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  1. This is udderly fascinating on Devin Nunes Faces an Uphill Battle in His Lawsuit Against Twitter (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Moo.

  2. Or you could just get an education on First Medical Device To Treat Alzheimer's Is Up For Approval By the FDA (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    High cognitive reserves from long periods of education, have a marked impact on slowing disease progression.

  3. What's wrong with 110 baud? on Microsoft Says the FCC 'Overstates' Broadband Availability In the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, come on, all you speed daemons need to mellow out, just let each character scroll slowly over your screen and let the corporate megalopoly provide you with what it can charge you top dollar for.

  4. That's nice. Again, your basic premise does not appear to be backed by government provided documentation, and it doesn't jibe with my experience, including working for Century 21 Real Estate Canada, but hey, have a nice day, eh?

  5. Not according to the CBC documentary series "Statistics of Canada".

    I find your concept of cheap housing in Toronto and Edmonton to be laughable. Maybe you should wake up and realize it's 2019, not 1967.

  6. Re: what an idiot you are on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember the sleestax in Land of the Lost? We use glowing rocks to compute.

  7. Climate change impacts cost Trillions on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every year you put off implementing things to reduce climate change, the costs multiply many fold.

    What were once once a century storms and floods are now every 2-3 years.

    What were once massive inundations and beetle infestation wildfires are now commonplace.

    Even zoning codes have to change, to allow for redesign of buildings to survive such events every year or two, which increases building costs on average 50 percent and requires redesign of existing towns and buildings.

    Energy goes in.

    It comes out somewhere. It's like putting a bucket of bees inside. We can't tell you where the bees will sting or when, but we know there are going to be a lot of stings and consequences.

    Oh, and stop building on flood plains and lowlands and using levees. We're beyond that now. You waited too long.

  8. I thought we were talking about tech outsourcing? It usually does mean that. Some of my old friends from BC teach at college there in IT and gaming.

  9. Re:Not Statistically Significant on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    To get a truly significant number, you would need 850 scientists, and 850 controls (or non-scientists). And you would need a truly randomized sample of both. If all the scientists are the same age BMI and gender, it's not even close to randomized. Throw in some post-docs.

  10. It's not p, it's n on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't care how significant your p value is, if your n is less than 40 case/control match your values are meaningless, other than proof of concept for further study.

    Wake me up when you get 256/256 fully matched case/control with true randomization. Then we'll talk p values.

  11. As a Canadian, I can confidently state that we do, in fact, have to pay health premiums.

    In many cases, they are paid for by the employer, but where they are not, they still exist.

    Here in BC, a person can spend up to about $40/month on health premiums.

    Back in my day it was $36. Outrageous how much health care increases are! 10 percent increase ... that could buy you a double double!

    Is it still $5 for an overnight hospital stay?

  12. But if you move down here, the housing is cheaper than Vancouver and you get paid more in USD, so it's win win for Canadians working in the US.

  13. The data must flow.

  14. How to handle lack of water on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why are the growing areas in Canada and the US these "places that are mostly vertical". Like the West?

    Methinks you need to reread your history books, friendo.

    Regardless, we were talking about a lack of water in the areas other than those with sizable hills. The basic solutions come down to: desalination, water conservation (e.g. not watering during hours when the evaporation is higher, using drip irrigation, and not growing water intensive crops you can't sustain), and less animal husbandry (mostly cattle of any type, sheep and goats use a lot less water).

    You'd know that if you took some basic sustainability courses.

  15. Re:So, you're saying Scotland is fine, then on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, Scotland and Wales will be OK, because basically nobody lives there. They've never had to accommodate the huge numbers of people that come with being capital of a world empire, largely outsourcing their housing problems to England.

    I see.

    You do know I was actually educated in a former colony, and am totally aware the reason why they're less populated is that England exported the population - whether rebels, religious dissidents, or those deemed criminals - to other places like the USA, Canada, NZ, and Australia.

    But keep promoting your myths.

  16. Re:First things first. Fix the damn leaks! on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Fat bottomed pipes they make the aggie world go round"

  17. Re:First things first. Fix the damn leaks! on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    You could easily build passive solar desal and use the salt to sell as "Cornish Sea Salt" to the gourmet food market.

  18. Re:SCotland?! on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Hey, at least they have water and whiskey or scotch.

    No wonder they're leaving you after Brexit.

  19. The fines should have been bigger, and included jail terms for the senior executives.

  20. So, you're saying Scotland is fine, then on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Seems to me both Scotland and Wales will be fine.

    Maybe once the rest of the UK becomes Lesser Britain, you can invest you post-Brexit riches in water desalination plants, like they do in Santa Barbara?

  21. So nothing effective then on Facebook To Overhaul Ad Targeting To Prevent Discrimination (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A real solution would include affinity groups, education, groups that one belongs to or does not belong to.

    I was born in the South. I know how this works.

  22. Five things on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    1. The main reason why we can't ship our recycling to other nations is very simple. It's not sorted. In Japan, they have bundles of each of the types of materials, about 40 of them, into which you have to place CLEAN, DRY, CORRECT materials. And, strangely, they burn the rest. We're just lazy.

    2. In many countries the literal manufacturers of the packaging and containers HAVE TO RECYCLE IT AT NO COST to the consumers. For some reason, we treat negative impacts (bads) of capitalism as if they don't exist. Change that. Everywhere.

    3. It's not "Recycle cause I'm lazy". It's REDUCE, REUSE, and then the small amount left over RECYCLE. Fix that.

    4. When Seattle went to recycling, we also went to putting vegetable and meat compost in our yard waste. Nowadays, if you go down any urban street on garbage day you see a tiny garbage bin and giant recycling and yard waste/compost bins. The main problem with recycling is: people put stuff they think MIGHT be recyclable (it's plastic but lead painted) or COULD be recyclable (metal container with a plastic painted rim). And they never put all the plastic bags inside other plastic bags so the individual bags get caught in the sorting plant machinery.

    5. You're. Just. Lazy. (yes, I said that before, but I figured you need to hear it again, cause you're lazy)

  23. So not fixing Nazis or adding Edit on Twitter Cracks Down on API Abuse, Will Charge B2B Developers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Riight ...

  24. Re:I'd rather get a Rivian for the same price on Tesla's New Model Y SUV Hits the Right Note By Playing It Safe (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, SUV is more on market. But if I'm teaching and researching in the mountains, and want to throw in some hunting and fishing and camping, it looks more my style.

  25. IAL. Read the judgement.