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  1. Re:The situation brings up a point on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I had read some purported interactions where it seemed the Trump side was too dim to pick up on the offers to collude from Russia. I'm not sure which possibility is worse. Hopefully the full report is made public so we can see which rumors were right.

  2. Re:Where's the beef? on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You can look into the public indictments of various Russians in the investigation. I suppose for the rest of your details it'll depend on the whole report being released.

  3. Re:Full disclosure on vaccines on GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they make much money from vaccines? The whole field would collapse without government money, boner pills and blood pressure meds are more profitable.

  4. Re:People USUALLY intend to redeem things they paw on It's Scary How Much Personal Data People Leave on Used Laptops and Phones, Researcher Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So I guess I'm showing my ignorance, but people sell things to pawn shop intending it to be like a payday loan with collateral of their property?

  5. I figured drilling a hole through the drive would do for non-government actors, is this not the case?

  6. Re:Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, but numbers-wise, their contribution to the gene pool is smaller than the huge agrarian societies and their armies, etc.

  7. Re:Huh? on How Diet May Have Changed the Way Humans Speak (go.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a good point... how are the incisors of the other great apes aligned?

  8. Re: Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes exactly, grain fed army in the ancient world may be individually less healthy but you'll have a whole hell of a lot of them, and those silos will keep you eating bread when your venison eating neighbors are starving.

  9. Re:Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There probably won't be a single answer, humanity is a weird ape that managed to evolve to be able to survive on mostly grain, and even got our domesticated canines to do it better than their wild type cousins. Look at the variability in being able to continue to digest lactose. Being able to not starve to death is probably the biggest selective pressure on humanity in recent memory that isn't related to communicable disease, so there's going to be lots of variability.

  10. It'll all be on the cloud soon, not even merely locally networked machines.

  11. You don't need to try to watch it to end up with it on: I saw a band had released their new album on Youtube, so I gave part of it a listen. Come back later to listen to the rest and their is an autoplaylist that looks like it is the album, but it contains more than that: so after a few songs, then there are interviews with the band which were interesting, then some reaction/review videos which consisted of watching a guy bob his head and mutter for a bit, followed by a cursory review of the track. He presumably made some fraction of a cent off of my viewing, for minimal effort on his part. Multiply that by everyone that left an autoplaylist going and it may well be lucrative for these fellows even if, much like reality TV, they aren't themselves a primary draw.

  12. Re:Both of my work laptops(win7/win10) are hp. on HP Recalls More Laptops For 'Fire and Burn Hazards' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I always think of those Tough Pads when people complain about consumer phones not having ports or user replaceable stuff. They really ought to have a model with more consumer aesthetics.

  13. I've not used Spotify, but I've used other competitors: the value added is the algorithms that help you find music. The rest of your argument is pro-anticompetitive trust. Should Spotify also pay a cut of their subscription free to Microsoft and Intel to stream to a PC?

  14. Re:Anti-science at both the right and left extreme on Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    No one likes being authoritatively told they are wrong about something. That's why it is easier to lead someone 95% of the way to a conclusion and let them make the leap.

  15. For some things; I've not read up on the status of things recently, but as I understand it, you get raided pretty often if you're selling decent chemistry experiment sets for students to the general public here in the US.

  16. Re:As an old Radio Amateur, I can sort of get it.. on EU's Plan To Ban Sale of User-Moddable RF Devices Draws Widespread Condemnation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A number of years ago my neighbor asked me if I was a HAM radio operator. I wasn't, neither was he, although he was an EE of some stripe. His garage door had been opening and closing on its own. I had noticed some weird WiFi issues. Eventually everything calmed down again but the best we could figure out from the variety of weird stuff going on was that one of the other neighbors has playing with radio equipment. I imagine when the population gets more dense there's even more opportunity for chaos even when everything is behaving mostly in spec.

  17. Thanks for this explanation... I was trying to figure out how this wasn't crackpot nonsense but your breakdown helped me see I was thinking with slightly different definitions for the terms involved.

  18. Are most books written at an eighth grade level, though? Newspapers shoot for fifth if I recall correctly, and there's plenty of the recently popular YA fiction that is probably below eighth grade level.

  19. I've not kept up on this sort of thing, but in the past didn't the games is the rendered frames to determine if you did things like hit the enemy? If so, even if you can't perceive the frames, it might produce a technical advantage in gameplay.

  20. Re:CRISPR on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well you also need to kill off all of their original marrow. And, while I looked it up briefly and its role isn't fully understood, it is likely that those with the novel CCR5 gene are more susceptible to flavivirus infection while being resistant to HIV and pox viruses. The immune system isn't really set up to allow quick firmware updates.

  21. Re:Don't get too excited... on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    It works because the new cells don't have the receptor the virus uses... it is like if you had nose cancer, and we grafted a new nose on that lacked nostrils. Now you can't get the common cold! But it doesn't map to widespread treatment because you don't want to graft new noses onto everyone. You can't nuke that receptor in other people otherwise, because they'll constantly grow new immune cells from their marrow that have them. And without looking it up, there's whatever this receptor normally does that it won't in people with either the mutation or treatment (e.g. you can't smell with your new nostrilless nose graft).

  22. Re:It wasn't Facebook... it was stupid people. on Teen Who Defied Anti-Vax Mom Says She Got False Information From One Source: Facebook (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Not too much you can do about the third group... if you increase the immunogenicity you're going to increase the likelihood that those with a robust response will have a dangerous reaction. A less dangerous, but added cost, route would be to test the recipient's immune titer after they've finished the vaccination course and determine if they need more boosters.

  23. Re:This is a self-correcting problem on Teen Who Defied Anti-Vax Mom Says She Got False Information From One Source: Facebook (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting vaccinated doesn't guarantee a protective titer, if too many people opt out it will lose societal level effectiveness.

  24. Re:If So Safe, Why Are Vaccine Makers NOT Liable? on Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The carve out is because vaccines are necessary for the public health, expensive to research, low margin, and you get to sell them to your customers a handful of times at most. Basic vaccine research is already mostly financed by the government since otherwise pharma is financially better off researching new kinds of Viagra or opioids instead of vaccines.

  25. Re:Poor editting, as usual on Sleep Helps To Repair Damaged DNA In Neurons, Scientists Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you want, a car analogy? The cell needed its oil changed from running too long without maintenance.