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Comment Re:Why is slashdot posting these garbage articles? (Score 1) 155

Fair point. But I wonder what would happen if the editors applied a stricter filter to the stories published here. I'm afraid we would lose the variety and depth of the opinions of fellow slashdotters like you, who take their time to offer insights that are not evident to a layperson. And given that we all have different backgrounds, even if I'm an expert in a certain subject, I can be completely ignorant about others...

So I tend to view the occasional garbage article not as a bug, but as a feature... Cheers!

Comment Coffee seems to be the exception. (Score 3, Informative) 197

Remember the studies concluding that caffeine is bad for your health? Well, it turns out that those effects don't show up when you study coffee consumption. There are a lot more components in normal coffee, and apparently the combination of all of them, including caffeine, is very benneficial for humans.

This infographics based on meta studies about the health effect of many different foods and beverages, concludes that coffee is one of the best things you can ingest.

Comment Re:There are people who love to (Score 1) 105

Another possibility is that some people are genuinely trying to understand how organizations work. And corporate-speak gives the impression of intelligence, which can be very appealing to some smart young people, who might waste some precious energy for many years trying to make sense from all that.

Before realizing it is a bag of bullshit, these younger fellas will chase some fads or people that will definitely make them less productive.

Submission + - Researchers completely eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice. (www.cnio.es)

fahrbot-bot writes: Mariano Barbacid, head of the Experimental Oncology Group at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has designed a therapy that successfully eliminates pancreatic tumours in mice completely and durably, with no significant side effects. The study is published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), with Carmen Guerra as co-lead author and Vasiliki Liaki and Sara Barrambana as first authors.

Current drugs for pancreatic cancer lose effectiveness within months because the tumour becomes resistant. The group from Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has been able to avoid the development of resistance in animal models with a combined triple therapy.

These results “pave the way for the design of combined therapies that may improve survival,” the authors indicate, although this will not happen in the short term. The results are published in PNAS.

Comment Re:The best outcome of a tough situation (Score 0) 167

why did the student suddenly appear from behind a SUV?

Indeed.

"After the ball there will always come at least one kid" my father told me when I was learning to drive. Sometimes though, there isn't a visible ball. It could be a small butterfly, a cat in the other sidewalk, a shape in the sky... etc. That's why, when driving in areas I expect there will be kids around, I am extremely cautious when my view of the sidewalk is blocked.

It seems to me that in this case the Waymo car was not as careful as it should have been.

Comment Re:You guys need to do something about this. (Score 1) 95

Technically incorrect, you have a giant asshole in the Oval Office, the buttplugs are in congress and they are actively trying to outdo each other to see who can get in that asshole the deepest.

I usually learn a lot from the comments here, specially from technical disagreements, where the deepest insights come to light. Having said that, I did not anticipate this amount of depth... keep up the good work!!

Comment Re:You can literally just download the whole site (Score 1) 51

Grabbing diffs from a mirror every month and updating a local copy isn't even hard, or maybe just spend an infinitesimal amount of that VC money on a Wikipedia API subscription. Sheesh.

Sure, if you really care about something other than making shitloads of money. It is a shame that there is a shitload of money to be made out of blurring the difference between facts and lies, which is precisely the opposite of what Wikipedia stands for.

Comment Re:Business as Usual (Score 1) 103

+1 Insightful (out of mod points for now).

It may be possible to measure the real impact to some people/companies if we consider the cost of delayed transactions and some opportunity costs. But then, to be fair, you would have to include the gains of those who beneffited from this situation. More likely than not, those billions are bullshit...

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