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Comment Re:Americans, you want the same thing? (Score 5, Informative) 182

Stop blaming the farmers. Do you really think the rural-dweller or their herd of livestock care one lick what set of segments/pixels are lit when they rise, before the sun, to begin feeding? How do you think the cattle would feel about suddenly getting breakfast an hour late*?
Or that crop farmers, during planting/harvest seasons, are going to let morning light go to waste for any/no reason at all?
That's some real BS right there.

We put up with this because of suburban parents. (and maybe some commercial interest?)

* cows aren't dumb; and stress affects production

Comment Re:What makes this (Score 1) 18

From the very end of TFA:

"This is the first time we have used machine learning to fill in the gaps where we don't have data," Medeiros said. "We use a large data set of high-fidelity simulations as a training set, and find an image that is consistent with the data and also is broadly consistent with our theoretical expectations. The fact that the previous EHT results robustly demonstrated that the image is a ring allows us to assume so in our analysis."

... alright, then.

Comment Re:Don't Be Evil (Score 1) 208

Seriously, who actually uses google to find fb and twitter posts when those sites have their own search?

Please go to twitter.com and facebook.com, and, not having registered and logged in or visited another account, tell me how to search for posts or pages.
If I'm looking to quickly find out what Joe Celebrity or Company A is up to, I'm not going to register and log in when I can just type their name into my browser's search bar.

That said, if Twitter and Facebook refuse to make their public data available to Google for free, why do they expect Google to link to them beyond indexing links to their accounts found elsewhere on the web?
Also, I'd like to see a fake account (on a site for which the person is not registered) be picked up by this bookmarklet and advertised like a legitimate link just because it's on page 10.

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