Breast cancer amongst men is diminishingly small comparatively. Testicular cancer is pretty inconsequential too. Prostate cancer, now, kills almost as many men as breast cancer does women.

It's (relatively) easy to build a game world, but it takes time to deliver content for that world. No amount of hand waving about new technologies and the ease to produce a new game can get around the fact that just about every game needs lots of writing.

FTL is a good example... the engine is simple, the maps are procedural. That was not the difficult bit. Writing scripted events that merge with the procedural framework, and writing enough of them so that the game is not repetitive, that's the difficult bit.

For fucks sake. Guess what, gender specific studies are sometimes done with women too. Restricting variables helps make studies more useful statistically.

If you want to get angry about gender imbalance in medicine, try looking at breast cancer research vs prostate cancer research.

As AC has already mentioned, 100F is not that hot. England's record temperature is 101.3F, for example, recorded in Kent.

As far as I'm concerned, if it's orbiting a star, and it itself isn't another star, and it's got, or had, enough mass such that it pulled whatever it is made of into a spheroid, it's a planet.

So how many planets orbit the Sun, according to that definition?

Really, the only categorization issue that I'm adamant about is that Pluto-Charon is called a binary. The Pluto-Charon barycentre is not inside Pluto, therefore Charon is not rotating around Pluto, the two are corotating around a common point of space between them. That's a binary.

That definition works, until you realise that Jupiter's barycentre with the Sun is outside of the Sun. Would you consider Jupiter and the Sun a binary system?

To be honest, I don't, but I don't have any real reason _why_ I don't. We could make some arbitrary percentage to define something as a binary, but that's nowhere near as neat as the barycentre not being inside the main body.

Also, if you define binaries as the barycentre being outside of the main body, you're arbitrarily discriminating against small dense suns and planets compared to large diffuse suns and planets. For example, just about any planet orbiting a white dwarf will have a barycentre outside of the white dwarf, whereas just about any planet orbiting a red giant will have a barycentre inside the red giant.

The point is that they deliberately obfuscate. "This generation is better than the last" can be sold to people with higher powered processors, whilst still being technically true. Like I said earlier in the discussion, I still use a core2duo E6850, and I do use it for gaming. It's nearly 10 years old.

The real problem is that i3, i5, and i7 have never been good, better, best.

My core2duo E6850 is now absolutely ancient (and feeling it's age after having been run at nearly 100 degrees Celsius for a significant portion). My dad was going to retire his old i3 to the garage as a backup, but I jumped at the chance to nick it. That was, until I looked at the benchmarks. They're about the same. New thermal paste is easier.

It's all about the benchmarks, people. There are plenty of i5's that will outperform i7's in many tasks.

It's very very easy to build a robot that can do this, you just tape a dictaphone on a roomba saying all these things. However, you'd be pretty stupid to believe the robot.

This is kind of the point of the Turing test. I believe, however, that AIs will achieve perfect mimicry of consciousness before they achieve actual consciousness. At that point, you're pretty much stuffed, because there's no way of differentiating the two.

Didn't 1 and 2 have the same engine?

I would not assume "the motor does not wear" in EVs. They certainly will wear, but it is also very possible that they may last a lot longer than ICEs. We'll see in 10 years when we have a lot of cars with a lot of miles on them under a lot of different conditions. Body resilience & condition is a large part of resale value as well.

Very few cars are scrapped because of engine failure. Engines don't generally break unless you do something stupid to them.

Owning and wanting gadgets does not make you a "hipster".

I'm not even sure where you got that association from. Hipsters generally don't own anything interesting at all.

I generally agree with you. However, with :

3) how many entrepreneurs have 5 of 5 companies be successes?

If we guess at 1 in 5 companies being successful, then having 5/5 is about 1/3000. There are way, way more than 3000 entrepreneurs in the world. Just by chance there will be many successful people in the world, and past performance is obviously not a good indicator of future performance, using chance.

I'm not saying Elon Musk isn't talented, just that with an entirely random distribution you will get people who go from success to success.

God forbid letting users actually decide when to switch user interfaces, it must be done automagically.

I do notice they've got no videos of this robot going down stairs. That's _way_ harder than going up stairs.