Not this crap again. Didn't they bust this myth on Mythbusters too? It doesn't matter what you hit, a wall or another object travelling at an arbitrary speed in arbitrary direction. All that matters is delta V. If you were travelling at 50 mph and then as the result of collision ended up travelling 0 mph -- it absolutely doesn't matter what was the object that you hit, a wall, or another car with similar mass head on -- the kinetic energy that you need to dissipate is exactly the same. Yeah, there are nuances about crumple zones and unlike the wall, you hardly every stop at exactly 0 mph with head on collision, but that's minor details.

It's a different story if you hit a truck with a much larger mass, and the truck continues on its path with slightly reduced speed (i.e. it plows through your car). Then yeah, it's much worse, because you get some of the truck's kinetic energy. On the other hand, if you hit a bike head on, you win hands down. But assuming both cars involved in a head-on collision are about the same mass (and ignoring crumple zones and any residual speed you might have), it will be exactly the same as hitting a wall.

15%?! It's 30%. Both Apple and Android/Google. I'm sure larger companies like Netflix can negotiate a lower percentage, but for everyone else, it's 30%. Even Epic is releasing Fortnite for Android completely outside of the app store (on their own website), to avoid the 30% tax.

The main distinguishing feature for me in a smartphone is plain stock Android. No non-removable bloatware from marketing partners, and no manufacturer's customizations for the sake of customizations. I don't want to learn Samsung's way of doing the same thing, and then re-learn Motorola's way of doing the same thing, etc.. You can't avoid Google apps with Android, but I can avoid all other crap on my phone, so until Samsung/etc. can offer a decent phone that runs plain stock Android, I'm sticking with the Pixel line.

Also it has to support Project Fi. Fuck all cell phone carriers combined, the less I have to deal with any of them, the better.

When a deadly strain of monkey flu infected one of the dumb humans, he kept breathing air out and coughing, infecting other dumb humans in the warehouse, who kept doing the same, infecting even more workers. While smart robots kept going and didn't care. See, it goes both ways.

What?! "To be clear" my ass. After reading this half a dozen times, I still don't understand what they mean. What's clear is that they are buying renewable energy, but not using it. Where does it go? How can you buy energy, but not use it? You can't just dump it, or recycle it.

Are they paying the power company, but not consuming any of it? But that's not "buying energy", that's just paying someone to do nothing. Can I get that money then? I promise to produce the required energy in a renewable way, by using this perpetual motion device I invented. Yeah, the energy is definitely being produced, but you don't need any of it, so it just stays within the device.

Or are they giving the energy away after they buy it? Where can I get that free Google energy then?!

Quote from the actual study:
"We excluded quasi-randomised trials and trials that were incomplete or included 20% or more of participants with bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, or treatment-resistant depression". (emphasis mine)

So yeah, it works, unless it doesn't, in which case we'll exclude those instances. No true Scotsman indeed.

As soon as you see "anagram" mentioned as part of the process to decode a cipher, you can stop reading, it's not a solution. If you allow for an arbitrary arrangement of letters or symbols as part of the solution, you can arrive at pretty much *any* text as the result, with no real connection to the cipher you started with.

So Simpsons are now owned by Disney? Boy, oh, boy! Since Fox has been a running joke in many Simpsons episodes, I can't wait to see what they come up with about their new overlords.

Why was the system with everyone's SSNs connected to internet at all? Why was it not air gapped?! You don't need plaintext SSN included on anyone's credit report, it's only used for authentication (shouldn't be, but too late to change it now I guess). So why not treat it as passwords? As in, properly salted and hashed. And then you don't have to worry about it being stolen. Did they even hire any security experts when designing the system?!

That's a really small rack. Why would anyone create a server rack with just a single 1U capacity? /s

Infinite recursion detected.

I don't understand why coding is treated like a simple skill, similar to, say, typing, that anyone can learn. I'm not saying you need a talent, but definitely not everybody can code, and even fewer can produce quality code. And there is nothing worse than poorly written code created by someone who learned to code to get a high-paying job, but who doesn't really get coding. You know, unnecessarily complex and convoluted, full of bugs, impossible to debug or rewrite part of it. When it's easier and faster to start from scratch than to fix the mess they created. I'm not saying we shouldn't promote learning how to code, but forcing everyone to learn it is like forcing everyone to learn how to write poetry.

Am I the only one thinking this is pointless, as far as the proposed reasoning for this experiment is concerned? My guess is that this is an experiment just to see what happens (like most other science experiments), but it was sold to the higher-ups responsible for funding this project (and possibly the general public) with easy-to-understand, but completely pointless premise. It's pointless for at least two reasons:

1) Mutations are *random*. There is no predetermined path that evolution will take place. Otherwise every isolated continent would have had the exact same set of animals/birds/insects/etc., as they all started from the same primordial slime. It's like looking at the previous lottery numbers to decide what to play in the next lottery. Completely pointless, but doesn't stop people from developing "strategies". The only thing you can predict is that the evolved bacteria will be different and will be better/fitter at surviving. How different and for what reason better/fitter -- there is no predicting that as there are literally billions upon billions of ways it can go.

2) Conditions in space will be quite different from down here. It's called "survival of the fittest". "Fittest" for the specific conditions we have down here. MRSA bacteria lives and survives in and around people. Moreover, it lives and survives in and around people treated with various antibiotics. Whatever will survive up there in space will be "fittest" for those conditions, and will likely be nothing like what we'll see in real hospitals. I mean, they might as well get a petri dish and take an X-ray of it every 10 minutes and see what happens, to get fast mutations. No need to send anything into space. Not for that reason.

Again, I'm not poopooing the experiment, I'm just saying I hope whoever is running it is not delusional. Or at least smarter than me. Or is it I? As you see, the bar is pretty low, so I'm hopeful. :)

Wait, I thought it was Russians? After all, "Mirai" means "gullible" in Russian.

> "Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump."

  Sounds like someone is a bit butthurt, considering DNC was doing the exact same thing to Bernie Sanders, and it didn't quite work out as expected in the end. Come to think of it, it's actually ironic, that if DNC didn't sabotage Bernie, there would be no emails to leak, so there would be much less leverage in the alleged attempt to influence the elections, by exposing DNC's dirty laundry. So, basically, DNC did it to themselves, and double-time. Too bad the whole country has to suffer as the result too...