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Comment Re:Lots of Other Factors Could Contribute As Well (Score 3, Interesting) 72

It's certainly possible that this correlation plays a role in the difference of longevity between the sexes. However, there are plenty of other explanations which can also be playing a significant role for humans in particular,

Which is precisely why this article is interesting.

In humans, gender roles are so pervasive that it is completely impossible to separate out the effect of chromosomes from the effects of different gender roles. Looking at 1000 different mammal and bird species takes away that confounding factor. It's particularly fascinating because by looking at both mammals and birds, they look at cases where the male has the unpaired sex chromosome and compare it with cases there the female has the unpaired sex chromosome.

Comment Hopefully all those users will just switch (Score 1) 45

At first my reaction was, like many, "who uses pop anyway", good riddance. Then I realized this was for getting mail IN to Google, and then I thought, well who would have another account OFF Google and then want get their mail back ON anyway? That's like escaping from your kidnapper, going to the grocery store to get food, then taking yourself and your groceries BACK to the kidnapper's house.

Email going to an account Google doesn't control, and people actually give it to Google to read, record, process, and store? Jesus.

Hopefully all those users who are using gmailify to grab email from other accounts will now just switch to using those other accounts directly.

Comment Wrong numbers (Score 2) 47

See Seyonic's Youtube video.

The 512-SIM racks can only addreses 64 at a time. This comports with what people noticed about the antenna count.

8x is nearly an order of magnitude difference and chaged my mind about the likely purpose.

Presumably the spammers expect the SIM's to get blacklisted and move on?

But WHO is provisioning a quarter million cards at a time without tripping flags?

Comment Re:Not Bad (Score 1) 61

People need to travel from Geneva to Paris. People don't need to fuck around with clocks arbitrarily twice a year.

People do not _need_ to do either. They want to do both. You may not want to change the clocks and that's fine but that's a personal preference and has literally nothing to do with the story. It is appallingly bad journalism to use a story you are writing as a vehicle to air your personal views. As for 'bad' the 'cost' in this case is almost certianly nothing: the algorithm that identifies and filters the noise from traffic will simply identify an filter the noise an hour later. Indeed, it is potentially a positive since it helps to confirm that the source of the noise is traffic.

Comment Clearly Not Interested in Reducing Carbon (Score 1) 39

If you want to minimize the carbon footprint of conference-related travel,

If they were even vaguely interested in reducing their own carbon footprint they would not have 45,000 delegates attending. There are fewer than 200 countries in existence which means the average delegation size is insanely large.

Comment Re:A few small differences (Score 1) 270

There are plenty of examples of parliamentary democracies where the largest party is excluded from the governing coalition

That's why I said "usually" which is true - it's the exception that the largest party is excluded, not the rule and as the largest party they still won the election. Winning an election does not mean that you have to have more than 50% of the vote it just means you are the party with the largest representation in parliament. Many countries have party in government who got there will under 50% of the vote but that does not mean they did not win.

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