steak dinner with potato and salad... RB&R even with sausage uses a lot less meat... ... assuming the goal here is to cut back on meat eaten rather than go cold turkey vegetarian- red beans and rice (even with sausage) is a step in the right direction.
What about people who can't digest beans easily? As far as I know there are quite a lot of them. I would think that a far more sensible solution is lab-grown meat, which wouldn't contain the fibrous material in beans that is indigestible to many.
Gluten! It was a popular healthy protein used in vegetarian "pseudo-meats" before new age millennials invented having gluten-sensitivities.
Rather than exterminating hundreds of existing species of animals, how about we reduce our population growth to a number less than zero, and bring our own population down to sustainable levels?
What happens when we get to 20 billion and can no longer subsist on soy protein and rice rations? Going after all of these leftist utopian dreams of state control over personal living is not going to solve the problem of how to feed an unsustainably-growing human population.
It's happens naturally as populations join the first world. Japan's population is shrinking and much of the Western world would be experiencing shrinking population without immigration (immigration increases population now- and immigrants tend to have more children than people who have been living in the West for generations).
It's not about stop eating meat dumbass, it's about reduction. Eating meat isn't really the issue, depending on the place you live in, meat is the only really viable source of calories anyway, because humans can't process the shit that grows there naturally. Thinking that eating a bucket of chicken wings every day should be the norm is a problem.
Mass livestock farming of pigs, cows, or even chicken is an environmental issue because it wastes a huge amount of resources that could be used otherwise and creates huge amounts of waste in form of animal shit and piss. But who cares about clean water, right?
I could really do this. I could easily cut half... three quarters of meat out of my diet. I love meat- but there are lots of meatless dishes that are good too. India has some fantastic vegetarian dishes. I could quite happily eat some vegetarian Indian meals a couple days a week. I love red beans and rice (and black beans and rice too).
I love meat- but I could adapt to eating less without it impacting my life in a major way.
Over my dead body.
Depends on how well cooked your body is.
So Alexa is now a drug dealer? What's next? Pimp daddy?
Alexa will notice I sound British and start asking me if I want a cuppa.
How do you know if someone "sounds horny", though?
They speak with a male's voice.
If my wife gets this phone she can reply "no" to all my texts without even having to read them.
Who needs "AI"?
https://play.google.com/store/...
AI will help Identify when to respond with a no- and when I'm trying to trick it by asking the question as a negative and respond with a yes.
Example:
Is it OK if I hang out with my ex having drinks tonight:
AI: NO.
Do you mind if I hang out with my ex having drinks tonight:
AI: YES.
So in otherwords it is useless in a room with other people (unless you want to hear them giving commands or them hear you giving commands) - and it runs contrary to the standard of ever larger screens because consumers like more screen space.
How am I supposed to browse the web on this at night while my partner sleeps? As an insomniac, sometimes at 3am after failing to sleep all night I tend to give up and start to surf the web until 5 when it's time to get up.
If my wife gets this phone she can reply "no" to all my texts without even having to read them.
I'm just going to quote myself replying to another poster, since it completely addressed your points as well. Hint: don't regurgitate activist points as your own. They've been long debunked. Formulate your own.
Original post follows:
Better than what? US?
Compare it to people in US receiving medical care rather than entirety of population, so you can compare apples to apples - people receiving care to people receiving care. You'll find result flipped. US is one of the best places on the planet to get best care, if you can afford to pay for it. And most people in US can in fact afford to pay for it. They don't have to wait three years and six months for their next dental check like I do in finnish public sector.
This BS arguing based on weird extreme ideologies omnipresent in US is really strange from European view. Of course everyone should be covered publicly. But to pretend that this is going to give median person better care is just utterly wrong. It's going to make median person's care worse, unless they opt for a private option anyway. What it will ensure is that outliers on the lower end of the distribution will be much better off, which lifts the average.
I live in the US and so I know what goes on in the US. I've lived in several European countries and so know what goes on in them. In the US you pay far more (double on average) and the nurses and doctors are all great and very personable, etc... but, the majority of people don't go to the doctor for things that one probably should go to the doctor for.
Case in point, I have pretty bad tendonitis at the moment. I could probably get something to help, or get it confirmed that it is not something more serious by going to the doctor. However, I'm 90% sure the doctor will just say "rest it and take anti-inflamtories" and then in a few weeks my insurance company will bill me an extra $500 for daring to go see the doctor. There is a small chance it's something else and I'm making things worse on myself- but it's too costly to go to the doctor just for tendonitis. In Europe I would have gone and got it checked out just in case.
There is a distinct difference between "not at fault" and avoidable. Everytime I drive a car I avoid accidents that wouldn't have been my fault.
You make a very fair point... although if it is every day, I suggest moving to a different city. :)
Solar power. Won't need much energy to test pulse and temperature- especially if it only does it once every time contact is established after contact lost.
The stores are lit and the parking lot is lit... and half the shoppers are lit.
Those creepy aliens who abduct people and shove probes up their asses? They are actually just doing cutting-edge research for what will become the future of retail.
And let me just say, I, for one, welcome our new alien-engineered, pulse and temperature-measuring shopping-cart overlords.
I've always wondered- what if most species in the galaxy speak from out of their rear end? Or if most species have their brains in their butts?
Aliens might just be sticking a voice recorder up there hoping you'll talk... or trying to do a brainscan to see if they find any intelligence. They must be really confused doing a brain scan and finding nothing but poop...
If stuff at walmart makes your heart race, you fully deserve whatever walmart does to you.
I had a strange experience at a walmart once. I walked in and there was an attractive woman shopping there.
Fingerprints are next...
Fingerprints... that's tame... What about a shopping trolley that takes DNA samples... tests you for drugs... automatically informs authorities.