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Comment Re: Charlie Foxtrot (Score 1) 139

They produce the vaccine in vials with multiple doses in. At the point of vaccination a single dose worth (around 0.3mm usually) is drawn out, mixed with a dilutent (saline solution IIRC around 1.8mm usually) and then injected.

Some vaccines do come in pre dosed syringes - but I imagine mostly for efficiency of production and transport many are not.

Comment Re:oh well (Score 1) 299

I can't recall the source I'm afraid (It'd be a BBC4 Podcast - "More or Less" or "Inside Science" probably) - but this idea of "60 harvest left" isn't accurate or useful on a global scale.

Some soils are depleted, some are doing really well and some are in between. There's no useful, global scale.

That's not to say our food industry is entirely unsustainable and going to cause us a lot of trouble - just the 60 harvests left bit that's not useful.

Comment Re: Yum yum! (Score 2) 98

Breeding animals for food is enormously inefficient compared to just eating the plants ourselves. This process aims to take out the step the (~6 months for a chicken or few years for a cow) energy the animal âoewastesâ living/walking/thinking/farting making the production process more efficient (and so more environmentally friendly).

Most meat isnâ(TM)t hand reared on a nice farm, itâ(TM)s produced in factories.

Comment Re: I predict that nobody will care (Score 1) 98

Most of what you poo is dead red blood cells, and other bits of your body which need to be discarded. So Iâ(TM)m afraid even with a pill youâ(TM)ll need to poo.

Huel and similar all meal shakes are already providing similar convenience to people I know. Personally I like spending time preparing and eating but Iâ(TM)m glad people who donâ(TM)t have a healthier alternative to lots of cheese on toast or just eating cereals.

Comment Re:The real (and very bad) message: no updates (Score 1) 250

Last week, after her HP Printer rejected her cartridges, I had a client text me, furious and asking me to disable all Windows updates because she can't live with her computer changing all the time and just wants to get some work done.

Security updates are important - I'm questioning disabling everything else by default.

Comment Re:gmail is what has broken email. (Score 1) 129

Unfortunately just because all your friends use Gmail, doesn't mean that Google have a monopoly.

It's a few years old (I couldn't find anything newer), but at least among users who have signed up to mailing lists with Mailchimp Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail were pretty much neck and neck in 2011.

http://blog.mailchimp.com/majo...

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