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Comment Re:I doubt it (Score 2) 113

Correct. One can delete the app and keep their Facebook account. When I deleted the Facebook app from my phone, I gained 1.5 GB and that was the primary reason for deleting it -- to gain the extra space, but also to thwart the constant recording of everything I do on my phone. Now, instead of the app, I use my browser to access the Facebook website.

Comment Re:MSM at its finest (Score 1) 115

Yes, if one reads the original New England Journal of Medicine story, the re-analysis confirmed the original conclusions. It's amazing that they found any differences since the the original study was conducted in Spain and the control group was all Spaniards -- who eat what? -- typically, a Mediterranean diet. The other two groups were 1.) Mediterranean diet plus extra virgin olive oil; 2.) Mediterranean diet plus mixed nuts. Both the latter groups had improved results in terms of the proportion myocardial infarction events, but group 1.) did best. It also was the largest group. So, one could say that increased consumption of extra virgin olive oil correlates with reduced myocardial infarction events, as does increased consumption of mixed nuts, when combined with a Mediterranean diet, which, in my experience, includes a considerable amount of olive oil already.

Comment Re: Simple fix..... (Score 1) 200

Here's some median salary data for United Airlines. Can't say how accurate it may be, but indicates that for the pilot/co-pilot/flight engineer category, the median pay is $118,390. [Do they still have flight engineers at United? Mostly, a phased-out job.] Median means 50% of employees in that category get paid less than that, and 50% get paid more than that. https://www.payscale.com/resea...

Comment Re:Flamebait (Score 1) 366

Good list, vincentj7. Everything in your list is something practical that Apple actually could do and they would have a much better product. For me, some additional wants/needs are: 1.) Greater storage at a reasonable price -- I'm always running out of space for photos and video and have to use iCloud to offload things. (yes, I know that Apple actually wants to make everyone use iCloud so that they can charge for offline storage). Would the ability to expand storage with an SD card be such a horrible thing? Really, I don't want to use cloud storage. 2.) Better approach to task switching -- Every time I switch from one app to another, the latter behaves as if it were starting all over again; many apps do not remember what you were doing when you switched out of them. Then, when I return, there is this long pause where a whole bunch of I/O is happening, windows are flickering, resizing, reformatting, basically doing lots of crazy useless stuff until they stabilize on some state that generally is different from where they were when i previously used the app. This might be understandable if I haven't used the app for many hours or days, but is absolutely stupid and useless if I just used the app two minutes ago. (I realize that much of this behaviour is faulty application programming, but I suspect that it is the framework within which apps must operate that makes apps prone to this kind of behaviour without a lot of extra programming effort.)

Comment Re:Internet time machine (Score 1) 180

The Internet time machine archive only stored one level, the front page, of an old website from October 2004 that I wanted to explore. None of the links worked. 95% of the website is linked to from the front page. If that's typical of how they operate the Internet time machine archive (i.e., not crawling the entire site), then it's not very valuable except for sites where everything is on the front page -- a rare situation, I suspect.

Comment Most startups fail (Score 1) 166

According to Forbes, 9 out of 10 startups fail. Necessarily, this is a costly process. After a failure,, many entrepreneurs pick up the pieces and try again and keep trying until they succeed. For most of them, it is a learning process. Part of that is learning how to manage risk, which is an inevitable part of running a startup or any business for that matter. Some of it is almost like random chance. All the necessary prerequisites need to come together at the right time, including a technical component that actually works and a target market that actually wants to buy what you are offering them. If any prerequisite fails to materialize when needed, the whole enterprise may flop.

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