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Comment Age of lean governments - not yet (Score 1) 186

I use services from India regularly commercially and pay with Paypal as bank transfers have disproportionally too high transaction costs. Without paypal (and there are no other non-obscure options to wire low-value amounts) I simply stop sourcing this route and go elsewhere. Makes me wonder why people don't rebell against paying bureaucrats that despite being well-fed from taxes in the end make them poorer.

Comment not in 2010 (Score 1) 332

the cost of a 10Gb optical interface (optical transceiver and layer 2 forwarding) is presently that of several macbook pros. Unless mass-manufacturing planar optics makes a huge jump forward in the next days, your next interface in 2010 is going to be electrical.
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Submission + - 3-5 Coffees a Day Lower Alzheimer's Risk 63%

ndverdo writes: WebMD has the synopsis of a long-running study done by researchers in Finland and Sweden that showed an approximate 63% reduction of developing Alzheimer's through drinking 3-5 cups of coffee a day relative to a control group of little or no coffee drinkers. When will the study be replicated and the active substances for the effect be identified?
Of the participants, 15.9% were low coffee drinkers, 45.6% were moderate coffee drinkers, and 38.5% were high coffee drinkers. After an average of 21 years, 1,409 people between ages 65 and 79 were re-examined. A total of 61 were classified as having dementia, 48 with Alzheimer's. The study showed that coffee drinkers at midlife had a lower risk for dementia or Alzheimer's later in life than people who drank little or no coffee at midlife. The lowest risk was found among moderate coffee drinkers. Moderate coffee drinkers had a 65%-70% decreased risk of dementia and a 62%-64% decreased risk of Alzheimer's compared with low coffee drinkers, the researchers write.

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