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Comment Re: This is shameful. (Score 1) 129

The average life expectancy for men is only a year or two less than for women. Many couples die within a year of each other, mainly because the second to die misses their spouse. The reason male expectancy is less is that men, especially young men, are more likely to die by accident, by homicide, or by war. Married men live about as long as married women.

Comment Re:Engineering uses, but is not, science (Score 2) 87

If an engineer builds a widget and it works, but he doesn't know why, that's not engineering, that's trial and error. Real engineers try to avoid trial and error. But, the experimentation used to understand a design that doesn't work, or reverse engineer a competitor's design that does work, is similar to science. Fast and cheap iteration cycles have led some to bypass doing the math and rigorous testing required of traditional engineering. But, even with fast and cheap iteration, an engineer should understand how it works. But, the general nonengineering pubic, can't tell the difference in something that "just works" because it's well engineered, or if it "just works" because someone got lucky.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 2) 339

You must have gone to my public school. When my parents figured out how a little I did to get my A's, and how poorly I was being prepared for college, they pulled me out and sent me to a top prep school for the last two years. Those were a very hard two years, I started so far behind my classmates, I couldn't afford to not pay attention in class. I was still into extracurriculars at the prep school, in fact they were required, but my classes were worth going to and participating in. I never regretted changing schools. I also learned what it means to have public schools for the masses and private schools for the elites.

Comment Re:Still suspicious (Score 1) 209

How was this "previously-unknown heart arrhythmia" discovered? Healthy young people who drop dead are always autopsied unless they are already diagnosed with a terminally ill disease, and even then, they might be autopsied. For one thing, a healthy young man dropping dead for no reason looks a lot like homicide, so that must be ruled in or out.

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