Comment For me but not for thee (Score 3, Funny) 284
I don't want to give up internet. I just want others to give it up.
You don't want to get rid of mosquitos. They're very, very important to the local ecology.
Fun fact, most mosquitos, including all male mosquitos, don't even bite humans. Many are sap-suckers and pollinators.
He should tell his base to boycott the election
If he did, and they really did, then it would look like a rigged election for the Democrats. It would play right into Trump's tiny hands.
In what way have our diets gotten worse since 2013?
Diets probably haven't worsened much since 2013, but poor diet doesn't affect you immediately. Poor health comes after years and decades of poor dietary choices. The study just indicates that the effects are finally showing up en masse.
The farmers who benefit from it can just have a summer schedule and a winder schedule.
Daylight savings was never about the farmers, and farmers don't benefit from it. It's all a sop to retailers, as later sunsets lead to more spending as people tend to stay out a little later.
Honestly I suspect that, like "Black Friday", the DST retail boost is a mirage. If we didn't have DST then spending would be more spread out over the year and the retailers would lose nothing overall. They would even stand to benefit by having a flatter, more dependable, business cycle. But alas it's all about short term appearance.
So either the laws of physics today are the same as they were back then and anti-matter was definitely produced just after the Big Bang in particle collisions or conservation of energy is not correct.
Or we're not getting the simulated conditions correct. It is, after all, happening in a universe that exists, already filled with regular matter and quantum foam.
I don't keep a car anymore because it's cheaper/easier to get a ride when I need one. Otherwise I would walk less and drive more.
That brings up an interesting point. If ride hailing increases miles travelled by 70% but results in fewer vehicles produced and purchased, what is the net effect?
IIUC about half the energy "spent" on a car, in the average car's lifetime, occurs during the manufacturing process -- before it reaches the buyer. The other half is gasoline. If that's true, and the ride hailing apps are actually replacing vehicle purchases, then that 70% increase by those cars would lead to a 30% net decrease in overall energy usage and emissions.
Of course someone might point out but the electric is often provided by coal, but, well, often a problem has to be solved in parts.
IIUC a coal power plant creating electricity at ~50% efficiency is significantly cleaner than a fleet of ICEs running at <10% efficiency.
If every ICE vehicle were replaced with an equivalent electric, and the electricity shortfall were made up entirely by coal-burning power plants, we may still come out ahead pollution- and carbon-wise.
Reaction was mixed because while some people saw little wrong with Microsoft advertising a free service rather than trying to encourage people to part with money
I feel like this really becomes a question of whether an installed-by-default program counts as "part of the operating system", which you purchased, vs. a freebie that you didn't.
Personally, I think it's part of the OS and, therefore, should not be an advertising platform. Same with the Start Menu.
Filing taxes is easier is red States than it is in blue states.
Source?
In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
