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I hadn't heard that methane didn't last too long in the atmosphere before. What happens to it?

I'm sure I am missing something, but surely every container ship that leaves china with a huge pile of mail has to return again to collect more - can't they just take stuff with them?

1. Soma is a fictional drug from A Brave New World that keeps everyone happy

I think he is saying that he is both the CTO and the lead developer

Can't say I've seen enough to be confident on the best library but redux (https://github.com/reduxjs/redux) is just so simple, and has great, readable/understandable code.

It may come up against the same pitfalls again and again but it has produced some of the most popular desktop + mobile apps out there because it consistently has some of the best benefits (large community, standards driven approach, lots of developers who know the language)

Does this product still exist?

Agreed - in my mind the easiest way to consider it is to consider the 29th as an infinitesimally short day on non-leap years. On the 1st of March that day has passed and they are 18, on the 28th of Feb that day hasn't started.

The same tactic works for working out when one month from the 31st August is

All of the 'big' UK banks are still on similar out dated technologies as TSB was, they were the first to try to move and it hasn't paid off. I hope the other major banks a) do it better b) don't use it as an excuse never to do it

A brilliant excerpt from the end of the bbc article[0]:

Yet Prof David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, sounded a note of caution about the findings.

"Given the pleasure presumably associated with moderate drinking, claiming there is no 'safe' level does not seem an argument for abstention," he said.

"There is no safe level of driving, but the government does not recommend that people avoid driving.

"Come to think of it, there is no safe level of living, but nobody would recommend abstention."

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45283401

While this is somewhat true, it can easily lead to the idea that mental health problems aren't serious because they are just further along a scale than me.

We all have kidneys that don't work perfectly, so we are all on a continuum of kidney failure, however you'd describe some people as having kidney failure and others not, only a few people would be 'borderline'.

I appreciate that may not have been what you meant, just that your argument lies close to that kind of logic (though maybe by saying non-linear you mean to avoid this trap).

Agreed - IMHO favoring the pedestrian is the correct decision

Doesn't even need to be considered as a punishment, merely sensible anti-monopoly regulation. You shouldn't be able to buy your closest competitors so that you form a monopoly.

The UN would suggest your numbers are correct but for Africa as a whole not just Sub-saharan africa https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2017_KeyFi...

> "Driving isn't really something that should be a career."

Why not?

Agreed - I think the 'its how the message gets conveyed' only applies to really trivial things, like 'expresso', or whom vs who where the incorrect version is so clear that it doesn't affect the readability.

Can you give any sources?