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That's a joke ... maybe to show how uncritically journalists will publish anything that comes across as "mathematical".

Don't think that is true anymore ... there are lots of qualified Malaysians, Indonesians, Indians and Pakistanis who will work for $10 an hour and be happy about it.

Didn't you also support Unicef in Kongo and helped fertilize endangered Rhinos in Tanzania? You must have forgotten about that - ah yeah, and the novels you wrote during your sabbatical while travelling down the Ganges on a house boat ...

> I really hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I'd rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells.

Both are useful, but Twitter is sticking to its domain, while Facebook tries to lure the user into dependency on as many levels as possible.

Maybe that is intended:

"China's replacement for Windows is an XP ripoff"

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9396769/china-NeoKylin-ope...

Watch "The Act of Killing" and you'll know why this country is resistant to advice and doomed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605

Also Swede here ... I don't agree with the OP on his judgement of the article which is in my opinion pretty much spot on.

If you place all 7.3 billion people onto an area of the size of Austria, every one has more than 11m² to their own.

Of course this illustration is a simplification but it brings the world population back to perspective.

When they went from actually drawing the cartoon to computer-aided animation techniques the Simpsons lost something very essential and organic. I love the Simpsons up until about the fifth season. Beyond that I consider them progressively unwatchable.

"Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence in humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer."

http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr240_E.pdf

and here you find tobacco:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinoge...

So processed meat IS ranking next to tobacco according to IARC.

Is it really that bombastic? Lot of people are smoking and will readily justify it with anecdotal evidance proving that smoking isn't really that bad at all - "you know there was this 105 year old Japanese guy and they asked him how he got that old and he said he stopped smoking at the age of 99 ..."

Furthermore - people need those "comparisons" - only few will change their behavior based on purely statistical reasoning.

Kinda funny how hard some people try to reject a finding which is as well supported as it is obvious ... red meat is bad. Same logic applies here as with cigarettes - you decide if you want to take the risk.

Beyond your personal consequences - meat and dairy industry is also directly destructive to the environment and society on a global level (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/).

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Anature.com+%22red+meat%22

"After thoroughly reviewing the accumulated scientific literature, a Working Group of 22 experts from 10 countries convened by the IARC Monographs Programme classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A), based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat causes cancer in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect."

I would like to see a deep dream selfie ...

Feed it an initial picture (noise, clouds, a selfie) and then backwards manipulate the input to maximize the assessed quality of the "selfie".

I guess that would look pretty funny.

> At 5pm I'm still at work, which means that whatever meal I'll have will be fast food and not a home cooked meal.

You can also take a "home cooked meal" with you to work - for lunch purposes.

> But even more problematic is that dinner is also the perfect opportunity to sit together with your family

It is an opportunity - why do you think it is the _perfect_ opportunity?

> The family dinner is a matter of cultural inheritance that we've been forgetting and ...

There are many ways to share time together - it's not necessary to eat while doing so.