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Comment Re:s/homeopathy/creationism/g (Score 3, Funny) 408

Replace homeopathy with creationism.

One wonders what the response would be then.

"What they have looked at is systematic trials for named conditions when that is not how creationism works," he'd say. "Creationism worked on the principle of improving a person's overall health and wellness, and research such as a seven-year study conducted in Switzerland was a better measure of its usefulness," he'd add.

Comment Cynicism (Score 1, Interesting) 148

Option A : Mobile providers make less money next year.

Option B : Mobile providers raise the standard charges the exact necessary amount to avoid having losses due to this law.

Option C : Mobile providers raise the standard charges more than necessary and justify the raise saying ordinary people need to pay for the yuppies who roam Europe in their sports cars while chatting on their phones.

Comment Re:Terrible summary (Score 4, Interesting) 190

biting flies have an aversion to landing on striped surfaces.

Biting flies can't evolve?

I found the whole thing very unconvincing.

If it's proven that biting flies have aversion to landing on striped surfaces, it makes no sense to say it can't be true because flies would evolve. One should rather ask "Why didn't flies evolve past this limitation?"

One could start with various hypotheses like:
- It's a behavior that protects them from something. Maybe the advantage of biting zebras has a lesser weight than the disadvantage of losing that protection.
- It's a behavior that's consequence of something they can't evolve past without not being flies anymore. Maybe their eyes are not able to know the distance of a striped surface with the required precision, for whatever physical reasons, and better eyes would be too expensive.

Comment Re:I can wear my phone just fine, in a pocket (Score 2) 180

Suit pants don't have the right shape if you stuff things like a phone in the pockets. The interior of the suit jacket is already occupied by the wallet.

I would like to have a way to carry my phone when I'm wearing a suit, better than attached to the belt. A "watch" might be the solution but the existing solutions are not good enough to replace a smartphone.

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