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Comment Re:A lot of factors, but... (Score 1) 158

You keep mixing between correlation and causation, and stop being an anon coward.

Genetics absolutely plays a huge roll in determining height and ability to put on muscle, as does gender. However, environmental factors determine what and how genetics express. A male with poor nutrition and little exercise will pale in strength versus a woman into exercise who takes steroids. Yes, there are huge bell curve differences between men and women, but then men and women have massive genetic differences. You know who doesn't have massive genetic differences? People of different races. Sure, there are differences in ankle size that allow a certain tribe in Kenya to produce world class long distance runners, but that's not a racial trait. That's a trait within a tiny culture, and that culture has had a huge push to develop runners. I'm sure if you looked around, you could find some area of relatively inbred white people or Asian people with similar ankles, and if they had a running development program, they'd probably do pretty well. Genetic expression is mostly hyper local, to an individual and maybe to a community, not to a race. Looking at black faces, you will see a huge variety, just as you will see in white faces. The differences across race are minuscule.

The tallest white men tend to pursue business and other fields, even when they play sports. The tallest black men tend to get pushed into sports. Ask a tall black men how often they get asked if they play basketball. It's all the fucking time. Ask a tall white man the same, and they'll say it happens, but not nearly as often.

Comment Re: So it's a problem that will solve itself (Score 1) 60

This has nothing to do with billionaires. You can decide right now to stop buying plastics, stop replacing your phone every year, give up your car and move to a city center, and stop supporting businesses that are oil based.

I don't want to stop buying plastics. I want to have the option to buy actually recycled plastics that actually get recycled. We can do this but we don't. We don't because the people with all the money who therefore control the means of production decide that we don't. "We" is a stretchy word. So is "you" and so's "can". Sure, you can choose to opt out of society, but it would make more sense to make society not shit all over everything.

Comment Re:What about top speed? (Score 1) 91

NHTSA and NASA investigated not just the software but the actual cases.

NHTSA and NASA didn't study all of the code in the PCM. Their analysis is therefore invalid. Barr Group found a significant number of paths to unintended acceleration, zero of which depended on cosmic rays and also that Toyota not only didn't follow industry best practices, they didn't follow their own internal procedures. And you think China, which hasn't ever made the best software for anything, is immune to the same kinds of errors. You literally stated that there was no other way that it could happen, which is an obvious falsehood. It's unclear why you're engaging in this level of gaslighting.

Comment Re:I thought this is what giftcards were for (Score 1) 60

Sell gift cards for $x, pay out all but $0.44, but do it 800000000 times. you now have a gargantuan pile of cash that you can't touch, but can use as collateral. This is what Starbucks and every other company that sells gift cards does.

Does anyone actually do this? Sounds like an urban myth to me.

The benefit of gift cards to shops is that they encourage people to spend more precisely because people donâ(TM)t want to lose that 44p. So if you've a gift card for £20, you spend £21 and pay the rest in cash/card.

Comment Re:"Cable" a Failure to Innovate (Score 1) 97

I doubt it is economically effective today to replace the parts that can actually do multi-gigabit.

I agree. In fact for most cable companies in particular it probably makes little sense to replace anything that can do even just 1 gigabit, because they almost surely have other regions or at least boroughs which are currently underserved.

Anecdotally speaking I think the demand for 10Gbs residential internet is low, and probably will be for some time.

I suspect it's mostly limited to sizable households with a lot of users. But we keep finding new ways to use available bandwidth...

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