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  1. morning light on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Morning light is the best light. I'd rather miss evening light. I'm not a morning person at all, but when my child wakes me up to play just as it gets light there is something wonderful about the quality of the light and the air in the morning. I Luke fall back because I get that time again. Why is everyone obsessed with light after work?

  2. If we all switch to UTC the businesses won't have a choice. They will have to establish new schedules everywhere out side of the EU anyway.

  3. Not eating the organ meats and obsessing about lean cuts is part of the efficiency problem, but also part of the health problem. Organ meats are good for you. I've tried a vegan lifestyle. At least for me, pulse and bean protein doesn't absorb very well. The genetic markers for this have been isolated. I need meat to be my healthiest self. We could crispr the next generation of us to be able to synthesize more amino acids and vitamins and that would help solve the problem too.

  4. Combine that with iron sulphate induced blooms in deep water. You have to harvest the excess salmon to keep it from crashing the local ecosystem but then you have salmon and a lot of carbon sinking to the bottom. The algae mats also have better albedo.

  5. Google finds me a /. Article from last week about how on average women are better at stem than men, but that starting around he top ten percent it crosses back the other way quickly. At the 90th its 50/50 but at the 95th it was more like 15/85 towards the men. So even though women are better on average the 10 percent that are best at stem are mostly men. Less than 10% work in stem, and making the assumption that those best at it would choose the career, it isn't surprising there are fewer women in stem.

  6. What if your passphrase is the confession to a completely different crime and you plead the 5th?

  7. Re: $ talks on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What are the odds that the price($420) was a pot joke given his interview?

  8. nnice mosquitos on Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The mosquito's in the pacific Northwest are slower bigger and have less reactive bites. Also they don't carry malaria, dengue etc. The egyptii we have down here in the south carry all of those and are so much harder to swat.

  9. It has long been held that things fell downwards, but it isn't conservative to expect things to fall when you release them. He was citing modern research as well, if not completely accepted research.

  10. troll food on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Damore's paper insinuated no such thing. It recognized that there are differences in how the sexes think, and cited papers saying women were more emotional on average. These are not things anyone who has read any scientific literature would dispute. Its isn't just correlative studies either. We understand the mechanisms well.

  11. And a if a normal person who had a bad life experience, who *should* be sad, is incorrectly prescribed this same drug. They also feel like a zombie because they are dulled even from normal. They can deal better with stress because they feel it differently, and they become dependent on that to cope. They end up being OK with things they shouldn't be. I have coworkers like this. They have been on SSRIs since their teens and they don't say no or draw boundaries like they should because they don't feel all that they should. One coworker who was normal lost his spouse, got put on SSRIs and then tried to shoot the bouncer at a strip club. He didn't own a gun or go to strip clubs before the pills. The suicidal and homicidal side effects are well documented. These drugs can help people who are sad or anxious when they shouldn't be, particularly to get them out of bad thought patterns, but persistent use has life changing effects that aren't all upside even for the clinically depressed. And giving them to people dealing with loss or stress that is a result of actual life events that should cause those feelings is a cheap but horrible alternative to therapy.

  12. vba on Python Displaces C++ In TIOBE Index Top 3 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I find java in an uncanny valley. Its still a few times slower than c++ for the sort of stuff I do but it isn't enough quicker to develop than c++ to be worth that hit. Python is far slower than java even using numpy but its so easy to develop in that it is worth the gamble that it will be fast enough. And the rewrite in c++ will go quickly even if it isn't. The title is because VBA is 11x faster than numpy at small dense matricies and almost as easy to develop in.

  13. Re: There is also the issue of urban planning on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you have a different leg to torsoe ratio. I fit in my miata just fine, but I'm all legs and my friend who is all torso but the same height has his head bent and touching the roof.

  14. I aplaud your willingness to support the freedoms of others even when you would personally prefer they not have them. Our job will have just begun when married lesbian couples and their adopted children can defend their peyote farms with rocket launchers and secure open source encryption, without having broken any laws. Need to work reasonable copyright lengths and right to repair in there somehow. John deer tractor modded to play legally torrented Disney movies maybe?

  15. Compassion is not the only virtue. Other virtues like fairness or loyalty can sometimes be more important. Letting those other virtues hold sway does not make someone a psychopath.

  16. exactly on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That is precisely what it means. If a politician is asked their plan to solve some issue on live TV, they often will do this weird thing where all the words are real, and you can even diagram the sentence, but it conveys no meaning. It is practiced and purposeful. This happens mostly when there is no viable solution to said issue.

  17. It just looks like MATLAB to me. Matlab isn't niche. It is quite high and climbing in the tiobe index for whatever that is worth.

  18. Nuclear is pretty difficult even with perfect documentation just from a process standpoint. But in any case, the personality that stabs or shoots is different from the one that bombs or poisons. Maybe one is just less likely to carry through?

    Also, trying to restrict this data won't work. The world needs to plan for metal printed weapons to proliferate that may not even need traditional ammo. Fuel-air sending fishing weights down a tube for instance. We can make 3d printers illegal I guess but that seems wrong.

  19. anecdotes on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in "flyover" country and travel for work to the coasts. I haven't noticed any geographic correlation to racism. People who are racist in the abstract, vs peoples they have never met are more common in places you don't meet those peoples, but people who are racist against peoples they meet everyday seem as evenly distributed as rude drivers.

    I work with many former military. Those that were deployed actually seem less racist and sexist than average. Hard to hate people who have your back I would guess. The ones that didn't deploy, or drove drones might have a slight uptick in anti Arab sentiment. Easier to hate people you don't meet but still have to kill maybe?

    Anyway my experience is that the simmering cauldron of hatred that is the militaristic midwest is a boogie man. Another form of distrust for people you haven't met many of.

  20. Iron sulphate initiates massive algal blooms. If done outside of shallow waters, the blooms are healthy ones, not the fish killing kind. In fact the one test Canada did created such an abundance of salmon they cancelled the season part way through. It also sequesters massive amounts of co2, much more than the weight of iron sulphate used. No one is sure about the long term effets, but the one test had no measurable impact on biodiversity.

  21. Its an interesting idea and it might be true but the evidence isn't in. Tedx isn't ted its just whoever wants to talk. In this case it is better than most, he is actually a PhD in charge of a research organization, but his research is based at least in part on falsified results.

    https://www.the-scientist.com/...

  22. Public communication can move mountains of cash. Just because most of us use it trivially, does not mean it cannot have real power.

  23. DDT wasn't really a disaster. It dropped malaria to zero for long enough to get rid of it in many of the places it was used, and the mosquitoes had become resistant so they stopped. No one actually cared about the condors.

    I want cold hardy avacados and mangoes.

  24. If a whole union exhibited a political bias to employers that might be a problem, but since individual employees are at such a disadvantage I see no problem with your behavior. The converse, where an employer discriminates or supports employees in discriminating against individuals with a certain set of politics is not OK.l, because the massive power imbalance in that direction.

  25. You can model ideas like gut bacteria. Sometimes symbiotic, sometimes pathological, spread mostly by inheritance but altered wildly by what you consume.

    Also, evolution doesn't favor anything, it has no agenda. Traits that are good enough to make babies persist. Birth control may change some aspects of which male personality traits work for reproduction, but in general, humans haven't changed that much behaviorally since we used ochre on stone walls. Changing ourselves is a lot harder than changing our world. Especially changing our motivations, and getting rid of war seems like an unlikely route for evolution to take.