They talk about the number of users that follow porn versus the number who don't, but they don't really mention how much they consume.
If that 1/4 accounts for half (or more) of the page views, and the other 3/4 is just people who drop in occasionally to look at their cousin's Photoshop gallery, they're going to be losing a lot more than 25% of their "audience."
Not to mention, of course, that they're not in love with being executed.
This week's move by China (as a result of Trump pushing the issue in trade talks) to criminalize fentanyl puts a helluva lot of risk back in the made-in-China drug business, as far as fentanyl goes...
There are plenty of areas in personal tech that could certainly use a huge jump in speed and/or density.
Virtual reality, for example - a tenfold (or more) increase in graphics processing power would make personal VR amazing instead of just fun. Standalone setups like the Oculus Go could have 4k-per-eye graphics, with high frame rate and roomscale tracking.
It's interesting that they compare the Amazon warehouse square footage to a nearby Tesco grocery warehouse - by the area of the building.
How many people work in each, and how many hours per day do people work there? How healthy were those employees when they started work? Amazon is pretty well-known for hiring just about anyone, including people with known health problems. Does the grocery store warehouse even hire pregnant women at all for production jobs?
Amazon warehouses are often 24/7 environments, while most grocery warehouses close for several hours per day (or reduce staff drastically overnight). That's probably also an issue.
How busy is the Tesco warehouse? Do they have a few hundred thousand different items to pick, wrap, and ship to thousands of different addresses per day, like the Amazon location, or are they like a normal grocery distribution center that sends out a few dozen trucks during a normal work day? The packaging difference alone probably doubles or triples the Amazon workforce right off the bat.
And last... it looks like the Amazon site calls an ambulance for just about anything. Does Tesco do the same, or do they just stand around and stall until they're forced to, hoping the employee will decide to wander over to the hospital after work?
There's a note by one of the reviewers who points out that the control rats in the group that were compared to the "high radiation" male rats had a lower than expected number of gliomas, which is part of how they had "more gliomas" in that group.
The number of male rats who had gliomas actually had a fairly typical number of gliomas for rats.
There was also a bit of fudging up above: while 3000 or so rats were studied, they broke them into smaller numbers with different dose rates. There were only 94 rats in the group of "high exposure" rats.
Basically, instead of a "3000 rat" study, it was a whole bunch of smaller studies. Treated as a 3000-rat whole, there was no effect, statistically.
China and India are still busily building new coal plants (despite what China sometimes claims), and you'd have to convince them - and their populations - that upward economic mobility is no longer an option.
If India tried a huge cutback, they'd have riots.
If China tried a huge cutback, they'd have a revolution.
If they had enough housing space on campus, this article would never have been written....and if you were half as smart as you think you are, you might have learned of a thing called "sarcasm."
The university could set up its own living accommodations. That way, students could live right on university property, at a reduced rate, instead of having to hunt for overpriced spaces in the town. They could make them basic, 150-square-foot living quarters - room, bed, with a communal bathroom - without all of the bells and whistles that seem to make university living cost so much.
There's an ancient word for such living spaces: "dormitories."
Due to the difference in nutrition, instead of eating 10 units of food, you'd need to eat 10.5 or 11 - but you'd have 13 or 14 units of food available.
The number cited in the report is closer to five or ten percent - and that also pushes the results into "not very significant" range. For example, with a 5% relative reduction in iron in a wheat crop, 100 grams of bread goes from 35% of the recommended daily allowance to 33% or so. The difference is tiny, when compared to the much larger increase in crop yield.
A lot of nutritional deficiencies could also be addressed by people being able to grow multiple crops for food, instead of concentrating on the one staple crop they go with because that's the one that actually gives them enough food to live at all.
This is a pretty pathetic study - "yeah, fewer people would starve to death, but they have to eat slightly more food to get a good diet!"
CO2 causes fairly large increases in crop yield, which would cause an overall increase in nutrition. The 5% to 10% decrease in some nutrients would be more than made up by the 30%+ increase in total crop volume they see with the study's level of CO2 - and calories are the primary thing to worry about when you're starving to death.
I have a much smaller physical library than I used to, true.
I dumped almost all of my old magazines.
But I have a LOT more of the sort of gadgets that I used to have one of, at most. Multiple desktop computers, a couple of laptops, several tablets, a phone, and an array of VR gear.
Smaller number of things overall, but much more concentrated value, in general.
...like the Windows Update that kept trying to install itself over the last couple of months, failing each time after multiple restarts, then defaulting back to the old installation, no matter what I did.
Finally, I downloaded the most recent one (bypassing the older version), and it still had problems. Until I unplugged all of my USB devices except my mouse and keyboard. THEN it installed.
The WWII-era Nazis were mostly fond of taking guns away from people and keeping them only in the hands of the government or Party members.
You should also remember that, in the US, "high ranking Nazi" means "some guy who has a couple of dozen people who sorta do what he says, and a few million people who oppose him."
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"Site visits" is a very vague metric.
If someone went to Tumblr before December, they'd probably end up looking at a lot of different pages, for a lot of page views.
Now? "Hey, that artist I used to like is gone, I guess I'll hit Newgrounds or Discord again..."
A 10 kilogram bucket of "good" uranium ore should put out about 400 nanosieverts per hour.
The report seems to suggest about 2,000 times that.
So they either got some actual nuclear waste - or someone had the Geiger counter set wrong.
...Allstate got tired of buying people entire new phones when they cracked a screen...
I find it fascinating how people, when confronted by those silly things called "facts," respond with non-sequiturs.
