It's not because they're stouts, it's because nitrogen is used in making certain stouts (in this case, the title was better than the summary). Non-nitrogen stouts won't work. For example, Left Hand Brewery has a Milk Stout and a Milk Stout Nitro; only the Nitro has the cascade. Unless you find a nitrogen lager, there's really no experiment to be had.
Furthermore, where is the line drawn? Should we fire the guy who takes too many bathroom breaks? How about the woman who walks around to stretch her legs?
Instead of worrying about what employees are doing with their time at work, the focus should be on how much work employees get done. Who's the better employee, the guy who works 9 to 5 or the guy who works 8 to 6? What if the guy who works 9 to 5 doesn't take a break but the guy who works 8-6 spends 4 hours playing games online? And on top of that, what if 9-5 guy finishes one project a day while 8-6 finishes 3? The guy who meets his deadlines and accomplishes things is the guy you want, regardless of whether he's taking smoke breaks, playing games, or spending time on social media sites (assuming he isn't distracting other workers, a health risk, etc., etc.).
Why is everyone complaining so much about the headline when there is clearly a bigger issue at hand? We need to hunt down this mysterious Twitter (which I can only assume is a pseudo-name to hide his/her real identity) person immediately he/she is able to leak more information.
Yes, I grew up on one, outside the town of Coal City (with neighboring towns of Carbon Hill and Diamond, no joke). It's the closest thing I've seen to paradise. Here's a neighbor's house that's on the market, for reference of habitability.
Ok, I'm not saying strip mines are a good thing, but everything we do affects the environment. Our advancements in agriculture have significantly increased humidity in the whole Midwest, and everyone knows the problems caused by miles of asphalt and buildings. It'd be crazy not to assume that wind turbines do the same, but how much more do they affect an area compared to an office building of the same size?
I guess what I'm saying is, this one paper shouldn't change anyone's behavior or be considered medical advice.
Sure, that one article isn't a good reason to change your behavior, but the linked article by the GP is not the same as the studies in the summary. There were three meta-analyses in the article, so it's not just 'one paper' or really even three papers. Maybe you were only referring to the GP's article, but I think the GP's point was to post yet another article in support of the meta-analyses from the summary, which is completely different from saying that you should take that single article as enough evidence to change your habits.
I agree with you on a lot of points, but this study was more than just another correlation study like those that link high levels of vitamin D in subjects to reduced risks in cancer. This was a meta-analysis, which is meant to eliminate some of that bias by taking many studies (51 if I read correctly) and weighing them based on their merits and processes to look for statistical significance. Sure, it's not a perfectly executed double blind, but it's still an important study and the results shouldn't just be thrown out.
I think this would make multiplayer psuedo-LAN gaming more popular as well because you could actually play Halo or whatever without having to bring in extra TVs just so you can see what's going on. So it would boost 3D TV and game sales.
funny you should say sneezing... apparently, after a trucker in Canada caused an accident due to a sneezing fit, the news stations are warning people not to drive if they have a cold or allergies that could lead to sneezing, due to the risk
True. One other thing to add to that risk analysis is that people need to also look at alternative ways to reduce risk and figure out which would be more productive. Maybe here in the US, we start raising the requirements for passing driving tests and require people to re-test more often. I think that would do far more to decrease traffic accidents than banning cell phones. Or even better, let's work on our public transportation system so we don't have as many people driving.
All that has been discussed at length, but usually the two sides aren't talking about the same thing. One side wants the roads to be safer while the other side doesn't want the government intruding on their lives. When you phrase it like that, I think both sides would agree that they want both things, but nobody seems to be able to sit back and look at the bigger picture.
Regardless, cell phone use was technically illegal before there were any specific laws about it; it's called distracted driving, and most states (maybe all, I didn't check) have laws on the books to make that illegal. There's no need to make a law that says 'eating lunch while driving is illegal' because it's already illegal. Similarly, there was really no need to make cell phone use illegal because it was already illegal too (one could argue that by making it illegal, people are more aware of it, but that gets into a whole other discussion about the purpose of laws).
Rather, the problem with giving livestock antibiotics is simply that it creates these resistant strains of bacteria, and then the bacteria escape the farmyard and move into the wild
While it's true that the above happens, it happens for the same reasons people create resistant strains: farmers don't give the full dose of antibiotics to their animals. After taking the full dose of antibiotics prescribed by a vet, there's actually a much lower chance of creating a drug resistant strain because vets dose based on weight, while doctors generally either only have one dosage for everyone or two dosages for children and adults. So an animal weighing 3x more than another animal will receive 3x the antibiotics, while a human weighing 300 pounds will receive the same dosage as one weighing 100. That 300 pound person doesn't get a strong enough dose to kill all the bacteria, and then you have the potential for a drug resistant strain.
