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  1. Re:correlation on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 1

    Artificial sugar is a whole topic in itself, but there's no evidence that it's bad for the heart or increases the risk of stroke. Obesity, high blood pressure, uncontrolled diabetes, and high cholesterol absolutely do though.

    In all reality, there are just a handful of things that get you 95% of the way to optimal health and everything else is tweaking. Those are, in no particular order:

    - Maintain a healthy weight
    - Live an active lifestyle that includes regular cardio and strength training
    - Eat 4+ servings of vegetables and fruits a day
    - Don't smoke
    - Drink alcohol no more than occasionally and no more than 2 at a time

    This goes out the window a little if you have a medical condition. For example, people with CHF and hypertension need to do additional things like strictly control sodium intake, people with celiac disease need to abstain from gluten, people with diabetes need to be more strict about their carb intake, etc.

  2. Re:Hodgkin's Lymphoma is not "Blood Cancer" on Scientists Report a Second Person Has Been Cured of HIV (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Just to expand and add a few points:

    The first line of the Wikipedia entry for lymphoma: "Lymphoma is a group of blood cancers that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell)."

    The immune system is not a "separate plumbing system to the blood stream." All blood cells, including red blood cells and white blood cells (WBCs), originate in the bone marrow and migrate out to the blood stream. The immune system is comprised of many layers, but white blood cells are what we most commonly refer to as the immune system. There are WBCs that produce antibodies, WBCs that destroy other cells, etc. Many WBCs end up taking residence in lymph nodes. But the immune system is definitely not "a separate plumbing system." The lymphatic system is a separate plumbing system to the cardiovascular system (sort of; the lymphatics drain back into the blood vessels), but LYMPHATIC and LYMPHOCYTE are separate words.

    Your confusion may be related to confusion between the words LYMPHATIC, LYMPHOCYTE, and LYMPHOMA. Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphoCYTES, not necessarily the lymphATICS. Lymphomas tend to be primarily physically located within lymph nodes or lymph vessels, but they are cancers of the lymphocytes. Hence, they are blood cancers.

  3. Re:Hodgkin's Lymphoma is not "Blood Cancer" on Scientists Report a Second Person Has Been Cured of HIV (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Except white blood cells are indeed blood cells. Lymphoma is a blood cancer.

    Lymphocytes are white blood cells. Leukemia translates to too many lymphocytes in the bloodstream and lymphoma translates to lymphocyte tumors. That means "leukemia" is too many white blood cells in the blood stream and "lymphoma" is white blood cell tumors.

    So you are correct in saying that lymphomas are a cancer of the immune system, but incorrect in saying they're not blood cancers. They most definitely are. They are blood cell cancers. One is in the blood vessels and one is in, actually, both the lymphatic and blood vessels.

    Congrats on being cancer free. That's pretty awesome.

    Source: I'm a doctor.

  4. Re:HIV != AIDS on Scientists Report a Second Person Has Been Cured of HIV (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Neither the summary nor article says anyone was cured of AIDS.

    It says he "has been cleared of the AIDS virus." HIV is definitely the AIDS virus. The article and summary are accurate.

  5. Re: I don't get it. on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    This policy is new as of April 2018.

    Ask yourself: do you know what they did before the Trump administration implemented this policy? Do you care?

  6. Re:Should have got an MRI done first on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem isn't the procedure, it's the prep. No food, a gallon of unpleasant-tasting liquid, and hours and hours of watery diarrhea.

    You basically give up an entire day of your life to hunger and voluminous diarrhea.

  7. Re:So I guess changes are coming? on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they don't own it, GitHub can make changes that Microsoft doesn't like. That's the long and short of it.

    Microsoft can easily afford this, and they see its continued existence and use as important. They're protecting an asset by assuming control of it.

  8. Re:Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It really won't. The market is dominated by Office, Exchange, and absolutely mind-blowing quantities of legacy and custom apps.

    The OS is just along for the ride.

    The licensing and updating issues are not nearly enough to force businesses away from that. Even if I wanted to move my enterprise away from Windows, there's really no economic or productivity argument I could make to management to do that. My job as IT would have been to just make it work as best I could with minimal interference on finance, executive, sales, etc.

  9. Re:Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not an enterprise. The article is about W10's suitability for actual enterprises, not how suitable available versions of W10 are for individual developers.

  10. Re:Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    10 seats isn't an enterprise.

  11. Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows 10 Pro is a dead end for enterprise?

    Luckily there is a version of Windows called Windows 10 Enterprise!

    Crisis averted!

  12. That's literally what investing is.

  13. Re:As opposed to outdoor air? on A Quarter of Americans Spend All Day Inside, Survey Finds (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead of wildly claiming some fact can't be true or is "silly" because that's just how you feel, take two seconds to google it.

    There's actual research on this. Claiming indoor air is worse is not "silly."

  14. This dude placed a lot of trust in autopilot when we have a few instances so far of autopilot fatally driving into fixed obstructions (highway exit divider, truck laying across the road, etc).

  15. Zero surprise on Google Assistant Is Smarter Than Alexa, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The entire point of Google Assistant seems, to me as a user, to be to actually assist me. It gives me answers, plays games, schedules things. It's pretty smart. I'm totally fine with Google mining all that data to target me with ads or whatever.

    The point of Alexa, and most of Amazon's technology from phones and tablets to buttons and Alexa, is to make me buy things from Amazon. The other aspects are just as good as they have to be to keep up with the market, sorta.

    The difference in design focus is apparent when using these systems.

  16. If you look at the sign on the streetlight at the right, it appears to flash yellow twice around 1-3s into the video.

    Does anyone know what that's about?

  17. We don't actually know that LIDAR failed to see the person. It could have seen the person and taken its course of action anyway, if it determined that doing so was the best decision. It could have decided that swerving out the way was more dangerous, for instance.

    Whatever the case, I expect the software failed to respond appropriately to the hardware inputs, not that the hardware inputs failed to pick up the person at all.

  18. Re:Was the suspension complete? on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anonymous Coward says "see my other post for more details."

  19. Re:Without understanding their comp plans... on Some Smartphone Salesmen Aren't Sold on the iPhone X (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Says the six-digit.

    Wait, what?

  20. Re:449ml? Where?!? on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    $12.99 for a 4-pack of 20 oz (591 mL) wine glasses at Target right now. The smallest red wine glass I see there is 12 oz (355 mL).

    Virtually all of their white wine glasses are 12 oz (355 mL) or larger. They have a couple of smaller glasses, mostly champagne flutes. The average wine glass I see for sale in Target is 15 oz (443 mL).

    Head over to IKEA and their standard white wine glass is 8 oz (237 mL), red wine glass 10 oz (295 mL). Those are the smallest they sell that aren't small novelty glasses. Their range for regular-looking wine glasses is 8 to 20 oz (237 - 591 mL).

  21. Re:Nope on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    It's literally on broadcast television.

  22. Poof on Adobe Security Team Accidentally Posts Private PGP Key On Blog (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And just like that, all email ever encrypted with that key is subject to decryption.

  23. Re:Let me on Google Details Plan To Distrust Symantec Certificates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suppose being a nerd doesn't mean you actually know anything...

  24. Re:Test-drive where life is cheap? on India Just Might Be Getting a Hyperloop (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Those people in rural India desperately need and can afford a Hyperloop to get from A to B.

  25. Pretty sure they don't print books on papyrus these days. Who knows what these Kickstarter hipsters are doing, though.