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Comment Re:Who's "we"? (Score 1) 36

People act like life expectancies have been getting shorter.

They romanticize historic and prehistoric diets alike, as if they were utopian; as if people somehow intuited what to eat, or else that the constraints of supply somehow shaped digestive evolution like an intelligently designed metabolic symphony of symbiosis. That ignores the plain reality of volatile supplies -- even after the advent of agriculture, but especially before it -- and the reality that evolution is not driven by perfect health or life expectancy; only by surviving long enough to reproduce.

Even if modern diets are "unhealthy" (whatever that means), that doesn't imply that people were eating healthier at any point in the past. In fact, skeletal records clearly show that human existence has been rife with scurvy, rickets, iron deficiency, and stunted growth. Nutritional deficiencies were the norm, not the exception. Now (many people) have abundance, and that presents its own challenges, but the notion of an ideal, historic nutritional baseline is pure fiction. It's turtles all the way down.

Comment Re:Unproductive improvement (Score 3, Insightful) 72

All modern OS are now using NTFS for 2 decades now.

Hmm. I recently bought a game camera. Following the instructions, I inserted and formatted (using the camera's utility) a 32G microSD card. After use, I pulled it out and stuffed it in my Linux system. Linux says exFAT.

I suspect that a lot of smaller devices will avoid NTFS for its complexity and go with FAT, exFAT, etc. for their relative simplicity.

Comment Re:Not Exacty Hometown Hero's are They? (Score 2) 105

Since when did Trump want to help the US job market? This is just another grift either for him directly or for one of his billionaire handlers - they can claim they're "on-shoring" manufacturing without having to pay for US workers (and, I imagine, without meeting US safety and environmental requirements).

It's also unclear exactly what this is supposed to accomplish with regards to the "critical minerals" mentioned. From the summary, at least, it seems likely the administration doesn't have a plan in that regard either - they're simply hoping some company will figure out a way to accomplish it, and that having this space out of the mainland US somehow aids that effort.

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