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Comment Most important parameter for men: height (Score 5, Interesting) 286

I perfunctorily looked at TFA, and it doesn't mention height at all. This is ridiculous, and any man with even the most basic experience with online dating knows that height is perhaps the most important number in your online profile. The higher that number is, the more likely one is to receive invitations from women. I actually made an experiment, once, where I created to fake profiles that were almost identical, except for height, and the profile that had a height 10 cm larger than the other, got about 40 TIMES more contact requests (175 cm vs. 190 cm).

Comment Re:Now needs a better phone app (Score 2) 77

And the official osm app doesn't do offline routing.

Just use OSMAnd (the Android Open Street Maps app), which has a GREAT offline routing feature. PLUS it uses ector and not bitmap maps (Google Maps data is transferred as bitmap) so you can set the street font size to what you prefer. This is NOT possible with Google Maps, and likely it never will be. Just read the Google Discussion threads about inaccessibility of Google Maps for visually impaired people.

Comment Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans (Score 2) 215

oh, so Putin invaded three countries

You mean, Georgia, Ukraine and (brewing) Moldova? With functional takeover of a number of ex-USSR countries as well (Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova differ only by daring to stand up to Russia)? And aiding bloody coups elsewhere?

Moldova got already invaded - Putin took Transnistria already. In fact, that was his first invasion.

Comment Re:The problem is the "social sciences". (Score 1) 493

While somewhat simplistic, I think the GP post did have some merit. And you confirm it, albeit very indirectly when you mention the ease with which social sciences are malleable to whichever political agenda requires their services. This is all caused by the fact that social sciences don't produce falsifiable results: there are no hypotheses, let alone theories, in social sciences, that are falsifiable.

That is their greatest weakness, the very reason why they shouldn't be called "science". There is no bias in this statement, even IF those who dedicated their lives to social sciences feel offended by it.

Comment It was supposed to be a Real Computer (Score 2) 177

running a Big Boy's OS. You know, a device that gives its user a lot of freedom and power. A phone that could be connected to a keyboard and monitor to do the same or similar things my 6 year old desktop can do.
These specs are not a good match for that vision. I can live with the poor resolution, the mid-range camera and the relatively small screen size (though I'm definitely a fan of phablets). The slow CPU and limited amount of RAM are killers, though, and not in the good sense of the word.

Comment Re:Lasers are easy to stop (Score 1) 517

By the by, do you know what the primary advantage of a railgun is? No, it's not super-high muzzle velocity. it's elimination of the powder charge. Since the powder charge for a modern (defined as post-WW1) artillery piece is larger than the projectile, that more than doubles (more than triples for most artillery) your ammo capacity. And that's not even counting the space taken up by the fire-suppression system and armor protecting the powder magazines.

Your post deserves to be modded up to infinity, because THIS is the fucking point.

Comment Re:its a tough subject (Score 4, Insightful) 673

because I am not anti vax, but i am pro choice. in that people should be free to do as they wish with their own bodies

As long as these bodies are kept out of civilization, i.e. basically hermits, then I'm fine with that. If you want to participate in society, though, you have to get vaccinated. It is part of the social contract you make with the rest of humanity. It is analogous to you waving around your hands (your body) being free, as long as you don't hit someone in the face (someone else's body).

Comment Huh? *Scratches head* (Score 3, Informative) 210

Seems pretty lively to me. Even too lively, at times. I have about a thousand people circled, and am circled by a few thousand. I do post public, but I post more private posts. People in my circles have a similar ration - maybe a bit more public than private, but very similar ratio to mine.

My experience of G+ is that it's a buzzing, lively, chaotic place with the usual fun, or thoughtful, or sometimes dramatic posts. Interestingly enough, I don't have any member of my family posting on G+

At times my experience of G+ can be a bit frenzied, but it's mostly fun. DEFINITELY not boring.

Comment Trackpad with no keys = useless for CAD (Score 1) 229

Most CAD applications are usable only with two-button mice and trackpads - although 3 button mice and trackpads are better.

(besides, I personally prefer the tackpoint (AKA "clit") to the trackpad, but I can't even hope to have such open-source laptop to have that option - that's asking too much, I guess)

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