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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:If he actually did all that... (Score 4, Insightful) 257

If he did it, he's a hero. He should be celebrated as the next Jeff Bezos for innovating a new way to do commerce online. Making the black market a safter place is a good thing, prohibition is what's wrong.

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Now you will just have to hire hit men on amazon prime. Dude, he tried to get 5 people killed. He's not a hero just because you think he stuck it to the man and sold you your drugs on line.

Comment Spaghetti on a slick wall fails to stick (Score 5, Interesting) 257

indeed, assuming he was guilty, and the jury thought so. Press accounts pretty damning and red handed in the arrest. then it seems like those charges omitted what Id consider the most heinous crime: soliciting the murder of 5 people.

I loved his lawyers theory that the Mt Gox mogul was really the mastermind. That would have been such a wickedly cool story. Since the FBI seized the assets of Silk Road about the same time Mt Gox had some liquidity problems it even seemed failntly plausible. I'd love to hear what the jury made of that piece of spaghetti on the wall.

Comment Re:China (Score 2) 66

Yummy neurotoxins in their shrimp and fish, melamine in their infant formula, firewalled global internet, and censored bloggers. Before the Pure Food and Drug Act in the US it was common for bakeries to add sawdust to bread, and then there's the great killing fogs of industrial england.

freedom from regulation isn't freedom in all cases.

Comment Re:My own cynicism about Apple is getting out of h (Score 2) 98

Were talking about Apple and GT, not microsoft and Nokia. In the apple GT case, apple lost a boatload of cash and a banner product. I don't think they came out ahead. GTs market capeven if they got all of it is spit in a bucket compared to what apple lost.

Comment Air out operation, maybe solar? (Score 3, Interesting) 98

These are so-called "lights out" operations because they employ so few employees (relative to the prior residents) that the ultimate benefit to the community is extremely limited.

There's even a new german data center where they scrub out much of the oxygen. Apparently it helps with both security and fire control. No humans can go in.

I'm surprised by the choice however because one of GTs claims was constant power disruptions were a factor in their poor crystal quality. does not bode well for a data center. And I would think that one would prefer cool outside temperatures and a source of water for cooling would be good too, both of which are in short supply in most of arizona.

On the otherhand GT's original product was solar cells. And Arizona is a good place for clear skies and sun in the US. maybe they are thinking about a solar powered data center? I'd think it not important to co-locate it near the solar cell supplier however.

The ultimate benefit to the community will be taxes and perhaps upgraded infrastructure.

Comment Classic science fair project & shrinky dinks (Score 1) 239

The coefficient of expansion has nothing to do with this. The volume of rubber does increase when heated. But that doesn't determine how the elasticity behaves.

It's a classic science fair project to stretch rubber or polyethylene and then heat it. the student's expectation is the band will stretch but it contracts with heat. Same with polyethylene and shrinky dinks in the toaster.

http://agpa.uakron.edu/p16/les...

Comment It's more than Ideal Gas laws (Score 1) 239

Yes we all know about PV=nRT. But it's not just the pressure P and T that are changing in the equation. Why not also consider the rubber bladder, leather and stiched seams. Rubber and other un-oriented polymers Expand when chilled. the stitching threads are oriented to they should compress when chilled. My guess is the leather will expand too. So the pressure could drop just from the ball's volume increasing not just a constant.

Finally no one seems to consider an even easier way the balls could get deflated. The reason people like deflated balls is because they are more supple to grasp. Some QBs like to have the balls scuffed for the same reason. It would seem like a really good idea to achieve this would be to pour rubbing alchohol (isopropyl) on the balls. This is what cobblers do before they stretch a leather shoe. The balls would just soften on the outside plus expand under pressure, deflating them slightly. This might even be quicker to do than inserting a needle in each ball.

Comment Apple Pay up next? (Score 2) 458

There were cell phone based payment systems before iPay, but now the point of sale terminals are going to finally happen. I think apple Pay is going to be a huge money maker as it becomes wide spread. It's timing is interesting. Credit card makers in the US are on the cusp of rolling out chip and pin and merchants will need to upgrade their point of sale terminals. . No one is excited about this mandated cost since analyses have shown didn't change the total amount of fraud (in the long run), it just shifted it from in-person fraud (where the chip works) to internet sales. However, apple pay, which does work, can just slip stream right along on the mass pos changeover without imposing an extra cost the merchants were not going have to pay anyhow (for chip and pin).

Second, this year at least, apple appears to have the best finger print reader. As motorola noted recently they left finger print ID off the new nexus because all the other vendors of the technology produce unsatisfactory finger print ID. It's either too many false positives or too many false negatives.

The challenge to apple pay of course is the market share of handsets. But as long as there are enough to make it worth making the NFC sensors compatible with Apple's bank authorization schema they will be in stores, giving apple a growing drip feed of cash.

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