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  1. Unfortunately, for example, the UK is currently demonstrating that city air pollution causes increased deaths and disability from heart and lung disease that is as high as any "third world" country.
    Cars, busses, trucks are the main cause of pollution in the UK (and most cities around the world).

  2. Re: The problem is this project isn't cost effect on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he has good reason to be antinuke.

  3. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the information.
    My usual practice is to let it warm up while I get breakfast so it's usually at least 10 minutes before I use it.

  4. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I clean the strainer, the spout and the clamp. If you do it for every cup of espresso, it doesn't take long. I can grind, clean and press a new shot in less than a minute.

  5. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My Delonghi espresso machine warms up in less than a minute.

  6. The way you ensure a free and open internet is NOT to regulate it, it's to let companies do what they want, and then let people decide what they want to buy.

    The only problem is the monopoly bit.
    Nice to say "let people decide what they want to buy" but the reality is that I only have one choice for ISP so I have to buy what it offers at the price it dictates.

  7. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your concern.
    I empty out the old grounds and rinse the strainer and spout with water which cleans off any stray grounds. This only takes a few seconds. I never use soap which contaminates the flavor of the coffee. I never worry about bacteria because the hot water sterilizes everything every time I use it.

      Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
    Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now
    Haven't got sick once
    Probably keep us both alive
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Re: emails move even move quickly on From the Arctic's Melting Ice, an Unexpected Digital Hub (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This cable is being built in order to facilitate the high speed trading scam where financial firms "front run" trades to profit from getting their order into the stock exchange a few milliseconds faster than plebs. This should be illegal but since there is great profit for a few, the practice continues.
    The side effect of giving some remote location better Internet access is tolerable as long as it doesn't slow down the high speed trading scam.

  9. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The 60 seconds includes cleaning the old grounds out the carrier. The cup goes in the dishwasher.
    What cleaning time?
    Do you mean using the sponge to wipe off the counter?

  10. Re: The problem is this project isn't cost effect on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re: Leave your nerd card and get out on Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    To most people here, actually looking at the links is "deep research"

  12. Re: Stop talking on Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he's capable of doing more than one thing.

  13. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I make espresso each morning. It literally takes me 60 seconds to grind the beans, fill the carrier and press the shot.
    Don't see any faster or cheaper option.

  14. Re: The problem is this project isn't cost effecti on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's too bad that Ontario decided to go all in on expensive and inflexible nuclear power. Now you're stuck with these problems.

  15. Re:The problem is this project isn't cost effectiv on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    My source for this was the Wikipedia article referenced by the OP.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Re:Is it just me but... on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are truly worried about birds, go after the cats (3 billion birds). If you still want to save more birds, go after windows (1 billion birds).
    You can ignore windmills. They are a rounding error (1/10,000).
    With all the birds you save from getting rid of cats, you can build 10,000 times as many windmills.

  17. Re:The problem is this project isn't cost effectiv on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are all PPAs (power purchase agreements... wholesale).

  18. Re:The problem is this project isn't cost effectiv on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2

    Those costs are almost ten years old. Wind is much cheaper now.

  19. Re: The problem is this project isn't cost effecti on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: -1

    I believe nuclear power is the only type which requires "spinning reserve" in case it shuts down. With wind, it's probably prudent to have some natural gas plants on standby if the wind forecast for the day is low. Utilities have gotten quite good at managing generation from various sources with varying load from their customers.

  20. Re:Is it just me but... on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cats kill many times more birds than windmills. (3 billion a year vs 300,000)
    We should go after the cats first.

  21. Re:The problem is this project isn't cost effectiv on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not sure where you got those numbers for Block Island and Cape Wind because they are not in the Wikipedia page but that page does show the cost of onshore wind to be $24 to $60 MWh ($0.03 to $0.06 per kWh) with offshore wind being about twice as expensive.
    (For comparison, coal $100, natural gas $60, nuclear $95, solar PV $58. All of these are minimum costs.)
    Costs are dropping rapidly for wind and solar so the original plans are out of date.

  22. Re:False Positive - Notes from the ICU on Can Researchers Detect Irregular Heart Rhythms with the Apple Watch? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    I've used the Kardia EKG for several years now and never had a false positive from their data analysis algorithm. Fortunately, I have a healthy heart. It gives me nice, clear EKG rhythm strip which accurately shows P QRS and T waves.
    (I'm an MD and I do have experience reading EKGs)

    Most ICU telemetry is very primitive and gives frequent alerts and drives the nurses crazy. They would be better served building some better analysis into their equipment rather than harassing the nurses.

  23. Oh... did someone get up on the wrong side of the bed this AM?
    The Kardia (from AliveCor) that I referenced is the same item mentioned in the story summary.
    On further research (I actually read the linked articles), it appears that the Apple watch only detects blood flow and therefore cannot detect A-fib. However, the Kardia Band records an EKG and can detect A-fib.
    My experience as a user of the Kardia (not the Kardia Band for Apple) is that it is very accurate and shows a detailed EKG. My resting heart rate is less than 50 bpm and it never has any difficulty recording it. I've also used it with higher heart rates after exercise and it is also accurate. It is sensitive to muscle noise (like all EKGs) so you do need to make sure you hold still when measuring heart rate.

  24. Kardia on Can Researchers Detect Irregular Heart Rhythms with the Apple Watch? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    https://www.alivecor.com/
    Apple should be able to detect A-fib but if not, Kardia can do it.

  25. I would like to buy a hamburger on Mozilla Releases Open Source Speech Recognition Model, Massive Voice Dataset (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    They really need to train it on this...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...