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Comment Re:Bump glare is the worst. (Score 1) 60

This is mostly a problem with all projector and some LED headlights. It isn't a big problem with dual-reflector headlights because they are much more diffuse, but since projectors just have a big lens they have hot spots. With LED headlights it depends on what kind of diffuser is between the LED element and your eye.

Comment Re:How about height above the ground (Score 1) 60

Lifted vehicles can be a problem, but the most common problem for "lifted" pickups is someone has installed a leveling lift and not re-aimed their headlights, or have not done it correctly. Leveling lifts specifically lift the front of the vehicle only in order to make them sit more level when empty (or mostly empty.) Obviously this raises the headlights' aim. Usually you can just adjust it out, but you might have to shim the headlight or make other changes to fix the aim on some vehicles where there is not enough adjustment to fix it, and then you also have to care.

Comment Re: Wow! (Score 1) 38

There is a provision in there restricting how much of insurance premiums can go to overhead; something like 80% must go to patient care. Assuming that's being enforced, the problem isn't entirely there.

No, this is the exact reason why the ACA is a disaster. Insurance company profits are capped at a percentage of the cost of care, so they are motivated to drive up costs. But what about the uncovered treatments that the hospitals have to eat?

Submission + - LLM-inspired study sheds light on how brain cells encode the meaning of words (medicalxpress.com)

alternative_right writes: To investigate how the brain encodes the meaning of words, the researchers first recorded the activity of individual neurons in the hippocampus of 10 people who were listening to stories. Their recordings were collected using tiny wire electrodes that were implanted in the participants' brains as part of clinical monitoring procedures for epilepsy.

The team then used mathematical models to analyze the language used in the stories and the brain recordings. This allowed them to examine whether information about the meaning of words could predict the recorded neuronal activity.

"We recorded responses of hippocampal neurons while individuals listened to narrative speech," wrote Melissa Franch and her colleagues in their paper. "Using an encoding model approach, we find robust encoding of semantics, even after controlling for phonemics and grammar. Individual words had complex selectivities that included multiple words in multiple semantic categories."

Comment Re:Just like cops (Score 1) 41

My first thought was that he was arrested because he was Canadian. I'm not sure that I trust the FBI to be honest. OTOH, it's reasonable that no real evidence was presented yet.

My second thought was "who planted the evidence framing him?". This again is lack of trust in the FBI, but here it's their competence I'm doubting.

My third thought was "maybe the evidence actually points to him". It's really sad that the government lies so much that that didn't show up until the third thought...but it DOES lie that much.

Comment what? (Score 1) 41

The headline makes it look like he was arrested merely for the business not doing updates. While many of us have significant sympathy for that kind of action, from the only charges found not sealed so far they seem to be claiming that he was making threats of not doing his job. But that could easily be the result of someone not understanding what they were being told, so really we know nothing at all about what the charges are actually based on.

The comments on the linked article seem relatively informative.

Comment Re:How did they measure nutrients from the 1960s? (Score 2) 99

Is the measurement methodology the same? Was the equipment equally sensitive? Could the difference be attributed to the differences in technology from the past 60 years?

I think so. I was but a tyke in that era, but I clearly remember my uncle bitterly complaining at the time: "We can put a man on the moon, but we still can't measure the nutrient levels in vegetables with sufficient accuracy!"

Life is so much better now.

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