You're right that we don't hear a lot about academic geniuses in the news, but we do hear about the athletic ones. Andrei Agassi comes to mind as having a similar childhood as those you described with some of the same problems as an adult.
There ya go. I mean, it's not like BofA doesn't have plenty of PR people and that those PR people decided that denying it was a hack was the best course of action. So, what could have happened that would be worse for their image than admitting to getting hacked for 6 days?
After having read the article, I am not convinced that the questions asked showed that there was common ground at all.
Exactly. It's kind of amazing that 30% of scientists that believe that religion and science were either always or never at odds. The key words there are 'always' and 'never'. With the mass of knowledge that encompasses science and religion, it's pretty ridiculous to make either claim. I thought those words were fairly taboo in science, since there are 'almost' always exceptions.
Right. House keys are something home owners carry with them all the time so they don't lock themselves out of their homes. You can't depend on a locksmith being available to get you into your house when you need it.
I don't think increasing the population of western Nebraska would be a good thing; a lot of people live out there because they like small towns and don't want to see them change. And for that matter, maybe it's a good thing to still have sparsely populated areas in the Midwest.
The price is definitely the issue, but I don't know if the low price is because rare earth minerals aren't valuable. From what I've heard (couldn't find any solid documentation, just plenty of 'business as usual' references), most of the mining is done via slave labor or close to it, whether it's in China or Africa.. It'll be pretty hard to set up mining operations in the US that can compete with slave labor.
I don't see why it needs to be that complicated; close your eyes. If your eyes are closed and the officer asks you to open them, I don't see any reason why you have to comply.
Sure, that may be true for some people, but not everyone. People buy/play games for different reasons, and receive value from different aspects of games. I've never cared about finishing games, and there's nothing anyone can do to change that. I receive value from games from the time I spend playing them, not the accomplishment of completion.
I understand where you're coming from in saying that designers need to provide a compelling reason to finish games, but you don't seem to be acknowledging that some people play games for other reasons and don't care about finishing them. And for that matter, I may pay for the entire game, but most of the time I'm not buying it for every feature. I bought COD for the multiplayer and barely played the single player; AC1+2 and Infamous were the opposite. In Civ5, I haven't played any of the large maps. All of these things are parts of the game, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game since I don't want to play them. You can't make value judgements for other people.
I don't see why it's a problem for players to not finish games. I almost never finish games, and I don't want to; it doesn't add much value to me. As an example, I remember playing FFVII, finishing all the side missions and mini games, collecting all the best items, leveling up to beat the extra bosses, and then feeling no need to defeat the final storyline boss because it felt like I had accomplished so much more. I was ok with it then, and I'm ok with it now. I remember getting over 100 hours of playtime out of that game, and it was great.
True, different perspectives help, and there have been plenty of times in history where one person sees a project as failed and another sees that failure as a new invention / discovery, but there are also a lot of people making the same mistakes as others and wasting time doing so. What might be really useful in this 'budget crunch' is a compendium of failed science as Wired called for back in 2007. If we document our failures, we can learn from each others' mistakes without having to spend the money to duplicate them as often.
In fact, it would appear you're being racist, in your implication that the Neanderthal race is inherently worse than other races... on the basis of what, cranial volume of a few fossils?
I'm nearly the same; my brain kicks in around 8pm. In college, I stayed up all night/morning studying and skipped classes because I couldn't focus during the day (fortunately I was a CS major at a school that put recordings of all classes online, so this was acceptable option for me). After college, I started a job where I worked night shifts about 30% of the time. For a while, it was fine because I was traveling anyway so whether I was away from home and working nights or days didn't really matter - I was away from home. I'd work 10 hours, go back to the hotel and hit the gym, then sleep through the day. After awhile, the shifting from days to nights started to get to me, I left that job, and now I'm much happier with a more 'normal' work schedule.
I feel like my situation was a bit special though. Admittedly, I didn't have much of a social life, and I was ok with it. When I decided I wanted my social life back, I realized that it wasn't going to happen as long as I stayed at that job.
So yeah, it's definitely true that some people are more tuned for night shift work. I think the problem is that a lot of people aren't, but they need the job. Personally, I think employers should treat night shift workers differently and at least compensate them more for the sacrifices that they make. It's not like we can get rid of night shifts, so there needs to be some reward for the added hardships. Sure, that means that some people will be compensated for doing something they'd rather do anyway, but that doesn't seem like a bad thing to me either.
Rrrrright. Would you like to explain this so-called real reason you're referring to, or is it too secret?
And is there a reason you referred to the Crusades in the present tense as if they're still going on today? I mean, I could see an argument for that thought, but I think it's pretty clear which section of history everyone is talking about.
