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  1. Re:Something I've been wondering on Poor Sleep Alters Metabolism and Boosts Body's Ability To Store Fat, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Avoiding to get fat is easy.
    Getting down being slim is super hard.
    It is easier to "cure" anyone from a drug addiction (regardless wich) than helping him to lose weight and after losing it staying on that level.
    The amount of calories a human needs per day is ridiculous low in relation how easy you can intake them in our modern eating habits (emphasized by wrong died advices, artificial sweeteners, low fat yoghourts, corn sirup added into everything, hormones in meat etc.)

  2. Re:Something I've been wondering on Poor Sleep Alters Metabolism and Boosts Body's Ability To Store Fat, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want changes and a better future for your kids and grand kids, move to a place that has those problems more checked.
    The USA is probably a lost case ... I doubt I/we will see any improvements in the many problems during my remaining lifetime (~40 years). It probably will end up somewhere between Russia and Venezuela in terms of quality of life and human rights issues.

  3. Re:Beneficiaries of Longer Summers on Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    o recognize the good that global warming and climate change bring.
    We don't know anything about those things ... so claiming "something good must be happening too" is ridiculous.
    Who cares if you can in theory plant a certain grain here or there but lack water?
    Who cares that a desert suddenly has water, but it takes another 500 years that it gets green because there is no humus?

    Exchanging x% perfectly areable land for y% where we don't know the numbers for x and y is just idiotic.

    If you want to say: in the grand picture, 1000 years from now, all that does not matter much as somehow x% and y% will even out, then I half agree. Half because migrations/wars will kill millions or billions. There will be no one better of.

    And: summers don't get longer. Warm periods do perhaps. Summers are defined by the length of the day. Being able to plant ten days early er because you can now be "somewhat certain" the ground will not freeze again, has a minimal impact on food production. Length of day is much more important. And believing that you get enough water in Siberia where perma frost is thawing to be able to plant grains: that is idiotic.

  4. Re:Why putin or trump? on Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    20 years ago the footprint of an american was about 10 times of that of an european.

    So on that basis there is absolutely no way that the USA could have put out 100 times the rest of the world. Then make it 10 or 15, does not matter to me. Fact is that most of the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from the accumulated waste of the US over the last 150 years.

  5. Re:AI on How AI Can Spot Exam Cheats and Raise Standards (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you are not a computer scientist: no you are not the one defining what AI is.
    And as most of your posts about AI are simply misleading or uninformed or simple to lay men, I'm pretty sure you are not a computer scientist, and if you probably are: you most certainly never worked in the AI sector.

    Perhaps you want to start reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    (Hint: I'm a computer scientist)

  6. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It is most likely not "gold supply" but new mined gold.

    And actually I doubt the numbers ... on the other hand 55% of new gold going to 30% of the population of the planet is not that unreasonable.

  7. Re:MH370 on New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There were theories that the temperature gradient also redirected sounds horizontally and away from the surface where the detectors were.
    That is actually a fact, and salt difference gradients have the same (stronger) effect. That is why modern subs (Swedish in particular, but also German and Norwegian) are nearly undetectable in the Baltic seas and close to similar stealthy in the Atlantic.

  8. Re:Meh on New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sonar from whales you hear 100ds of miles under water, and their singing even farer.

  9. They should fix the spelling correction on Macs on Chrome 69 is Coming: Not Just a New Look But Flash's Life is About To Get Even Harder (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    First Chrome, now also Skype, realizes that I type in english, underlines what is wrong, but does not use the english dictionary fro spelling correction ...

    Every Mac application, uses the build in text input system, which automatically realizes which language I use and offers spelling correction with the appropriated dictionary, but Chrome must roll its own inferior version, and Skype is even worth.

  10. Re:Bitcoin is UP over 5% the last 24 hours. on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You won't believe it, but on the other side of the planet, there even is winter right now.

  11. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The tradition to gift gold exists basically in every country.
    The question is how much you give, and of course many now rather give money.

