Yeah, right, everyone knows that what mathematicians do is do trivial arithmetic on their pocket calculator. And Reddit is well-known for being the primary place where mathematicians publish their research results. :-(

The article doesn't make sense. The numbers suggest that indeed they are referring to Type 2 diabetes, but the article suggests that their solution is restoring the function of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas - which are only destroyed in Type 1 diabetes.. Type 2 is not caused by a malfunctioning pancreas, but rather because of cells in the whole body becoming "resistant" to insulin, which the pancreas continues to produce just fine but is being ignored by the cells.

The correct announcement URL is https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsg%2Fscylladb-dev%2F0-dk-geIg-M%2F-G9Bmb_vAwAJ (this is on the Scylla project mailing list) - somehow the URL got truncated in the above post, and I have no way to correct it.

Exactly for you, Xiaomi has, for the last two years, the "Android One" series, with 100% pure Android without any of their shit. Their first phone in this series, the A1, was absolutely fantastic, and later came A2 and very recently - A3.

Watching for 3-4 hours straight isn't the only way to do "Binge". What I usually do is watch Netflix about 30 minutes each night (I don't have time for more...), finishing an entire season of a series in a couple of weeks. It's still a "binge" in the sense that I watch the series as one very long movie, and rarely watch other things in the middle. I actually feel that series-watching on Netflix have become the new "book": it takes a long time to finish, every night you continue from where you left off last night, you don't usually do it for 4 hours straight but perhaps more like 30 minutes, and it has a lot of depth and breadth (unlike a short movie).

Netflix still has a lot of series I want to watch, but I wish they had a lot more of the older TV series (there are *decades* worth of excellent series out there). Star Trek is an excellent example of older content they do have, and I watched.

Unlike Youtube, Netflix doesn't get paid (by advertisers) by the amount of time you watch it. A person, like me, can be happy with his Netflix service even if he watches it "just" 30 minutes a day, and even if this person spends other time watching youtube, or, god forbid, sleep.

For me to remain a happy Netflix customer, it doesn't need to swallow up more of my time or compete with Youtube. It needs to continue to show me things I *want* to see (it needs to increase the amount of content it has - especially "older" movies and series, not just new made-for-Netflix content), it needs to remain ad-free (respecting my time) and it needs to remain cheap, and needs to remain convenient (watch on my phone, watch offline, etc.).

By the way, Netflix could fairly easily steal Youtube's thunder, by allowing popular content providers (e.g., those already successful on youtube) to upload content which will be shown on Netflix, in return for $0.002 per view (I think this is about what Youtube pays the content uploaders). People will still use Youtube to listen to illegally-uploaded songs, but to watch original content, ad-free, they could go to Netflix.

I already pointed in 2011, seven years ago (!), that this is the case - that Linux is already more popular than Windows, because people only have Windows on their desktop machine, but have Linux on their phone (Android was already becoming popular seven years ago), TV, home router, NAS, and a bunch of other machines. Here is my post from seven years ago noting that: http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/2011-April/006874.html

Bananas contain potassium. Some of the natural potassium is https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPotassium-40 which is radioactive and radiates your body. Isaac Asimov once conjectured that the radiation from potassium in animal's bodies is what accelerated evolution - but of course causes cancers too.
So let's label bananas!

The article says that Apple "charges apps a percentage of revenue for subscriptions processed through the App Store". But what forces them to process the subscription through the app store???
Take Netflix as a good example - you don't subscribe on the app store. The app is completely free. You subscribe once using a credit card for payment, and then fill the account information on any number of devices your family has (tv boxes, phones, tablets, etc.). These devices do not even have to have - and often do not have - the same Google or Apple account on them.
*That's* the way of the future, not going the subscription through Apple, letting Apple take 30% of the money and at the same time, not accepting that families own several devices and expect to be able to share the subscription on all of them.

We don't have dog cancer tests yet, but we do have CAT scans!

