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  1. Re:Deficiency disorders? on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The systems involved in synthesis are all intertwined and you probably can't get into the detail you're talking about until we could model the whole thing in a computer somehow. In any case, you're talking about micromanaging a system that is currently optimized to ensure you live long enough to reproduce as well as long enough to ensure your children reach reproductive age (not all animals bother with the latter). Nutrition is important! The idea that we could micromanage our nutrition to live to 150 years old with no ailments is a psychological defense mechanism to give an internal locus of control over our mortality, which is also generally the appeal of many religious behaviors.

  2. Re:My cognitive ability ... on Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, while there are contributing factors like sitting still and focusing on the road, after a long road trip eating fast food, I'm always ready for some fruit, veggies, and perhaps yogurt to right things once we've arrived at whatever far flung relation we're visiting.

  3. There's no incongruity in noting that insect populations are collapsing overall while parasitic insect species ranges are expanding. The latter are adapted to live alongside humans so they're not going to be impacted the same way. The vertebrate biodiversity in the jungle can be crashing at the same time the number of Norway rats in the sewer is growing. "Tigers going extinct, ridiculous! I got bit by a plague rat yesterday!"

  4. USB-C succeeds at all the things mini fails at, physically. In practice, there are a lot of incompatible chargers and so on for stupid reasons, although most stuff will charge while turned off while plugged into just about any USB charger, even if they're picky about charging source while in use.

  5. Yeah I've got a 5S which usually works fine, but is occasionally slow enough at something that I consider replacing it, but if I'm going to lose my headphone jack I want at least a USB-C so I have something standard on it. Do any of the android phones continue to get patches and support as long as Apple yet?

  6. Re:Least Valuable out of These Five Companies on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It probably means that Reddit is just the most realistic. Overvaluing the company would eventually have negative consequences.

  7. Re:Safer than pot on Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're not doing it already I'd expect it to be in vape pens ASAP if/when it becomes federally legal.

  8. Re: Loss of insect species is very alarming on Insects Could Vanish Within a Century At Current Rate of Decline, Says Global Review (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Any one thing is survivable, yes. We are, however, seeing multiple buffered systems appear strained. Arguably we might be able to even survive a full biosphere collapse a la Blade Runner 2049, but that's still getting increasingly tenuous.

  9. Re: Loss of insect species is very alarming on Insects Could Vanish Within a Century At Current Rate of Decline, Says Global Review (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't clear that humans will survive a mass extinction, as apex predators a species like ours is most vulnerable to significant disruption to the food web.

  10. Re: All Right!! on DoorDash and Amazon Won't Change Tipping Policy After Instacart Controversy (forbes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've not held a job for tips, when my brother had one the way taxes were taken out was set to assume a large number of unreported cash tips. The whole thing is a big mess.

  11. Re:Block outbound requests,deny internet access on Many Popular iPhone Apps Secretly Record Your Screen Without Asking (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    For most of these sorts of apps you'd whitelist it through the firewall anyway, if it was granular enough to only block parts of the app it'd be very frustrating to use.

  12. Re:umm, customers? on Flickr Starts Culling Users' Photos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah someone didn't look at the books in enough detail before they bought the company

  13. Re:Watches are banned at my university on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably afriad someone would make a spy camera on one and photograph the exam to sell to others.

  14. That video is great! Thanks for that, very cool!

  15. Maybe a Bug Bounty, if you give out money for non-policy/predefined reasons the choosy beggars are going to come out of the woodwork.

  16. Re:Is this new? on Plants and Animals Sometimes Take Genes From Bacteria, Study Suggests (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, chloroplasts are descended from cyanobacteria, mitochondria are descended from alpha proteobacteria.

  17. Re:Gene transfer risk on Plants and Animals Sometimes Take Genes From Bacteria, Study Suggests (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    In bacteria, they are more likely to intake loose genetic material if things are going poorly for them. Like if you're starving and you eat something sketchy because the worst that happens is you die which is going to happen soon regardless. In higher order animals it is only going to affect your offspring if the changes make it into the germ line cells, so even if it turns out we do uptake loose genetic material under certain conditions it is less likely to be something passed on, so the risk stays in the individual rather than the population.

  18. Re:They know they are there on Plants and Animals Sometimes Take Genes From Bacteria, Study Suggests (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You can use stuff like GC content to tell where genes came from, the degeneracy of the genetic code means there are different sequences that can make identical proteins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... has a rundown. You're basically arguing that DNA tests for identity or paternity are invalid (there are weaknesses with those techniques as used in law enforcement, but mostly just due to the cost of doing it better).

  19. Re:Hmm...I just can't think of an example... on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh that's getting colloquial. Sure, if I'm neutralizing something so I can put it down the drain I say "I'm neutralizing this" but if you're adding acid to something without the goal of putting it down the drain you're going to say you're acidifying it. Come to think of it, though, you don't see many people in my line of work take anything neutral and make it more alkaline so I suppose I can't say what idiom is most common there.

  20. Re: Why quit? on NASA Is Back To Work, But the Effects of the Government Shutdown Linger (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US isn't going to build fewer submarines because France increased their quota. The whining about NATO is stupid, it doesn't actually cost us anything.

  21. Re:Hmm...I just can't think of an example... on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It is still called acidification... I don't think anyone expects that the ocean will turn into 1M HCl, yet it is nonetheless undergoing problematic acidification.

  22. Re:Today I learned ... on YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Cats in trenchcoats with fake IDs.

  23. I think they have a commercial free tier that costs more, Netflix may be researching what would happen if their lowest tier also had commercials.

  24. Re:Spotify? Mute? Really? on Spotify Will Soon Let You Mute, Block Artists (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't subscribed in a while, but Slacker Radio had ban artist, ban song, create a station from a song, curated genre stations... I'm surprised that the more popular Spotify lacks these features.

  25. Re: Title is a bit off. on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    For certain definitions of "someone" it holds just fine. The sapient arthropods of the future may well puzzle over the Age of Vertebrates.