The actual Fukushima death toll is still zero, no matter how much you hate capitalism.
They talk about the number of users that follow porn versus the number who don't, but they don't really mention how much they consume.
If that 1/4 accounts for half (or more) of the page views, and the other 3/4 is just people who drop in occasionally to look at their cousin's Photoshop gallery, they're going to be losing a lot more than 25% of their "audience."
Not to mention, of course, that they're not in love with being executed.
This week's move by China (as a result of Trump pushing the issue in trade talks) to criminalize fentanyl puts a helluva lot of risk back in the made-in-China drug business, as far as fentanyl goes...
There are plenty of areas in personal tech that could certainly use a huge jump in speed and/or density.
Virtual reality, for example - a tenfold (or more) increase in graphics processing power would make personal VR amazing instead of just fun. Standalone setups like the Oculus Go could have 4k-per-eye graphics, with high frame rate and roomscale tracking.
It's interesting that they compare the Amazon warehouse square footage to a nearby Tesco grocery warehouse - by the area of the building.
How many people work in each, and how many hours per day do people work there? How healthy were those employees when they started work? Amazon is pretty well-known for hiring just about anyone, including people with known health problems. Does the grocery store warehouse even hire pregnant women at all for production jobs?
Amazon warehouses are often 24/7 environments, while most grocery warehouses close for several hours per day (or reduce staff drastically overnight). That's probably also an issue.
How busy is the Tesco warehouse? Do they have a few hundred thousand different items to pick, wrap, and ship to thousands of different addresses per day, like the Amazon location, or are they like a normal grocery distribution center that sends out a few dozen trucks during a normal work day? The packaging difference alone probably doubles or triples the Amazon workforce right off the bat.
And last... it looks like the Amazon site calls an ambulance for just about anything. Does Tesco do the same, or do they just stand around and stall until they're forced to, hoping the employee will decide to wander over to the hospital after work?
That's the basic type of mistake they made with this one.
Put a pebble in one shoe and wear a loose jacket...
There's a note by one of the reviewers who points out that the control rats in the group that were compared to the "high radiation" male rats had a lower than expected number of gliomas, which is part of how they had "more gliomas" in that group.
The number of male rats who had gliomas actually had a fairly typical number of gliomas for rats.
There was also a bit of fudging up above: while 3000 or so rats were studied, they broke them into smaller numbers with different dose rates. There were only 94 rats in the group of "high exposure" rats.
Basically, instead of a "3000 rat" study, it was a whole bunch of smaller studies. Treated as a 3000-rat whole, there was no effect, statistically.
China and India are still busily building new coal plants (despite what China sometimes claims), and you'd have to convince them - and their populations - that upward economic mobility is no longer an option.
If India tried a huge cutback, they'd have riots.
If China tried a huge cutback, they'd have a revolution.
By the time they can reliably stream HD game video at low latency, everyone will be wanting 8K-per-eye VR.
...they're not just trendy?
A lot of under-25 people I know only have a smartphone. No desktop, no laptop, not even a TV set.
Just a phone - with access to the entire Internet.
...suddenly doesn't look quite so bad, does it?
If they had enough housing space on campus, this article would never have been written. ...and if you were half as smart as you think you are, you might have learned of a thing called "sarcasm."
The university could set up its own living accommodations. That way, students could live right on university property, at a reduced rate, instead of having to hunt for overpriced spaces in the town. They could make them basic, 150-square-foot living quarters - room, bed, with a communal bathroom - without all of the bells and whistles that seem to make university living cost so much.
There's an ancient word for such living spaces: "dormitories."
Due to the difference in nutrition, instead of eating 10 units of food, you'd need to eat 10.5 or 11 - but you'd have 13 or 14 units of food available.
The number cited in the report is closer to five or ten percent - and that also pushes the results into "not very significant" range. For example, with a 5% relative reduction in iron in a wheat crop, 100 grams of bread goes from 35% of the recommended daily allowance to 33% or so. The difference is tiny, when compared to the much larger increase in crop yield.
A lot of nutritional deficiencies could also be addressed by people being able to grow multiple crops for food, instead of concentrating on the one staple crop they go with because that's the one that actually gives them enough food to live at all.
This is a pretty pathetic study - "yeah, fewer people would starve to death, but they have to eat slightly more food to get a good diet!"
Lower concentrations per amount.
How much more volume did they have in the crop?
CO2 causes fairly large increases in crop yield, which would cause an overall increase in nutrition. The 5% to 10% decrease in some nutrients would be more than made up by the 30%+ increase in total crop volume they see with the study's level of CO2 - and calories are the primary thing to worry about when you're starving to death.
I have a much smaller physical library than I used to, true.
I dumped almost all of my old magazines.
But I have a LOT more of the sort of gadgets that I used to have one of, at most. Multiple desktop computers, a couple of laptops, several tablets, a phone, and an array of VR gear.
Smaller number of things overall, but much more concentrated value, in general.
Play a recording of a Mossberg 12 gauge action being pumped.
...like the Windows Update that kept trying to install itself over the last couple of months, failing each time after multiple restarts, then defaulting back to the old installation, no matter what I did.
Finally, I downloaded the most recent one (bypassing the older version), and it still had problems. Until I unplugged all of my USB devices except my mouse and keyboard. THEN it installed.
No problem at all.
The WWII-era Nazis were mostly fond of taking guns away from people and keeping them only in the hands of the government or Party members.
You should also remember that, in the US, "high ranking Nazi" means "some guy who has a couple of dozen people who sorta do what he says, and a few million people who oppose him."
That's about 41 minutes' worth of US government spending.