Sugar avoidance in youth leads to reality avoidance in old age. There's the causation! Maybe.

Maybe even less as well, if we're talking amount of letter in terms of ink/pixels.

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Big "B" is approx. 2 o's worth of letter, i and l are pretty close, so...

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Subtract the common letters to get:

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Yep, looks like fewer and less letters to me.

> It isn't that it is too expensive to do the captioning, but rather that it is too expensive to do it without compensation.

I don't think this comment is as insightful as some think it is, but maybe that's just me.

> No, but you are required to license U.S. copyright in the book to the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

If I'm compelled to license my book to the NLSBPH, why can't they be compelled to produce the alternative media from my book? Rather than have to take the book down because I don't have the means or care to transcribe it? Substitute me with UC-Berkeley if you please.

Why not use a phone with a removable battery? Then, ditch your battery before you board the plane, and have a new battery waiting for you at your destination. Then, you're not traveling without your phone, you just have the expense of buying and shipping batteries to your destination. Border control can't force you to unlock your phone because you can't even power it on.

This only works until it becomes common enough that border control starts keeping batteries in stock, I suppose...

Well certainly insightful, but I'd suggest that a large portion of the modern left really does care, but is severely misguided in their attempts at caring. Like trusting the politicians that only care about the appearance of caring.

Probably worth examining, what counts as a public record? And what can be "off the record"?

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What do you mean illegal? I think the immigration laws at that time consisted of "gravity" -- you're not suggesting the cometary debris disobeyed that law, are you?

100 C has no practical application for most values of real life.

You don't boil water by setting something to 100 C (or 212F for that matter). You turn up the dial to medium-high and wait for bubbles. Or stick it in the microwave for some number of minutes.

0 C also not so practical. My refrigerator's freezer compartment lets me choose on a scale not related to C or F. In any case, it's a temperature below freezing.

Not to say metric is without merit, but it's practical applications are not a good argument for people familiar with imperial units.

Accelerating to higher speeds is fine and all, but unless you want to zip by the planet, you're going to need to decelerate too.

I wonder whether this is true for any thirty-ish day range, or only true for calendar months?

Sometimes that is a coin toss when comparing highly educated with highly experienced or two similar candidates.

In cases like this, or where there is plainly not enough information, leave that one blank -- don't vote for either unknown. Unless your ballot stupidly requires you not to leave any races blank (are there such ballots?)

I find pretty much all religion abhorrent. Buddhism however, while still abhorrent for believing in mystical ideas that go against the simplest (and therefore best) definitions of reality, is definitely less abhorrent than the others. I've seen a lot of quotes from the Dalai Lama that I really appreciate and can agree wholeheartedly with.

Seems to me that someone who abhors religion and mysticism would agree wholebrainedly rather than wholeheartedly.

Nice article. The Atlantic glosses over the bit, though, where the syrup cartel *causes* a calamity that threatens their industry, before they wise up.

"The solution isn't to make it even harder to vote, but to get more people to vote!"

It's not that simple though. You don't just want to increase turnout percentages, you want people to know what they're voting for. Stupid votes are worse than no votes.