This view is deeply flawed.
Take Google as an example. You take it for granted that the Google HQ is in the USA, and hires Americans, but what if Sergey Brin was never welcome into the US or Standford, and instead he ended up going to a university in Russia or China or the UK or whatever, and creating his company there? What if Larry Page came to that same university in Russia (or whatever) because it was known as one of the best and most foreigner-friendly university in the world? Had that happened, the Google HQ would have now been in Russia, not California.
This may look absurd to you, but it can easily happen in a generation or two: the best students in the world are not welcome in Stanford, so they start choosing an almost-as good university in some other country, which gets better as more of the world's best students choose it. These students start to create companies in that country (if it welcomes them as immigrants), and suddenly it's no longer a "default" that every successful company needs to be in America. The American employees, which until now had an easy life when the world's best companies all flocked to America to employ them, will now need to start looking for jobs in other countries where these new companies are located.
Much of America's success in the last 100 years is due to its lax immigration policies, which meant that the best scientists in the world came to work in it and create new companies in it. I live in Israel and remember this happening in the 1980s: All the best scientists I knew were studying in the US, working in the US, or just visiting there. All their knowledge funneled into American universities and companies, and created jobs in America, not in Israel. I don't see how in any sense of the word, America suffered from this situation.

No they haven't! I have in my collection 1000 (!) CDs which I bought over the years. I used to go into record stores a lot and continuously buy more of them. But *all* the record stores I frequented have closed. When I go to shopping malls all over the world, I no longer see record stores, and don't have any opportunity to buy new CDs. The last CD I bought was a year ago, when I visited some old shopping mall and was thrilled to see a CD store, and was so thrilled that I immediately bought 3. But apparently, I'm the only one. People don't even know what to do with physical CDs any more: you can't physically stick it into your music-play phone, and the music and movie industry succeeded too well in demonizing people who "rip" their CDs and DVDs to files.

Maybe in your alternate universe :-) Nobody I know used photographic film in more than a decade. Maybe some art fans are still using it, but that's 0.01% of the market share it used to have.

That I agree.

The American Security Theater Administration (or whatever their real name is) already asks people going into the US idiotic questions - I've been asked for the address of my hotel, address and phone numbers of my relative in the US (why?), the address of the university I finished 20 years ago (why, you want to send them mail?), and a lot of other crap. Clearly, I could invent random responses and the interviewer would not know any better. I could also claim I didn't have or didn't know an answer. But do you know anybody who, after spending thousands of dollars on a vacation, would risk it all just to spite the security interviewer? So everybody (except the actual terrorists, of course) just tells these guys the truth. And hates the American culture just a little bit more :-(

These "exclusive deals" are disgusting... Imagine that we had the same thing in stores: You would have to go to one store to buy Coca-Cola and a different store to buy Pepsi, or to one store to buy yogurt and a different store to buy cheese, and so on. Basically, every time you go to a store you only would find there 1/2 or 1/3 or whatever of the products on your shopping list, so you need to visit several of those stores to buy everything you want. Wouldn't this be extremely annoying? Doesn't it sound ridiculous?

So, why should we accept this disgusting practice from TV companies? If my favorite two series are each "exclusive" in a different provider, why do I need to use both, and have two sets of hardware or software, and of course double the payment?

In the old days, your two favorite series could have been on two different TV channels. But switching between those was trivial (just a click on the remote). They also didn't increase the cost of cable (or adding a channel increased it slightly). But switching between two different cable/netflix/amazon/etc. provider is not as trivial. And costs WAY too much (each service costs full price even if you want it just for watching a single missing series).

Of course, there is one alternative which carries all the content - BitTorrent. It looks like the TV providers are really encouraging us to use this alternative... Not just because it's cheaper (this is not a big issue for people with a job) but because it simply has the content I want, and none of the other providers do (and will have even less in the future as this exclusivity arms race continues).