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  1. Re:They affect my behavior on Food Calorie Counts Will Start Appearing in US Restaurants and Grocery Stores (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And of course "empty carbs" has a meaning - carbohydrates with little nutrition.

    Carbohydrates are an important nutritional component. Saying "carbohydrates have little nutrition" is not backed by science. It would be the same as saying "fat has little nutrition." These are macronutrients.

    Can I make a quick guess that you are fat and out of shape?

    You guessed wrong.

    Let me guess, you think "eating clean" is the way to be healthy?

  2. People line up to avoid using check out.

  3. Re:We should be sunk in unemployment on In Banking, 70% of Front-Office Jobs Will Be Dislocated By AI (americanbanker.com) · · Score: 1

    The end of slavery was going to take all the jobs.

    I.....don't remember that.

  4. Re:They affect my behavior on Food Calorie Counts Will Start Appearing in US Restaurants and Grocery Stores (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Realistically, 1000 calories of veggies means some veggies and a lot of empty carbs,

    Although "empty carbs" is a meaningless metric, used by different people in different ways, you are the first person (or robot) I've ever seen refer to vegetables as empty carbs.

  5. Re:Pick your battles on Food Calorie Counts Will Start Appearing in US Restaurants and Grocery Stores (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Anecdotally: after calorie counts showed up on the menu, the number of my friends who wanted to order a blooming onion dropped dramatically (that thing is ~3000 calories).

  6. Re: nope on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In modern fonts the characters actually do know where they are.

  7. Of course on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Adding extra space after the period makes sense typographically. That's why it make sense to put two spaces after a period when typing on a typewriter.

    Computers can add the space automatically though. If you look at the spaces after a period in any decent font, it's wider than the spaces after other letters.

  8. Re: Silly. Who uses bondsman? People in jail on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In practice, no. The process is mostly automated and relies on inventory providers and clients to do self reporting. There are too many ads to do it manually.

  9. Re: Small bump on Apple's iMac Turns 20 Years Old (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:I want my privacy back on Edge Computing: Explained (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's not going to happen.

    Basically what it means is that Google will manage the software that is running on your devices. They will run whatever software they want on your devices without telling you what is going on. Besides "managed OS for IoT devices" this also means things like Google docs that can work in offline mode, that do most of their work on your device, but also sync with the cloud (as opposed to doing everything on the server thrrough rest APIs).

    There is nothing new about this at all, but now there is a name for it, and people are building frameworks so even the dumbest programmers around can do it.

  11. Poe's Law on Edge Computing: Explained (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    These are the first two lines from the article:

    Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have proven to us that we can trust them with our personal data. Now it’s time to reward that trust by giving them complete control over our computers, toasters, and cars.

    There is no way anyone is crazy enough to write those lines in all seriousness.

  12. Small bump on Apple's iMac Turns 20 Years Old (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The colored Mac gave them a bit of a bump, but ultimately failed to stop the decline in Macintosh sales. Ultimately it was the conversion to Unix, finally getting a decent OS that caused sales to continually increase.

  13. Re:Silly. Who uses bondsman? People in jail on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more likely that Google is trying to attract higher paying (and higher status) ad buyers. BMW is status conscious and doesn't want pictures of their car showing in the same slot as low-status items. We know Google has been trying to attract these high status companies lately, which is why they have been purging controversial people from Youtube. It seems reasonable to interpret this as a continuation of that trend.

    I don't really see the problem of bail bonds in and of themselves.

  14. Re:Lots of them. on Ask Slashdot: Do Citizen Science Platforms Exist? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or use it to get funding for their personal rocket. Whatever.

  15. Re: Keynes 15 hour work week vs Parkinson's Law on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    'They' would let you out, you are too paranoid. I've negotiated 32 hour work weeks twice, (and there are plenty of part time jobs available).

  16. http://www.e-publications.org/...">Here is a better paper explaining the difficulty of temperature reconstructions and their general inaccuracy, in case you found my arguments unauthoritative.

  17. Re: Keynes 15 hour work week vs Parkinson's Law on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is practically possible to work a 32 hour work week, and it can be negotiated also. Most peiple won't even try though because it comes along with a cut pay check.

  18. The scale on that graph is too small to support your argument.

    A 12 degree jump in temperature isn't enough for you?

  19. Usually the changes have been gradual such that life had time to adjust.

    Not really, temperature reconstruction is a bit of black magic. The error bars are so huge that it's hard to determine a lot. See for example, the Greenland ice core series, there are multiple periods where the temperature fluctuated very rapidly. Here is another selection of various reconstructions to give you an idea of the difficulty of coming up with an accurate picture. Which temperature record is the most accurate? Here's another one that is older, but shows temperature changes coming on very quickly. (An interesting thing about that graph is that CO2 changes follow temperature changes).

  20. Re: So Much For "The Internet Of Things" on New Hacking Tool Lets Users Access a Bunch of DVRs and Their Video Feeds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How are these on the internet? Don't most wireless routers act as a firewall?

  21. Re: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Methane degrades fairly quickly in the environment whereas co2 sticks around for a long time. That's why the worry focus is on co2.

  22. Re: Could these readings be skewed? on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are also measuring stations in antarctica to give it backup. The one in Hawaii is the oldest (and is considered very reliable) so it is the most famous.

  23. Re: Well which is it? on Eight New Meltdown-Like Flaws Found (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And there are more vulnerabilities waiting to be revealed. It will be a decade before this thing is cleaned up.

  24. Re: Objectively what is fake? on Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no agreement on what actually constitutes fake news, either. Some pieces are clearly fake, but what about Brietbart or can?

  25. Re: Windows and "free to play" on Microsoft's 'Meltdown' Patch For Windows 10 Contains a Fatal Flaw (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Worth checking out Wine. I was concerned about gaming as well when I recently switched to Linux, but it turns out Wine is acceptable with all the games I play.