  12. For the frontend you always could use something like GWT, Vaadin, Sencha. Yes, it gets compiled to HTML + JavaScript, but you develop, debug and test all in Java.

  13. But nevertheless many big internet companies completely run on Java or other languages running on the Java Virtual Machine.

  14. Re:AI on How AI Can Spot Exam Cheats and Raise Standards (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    As I pointed out several times on /. ... it is not you who defines what AI is.
    Just pick a random university and check what they teach in their 'AI classes'.

    You make the common mistake mixing up SF movie 'thinking machines' with what scientists call AI.

  15. Re:Ovbious flaws on Gig Economy Pressures Make Drivers 'More Likely To Crash' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely they are driving for Uber, Lyft and other riding companies at the same time anyway.
    So a break for one would be working for the other ...

  16. Re:Either way we've got amateurs on Gig Economy Pressures Make Drivers 'More Likely To Crash' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In what third world country does the insurance not pay? Sure they can sue for compensation from the holder of the insurance, but not paying? No way in Europe! Must be another retardess of America? Or a misconception of yours?

  17. Re:Either way we've got amateurs on Gig Economy Pressures Make Drivers 'More Likely To Crash' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In most cities, Taxi drivers have no driver training at all.
    In which country is that? I would like to avoid it!

  18. Re:I expect they'll be as successful as electric c on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    We talked about a 30 miles trip, right?
    The ferry does not weight 8000 tonnes, from what reading comprehension missmatch did you get that again?

  19. Re:Clay tablets!?!? on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah,
    and when I learned to program, we only used zeros and ones.
    Sometimes we even had no ones!

  20. Step-dad got 10 years. Mom got about 12. Pedophile dude got about 10. And Germany says these sentences are "really long".
    Considering that a human being lives about 80 years, yes, that is really long.

    I'm sure about halfway through, at most, the legal system will start to feel sorry for them and they'll start getting weekend releases and so on.
    And what is wrong with that? Revenge very much?

  21. Re: We care about climate change on Europe's Heatwave is Forcing Nuclear Power Plants To Shut Down (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry,
    you want to claim: loosing heat via sweat on your feet is more effective than putting your feet into cold water?
    As I said before: why don't you simply try it? It would save us the math games which are hard to debate about if no one actually knows how much heat we lose over which surface.
    And another hint: my feet are far bigger than my hands, so I'm quite sure, I lose more heat via my feet than my hands ...

    If I put/place my feet into water, I obviously also pour water over my legs from knee down ... and wet my arms from hands to roughly ellbow ... is that good enough english for you?

  22. Re:Cars vs boats on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    you could have read the linked article, they usually are more interesting than the summary on /. anyway ...

  23. Re:I expect they'll be as successful as electric c on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    How to prove a no brainer?

    https://stateofgreen.com/en/pa...

    Those ferries are diesel electric hybrids, the electricity they store, is the equivalent of 600 hybrid cars.

    That is far from your 1600 tons in batteries

    Hint: it helps to have some common sense, or perhaps I lack the understanding what kind of ton you are talking about and american tonns are super small?

  24. Re:Trivial solution on Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your reading and other comprehension skills baffle me ...
    You show us a link about Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    And then you claim, they generate their electricity They get 75% from natural gas, and 25% from wind.
    Could you have the dignity to READ your links? And comprehend them?
    Denmark produced 2014 47% of its energy by wind, solar and hydro. 7% not 75%, by gas.

    There is a nice table at 25% of the page, just scroll there.

    I don't bother to debunk your other links ... no idea what your secret agenda is. So far everything you posted about nuclear energy, solar and anything related to power was basically wrong.

  25. Re:Why putin or trump? on Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    China has emitted the MOST as a nation since the time of christ, 1850, 1950, last 10 years, etc.
    That is wrong.

    America is the all time leader, probably 100 times as much as the rest of the world together, moron.