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It's not because they're stouts, it's because nitrogen is used in making certain stouts (in this case, the title was better than the summary). Non-nitrogen stouts won't work. For example, Left Hand Brewery has a Milk Stout and a Milk Stout Nitro; only the Nitro has the cascade. Unless you find a nitrogen lager, there's really no experiment to be had.
Furthermore, where is the line drawn? Should we fire the guy who takes too many bathroom breaks? How about the woman who walks around to stretch her legs?
Instead of worrying about what employees are doing with their time at work, the focus should be on how much work employees get done. Who's the better employee, the guy who works 9 to 5 or the guy who works 8 to 6? What if the guy who works 9 to 5 doesn't take a break but the guy who works 8-6 spends 4 hours playing games online? And on top of that, what if 9-5 guy finishes one project a day while 8-6 finishes 3? The guy who meets his deadlines and accomplishes things is the guy you want, regardless of whether he's taking smoke breaks, playing games, or spending time on social media sites (assuming he isn't distracting other workers, a health risk, etc., etc.).
Why is everyone complaining so much about the headline when there is clearly a bigger issue at hand? We need to hunt down this mysterious Twitter (which I can only assume is a pseudo-name to hide his/her real identity) person immediately he/she is able to leak more information.
Haha, I didn't have the volume on when I found that, but somebody should call the RIAA.
Yes, I grew up on one, outside the town of Coal City (with neighboring towns of Carbon Hill and Diamond, no joke). It's the closest thing I've seen to paradise. Here's a neighbor's house that's on the market, for reference of habitability.
Ok, I'm not saying strip mines are a good thing, but everything we do affects the environment. Our advancements in agriculture have significantly increased humidity in the whole Midwest, and everyone knows the problems caused by miles of asphalt and buildings. It'd be crazy not to assume that wind turbines do the same, but how much more do they affect an area compared to an office building of the same size?
I guess what I'm saying is, this one paper shouldn't change anyone's behavior or be considered medical advice.
Sure, that one article isn't a good reason to change your behavior, but the linked article by the GP is not the same as the studies in the summary. There were three meta-analyses in the article, so it's not just 'one paper' or really even three papers. Maybe you were only referring to the GP's article, but I think the GP's point was to post yet another article in support of the meta-analyses from the summary, which is completely different from saying that you should take that single article as enough evidence to change your habits.
I agree with you on a lot of points, but this study was more than just another correlation study like those that link high levels of vitamin D in subjects to reduced risks in cancer. This was a meta-analysis, which is meant to eliminate some of that bias by taking many studies (51 if I read correctly) and weighing them based on their merits and processes to look for statistical significance. Sure, it's not a perfectly executed double blind, but it's still an important study and the results shouldn't just be thrown out.
To me, if the tv makers were smart, they'd spend more time working on http://www.pcworld.com/article/239486/multiplayer_gaming_goes_full_screen_with_lg_tv.html">full screen multiplayer gaming and getting game developers to add that functionality into their games. If this technology was more widely used, I'd have a 3D TV.
I think this would make multiplayer psuedo-LAN gaming more popular as well because you could actually play Halo or whatever without having to bring in extra TVs just so you can see what's going on. So it would boost 3D TV and game sales.
funny you should say sneezing... apparently, after a trucker in Canada caused an accident due to a sneezing fit, the news stations are warning people not to drive if they have a cold or allergies that could lead to sneezing, due to the risk
True. One other thing to add to that risk analysis is that people need to also look at alternative ways to reduce risk and figure out which would be more productive. Maybe here in the US, we start raising the requirements for passing driving tests and require people to re-test more often. I think that would do far more to decrease traffic accidents than banning cell phones. Or even better, let's work on our public transportation system so we don't have as many people driving.
All that has been discussed at length, but usually the two sides aren't talking about the same thing. One side wants the roads to be safer while the other side doesn't want the government intruding on their lives. When you phrase it like that, I think both sides would agree that they want both things, but nobody seems to be able to sit back and look at the bigger picture.
Regardless, cell phone use was technically illegal before there were any specific laws about it; it's called distracted driving, and most states (maybe all, I didn't check) have laws on the books to make that illegal. There's no need to make a law that says 'eating lunch while driving is illegal' because it's already illegal. Similarly, there was really no need to make cell phone use illegal because it was already illegal too (one could argue that by making it illegal, people are more aware of it, but that gets into a whole other discussion about the purpose of laws).
While it's true that the above happens, it happens for the same reasons people create resistant strains: farmers don't give the full dose of antibiotics to their animals. After taking the full dose of antibiotics prescribed by a vet, there's actually a much lower chance of creating a drug resistant strain because vets dose based on weight, while doctors generally either only have one dosage for everyone or two dosages for children and adults. So an animal weighing 3x more than another animal will receive 3x the antibiotics, while a human weighing 300 pounds will receive the same dosage as one weighing 100. That 300 pound person doesn't get a strong enough dose to kill all the bacteria, and then you have the potential for a drug resistant strain.
