Perhaps it should not be in the news but it's not meaningless. I don't know the stats for this cancer but if, say, the chances of the tumour spontaneously contracting like this are 1:10,000 then the results of this single data point are certainly of interest. If the odds are, say, 1:20, then much less so.

Single patient case studies like this are relatively common in medicine. A lot of experimental medical procedure are very expensive, high cost, high risk, etc, so it's not unusual for papers to be written based on single patients. It's not ideal but that's just how the field is sometimes.

My workplace doesn't care about this particular thing, no.

I've used a MacBook for some years now with Hacks for desktop machines. Once the hack is no longer viable I will likely move everything back to Linux. I'm not sure I want to go back to the scenario of having to run two different OSes in addition to Windows in order to get my work done.

I have hackintosh desktops at work and at home and use them as my primary productivity machines. They work flawlessly and I've been doing this for the last five years.

Sounds like far too much effort, TBH.

I had this appear on OS X. It's pretty annoying because once installed the DropBox context menu items, such as creating a sharable link, vanish from Finder. You have to go into the DropBox file manager for those tasks.

We can only track larger things, not small particles created by collisions, etc. Those small particles travel fucking fast and are dangerous to spacecraft.

Nobody. Because nobody needs to pay that much money "just to have a Mac". You only have to pay that much if you want a Mac with insane specs. Any other PC with specs like that will also cost silly money. I don't know how much, but it'll likely be in the same ballpark.

The only thing that would satisfy them is personal observation but they are too close-minded to accept that such observation is possible from ground-level with a modicum of thought. The obvious one is to measure angle of pole star above the horizon at different latitudes, coupled with the observation of opposite seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres. Anyone can make those measurements and the only explanation for the result is a spherical Earth. No conspiracy can influence the outcome. It's interesting to pose that question on their forum. Some of them behave incredibly illogically and go to great lengths to deny reality and what their senses tell them in order to support the flat earth idea they have attached themselves to.

Spotify lets you download tracks locally. I bought a 64 GB SD card for my phone and it's half full with most of my Spotify library at the highest available resolution. Works a treat.

There is some sense in this, yes. But the reason she's torching everything is not just for revenge, although that was part of it. The main motivation (as I see it) is that she decided respect as a ruler wasn't going to come through love and adoration but through fear. However, the writers seemed to have a hard time pulling that off in a convincing way.

I can't understand why you've been modded funny, Philip Glass doesn't write that kind of music.

Fighting them with truth doesn't work either. Just like other crazy people, such as creationists or flat-earthers, the truth they are denying is well established and beyond any reasonable doubt. Attempting to fight them with truth is pointless because they've already decided to close the ears to it and because engaging them in public debate only serves to legitimize them in the eyes of uneducated fence-sitters. Conspiracy theorists just entrench themselves and close the brains when faced with an onslaught of facts and common sense.

For the above reasons I am in favour of denying them air time and denying them the opportunity to debate, as this only spreads the contagion. That doesn't mean a government clampdown, but it does mean that media organisations can avoid promoting the message by pretending it is a reasonable viewpoint.

No society has complete freedom of speech. In the US the first amendment doesn't offer protection for fighting words, speech that leads to illegal actions, obscene speech, kiddie porn, and commercial activities.

It doesn't have to be that way. There are other countries which have managed to have good (or even excellent) public transport systems that operate nationwide, not just in dense cities.

I don't like most of that stuff either but I don't think what you say about hooks is fair. One could make the same criticism of Mozart also. Mozart was a tunesmith and mostly wrote totally abstract music with no meaning. That doesn't stop him being widely considered a genius.