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The link isn't NY Times, but it agrees with you; according to Netflix people tend to binge watch 2-3 episodes a sitting.

It makes sense, that's roughly the length of a movie. http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Unsurprising-Netflix-S...

I just talked with a driver. He said the 80% is correct, gross. Because everyone is a contractor the government takes another 30% on top of it. Plus they have to pay their own insurance, repair, gas, etc. so after everything is said and done, he makes about $13/hr. (This is inside San Francisco.)

Where are you getting the 80% number? The drivers I talked to have told me it's much lower.

You just have to pay off the few people who report the results.

I think it's because the article clearly names the two researchers, while WIRED is a faceless organization. It's a lot easier to get mad and blame the one with a face.

> By saying this you are basically saying there was no reasonable alternative method of exposing this.

No, he's saying you need a better argument.

I don't think he was trying to be snarky. I thought the same thing when I first clicked on the link.

Same experience here. Back when I used Telerik they where some of the largest and slowest components I'd ever seen. Even their own homepage was unbearably slow at the time. This was many many years ago.

"It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet." I love Reddit's design, it's very effective and to the point. You don't visit Reddit to view Reddit, you visit to read posts and comments. The design gets out of the way and lets you do that.

It's funny. It is not an argument to absolve the hackers.

To make it readable, paste this in the console:

    document.querySelector('.date-outer').style.backgroundColor = 'white';

Because the F-35 has been a huge boondoggle, at the taxpayers expense.

The magic button to wake up for me was having a schedule. I goto bed and wake up at the same time every day (even the weekends). It took me months, but forcing myself to physically get out of bed every morning did the trick. Now I wake up without an alarm clock.

War is also a great reason to horde. The History of the Peloponnesian War talks about people burying their money in hopes the the conquering army won't find it. Then you can go back and retrieve it later.

That was the idea behind ActiveX. Instead of continuing development on the browser, people could just write an ActiveX component. Or A Java Applet.

Don't forget gay marriage and climate change.

Keep the slider and faces, it's the best part of the UI. If it was one of those lame pick a number things, I wouldn't have done it.

Interesting, do you have a source so I could learn more?

I have a friend who's small business was killed by Paypal. He had a board game shop (about five employees), but most of his business was online. He used Paypal as his bank account (dumb idea, I know.) During a christmas rush Paypal suddenly froze the account. I don't remember the exact reasons they gave, but it was something like he had too much money or was receiving money too fast.

> Perhaps 70% of developer time is spent dealing with parsing, serialization, and persistence. Values are encoded to and from JSON, to and from various binary formats, and to and from various persistent data stores… over and over again.

This is not my experience at all. I've spent maybe an hour or two in the last few months on parsing, serialization, and persistence. For the work I do, these are all solved problems.

> Another 25% is spent on explicit networking. We don’t merely specify that a value must be sent from one node to another, we also specify how in exhaustive detail.

Honestly I'm not sure what the author means by this. If I have a value others might want to know about, I just trigger an event. There is no "exhaustive detail' going on. (Plus events are easy to grep).

>Somewhere in between all this plumbing code is a tiny amount of interesting, pure computation, which takes up the remaining 5% of developer time. And there’s very little reuse of that 5% across applications, because every app is wrapped in a different 95% of cruft and the useful logic is often difficult to separate!

Boiler plate code used to be an issue, but the languages I still use have ways around it. (macros, first class functions, extending, etc). We build modules and libraries and controls, all reusable code that lets me spend most of my time being bored in meetings.

I agree. The definition of nerd is: "a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious."

Serious question:

Biogenesis says that Life creates life or, (I'm paraphrasing) organic matter creates more organic matter.

The disproval of Vitalism shows that non-organic matter can create organic matter.

Therefore Biogenesis can occur from inorganic matter.

So a seed shouldn't be needed. Biogenesis could happen anytime there is organic matter in the right conditions, is that right?

You might like: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120821-how-many-alien-worl...

Link to the pages: http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2015/may/04/...

> If you're utterly convinced that estrous and menstruation are the same

You've completely missed my point.

Before calling names, let's look at the article in detail.

"Of course, I wasn't the only one: most women menstruate. But most other female animals don't bleed outwardly like us. Even among those that give birth to live young as we do, only a handful of species menstruate."

So the term menstruate is used to mean to "bleed outwardly like us".

"If the woman doesn't get pregnant, progesterone levels begin to fall. The thick endometrial tissue with its blood vessels then begins to slough off, and passes out through the vagina. This bleeding is menstruation."

So they are expanding on the term menstruate. Now it's both "bleed outwardly like us" and "The thick endometrial tissue with its blood vessels then begins to slough off, and passes out through the vagina"

"On average, women lose 30 to 90 ml of fluid over 3-7 days of menstruation. We know, because scientists have given women pre-weighed pads and tampons, and weighed them again after use."

Clarifying the term menstruate and showing how to measure it. I'm going to paraphrase the definition of the term. So at this point, when they talk about menstruation, they are talking about a blood like fluid, that can be measured, and that happens when the the tissue and blood vessels pass out of the vagina.

The article has a break to talk about the history, theories, and research that has happened over the years. After that they get to the main point. "To figure out the truth, we need to compare animals that do and don't menstruate."

"Great apes do it too. Menstrual bleeding is easily detectable in chimpanzees and gibbons. However, gorillas and orang-utans bleed less copiously, so menstruation is only visible on closer inspection. Other primates, such as tarsiers, may also menstruate, but there is little hard evidence."

They re-iterate key parts of the term. When this article talks about menstruation, they are specifically talking about detectable bleeding.

Now we can get to the heart of my objection. They spent most of the article defining their usage of the term menstruation, and how it relates to the research.

The article claims "It seems the list of animals that menstruate is quite short: humans, apes, monkeys, bats and elephant shrews. What do these seemingly disparate animals have in common?", remember the definition they use for menstruate, blood and tissue passing though the vagina.

If you've ever owned an unfix female dog during heat, you'll be quite aware that they do, in fact bleed out their vagina for a period of time during their reproductive cycle. This fits with their definition.

The only mention of dogs is: "In dogs and cats, the foetuses dig in a little more. But in humans and other primates, a foetus will dig through all the womb lining to directly bathe in its mother's blood." This does not specify why dogs do not fit into their term. In fact this seems to support that dogs have a very similar cycle to humans.

So my question remains, Why are dogs excluded? They never acknowledge the contradiction. So either the article incorrectly sets up the terms, or they don't want to talk about dogs because it doesn't fit the narrative.

Dogs bleed. It might not be a 'period', but the article is talking about why some animals bleed and most don't.

I own an AppleTV with iTunes. It sucks. AppleTV has the worst interface of any of my streaming devices.

As an American, I try NOT to pirate. I'll try Netflix, HBOGo, Comedy Central, and cable tv. If i can't find it on any of those, then I'll consider going through the hassle of pirating it.

> It seems the list of animals that menstruate is quite short: humans, apes, monkeys, bats and elephant shrews. What do these seemingly disparate animals have in common?

My unfixed female dogs have periods. So either the article is poorly written, or they are ignoring animals that don't fit the theory.

> The thing that turned me away > As someone who loves

He is only stating his feelings. He's not trying to put anyone down or argue that his way is better. Unlike a lot of the comments.