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Comment Here's a different take (Score 3, Interesting) 18

This story has the wonderful title, Fidji Simo says Mark Zuckerberg gave her one piece of health advice years ago, and she wishes she had listened.

In short, she was so excited to have hit her dream job at the age of 40, that work-life balance never entered the picture. Now she's a multi-milionaire who will, probably, spend the rest of her life struggling to have something approaching a normal life.

Comment Saw a similar article (Score 4, Interesting) 100

BBC Science has an article where experts ranked 400 jobs by their dementia risk. Those least likely to die from Alzheimer's were taxi drivers and ambulance drivers. The reason behind this seems to be that constant spatial and navigation processing tasks might offer some protection from Alzheimer's.

The authors do have one caveat: While researchers found that taxi and ambulance drivers were less likely to die of Alzheimer's, they were also more likely to die young.

That's an issue because Alzheimer's is a disease that becomes more likely the older you get. If people in those professions aren't living long enough to get Alzheimer's, that could explain some of the results.

"The paper isn't an advert for becoming a taxi driver - unfortunately they're dying earlier" Spiers says. "Importantly, however, the researchers reran their analysis correcting for age and still found a significant effect."

It seems using your brain other than for existence might help stave off mental decline.

Comment Re:Trump cut the funding (Score 5, Insightful) 149

Ever notice how the people on the left calling for Sharia law, would be the first to be thrown off of buildings if it were ever implemented?

Hey dumbass, it's those Red states trying their best to implement Sharia law through forcing the Bible into the classroom (but no other religious texts), displaying the ten commandments in schools (which they ignore), telling women what they can wear, telling women they must have babies, and a whole host of other things they're trying to force down people's throats.

As always, every accusation is a confession with you people.

Comment Re:Old people. (Score 1) 79

Even without PlayStation doing this, nobody is buying disks anymore and the 2nd hand market for games made recently barely exists.

And digital downloads / disk isn’t the deciding factor. I can still play KOTOR on a modern Xbox whether I have the original disk from 23 years ago or the $5 download, but my jet set radio future disk won’t run on a modern machine.

Comment Old people. (Score 2) 79

Lots of non-gamers here? Nobody buys disks anymore. Games don't play directly off the disks, they need to be installed. I guess having disks helps with the install process, but between how fast the internet is and all the inevitable updates, it's basically the same install process, with or without a disk.

Buying the game on disk basically just means that if you want to play the game, you have to dig out the disk.

Comment Re:Fool Me Once... (Score -1) 79

For those who don't know:

1) 21 years ago, Sony Music bought BMG, a company which put a rootkit if people tried to listen to music on computers, which nobody actually did. Theoretically it could helped spread viruses, although no it actually didn't.

2) 16 years ago, Sony gave Linux access on a device, although nobody actually used it, and there was no possible reason to use it besides "oh that's kind of cool I guess." Then rescinded it.

Anyway, minor quibbles and they happened forever ago.

Comment Re:The US needs to get on board too (Score 2) 84

Middle-range drones are in use because anti-aircraft measures have gotten so good.

No. The lack of anti-aircraft measures is why middle-range drones are being used so extensively. Ukraine put a lot time and effort into degrading Russian AA, whether radar systems, S-300/400/500, Pantsir, or anything else. The last number I saw was about 1,700 AA of all types damaged or destroyed.

Once AA is reduced, this opens corridors for drones/missiles, which is exactly what Ukraine is doing. Crimea is now essentially an island, with supplies rapidly dwindling and people fleeing while they can. Moscow has three rings of AA to try (and faling) to protect itself. Meanwhile, oil refineries the length and breadth of Russia are going up in flames each week.

Ukraine does have Baba Yaga drones (heavy drones which can carry multiple, large mortars/bombs), and those are being used to take out fortified positions.

Single-use drones are stil highly in use, which is what a middle-range drone is.

Comment Re:They are only cheating themselves (Score 1) 52

I'm also a teacher...and how do you figure? They're imperfect, there's issues around them...but useless? Ultimately, if you create a test that's even semi-decent, students who know the material well will get an "A," students who have no fucking clue what's going on in the class will get an F, and other students will get somewhere in between. Isn't that what you'd want?

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