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Comment Re:Illusionary conclusion (Score 1) 21

The main criticism I have of this study is they don't even try to falsify their assumptions. They could have easily conducted the same analysis in a comparable setting without any known contamination and looked for similar signals.

False. There is no comparable setting without any known contamination.

Comment Re:Did someone actually say this? (Score 1) 185

I'm not sure it saved them any money, as here in the UK they come with a compressor and patch kit instead of the tyre.

Spoken like a guy who has never bought a compressor or a tire.
The compressors they give you with the car are trash. They are $10-$20 at wholesale. You can get a pretty decent compressor (that you would want to reuse) for less than the cost of one tire, at retail prices.
That's still not why they did it, of course. They DID do it for packaging reasons. Not having a spare means not having to have space for the spare. But they ARE saving money.

Comment Re: Good Grief (Score 1) 101

And no, you canÃ(TM)t watch them literally every second of the day, itÃ(TM)s simply not possible.

It is possible if both parents don't have to go to work. People used to literally be with their children all day for the first few years of their lives. They didn't want them to wander off into the woods and get eaten by a wildcat or whatever.

Comment Re:Young kids are smarter than you think (Score 1) 101

Preventable with effort.

It might be a lot of effort, but that doesn't mean it's not possible.

What I actually think is that most parents severely underestimate the difficulty of parenting, so they half-ass it and then if everything works out OK anyway they tell themselves they did a good job. Outcomes are the easiest way to measure, but if they only succeeded by chance, then it really wasn't their doing.

If you're not willing to sanitize your household to make it child safe then you're not a good parent.

If you became a parent accidentally when you couldn't afford to make your household child safe, guess what? Also not a good parent.

I do have a good idea of how hard parenting is, that's one reason I chose not to do it. I've had several opportunities. I always passed, sometimes resulting in the end of a relationship. It was always the right call.

Comment Re:No Posts (Score 1) 67

It's not critical to my daily workflow. That's the problem. Case in point, the snapshot program. I need it whenever I find something worth reporting and need to do a screenshot. What's its name? I know it's in the "graphics" program submenu, and I remember the color of its icon, but what was its name? Somethingshot. But what was that something, because search for "shot" sure won't produce what I'm looking for. What colorful name did their marketing department come up that really made a lot of sense in the mind of a coke-fuelled markedroid's head but certainly won't in a normal mind?

Comment Re:Google "Cloud Repatriation" (Score 1) 132

We run our own (huge) data center, so convincing our people that we should stay "at home" was easier, especially since we have our own cloud service (with blackjack. And hookers) so they can placate marketing with "yes, yes, we are doing this in the cloud" without even lying, but even here, some felt that urge to move stuff into AWS.

And yes, now we're having severe headaches.

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