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  1. Re:Have fewer babies. on XPrize's New Challenge: Turn Air Into Water, Make More Than a Million Dollars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The slow down is birth rate is only temporary. Ask someone who understands evolution.

  2. Good thing too, or else the atmosphere on our planet would be pretty much Hindenburg-like, which would make for a very crispy planet every time there was lightning storm.

    Only once, I suppose.

  3. Re:62% is fail on A British Supercomputer Can Predict Winter Weather a Year In Advance (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's only true if there are two types of weather to choose from.

  4. Re: Don't most games do this... on New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    Every AI related problem that has been solved automatically becomes 'weak AI'.

  5. Re: The Self Reward Syndrome on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Slow weight loss is also easier to abandon because you're getting frustrated with lack of progress.

  6. Re:Weight loss fallacy on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    It is true that you can't outrun a bad diet, but exercise can be very helpful in a combination with a good diet.

  7. Re:The Self Reward Syndrome on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    The trigger to save food to body fat is high insulin. Conversely, the trigger to release body fat for energy is low levels of insulin. https://www.researchgate.net/f... If you graze throughout the day, insulin will be constantly elevated, inhibiting fat release from storage. This is especially true if you graze on carbs.

  8. Re: And of course the JAMA doesn't have an interes on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    At least for the climate system, the scientist go out of their way to try to identify and correct as much confounding variables as possible, whereas in this research they have hardly tried at all.

  9. Use a scale for the weight, and a tape measure for your waist.

  10. Re:I think that they are missing the point on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    The laws of thermodynamics always apply, but that doesn't mean you can ignore the processes that happen inside a body. People have done experiments with modified mice, where their fat cells have higher resistance to giving up fat (you can do that with genetic changes, or by injecting them with insulin). If you put these mice on a calorie restricted diet, they still get fat, but their internal organs will waste away. If you restrict calories even more, they'll die from starvation, even though they are still carrying a ton of fat. Similar things happen in people that have metabolic syndrome. The fat cells become reluctant to give up fat, even when the other cells in the body are starving. The urge to eat becomes stronger and stronger, and will ultimately overcome any level of willpower.

  11. Re:I think that they are missing the point on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Another way to reset this is to lower insulin levels through a low-carb/moderate protein/high fat diet, possibly in combination with periods of fasting.

  12. More than half ? on ISRO Successfully Test-fires Scramjet Rocket Engine (thehindu.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Scientists say that the scramjet technology effectively cuts down the cost of launching rockets by reducing its weight by more than half

    Not really. Scramjets have a limited speed range, so you need a rocket (or perhaps another type of jet engine) to bring it up to the lower limit, and then another rocket to take it from maximum speed to orbital speed. This add extra complexity, weight and drag.

  13. Re:Morons on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 1

    As long as the movie is entertaining, I couldn't care less how many men or women are in it.

  14. Where exactly have they told us they want Germany to become a police state ?

  15. These German laws aren't necessarily restricted to political parties. For example, art 9 allows for social groups to be declared hostile to the constitution and allows them to be prohibited by the federal government. Also, holocaust denial and antisemitism (very common among muslim immigrants) are punishable crimes.

  16. Yes West Germany had interesting laws to ensure no cult, far left or right political party could ever endanger democracy again put in place after ww2.

    Except Islam, of course.

  17. Agree that the should close the borders, but recent attacks in Belgium and France have shown that plenty of jihadis are home grown in the West, coming from 2nd/3rd generation immigrants.

  18. Which is exactly what the terrorists want, but people are fucking stupid.

    How is it that people always think they know what the terrorists want ?

  19. Re:"Ghandi" quote updated on Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I look forward to your calculations.

  20. Re:"Ever recorded" on Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Both the article and summary do exactly that.

  21. For every square mile where the current El Nino causes warmth there is a square mile elsewhere on the globe where it causes cooling.

    Almost. The heat is transported from the (deeper) ocean to the surface, otherwise there wouldn't be a global spike in surface temperatures during El Nino years.

  22. Re:This is the year of the extreme climate claims on Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Would be great if you cited the sources and showed the numbers.

    Finding the sources and the numbers is so easy, that anybody could do that themselves. Consider it part of the exercise.

  23. 128-bit keys generated using 64 bits of entropy

    I'd like to see the professor brute forcing 64 bits to show exactly how weak that is.

  24. Re:14,000 ABANDONED WIND TURBINES LITTER THE USA on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In general, doing things that are less stupid than the things we did before would be an improvement.

  25. Re: Basement View on Satellite Images Can Map Poverty (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A large part of the Clinton presidency coincided with the dot com bubble, which boosted federal income for a while. Bush had to deal with the aftermath of the crash.