Comment Re:BWAHAHAHAHA (Score 1) 253
became*... damn autocorrect
Comment BWAHAHAHAHA (Score 1) 253
Safari??... When IE died, Safari because the dunce
Comment This sucks for Webster (Score 1) 101
Emmanuel Lewis won't be able to get access to online porn in France
Comment Finally? (Score 2) 92
Is the "Howard Wolowitz space toilet" finally a reality?
Comment Oops (Score 1) 25
If you are searching for "Java" by exam time, it's too little, too late.
I wonder if medical students are searching for "biology" at exam time
Comment Apple doesn't think things through (Score 1) 76
Security researchers have been at the front line in finding exploits that can otherwise be abused by "bad actors"
Apple is tying the hands of those that are technically working to protect iOS users.
Comment Re:You insensitive clod... (Score 1) 98
There are some women downtown who are working from the street.
How do the 70%+ in Germany who don't work in Office/computer jobs take advantage of this Law?
Comment Re:Time Machine (Score 1) 250
The writer is a dingbat named Wendy Liu.
You don't have to go back to the 50s. The Soviet Union was one huge downhill slide from day one. By the time the 80s hit, their inferiority as a producing economy was beyond apparent. There was no propaganda that would hide it.
The USSR only ever exported raw materials (oil, metals, lumber, etc) and agricultural products. There was no demand for any of the garbage they patched together, using outdated technology. It wasn't for the lack of aptitude. It due to the complete the lack of motivation and updated knowledge/skills.
If there is no competition, there is no reason for improvement and one-upmanship. Since all companies were state-owned, there was no competition between them. People just did enough to afford their nightly bottle of vodka.
Comment CCP logic (Score 1) 250
The bonehead behind this "fantasy novel" is Wendy Liu. She has no perspective on what is happening in her own country (under the CCP dictatorship) and not even an inkling of the history (and present state) of communist countries. No profit = no motivation to improve.
There wasn't a single manufactured commercial product that the USSR could export - even to its allies (aside from military technology). Any manufactured product, from vehicles to electronics - clothing to toilet paper, was immediately inferior even to outdated to foreign good.
It wasn't that long ago, but she obviously never experienced it.... or cared to research it. The Chines economy itself grew almost exclusively through the actions of foreign capitalists. It would be a 3rd world country to this day if not for them.
'Abolish Silicon Valley' Author Urges 'Expropriating' Platforms, Making them Open-Source Public Services (siliconvalley.com) 250
The Bay Area Newsgroup just interviewed the author of "Abolish Silicon Valley: How to liberate technology from capitalism".
Q: How do you fix this broken system?
A: Overall the goal that I'm thinking about is that you have the private sector so overfunded and glorified that it seems like the only way to do things, but things could be much better serviced by the public sector without the profit motive that the private sector demands. Reclaim the wealth from capital, push back capital and fund public innovation... Right now the way it works is all these tech companies are predicated on a very particular way of regulating work and will hire people short-time and pay them nothing and not provide them with safety nets.
There are also companies that shouldn't necessarily exist. A lot of companies are being funded to do something the public sector could've provided. Instead of good public transit, we have Uber. Instead of a good social mobility system, we get paid scooters. What people want is to streamline a centralized system that is run in a way that is accountable and actually serves the public...
My Utopian view is to put tech companies in full public view. Expropriate platforms and turn them into municipal services, public services and make them open-source.
A: Overall the goal that I'm thinking about is that you have the private sector so overfunded and glorified that it seems like the only way to do things, but things could be much better serviced by the public sector without the profit motive that the private sector demands. Reclaim the wealth from capital, push back capital and fund public innovation... Right now the way it works is all these tech companies are predicated on a very particular way of regulating work and will hire people short-time and pay them nothing and not provide them with safety nets.
There are also companies that shouldn't necessarily exist. A lot of companies are being funded to do something the public sector could've provided. Instead of good public transit, we have Uber. Instead of a good social mobility system, we get paid scooters. What people want is to streamline a centralized system that is run in a way that is accountable and actually serves the public...
My Utopian view is to put tech companies in full public view. Expropriate platforms and turn them into municipal services, public services and make them open-source.
Comment Re:Meat Free Vegan (Score 1) 263
Exactly.. that's the point where the article's BS became clear . Reads more like a cry for attention than a substantive article
Does a Vegan Diet Affect Your Intelligence? (bbc.com) 263
"The vegan diet is low in — or, in some cases, entirely devoid of — several important brain nutrients," argues the BBC. "Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans' abilities to think?"
omfglearntoplay shared their article: According to the latest statistics, there are around 375 million vegetarians on the planet. In the West, veganism has ditched the hippie stigma to become one of the fastest-growing millennial trends; in the United States, it grew by 600% between 2014 and 2017. Meanwhile in India, meat-free diets have been mainstream since the 6th Century BCE...
