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Re:28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:37PM (#20575858)
lies, damn lies and...
Re:28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:16PM (#20575623)
FTA: "it is estimated that 28.3% of the EU population aged 16 or over could not afford a one-week annual holiday away from home in 2018"

Surely including 16 year olds is skewing these numbers.

Because the media turns everything into a witch hunt these days.
Re:Disabling server-side logging of Siri requests on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:51AM (#20564321)
At Apple: "Ah, another request to not log anything, make sure you log everything."
Re:Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:12PM (#20536977)
Neolithic 1%ers and their elite lake front Crannogs...
Just like all the profits made from the "war on drugs" government will just view climate change taxes as a new source of revenue with no incentive to truly end the problem.
Re:The Importance of Insect Suffering on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:24PM (#20442321)
lol you support an article that includes the following:

"consider the ethical implications of virtual insects, including insect brain “uploads” and insect-like artificial intelligences that will emerge in the next few decades."

"In 2015, the federal government seized drugs the state bought illegally off the black market. The shoddy, shady sources for the deadly cocktails have become a weak spot death penalty opponents have leveraged."

wat?

Re:The Importance of Insect Suffering on Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:42AM (#20432918)
Millions of human beings are dying of starvation, but no let's fret about the insects we might step on while we walk across the lawn.
Re:Being Bored Is Good on Monday July 08, 2019 @12:03PM (#20383854)
"Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" came on over the radio while reading this.
I'm confident it will be as effective as the do not call registry.
Re:Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:59PM (#20288048)
> No, it doesn't, considering it was documented in Scotland in the 1700s. The Plum Island facility was started in 1954.

Yes, it does. This strain was before unseen in the US so much so it's very name references where it was first seen in the US, regardless of where it may have been elsewhere in the world.

Re:Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:51PM (#20278153)
This article blames sprawl and climate change, but neglects the connection to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center right off the coast of Lyme CT. Borrelia has been in the US for ages, but wasn't known for causing the debilitating symptoms this modern strain causes.
Re:Learning to Build Distributed Systems on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:40PM (#20251033)
"If you can, carry a pager"

Why a pager? I wasn't even sure that they still made them.

Re:This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:53PM (#20226726)
I imagine HN is an AI promoting other AI's, which in turn..
Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:48PM (#20159396)
Huxley yes, but mostly his emphasis on pleasure over pain and self in order to pacify the population. But designer babies are already here so he could end up being correct on many more things.
Just buy a couple Synology's, that will get you 90% there.
Re:IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:58PM (#19983683)
I would dare to add, "All according to plan"
Re:Impossible Foods' next product is sausage on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:06PM (#19954554)
They'd feed us sawdust if we'd pay for it. As a matter of fact, they used to try just that.
Re:Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps on Monday April 29, 2019 @11:03AM (#19778958)
Less time on your phone could equal less app purchases, less revenue for app developers, less loyalty to the eco-system. If everyone truly cut screen time down just 10% less a week, Apple would feel it through the app developers pain.
Re:Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:24AM (#19778581)
FTA: "The controversy follows comments last week by chief executive Tim Cook, who said that Apple wanted to see customers spend less time on their devices."

Talk is cheap and sells well...

Re:Nothing Fails Like Success on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:47AM (#19691384)
lost me at hate speech is killing our planet
embrace enhance extinguish
Re:John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (2014) on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:10AM (#19085904)
with millions at stake, the truth is difficult to discern. When it's billions, you'll never find it.
Re:Iron is the new Cholesterol? on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:00PM (#18753291)
Water is the new diabetes?
Re:Chandra, the pre-teen who released a post-punk record in 1980 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:09PM (#18625076)
I listened to it and it definitely belongs on soundcloud.