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Looks like Apple sell way less devices now
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@TimeBandit Yet make more money. It's almost like they planned it that way.
Although that article does point out their competitors don't reveal those figures in earning reports either.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Yet make more money. It's almost like they planned it that way.
If you drop the quality (along with cost) and bring up the price, you get exactly that result
Although that article does point out their competitors don't reveal those figures in earning reports either.
Apple liked to brag about "we sold x millions of iPhone" when the numbers were high.
Now, they sell more adapters
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Seriously, you're making yourself look like an idiot.
Commenter, read thyself!
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
With a science education like this, no wonder you're in such a sorry state
Yeah, really, who let you teach the stuff anyways?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
If you drop the quality (along with cost) and bring up the price, you get exactly that result
Or just bring up the cost.
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Apple liked to brag about "we sold x millions of iPhone" when the numbers were high.
Yes, and now they're focusing on making them more expensive and expecting to sell less as a result.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Your kids are fat because you drive Diesel trucks
And not, y'know, because of an overly-large diet of high-calorie junk food, lack of exercise, and general lack of parental oversight and discipline in these matters?
Surprisingly, the scientists thought of that.
The scientists took a series of other factors into account, including gender, ethnicity and parental education, and think it is unlikely that variations in diet could explain the strong link found.
They're saying that they think differences in eating food are unlikely to explain some people becoming fat?
No, they're saying that the differences in diet don't suffice to explain the correlation they found. I.e. they found a strong correlation between obesity and proximity to pollution but did not find such a correlation between type of diet and proximity to pollution. Which would be needed for your claim to hold true.
What in the world? How did you possibly get that that correlation is even related to my claim? (Edit: my claim is that diet has a much stronger effect on weight than exposure to air pollution from living near a busy road.)
AND FUCKING EXACTLY NO ONE is disputing that!
BUT, and this may surprise you, the study suggests that pollution makes it harder to keep a healthy weight. This is IN ADDITION to whatever unhealthy diet you're doing.
Seriously, you're making yourself look like an idiot. "Oh, factor A has such a strong effect on B, there can't be anything else which influences B!"
This is not an exclusive effect. It's cumulative.
You do realize that diet alone is not a 100% reliable predictor for body weight? You realize that the way that your metabolism works is also a big influence - some people gain weight much more easily than others. And that if you screw with said metabolism you may also change the weight gains/losses?
So why is it exactly that exposing fetuses and babies to pollution (which, as the definition for pollution suggests, does not consist of wholesome and healthy substances) is incapable of doing just that - screwing with the metabolism? Don't forget that even tiny doses of chemicals can have huge knock-on effects in fetuses. There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
The article cites research that says, "toxic air significantly increases the risk of low birth weight"; but that's in the middle of an article saying that toxic air leads to higher weights in children, without explaining how those opposite effects would occur.
Furthermore, a wobble in weight of only 2 lbs. is well within the tolerance for the healthy range (the difference between low and high weight goes from 15 lbs. at 3' 6" up to 28 lbs. at 5') for kids that age, so the article seems to really be trying hard to make something out of virtually nothing. At the very best, they've shown that we might need a bigger, broader study to determine whether there actually is a causative connection between air pollution and childhood weight gain.
Now, I'm not saying there's not such a connection; I am saying that they haven't proven it to the extent the article's tone seems to imply. I'm also saying that there are more demonstrably influential issues that are far easier to address, so worrying about this one would be a waste of resources at this time.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Now, I'm not saying there's not such a connection; I am saying that they haven't proven it to the extent the article's tone seems to imply.
And because you don't believe that press release of an article you are the worst sort of science denier! Denounce yourself now! Now I say!
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
[...]Spread one teaspoon (33g) onto 80g of bread (roughly 1/3 of a loaf)
So, uh... that little goop goes on how much bread†? And it's expected to be a full meal?
It'll be an artisanal loaf - they're about 10% of the size of a normal loaf.
At 5-times the price of a normal loaf.
That's a good description of gluten-free "bread," plus it goes moldy in just a couple of days unless you freeze it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Wonderful debate culture.
You noticed? Have a cupcake!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Wonderful debate culture.
You noticed? Have a cupcake!
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@Tsaukpaetra I seem to recall that PRs are accepted for new custom emojis.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra I seem to recall that PRs are accepted for new custom emojis.
Indeed they are.
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@HardwareGeek I've submitted several.
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Hmm, this sounds very much like something @dkf talked about once.
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@mott555 Another article about it has been posted 2 days ago.
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@JBert I've been off the grid for a few days, so oops.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Hmm, this sounds very much like something @dkf talked about once.
Oh god, yet more publicity… Let's see how bad this site has mangled the truth!