[T]he holes in our current understanding of what the brain needs to be healthy could potentially be a major problem for vegans, since it's hard to artificially add a nutrient to your diet, if scientists haven't discovered its worth yet... "I think we need a lot more research into vegan nutrition and health," says Heather Russell, a dietitian from The Vegan Society. "As far as we can tell, it's possible to lead a healthy life as a vegan — certainly there are people who thrive on a vegan diet." Though it's important to take supplements, she explains that a person's cardiovascular and brain health are inextricably linked, and vegans tend to have healthier hearts...
Nathan Cofnas, a biologist from Oxford University, takes a harsher view. Though vegans can take supplements, he thinks it's unrealistic to expect that they all will. Consequently, he finds the recent shift towards plant-based diets troubling, though he's sympathetic to the arguments for doing so. "Without question, veganism can cause B12 and iron deficiencies, and without question they affect your intelligence," he says.
The BBC does cite various studies about specific nutrients, but ultimately drew an angry response from a microbiologist who describes themself as "a vegan with a Ph.D., who works alongside many sharp and bright vegans," and complains the BBC is using outdated data, starting with the theory that meat consumption allowed humans to evolve larger brains. This is now considered outdated thinking as recent research, published in the journal Nature, refutes this, arguing that a higher-quality diet, including some meat but also improved by cooking, coupled with the energy saved by walking upright, growing more slowly and reproducing later, fuelled the growth in brain size. Prehistoric humans ate some meat but that alone didn't make them smart...
Sure vegans need to ensure a good B12 intake but so should everyone, as low levels of B12 are common in the entire population, regardless of diet. Everyone over 50 in the U.S. is advised to take B12 supplements and meat and dairy only contain it because animals are fed or injected with supplements... [A]ll major health bodies agree that well-planned vegan diets are appropriate for all people at all ages. For example: "It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics [America's largest organization of nutrition professionals] that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases...."
I recently wrote a piece for Viva!'s magazine Viva!life about the trend in vegan-bashing articles and this FOMO (fear of missing out) approach is popular click-bait claptrap. However, articles like this do nutrition journalism no favours as misleading the public is irresponsible and dangerous.
omfglearntoplay shared their article: According to the latest statistics, there are around 375 million vegetarians on the planet. In the West, veganism has ditched the hippie stigma to become one of the fastest-growing millennial trends; in the United States, it grew by 600% between 2014 and 2017. Meanwhile in India, meat-free diets have been mainstream since the 6th Century BCE...
[T]he holes in our current understanding of what the brain needs to be healthy could potentially be a major problem for vegans, since it's hard to artificially add a nutrient to your diet, if scientists haven't discovered its worth yet... "I think we need a lot more research into vegan nutrition and health," says Heather Russell, a dietitian from The Vegan Society. "As far as we can tell, it's possible to lead a healthy life as a vegan — certainly there are people who thrive on a vegan diet." Though it's important to take supplements, she explains that a person's cardiovascular and brain health are inextricably linked, and vegans tend to have healthier hearts...
Nathan Cofnas, a biologist from Oxford University, takes a harsher view. Though vegans can take supplements, he thinks it's unrealistic to expect that they all will. Consequently, he finds the recent shift towards plant-based diets troubling, though he's sympathetic to the arguments for doing so. "Without question, veganism can cause B12 and iron deficiencies, and without question they affect your intelligence," he says.
The BBC does cite various studies about specific nutrients, but ultimately drew an angry response from a microbiologist who describes themself as "a vegan with a Ph.D., who works alongside many sharp and bright vegans," and complains the BBC is using outdated data, starting with the theory that meat consumption allowed humans to evolve larger brains. This is now considered outdated thinking as recent research, published in the journal Nature, refutes this, arguing that a higher-quality diet, including some meat but also improved by cooking, coupled with the energy saved by walking upright, growing more slowly and reproducing later, fuelled the growth in brain size. Prehistoric humans ate some meat but that alone didn't make them smart...
Sure vegans need to ensure a good B12 intake but so should everyone, as low levels of B12 are common in the entire population, regardless of diet. Everyone over 50 in the U.S. is advised to take B12 supplements and meat and dairy only contain it because animals are fed or injected with supplements... [A]ll major health bodies agree that well-planned vegan diets are appropriate for all people at all ages. For example: "It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics [America's largest organization of nutrition professionals] that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases...."
I recently wrote a piece for Viva!'s magazine Viva!life about the trend in vegan-bashing articles and this FOMO (fear of missing out) approach is popular click-bait claptrap. However, articles like this do nutrition journalism no favours as misleading the public is irresponsible and dangerous.
Comment What a waste (Score 1) 46
Imagine what Apple could do if it stopped spending so much money preventing people from fixing or actually owning their devices.
Also, Imagine what Apple users could do if they invested their money into better hardware....
Comment It's all in how you frame it (Score 4, Interesting) 244
Spreading information is great.. however, in North Korea, the only segment of the population that can get any kind of benefit from this kind of speech, is the dictatorship. The population doesn't have internet access, or the ability to get involved in bitcoin mining/use in the foreseeable future.
The side effect of being an overzealous activist. They have such a hate-on for their own government, they see roses when looking at even the worst kind of dictator.
Comment Putinpedia (Score 1) 205
How would an open editing knowledge platform work differently and have different information in Russia?
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