A thousand comments and you pick my hidden nested comment to say YMMV? Shall I take you at your word and disregard your preference for the useless GPM measurement?

I agree. If the question were worded the way people experience their car's cost, it would go something like this:
You spend $60 a week in gas for the pickup truck. You spend $18 a week in gas for the compact sedan. Which vehicle should be replaced to spend less on gas?

Exactly, sometimes you know how much gas you have and sometimes you know how far you need to go. One number is not innately superior to the other.

As far as the situation goes, if someone really has a 10mpg and a 33mpg car and both are driven roughly equal miles (or even the 10mpg car somewhat less), they are reminded quite often which of the two cars costs the most if the guzzler needs to be filled three times as much as the other car.

CAFE was already set to go to 35 in 2020, the only major thing (ignoring .5mpg) is that it was moved forward 4 years.

I am waiting for the tetrachromat patch. So, I think you can assume my position.

The "Red Scare" that preceded that alliance of convenience suggests it was more than a mere change of social mores.

I suppose I should make clear that I take "personal" in this context to mean stuff that could be used to impersonate or incriminate you: addresses, bank information, pronography collection indexes,etc..

Yes and no. The Chinese government knowing who like the Jonas brothers probably isn't going to be an issue. Whereas with the given example it probably would be, and the people there know the difference.

That search seems to me to contain personal information: an interest in Falun Gong.

Instead of having LED below the e-ink, put it on top of the e-ink. With no current applied to either, you see the e-ink. When you need to use the faster more colorful tech, make the e-ink whitish and turn on the OLED.

That site counts areas that have garbage collectors and no programmers, areas most likely with a lower standard of living. This would tend to depress the garbage collector stats.

Is 49 the new 39? Because 17 months ago...

I did get distracted by the switch from genes to base pairs. However, you did make a direct comparison between base pairs and [bolts], so I did not apply the qualifier to the wrong part of the sentence, but I did perhaps only address a side point.

As explained by drosboro, comparing a hunk of iron (which are almost certainly duplicated elsewhere) with a gene is not a valid comparison when we are talking about complexity. I don't think anyone knows how many parts are in the Eiffel tower, however I think it is likely that the bolts are if not the most numerous, they are at least fairly close in number to the most numerous.

I have no problem with excluding the redundant and repeating parts of DNA. Your problem is that while I can trivially identify where most parts are transcribed on the superstructure of the Eiffel tower with a minimum of structural engineering knowledge, you would have to transcribe all of the base pairs to identify the parts you don't need to map (or come up with a protocol that is sure to win you fame and fortune (and no fair using a computer :)).

Sorry you are off by 3 orders of magnitude (2.5 million rivets vs 3 billion base pairs). Also, since the tower has four-fold symmetry and each corner also has right-left symmetry, you can effectively lower it to 300k sets (4 order of magnitude off).

A complementary story:
Banker meets with Poor and learns that for an infusion of $20k, there is projected to be a return of $200k. This is based on a real product that can be at least partially demonstrated. Also there is evidence that the project is worth at least $20k due to the fact that Rich made that offer.