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Being high in cholesterol doesn't necessarily mean they need to be omitted. Look up Japanese egg consumption & see the country's relative good health.

Everything seems to be 'dipping' including bootstrap and others. Seems like an npm glitch?

Nuclear power may be kicking the can down the road, but burning coal is just leaving the can for our immediate offspring already in their 20s and 30s.

The article says least-cost, we're fresh out of perfect solutions.

In the post-trump era, right wing complaints against an organisation aren't necessarily a sign that that organisation is doing a good thing. Complaints from the factions in power in the UK at the moment are usually just a sign that their actions 'arent right enough' rather than not being right wing full stop.

Also, the BBC News wing has separate management, some of whom were appointed during Cameron's time in office. So the drama and comedy produced by the BBC can be independent of its news editing.

What a strange comment.

Do you think she's an actor and/or wrong for trying to make a stand and make people think about reducing carbon emissions?

Also, I think going straight to the 'oh, well clearly she thinks everyone needs to sail a yacht instead of flying now' route is a bit childish. All you need to do is think for a second and reduce where you can, which obviously the BBC didn't do here.

Yes, there's a big difference between riding the zeitgeist and actually influencing it.

There is something oddly nice about an older person saying "Oh, just like Sheldon!" (or sometimes Moss from the IT Crowd) if I mention dungeons and dragons or online games.

It might be a very simplified and / or exploitative version of nerd culture but at least there's an instant point of reference for us both.

Apparently modesty isn't that heritable. If you think the world's problems are going to be solved by your one wunderkind, rather than investing time and money in the already considerable number of intelligent people on the planet who are lacking opportunity, then clearly your genes aren't all that valuable.

We have enough people and our gene pool isn't diverse enough to make any one person invaluable to the future of the planet.

This seems really dumb to me. There are still plenty of people who use cash (old and young) and ATMs installed by super markets and banks cost almost nothing to run and only generate value for the installer by increasing the chance people will spend money in their store. If they had said '50-100 years' I would say it's sensible, 'a decade' is click-bait. Also why are we linking Daily Mail articles on hacker news?

The key word you used here is "probably". No-one will ever know because he was vaporized before anyone got a chance to assess the situation. This is why we have trials.

The trouble with blowing a hole in the tube somewhere to re-pressurise is that whatever is inside the hole is hit by a wall of air travelling somewhere around the speed of sound. There are a LOT of problems with hyperloop not limited to someone walking up to the tube and shooting it with a .50 Desert Eagle, earthquakes, and the expansion and contraction of the tube as the sun rises and sets.

It's definitely the most unlikely of Elon Musk's plans.

Nutritionally I see what you mean and definitely agree, people are taller than they used to be and until recently have lived longer. But all of the benefits a nutritionally diverse and rich diet brings are easily undone (and more) by also consuming enough sugar to become obese. This is why the current generation of obese kids at school have a lower life expectancy than their parents despite better healthcare and nutrition in their early years.

This is why I think that jumping on the "BPA must be the problem!" answer to low count question is a bit ridiculous, especially when people are becoming more unhealthy by the day. People who eat more processed sugary foods and drinks that come in BPA containing packaging are also more likely to be obese and unhealthy too.

Lacking physical work also does not account for all of the weight gain we are seeing at the moment - obesity rates remained stable in the '60s and '70s when we lived similarly lazy lives. (1)

1. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr043743#t=article

You say eating healthier, but obesity and diabetes are at all time highs in most of the western world, I don't think it's that cut and dry.

Yes, I think you're right, it's probably better to be known for your 1 or 2 high quality hits and take a few losses overall, than to be known for low quality shows.

That on top of the fact they can use data to minimise the risk must mean it's a realistic option.

I thought this number seemed absolutely nuts to begin with, but actually, given their ~100 million subscribers, it's pretty much inline with what the BBC might spend in the same sort of set up.

As an observer, what still seems odd to me is the low number of shows or movies they are producing with that massive budget - last year "The Get Down" apparently cost $16 million per episode while the entire, huge hit, first season of "Stranger Things" cost $13 million.

I would have thought that would inspire them to look for more of these low budget, low risk, big payoff shows, especially when you run a subscription service - surely a series that people binge over 2 weeks, with the potential for more seasons to keep people subscribing is better for you than a one time film? Nope, $100 Million on a single film this year.

Is there any way to actually measure this? Not the bounce rate of women leaving, but the reasons they do. You say it's the 'toxic culture' but is there any metric to measure it?

We need some sort of exit poll data for people leaving the tech industry if that exists. We've seen the data for women giving up after receiving fewer rejections than men, but to my knowledge any accusations of toxicity are purely anecdotal.

I think the author has read that Tesla use "deep learning" to make their auto pilot more accurate and presumed that that means a deep learning algorithm is running in the car.

What I would guess what they do is run deep learning algorithms on the data produced by the car's systems back at their HQ to design more efficient and complete systems, which they then update all of their cars to use.

I do appreciate that there is a lot of public good being done with the information, my comment came off more doom-and-gloomy than I had hoped. It just seems a bit risky to me, its the sort of thing that can't really be anonymous and that gets my hackles up so to speak.

This sort of data is exactly what I would not want to entrust to any organisation in the midst of all of the leaks and hacks we are seeing in the news. Let alone having them sell it legally to god knows who...

I remember reading about a hack/leak of, I think around 20,000 people's fingerprint data from the US government, and thinking to myself about the consequences of this biological data falling into the wrong hands. If there are any spies in that list and any country, say China, gets a hold of it, there is no way to update that spy's security, you can't change their fingerprints the same way I can think of a new password after a hack.

I might not be worried about anyone seeing my DNA profile at the moment, but maybe I will be in the future, and once the data is out there it can't be taken back or changed on my end.

It was actually very common for statues from ancient Mediterranean civilisations to have their genitalia knocked off by later, more conservative peoples. There are many in museums today which have been defaced by order of Pope Pius IX and other 16/17/18th century leaders.

This is clearly unsubstantiated - the benefits of coffee are very clearly outlined. Maybe some people who drinks too much are experiencing the withdrawal, but if you do not over-do it, there is a 90% chance of feeling more alert when you drink coffee.

There's an enormous difference between banning things with direct links to the murder of more than 6 million people, in the hope that no-one gets hurt in the years immediately after the event, and the banning of a word which hurt tens of people's feelings over the internet.

I still only use cash everywhere it is possible to do so. Handing over a physical wad of cash or breaking into a £20 note is a mentally painful barrier that stops me spending any more than I have to. For me at least, handing over a piece of plastic and typing in a PIN doesn't carry the same weight yet.

Yes, they did, it took humanity 100, 000 years. I would like Africa to develop faster than that. Money expedites the process.

Suggesting that people living in a mud hut in Uganda can realistically reach a better standard of life simply through working, displays an astonishingly blinkered view of the world. The majority of people there don't have access to resources required to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps".