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Comment Re:No agreement (Score 1) 191

First, I'm not promoting standard time. Personally, I'd prefer DST all year. But that's irrelevant except to point out that you shouldn't make assumptions. Second, your "problem" can be solved easily by having "core hours" for businesses that need to deal with others. But there are plenty of business that could set their hours however they please.

Comment Re:No agreement (Score 3, Interesting) 191

The best solution I heard was to switch to permanent standard time, but businesses and local governments would be (and always were) free to have "summer hours" (where hours of operation shift back one hour, the opposite of the way we currently shift clocks) and "winter hours." So instead of forcibly making everyone change their clocks, give them the choice to change their hours.

Comment Re:Iphone in sweden is mostly for Eldery and... (Score 1) 81

Mac on the other hand are for coders that havn't [sic] learned linux yet, ...

I used Linux and Solaris for many years, but then MacOS X came out and I switched since it's a BSD-ish environment and all normal Unix software compiles and runs just fine on it. I'd much rather focus on actually coding than doing sys-admin stuff. I gladly let Apple take care of that.

Comment Not always (Score 2, Insightful) 195

It's pretty clear that my low mileage ICE vehicle has lower lifetime emissions than an equivalent EV.

I specifically bought ICE for low annual mileage, long trips. EV is completely unsuitable, and would be more expensive, and more polluting.

I think the more appropriate study is that for many cases the EV is less CO2 emitting.
Not all cases, and they didn't consider pollution.

I do hold that for most people, and for my primary car, in my location an EV is a better choice.
But for some use cases they just don't make sense (and may never make sense)

Comment Underdosing. (Score 1) 108

The summary actually points out 45% of men ant 65% of women don't meet the RDA for protein.

I decided to track and realized I was eating too many calories and not enough protein. I'm targeting about 1g/lb.
I'm slightly under my daily calorie target, and find the protein highly satiating.

Big change was massive cuts to carbs, which means it's a bit heavier on fat relatively speaking.
4 cups of rice or mashed potato just doesn't fit in a lot of diets.

Comment How and why? (Score 1) 17

FTFS:

The reason why they're putting in the systems is to collect information." Von Tetzchner said that AI in browsers presents the same problem as social media algorithms that decide what people see based on collected data.

A browser already has access to every website you visit and every value of every form-fill. How would using AI in the browser enable collecting more information? What information?

And a browser is supposed to go to whatever URL I specify and render the site. How can it control what I see?

Comment AI replacing Cognition (Score 1) 160

We are talking not about AI taking this job or that job. We are talking about AI making Cognition redundant. So tell us about the jobs that do not rely on Cognition. And donâ(TM)t say anything like agriculture or plumbing, because when you has r humanoid robots, thats just another form of Cognition. So name the jobs people will do that is not based in a form of Cognition.

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