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  1. Re:Kills all old cells...eventually kills all cell on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If all your cells were senescent you'd be on death's door anyhow.

  2. Re:Two glasses of wine per day would wreck me on Alcohol Is Good for Your Heart -- Most of the Time (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Bodyfat is how the body stores calories for use as energy. Unless you're eating ATP you're not going to get direct energy from any food source.

  3. Re:three reasons: on 18 To 24-Year-Olds Are Hitting the Big Screen at Lower Rates (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess maybe it is different since I'm near a big city, but you seriously don't have broadcast PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX? We probably have 50 broadcast channels if you could the little subchannels showing old movies and Spanish stuff.

  4. Re: What's the value add for something like Fiver? on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh ok, that actually sounds useful. From only being tangentially aware of it, it sounded more like a place to hire some random person to clean your gutter instead of asking the neighbor's kid or whatever.

  5. Two of the 'beer and restaurant' type movie theatres here have gone bust. I was disappointed... we don't make it out too often, but the kids always enjoy it. Used to go almost once a week back when I was a younger fellow without responsibilities or obligations. Home with streaming or red box has become much more convenient if you don't mind the wait, though.

  6. What's the value add for something like Fiver? on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you be better off pestering your Facebook friends selling pyramid scheme essential oils or something?

  7. Re:Opposite effect of that intended on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I found the ideas about this in Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond to be pretty interesting. His thesis is that flora and fauna played a large role in where civilizations rose when, and how successful they were. South America and Africa each run North/South which inhibits trade in livestock and crops.

  8. Re:Fake News Headline on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it established that he got the idea from some tabloid TV program?

  9. Re:Dangers of Extrapolation on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I've already heard of smaller private schools starting to fold, but yes, I think the correction will occur once enough people start to check on the expected salary of their dream job versus the tuition. It didn't really occur to me to confirm when I enrolled, but I went to a state school so my tuition was a car payment. When my children are deciding to enroll in college or trade school we'll definitely want to compare the cost/benefit if the bubble hasn't popped yet. On the research side of college financials, if the NIH and EPA really get gutted by congress's budget, it may pop rather soon.

  10. Re:"You're hired! Seeya!" on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    Seems fair to ask if they like working there and where they see themselves.

  11. Re:About 15 years ago, but I'll never forget him on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    Huh... well hopefully that guy regrets letting all those folks know where he lives!

  12. Re: Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There's always 'damages', if there's no scientist to determine what is significant or not.

  13. Re:About 15 years ago, but I'll never forget him on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They rolled over for that? Owner of a small business might get away with that, but a manager at a company with HR and other management levels?

  14. Re:Rifle Bullet? No? on A US Ally Shot Down a $200 Drone With a $3 Million Patriot Missile (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How much debris is generated from an exploding Patriot missile versus, say, a Phalanx burst? I'm surprised the patriot is safer to shoot.

  15. Re:Potential Damages? on A US Ally Shot Down a $200 Drone With a $3 Million Patriot Missile (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In Generation Kill there was a scene where some marines were dressed down for shooting a technical with a TOW. I think the cost/benefit of munitions and targets of opportunity was one of the reasons that cannons got put back on ground strike aircraft.

  16. Re:Your attitude is why Trump won the election. on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So... what led you to believe Trump would be fiscally conservative and socially liberal instead of neither?

  17. Re: Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If there aren't environmental rules to follow, then you lose the shield of complying with EPA policy. So, it'll be open season for the lawyers to bring frivolous suites. Instead of paying to comply with environmental law, they'll be paying lawyers.

  18. Re:"Build better bridges" on NSA, DOE Say China's Supercomputing Advances Put US At Risk (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Selection bias in this sense is similar to looking at other artifacts. For example, ancient furniture sure was better built than modern stuff! Look at the pieces in museums holding together for hundreds of years! (The poorly built stuff already fell apart). If I don't know how to calculate load, I might have to build a chair using the strongest joinery I know how to make. If I can calculate load, I can save time and materials by making it to spec. Same thing.

  19. Re: Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah paying lawyers to bring suit instead of scientists to set policy sounds great... if you're a lawyer.

  20. Re:Finally! on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't a net reduction in federal spending.

  21. Re:Even odds on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they will, but thanks to the privatization of the prison system and militarization of the police they'll get rounded up in short order. Lots of money to be made off those guys.

  22. Re:"Build better bridges" on NSA, DOE Say China's Supercomputing Advances Put US At Risk (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The flip side of that coin is that if you overbuild the bridges, you may only be able to afford to fix half of them.

  23. Erdogan already purged anybody that is going to call him out on it.

  24. Re:Almost sounds like my kids on 82% of Kids in 'Netflix Only' Homes Have No Idea What Commercials Are (exstreamist.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes they are entertaining when done well, plenty of people watch the SuperBowl to see funny commercials. Radio commercials sure have become extra grating after not being exposed to them for a while, though...

  25. Why did he mention it at all? He should have left them in the dark and if called in when he was in the hospital said "I'm at the hospital, gotta go" The probably axed him to save the insurance money his spouse would've cost them.