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Comment Re:I love you man (Score 1, Troll) 305

Dude,
    your argument is this:
            Alcohol use is associated with health benefits largely because alcohol users socialize more than non users. The alcohol itself has no positive health effect. We design a study to factor out the portion of alcohols positive correlation with health and assign it all to another variable--- socialization.

My argument was. Stop after the first phase and put on your thinking cap: "Alcohol use is associated with health benefits...".

Now ask yourself: As a holistic physician, would I recommend a public policy that promotes moderate drinking?

Absolutely. We've had a gazillion years of society to to figure out other ways yet this way perpetuates it self. Sure there's religion, or Xbox or other ways to get this job done. In theory Muslims abstain so those societies have other ways. Sure. But Do they have better aggregate health outcomes than societies that do promote healthy drinking? That's the study you need to do.

Comment Re:I love you man (Score 3, Interesting) 305

It makes you wonder about this study. One would think that socializing, as promoted by moderate alcohol consumption would have a massive improvement on health and lifespan. If this study is not seeing that then either the assumption that happiness among freinds is a boon is wrong or that alcohol entirely offsets that. The third possibility, that they controlled for this, I'll dismiss. Finding people who socialized without alcohol would put this control group in rare company; they would biased comparables. I'm not saying one needs to drink so socialize. I know many people that don't and do. I just think the groups would not be comparable.

Comment I love you man (Score 5, Insightful) 305

You are the greatest, did you know than man. I mean I really Reealy love you. Now what was this article about. Oh. To your heath! cheers.
Seriously, alchohol can creat fun opportunities to socialize and that's well known to be one of the singlemost important aspects of a healthy life. Or any life at all.

Comment Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom (Score 1) 551

I wish I could think of the right terms to google for the stories I've read about the situation. Hard to find in the piles of results that are just about debugging GCC.

:)

Indexing all human knowledge is great and all, but often worthless when natural language is so ambiguous and overlapping.

I guess just keep it in the back of your mind and if you ever come across an article about the history of GCC debugging development, scan it for this information.

Will do.

Comment Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom (Score 1) 551

so they deliberately made the debugging output require hooks inside GCC

While I agree that what RMS did was probably unwise (this is the third time I written it), Cafe Alpha said, "(make it) deliberately harder to understand than clang" and "obfuscate (the) code".

I do not see where deliberately hooking debuggers to gcc does what CA claims it does.

Comment Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom (Score 1) 551

He's taking useful features out ... Only a fanatic would not call that "making software worse"

Ah, but that's not what you wrote in http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6934855&cid=49012347.
Let me refresh your memory, FUD-monger: developers who've said that GCC has been made deliberately harder to understand than clang... Something about wanting to keep the wrong sort of developers out. Freedom to obfuscate your code isn't really freedom of information either.

"Taking useful features out" may -- or may not -- be foolish and unwise, but it does not obfuscate the code, nor make it harder to understand.

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