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Yes, that Dennis Hof.
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Police say Bost may have been on drugs.
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@boomzilla If you said "Pantsless man high on drugs falling through a restaurant ceiling" with no further context, I'd have guessed Waffle House.
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@mott555 I feel like IHOP and Taco Bell would also be good guesses.
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@anotherusername IHOP is a pretty upscale restaurant around here, and for some reason I don't have any mental stereotypes about Taco Bell.
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@mott555 They tend to have a reputation for being somewhere that drunk/stoned/high people with the munchies go to eat at 1 AM. (If you've never been to an IHOP at 1 AM, though, you might not know it... their clientele during the more regular hours tend to be less sketchy.)
Although, if it was about someone shooting meth in the bathroom, I'd probably guess Burger King or McDonalds.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@mott555 I feel like IHOP and Taco Bell would also be good guesses.
My feeling is that 7-Eleven could still be a safe bet. Of course, can't win every time...
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@TimeBandit Downgrading to the version that has even less control over updates? Coincidence, Shirley.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@mott555 I feel like IHOP and Taco Bell would also be good guesses.
My feeling is that 7-Eleven could still be a safe bet. Of course, can't win every time...
That's pushing the definition of "restaurant" a bit too far, I think.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@mott555 I feel like IHOP and Taco Bell would also be good guesses.
My feeling is that 7-Eleven could still be a safe bet. Of course, can't win every time...
That's pushing the definition of "restaurant" a bit too far, I think.
So is Taco Bell.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@mott555 I feel like IHO
PB and Taco Bell would also be good guesses.FTFY?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
Point of order: it's not banned, just discouraged. The research I'm aware of suggests that there is a safe (or at least negligibly detrimental) amount but it's a simpler public health message to say"don't drink while pregnant" than "don't drink more than these amounts, depending on your weight, stage of pregnancy etc."
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
Point of order: it's not banned, just discouraged. The research I'm aware of suggests that there is a safe (or at least negligibly detrimental) amount but it's a simpler public health message to say"don't drink while pregnant" than "don't drink more than these amounts, depending on your weight, stage of pregnancy etc."
I've had multiple doctors tell me a glass here and there is just fine.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Man with no pants falls through Waffle House ceiling
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
Point of order: it's not banned, just discouraged. The research I'm aware of suggests that there is a safe (or at least negligibly detrimental) amount but it's a simpler public health message to say"don't drink while pregnant" than "don't drink more than these amounts, depending on your weight, stage of pregnancy etc."
I've had multiple doctors tell me a glass here and there is just fine.
Actual picture of @Karla while pregnant
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@dcon At least at Taco Bell, I'm reasonably sure the microwave has never been used to reheat urine.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
Point of order: it's not banned, just discouraged. The research I'm aware of suggests that there is a safe (or at least negligibly detrimental) amount but it's a simpler public health message to say"don't drink while pregnant" than "don't drink more than these amounts, depending on your weight, stage of pregnancy etc."
I've had multiple doctors tell me a glass here and there is just fine.
Yeah, the point is that whatever BAC you're enjoying is also being enjoyed by the fetus. Alcohol passes through the placenta just fine. So there's definitely a real risk for the fetus... if you're killing brain cells, you're killing its brain cells too.
The risk while breastfeeding, on the other hand, is actually greatly exaggerated and really it's almost negligible. A "high" BAC is like 0.01 or 0.02... percent. The alcohol content of your milk will effectively be the same as your BAC (after passing through an analog filter that delays and blurs out the spike a little). A glass of ordinary fruit juice has more than 0.01% ABV; you can't get any significant amount of drunk off that, and neither can a baby. The bigger risk of drinking while breastfeeding is more the fact that it can interfere with proper care for baby. Passing out in bed with baby can very easily result in dead baby. (And that is true whether you breastfeed or formula-feed.)
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@anotherusername It would make things a lot easier if there was a simple common statement from doctors that alcohol is banned during pregnancy - because while there may be safe-ish dosages, it's also something you can directly influence and also something which can cause a lot of problems for decades (i.e. as long as the child lives) if you get it wrong. And if you get it wrong, there's no recourse. You can't fix that.
I've read several stories where foster parents or adoptive parents simply had to give up on a child because its developmental problems were so profound they were unable to cope. It's also an insidious syndrome because it's not immediately apparent.
In essence, while "a drink here and there is okay" is technically correct, in this case it's a real asshole advice.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
A glass of ordinary fruit juice has more than 0.01% ABV; you can't get any significant amount of drunk off that, and neither can a baby
Fun fact: at the point of alcohol poisoning (using the ld50 for convenience, most people would pass out well before this) the alcohol content of blood and therefore breastmilk is comparable to alcohol free beer
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
Point of order: it's not banned, just discouraged. The research I'm aware of suggests that there is a safe (or at least negligibly detrimental) amount but it's a simpler public health message to say"don't drink while pregnant" than "don't drink more than these amounts, depending on your weight, stage of pregnancy etc."
