Did you know human livers are a single broken gene away from maufacturing vitamin C from glucose, just like almost every other mammal?
The liver perform every step in the process except the final one, because of a single transacription error that was introduced into the germline back in ancient times
It would be cool to see what happens when they fix that.
And what's up with this "In 1942, more than 80 percent of Americans slept seven hours a night or more. Today, 40 percent sleep six hours or less" part?
I had to do some mental math to convert those equilvent comparisons 20% got less than 7 hours in 1942, and today 40% get less than 6.
Why would they make me do mental math when they know I probably didn't get enough sleep last night?
Could Google be any more transparent as a willing and eager participant of the surveillance state?
It'd be nice if they'd at least pretend to hide what they are doing, so as to not so blatently insult our intelligence.
It reminds me of an acquaintance who claimed to have worked at a red light camera company, where he bragged about at random times, the traffic signal light could flash red just for 50-100 ms, snap a picture, then change back to green. That way, they could keep the flow of red light camera tickets going but without being caught on driver dash cams with extremely short (or no) yellow lights.
Probably the best way tourists can fight back is to blacklist towns doing those shenanigans, but with larger cities like NYC, that can't really be done.
The best way to fight back is to blacklist everybody who has ever been employed by a red light camera company.
Use LinkedIn to track them down, create a public website where you name and shame them.
If you can find out where they live, confront them at their houses in front of their families and neighbors.
Until there's a social cost which makes acting like an amoral mercenary unprofitable, the number of amoral mercenaries will continue to increase.
Unfortunately very little of our "justice" system is geared towards real accountability and equality.
The court system is theater designed to give the peasants the illusion of justice.
It's sole purpose is to increase margins for the ruling class - people who believe they are free require the rulers to expend fewer resources to keep them compliant and productive.
2010 called and they want their FUD back.
Bitcoin payment processors solved this problem a long time ago.
Manuals generally can't be updated unless new sections are added or pages added.
Actually most technical manuals onboard ships that are still kept in paper form are designed to be easily updated. The pages aren't glued in place - they are three-hole punched and kept in binders. When an update to the manual comes out, they only need to distribute the specific pages which have changed. Each page has a revision number on it, and the manuals will contain a "List of effective pages" noting the most current version of every page in the manual.
This means you can now assign people to do nothing but go through paper manuals page-by-page and verify that every page is present and at the correct revision.
How common are Stop signs in the US?
In the UK, "Give Way" (i.e. "yield") signs outnumber them 100-to-1 or more. You normally only find Stop signs at blind junctions (mostly in places where the road layout hasn't changed since the middle ages).
Invert that ratio and you get the US.
Basically, traffic laws in the US are optimised to generate maximum fine revenue for the local police so they are designed to create as many violations as possible with no regard for safety. At the extreme end of the scale you've got red light cameras which might as well be called "murder cameras" for the number of people they kill.
The evidence is very clear that if you actually want safety on roads the way to get it is with fewer or no rules and signs, but since that directly contradicts the reveune purpose of having the signs and rules it would take a regime change to see that happen.
When you have a free and unlimited open faucet, you use water for any old thing that comes to mind - Drinking, bathing, slip-n'-slides, washing the car, making rainbows with mist, growing a climate-inappropriate groundcover plant, whatever strikes your fancy.
When you have a $200/month water bill associated with that faucet, you damned well make sure it goes to the necessities, and you find a way to shower in under five minutes
The hilarious part about the situation is the amount of overlap between conservationists and socialists.
"Water needs to be free (subsidized) because it's a human right!"
"Oh shit, when we artificially lower the price of things people use too much of those things. Since it was our attempt to micromanage resource allocation that caused the problem in the first place, we better double down with even more micromanagement by implementing rationing so that everybody will stop using as much of the resource that we forcefully made too inexpensive."
Put money aside, corporations and governments are going to take it all anyway.
That's what Bitcoin is for.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
