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  1. False dichotomies in health on California Study To Examine the Influence of a Healthy Diet On Patients (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The distinction between nutrient, drug, and poison is largely mythic. The fact that doctors haven't been considering treating patients with nutrients before now is alarming.

  2. M2 on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    Loved the integrated M2 client from Opera of yesteryear. Opera has promised to deliver an updated standalone version, but it's been a long time and I've given up hope.

  3. Re: FP on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 1

    "Object oriented programming is shit. It's complex, it's difficult to learn and use "correctly", it's slow to develop, and it's just plain inefficient. It's nothing more than a thought exercise except to those who want to masturbate publicly to demonstrate their egos for knowing how to use a useless language paradigm."

    Fixed that for you.

  4. Re: FP on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 1

    I would guess it's because you don't need nearly as much FP code to do the work of comparatively large amounts of OOP code. All the good FP is being handled by a relatively small group of talented coders, while we keep shoveling more bad coders out of university who are more comfortable with OOP.

    For example, erlang is used in absolutely massive telecom systems. Meanwhile, OOP developers are trying to figure design patterns that work well with parallel processing, and designing complicated build and failover systems to overcome the inability to live patch.

  5. If you're talking about planetary events like meteor impacts, that doesn't seem super relevant.

  6. Re: When will they learn on Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Integrating the store into the OS has benefits for patching and security. If you download WinBoosterPro from the Windows store and MS later finds out they are delivering malware, they can escalate that to you or handle it much more efficiently if you bought it through a store tied into the OS.

  7. Re: When will they learn on Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, with payment processing fees and chargebacks typically running about 5% for most ecommerce, this sounds like a sweet deal.

  8. Re: So much for crypto on The New York Stock Exchange Teases Plan To Launch Cryptocurrency Trading (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    "Rich and privileged" is relative. If you have enough to save and invest for retirement, you are rich and privileged enough to handle high volatility (unless you're near retirement). Most people don't have the balls to take advantage of high volatility without a very large cushion, but they have difficulty building those cushions because they avoid the high yields.

  9. Re: So much for crypto on The New York Stock Exchange Teases Plan To Launch Cryptocurrency Trading (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    In America, BTC isn't a currency, though. Unfortunately. Taxes are a nightmare when you try to use a "collectible" (U.S. government's classification, essentially) like you would use a currency.

  10. Re: So much for crypto on The New York Stock Exchange Teases Plan To Launch Cryptocurrency Trading (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Not quite true. While almost all currency trading is speculative, you can invest in currency based on future monetary policy and trade. It's not very lucrative, but it can be done.

  11. Re: Good on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If I knew you in life, I would totally take all the money out of your wallet, then tell you how thankful you should be when I give it back.

  12. Re: Warlord of Western Arkansas on iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but it's completely disingenuous for the AC to suggest that Republicans fought against the Civil Rights Act "tooth and nail" when 80% of them voted for it.

  13. Re: Nice on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that's logistics. It was Iran's money to begin with. Shipping cash on a pallet was just the simplest way to repatriate Iran's money.

  14. Re: the registry must be a nightmare on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But the default has changed. You think it's less confusing for novice users to figure out the old behavior is in the registry?

  15. Re: I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Natural forests in the U.S. are mostly a myth. They are nearly all man-made. We can make more. No problems.

  16. That's why we have juvenile courts. It's not the role of the school or police to protect young criminals from justice. There are numerous people that fulfill that role: the criminal, the parents, the lawyer, the judge, the statutes on charging youth, etc. The schools job is to handle misbehavior and report crimes. The police's job is to collect evidence and apprehend suspects. Neither of them has a responsibility in deciding not to charge a young criminal. Neither has a role in detemerning guilt or punishment.

    This kid hasn't even been convicted, much less sentenced. You can't claim the system is broken without first trying out the system. In the court system, this line of thinking would be mooted as it's all theoretical. There's no injured party if the kid hasn't been sentenced.

  17. Re: Reasonable standards on Japan Moves To Ease Aging Drivers Out of Their Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it was you making perfect the enemy of good when you handily dismissed the idea of valuing driving as "idiotic".

  18. Re: Transport does not require cars on Japan Moves To Ease Aging Drivers Out of Their Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The type of community you're describing probaly only applies to 1% of populated territory in the U.S. Hand waving away the people living outside big cities is a GIANT wave in describing day-to-day freedom of mobility for most of America.

  19. Re: They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    TIL some people don't have the reading comprehension to understand a story is about people and laws in the U.S.

  20. That's my entire point. You can't protect against the act, so you punish it after the fact. You haven't presented any cogent alternative to the ones I offered.

    And maybe you have some growing up to do. You obviously don't understand the complexities of a multi-layered justice system with perpetrators, victims, rulers, adjudicators, and enforcers all being handled separately. You seem to think it's just perpetrators and enforcers. Do some reading on the checks and balances in place in the roles of the American legal system before making nonsense statements.

    Or - if you think your statement isn't nonsense - the please tell me what punishment this kid got that you disagree with?

  21. Why set rules and mete out punishment to a five year old who wants to run into the street? I mean, they can't consent, and can't drink, so how do rules even apply?

  22. Schools shouldn't handle student info like grades?

  23. Re: They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that it's super easy is exactly why the laws have severe punishments.

  24. Re: They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Pulling a trigger on a gun is super easy to do, too. Just because something is super easy doesn't mean it's not a crime. And it's way more difficult to figure out and prove who changed a datum than it is to figure out and prove who fired a gun.

  25. Re: Warlord of Western Arkansas on iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Minorities started shifting to the Democratic party during FDR and the New Deal. Race and politics is way more complicated than Southern Democrats and the Civil Rights Act. The idea that minorities vote based on racial politics and not economic self interest is - in itself - a racist idea.