You're right that we don't hear a lot about academic geniuses in the news, but we do hear about the athletic ones. Andrei Agassi comes to mind as having a similar childhood as those you described with some of the same problems as an adult.
There ya go. I mean, it's not like BofA doesn't have plenty of PR people and that those PR people decided that denying it was a hack was the best course of action. So, what could have happened that would be worse for their image than admitting to getting hacked for 6 days?
Exactly. It's kind of amazing that 30% of scientists that believe that religion and science were either always or never at odds. The key words there are 'always' and 'never'. With the mass of knowledge that encompasses science and religion, it's pretty ridiculous to make either claim. I thought those words were fairly taboo in science, since there are 'almost' always exceptions.
Right. House keys are something home owners carry with them all the time so they don't lock themselves out of their homes. You can't depend on a locksmith being available to get you into your house when you need it.
I don't think increasing the population of western Nebraska would be a good thing; a lot of people live out there because they like small towns and don't want to see them change. And for that matter, maybe it's a good thing to still have sparsely populated areas in the Midwest.
The price is definitely the issue, but I don't know if the low price is because rare earth minerals aren't valuable. From what I've heard (couldn't find any solid documentation, just plenty of 'business as usual' references), most of the mining is done via slave labor or close to it, whether it's in China or Africa.. It'll be pretty hard to set up mining operations in the US that can compete with slave labor.
I don't see why it needs to be that complicated; close your eyes. If your eyes are closed and the officer asks you to open them, I don't see any reason why you have to comply.
Sure, that may be true for some people, but not everyone. People buy/play games for different reasons, and receive value from different aspects of games. I've never cared about finishing games, and there's nothing anyone can do to change that. I receive value from games from the time I spend playing them, not the accomplishment of completion.
I understand where you're coming from in saying that designers need to provide a compelling reason to finish games, but you don't seem to be acknowledging that some people play games for other reasons and don't care about finishing them. And for that matter, I may pay for the entire game, but most of the time I'm not buying it for every feature. I bought COD for the multiplayer and barely played the single player; AC1+2 and Infamous were the opposite. In Civ5, I haven't played any of the large maps. All of these things are parts of the game, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game since I don't want to play them. You can't make value judgements for other people.
I don't see why it's a problem for players to not finish games. I almost never finish games, and I don't want to; it doesn't add much value to me. As an example, I remember playing FFVII, finishing all the side missions and mini games, collecting all the best items, leveling up to beat the extra bosses, and then feeling no need to defeat the final storyline boss because it felt like I had accomplished so much more. I was ok with it then, and I'm ok with it now. I remember getting over 100 hours of playtime out of that game, and it was great.
True, different perspectives help, and there have been plenty of times in history where one person sees a project as failed and another sees that failure as a new invention / discovery, but there are also a lot of people making the same mistakes as others and wasting time doing so. What might be really useful in this 'budget crunch' is a compendium of failed science as Wired called for back in 2007. If we document our failures, we can learn from each others' mistakes without having to spend the money to duplicate them as often.
In fact, it would appear you're being racist, in your implication that the Neanderthal race is inherently worse than other races... on the basis of what, cranial volume of a few fossils?
On the basis that they're extinct.
I'm nearly the same; my brain kicks in around 8pm. In college, I stayed up all night/morning studying and skipped classes because I couldn't focus during the day (fortunately I was a CS major at a school that put recordings of all classes online, so this was acceptable option for me). After college, I started a job where I worked night shifts about 30% of the time. For a while, it was fine because I was traveling anyway so whether I was away from home and working nights or days didn't really matter - I was away from home. I'd work 10 hours, go back to the hotel and hit the gym, then sleep through the day. After awhile, the shifting from days to nights started to get to me, I left that job, and now I'm much happier with a more 'normal' work schedule.
I feel like my situation was a bit special though. Admittedly, I didn't have much of a social life, and I was ok with it. When I decided I wanted my social life back, I realized that it wasn't going to happen as long as I stayed at that job.
So yeah, it's definitely true that some people are more tuned for night shift work. I think the problem is that a lot of people aren't, but they need the job. Personally, I think employers should treat night shift workers differently and at least compensate them more for the sacrifices that they make. It's not like we can get rid of night shifts, so there needs to be some reward for the added hardships. Sure, that means that some people will be compensated for doing something they'd rather do anyway, but that doesn't seem like a bad thing to me either.
Rrrrright. Would you like to explain this so-called real reason you're referring to, or is it too secret?
And is there a reason you referred to the Crusades in the present tense as if they're still going on today? I mean, I could see an argument for that thought, but I think it's pretty clear which section of history everyone is talking about.