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When it comes to studies that involve measuring telomeres as a result, I've always wondered: is telomere length such a foolproof measure that it can be used to make claims like this? Given two people who will live their entire natural lifespan and have no complications, will the one with shorter telomeres necessarily die first? Are there tolerances of some kind?

Nope - in fact, I hear that they prefer to change the size rather than the price because consumers tend not to notice it as much.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/25401945

iTunes works OK for me :P

Yeah, it does. If you're addicted to nicotine because you've been vaping up to this point and are looking for an alternative, what's your next best option (aside from quitting)?

Wouldn’t this lead to a pretty fragile user experience across versions? I don’t think the parent is saying it’s technically impossible, but Apple isn’t about to open up an API they intend to immediately break, affecting not only devs, but their end users, tarnishing their image of stability (yes, even if it’s a 3rd party). Documenting these shifting APIs would also be a royal PITA.

If you were OK with S3, then I'd recommend backblaze. Very affordable object storage. I used rclone to back up my home server to it every night.

At the same time, a lot of those safety features are enforced by the governments of the people they're manufactured for. Depending on the country you buy a vehicle in, it may have more or fewer security features.

Of course, for cars, safety is a marketable feature so it behooves them to make them somewhat safe. In this instance, it seems like these precautions are against the user's interests, which complicates things.

I don't really see religious/conservative populations going out of their way to abridge a book that includes scenes that they need need "whited out". There are plenty of other books to read, and they'd probably prefer not to support works they disapprove of, anyway. That's even assuming that the books make sense with the sex and violence torn out; if you were to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with everything a puritan found objectionable torn out of it, there wouldn't be a very sensible story left.

Not if you're trying to block Google as well, but for all other parties it probably is.

Slippery slope. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

Being the happiest and healthiest city doesn't really affect what's counted as desirable or valuable in the housing market. This doesn't really follow.

>It felt like a loss of control when I learned recently that facebook uses a loophole to exchange data with Whatsapp... https://medium.com/@gzanon/no-end-to-end-encryption-does-not....

That's not what the article is saying - the linked article says that there may be a way for Facebook to do this, but there is no proof that they are. That still leaves room to say that maybe there should be user controls against these app extensions, though.

Only in the same way that Gmail and Android are "subsidized" by Google. They're sources of data and play directly into how they generate revenue.

I agree that without those motivations it would be hard to fund these projects without them going paid or taking donations, but I take issue with calling them "subsidized".

This is the reason why it's so nice to manage your own domain, even if you were to decide to stay on gmail. You can always just point the domain to a new provider.

I've gone from Namecheap's solution to GSuite to ProtonMail to FastMail, all without an outage of any kind. Migrating previous conversations from ProtonMail was sort of difficult, though.

I've learned to replace "the cloud" with "someone else's computer". Always worth repeating to yourself when you're considering uploading sensitive documents or something you can't afford to lose.

I agree in this context, but not in the broader sense. Not giving clear responses to interviewees is unprofessional and shouldn't be tolerated, but "abusive" is a bit much.

Hearthstone packs definitely affect gameplay. Most of their other games are cosmetic-only, though.

How would a more traditional airship descend, if not by becoming heavier than the air surrounding it?

I don’t think it’s in the purely personal sense. Imagine how much unused food must be thrown out at restaurants and delicatessens. Buffet and prepared foods probably don’t roll over into the next day.

I think it's because most vehicles for trading ownership over companies or commodities like gold have a good amount of friction to them, making it impractical to deal with them as if they were money. This might include a minimal value of a sale (e.g. a stock is worth $20 and can't be divided further, although there are systems for owning a fraction of a stock) or trading fees. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is easily divisible into small fractions.

Not saying there might not be some way to make it work, but it probably involves a lot of unnecessary risk and high transaction costs.

Seems like it's just too much headache without any of the purported benefits that bitcoin has over traditional money.

It does, thanks for taking the time. I would definitely be gunning for the "mainstream enterprisy" positions over the BAT wannabes given the option, but as some have said, sometimes the choices aren't that straightforward or open.

Do Chinese workers not have the flexibility to avoid working for companies that force these schedules on them? I know next to nothing about working life in China, but wouldn't workers generally gravitate to the companies that value work/life balance?

Is working for these companies just worth the prestige for some?

I think it's to garner support for the kickstarter linked on the page.

I don't really see this as a competitor to CSR, and I don't think Apple does either.

Far as I know, this doesn't come with an annual fee. If you only plan to use it with Apple Pay, it's competitive with Citi Double Cash, which is considered one of the top tier cash-back cards you don't pay yearly for. It seems fairly competitive to me.

These examples vary in how outrageous they are, but some of them have the ability to singlehandedly depreciate someone else's most valuable asset by tens of thousands of dollars without any sort of recourse. Even if the nightclub or parking ventures aren't successful you'll probably have a hard time getting the same value out of that house.

And that's fine?

It exists: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

The general concern about projects along these lines, e.g. IceWeasel, is that they won't keep up with security patches as quickly as the project it's forking. Maybe that's less of a concern here since they aren't trying to recreate an older version but are just tearing out some "phone home" calls and changing some defaults.

Eminem won a case where he portrayed a childhood bully negatively in one of his songs: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/judge-drops-em...

I guess Eminem has more resources than the average person, but it’s something I remembered.

Don't let the perfect stand in the way of the good. If the treaties help prevent 90% of the usage, they seem worth having.

iPhones now let you uninstall almost all of those. I know Safari and the App Store are two of the rare exceptions.