I've had multiple doctors tell me a glass here and there is just fine.
Actual picture of @Karla while pregnant
I will neither confirm nor deny that is me.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
Point of order: it's not banned, just discouraged. The research I'm aware of suggests that there is a safe (or at least negligibly detrimental) amount but it's a simpler public health message to say"don't drink while pregnant" than "don't drink more than these amounts, depending on your weight, stage of pregnancy etc."
I've had multiple doctors tell me a glass here and there is just fine.
Yeah, the point is that whatever BAC you're enjoying is also being enjoyed by the fetus. Alcohol passes through the placenta just fine. So there's definitely a real risk for the fetus... if you're killing brain cells, you're killing its brain cells too.
A single drink doesn't increase BAC very much.
The risk while breastfeeding, on the other hand, is actually greatly exaggerated and really it's almost negligible. A "high" BAC is like 0.01 or 0.02... percent. The alcohol content of your milk will effectively be the same as your BAC (after passing through an analog filter that delays and blurs out the spike a little). A glass of ordinary fruit juice has more than 0.01% ABV; you can't get any significant amount of drunk off that, and neither can a baby. The bigger risk of drinking while breastfeeding is more the fact that it can interfere with proper care for baby. Passing out in bed with baby can very easily result in dead baby. (And that is true whether you breastfeed or formula-feed.)
Pretty much.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
There's a reason why, for example, alcohol is banned during pregnancy.
Point of order: it's not banned, just discouraged. The research I'm aware of suggests that there is a safe (or at least negligibly detrimental) amount but it's a simpler public health message to say"don't drink while pregnant" than "don't drink more than these amounts, depending on your weight, stage of pregnancy etc."
I've had multiple doctors tell me a glass here and there is just fine.
Actual picture of @Karla while pregnant
I will neither confirm nor deny that is me.
I will confirm that is not @Karla . She's not that red. Oh, you meant the human?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
while there may be safe-ish dosages
FAS is a problem indeed, but it's the first and third trimesters where things are sensitive, as that's when the most things are changing in the developing brain, with neurons forming in the first and (probably?) connecting up more properly in the third.
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@dkf Yes, but as those don't really have hard edges, why take the risk?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@dkf Yes, but as those don't really have hard edges, why take the risk?
My understanding from my doctors, is cases of FAS are from mothers who drank a lot throughout their pregnancies, likely had little to no pre-natal care, and were likely malnourished.
There is a long way from a couple drinks here and there to that.
My OB was probably more concerned about me taking a bike ride.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
There is a long way from a couple drinks here and there to that.
But FAS is way out there - that's the point where the damage is impossible to ignore. The truly safe level of alcohol (below which there really isn't damage) is harder to define. Medical advice ought, of necessity, to err very much on the side of caution. Most people under-estimate the amount they really drink, lots of people have a fairly poor grasp of where they exactly are in a pregnancy (and one of the major risk periods is very early on).
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@dkf Yes, but as those don't really have hard edges, why take the risk?
Right. You drink to take the edge off.
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@japonicus said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
There is a long way from a couple drinks here and there to that.
But FAS is way out there - that's the point where the damage is impossible to ignore. The truly safe level of alcohol (below which there really isn't damage) is harder to define. Medical advice ought, of necessity, to err very much on the side of caution.
Agreed.
Most people under-estimate the amount they really drink,
Fair.
lots of people have a fairly poor grasp of where they exactly are in a pregnancy (and one of the major risk periods is very early on).
I knew where I was to the half-week. I had an ultrasound at 6.5 weeks, a slightly later ultrasound changed the due date by 4 days.
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Apparently he now holds four records...
- fastest time to solve three Rubik's cubes whilst juggling (earlier)
- fastest time to solve a Rubik's cube by a team of two (also earlier)
- "he solved three Rubik's cubes at once -- one in each hand and one with his feet -- in 1 minute, 36.39 seconds." (from the article)
- the record for fastest time to solve a Rubik's cube [hanging] upside-down
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I've had multiple doctors tell me a glass here and there is just fine.
Haven't you been listening to anything Dame Sally Davies* has been saying??!?!
(Not that I blame you - most people don't, given the crap she's come out with over the years.)
* "Chief Medical Officer for England" - UK's nearest equivalent of the Surgeon General I suppose.
From Wikipedia:
She failed her eleven-plus exam but was nevertheless able to study at the private Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham,[1] where she excelled on the viola.[4][5][6]