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  1. Light at night, especially blue light, messes up circadian rhythms and has been implicated in sleep disruption, diabetes, and cancer. Imagine putting up an advertising constellation only to be sued by every woman with breast cancer and every man with prostate cancer. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub...
    Those lawsuits would certainly hurt the bottom line. Is there blue in Pepsi's logo?

  2. Re:"Libertarianism" and "Socialism" mean what? on Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    Or a Beowulf cluster.

  3. Re:You don't know anything about how it was taken. on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most of us have never seen Donald Trump in person, so any images we have seen of him are blurry blob of colors from number crunching a vast amount of data. And yet we all know what we are seeing and trust that he's real. Your problem appears to be that you don't trust math. That's your problem, don't hang it on us.

  4. Re:Why are you so in denial? on Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The large map at the top of the article in your link is titled "Change in Leaf Area (1982-2015)" and the bulk of the Sahara is depicted in shades of gray rather than the colors in the legend because there is no leaf area to measure in the Sahara. However, the Sahel, the region on the southern edge of the Sahara, is depicted in reds, oranges, and yellows, which according to the legend correspond to areas of declining leaf area. So according to your source, the Sahara is browning, the exact opposite of what you claimed. I don't know if you are a troll or just an idiot, but in my experience there's very little difference.

  5. The title of the article in your link is "Warming May Turn Africa’s Arid Sahel Green: Researchers." I don't know where or when you learned to speak English, but when I was taught English, I learned that there is a definite difference between "may" and "will."

  6. Re:And why is this bad? on Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Liar.

  7. Re:Thus demonstrating CO2 alone is not warming on Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it's not a demonstration that CO2 by itself is not causing much warming. The Pliocene warming occurred over a time span of 2.7 million years, and our CO2 has only had a century to do its work.

  8. Re:INB4 Justin Trudeau on Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    More paranoid babbling from the lunatic fringe.

  9. I don't use Twitter on Devin Nunes Faces an Uphill Battle in His Lawsuit Against Twitter (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and still my impression of him is that his head is planted firmly up his ass. I think that impression comes from hearing him speak. Could it be that he really is a fucking moron and that Twitter just exposed him for what he really is?

  10. hadn't "sufficiently alleged injury..." on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Millions of people were forced to spend their time getting credit reports because of the breach, and time is money, so clearly millions of people were injured to the tune of at least a couple of bucks apiece.

  11. Re:Crabkeys on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.

  12. Re:I stopped taking pictures early due to the weat on A Meteorite Hit the Moon During Total Lunar Eclipse (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Liar.

  13. Re:Pioneer 10 has “left the Solar System& on A Journey Into the Solar System's Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds To Explore (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't the generally accepted definition. The heliopause is merely the edge of the heliosphere and nothing more. The "sun's effect on space" includes its gravitational influence, which extends well beyond the heliopause.

  14. Re:Something not mentioned on A Journey Into the Solar System's Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds To Explore (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're confused about the meaning of the word "need."

  15. "custom off-the-shelf kit"

  16. Re:Keeping images in your head. on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Maggots make me hot.

  17. "Back to your handlers Ivan," says an Anonymous Coward to a user that has been on /. since 2003. No comma was placed after "handlers," a grammatical nuance a native English speaker would be more likely to add.

  18. Re: Main concern on Climate Change Will Cause Beer Shortages and Price Hikes, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sudanese Nubians were drinking beer with tetracycline in it 2000 years ago.

  19. Re:Please tell me this has to run through committe on Cellphones Across the US Will Receive a 'Presidential Alert' at 2:18 pm Eastern Today (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You've wallpapered over an important distinction. For radio and tv, the test was for the broadcaster. It was not a test to see if every radio and tv in the country was capable of receiving the broadcast signal. Nobody forced all tv and radio users to turn on their tvs and radios at test time. This is the first time the cell system has been tested nationwide, and cell phones are on almost all the time, so that makes it a fundamentally different test. And one that might get the orange pencildick's attention.

  20. Sarcasm noted. But you missed the point. One metric that will be measured is how quickly the message is received, and if a bunch of people turn off their phones, this metric will be skewed towards a longer delay. This will send a big "screw you" message to... somebody.

  21. Codename Pi? on AmigaOS 3.1.4 For Classic Amigas Released (hyperion-entertainment.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm that nerdy.

  22. Re: 1 B for reusable rockets on Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu (space.com) · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how you've forgotten what a pain in the ass you were as a child unless your energies were channeled into creative, constructive projects. After reviewing the list, and especially noting that the list is broken up by grade level (you probably didn't note that and thought the entire list was for one student), I have concluded that it is quite limited for a 180 day school year.

    Also your notion that a teacher would be handed a credit card carte blanche is ridiculous. They'd be given a budget maximum and because they are adults, not the children you think they are, they would wisely choose the materials they need for the school year. In fact, given how shitty teacher pay is, they're probably far better at budgeting than you are. Your beef with the education system is probably more about your own disinterest in receiving an education. Stop blaming other people.

  23. Re:No surprise, he channels his boss. on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pai was designated chairman of the FCC by President Donald Trump.

  24. Re:DaMattster = fake name massive human fail on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Ajit Pai, is that you?

  25. Re:Wonder how accurate the Piri Reis map is on 'You Can See Almost Everything.' Antarctica Just Became the Best-Mapped Continent on Earth (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Have you ever actually looked at the Piri Reis map? The cartographer clearly ran out of room while drawing South America and had to artificially bend the coast to fit it. The portion that people like to pretend is Antarctica is simply the southern coast of South America, which explains why it is drawn as connected to it.