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iPhones are still pretty poor value for money compared to cheap androids, as long as you can get reasonable pay-as-you-go contracts as well.

I'm not sure how that situation changes in the US, where there doesn't seem to be the same market for pay-as-you-go sims that is found in the rest of the world.

This NPR podcast posits that the source of the current male / female divide in computing began in the early 80s as a result of home computer and videogame marketing. It's definitely worth a listen.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

One study isn't what convinces me, it's the existing body of evidence that does so. Organisations like WHO don't recommend a minimum of 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding because of a single study, and I don't claim to be able to interpret any of the studies better than them. Your complaints about the 'breastfeeding brigade' don't seem to square up with existing medical advice.

The NZ study is an interesting one because of its huge scope and the fact that NZ at the time (for some reason) didn't have a big link between socio-economic status and breastfeeding, like in Europe. So I do believe it was instrumental in changing medical advice around the world when it was published.

Around half of all eggs laid in the UK come from free range hens (1) - I believe this increasing proportion is partly due to a sticker requirement to mark eggs with 'Eggs from caged hens'.

I wonder what effect there would be on the electronics industry if all iPhones in the EU had to be sold with a prominent sticker 'Produced with slave labour' ? I honestly think that regulations can nudge the behaviour and expectations of 'the masses' through this kind of labelling.

(1) http://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/farm/layinghens/far...

I think the data's pretty unequivocal about it affecting the IQ of the baby.

This study's *1 got the result down to 7 points increase for 90% of babies when breastfed, whereas the figure I hear thrown around most often is 4 points. That's definitely not insignificant! I don't know about the strength of the data around immune systems.

1 http://www.unicef.org.uk/BabyFriendly/News-and-Research/Rese...

Ouch, I guess I don't have any friends then. Well shit.

This sounds amazing, brilliant recommendation!

If anyone is into similar stuff I recommend Meshuggah - Catch Thirty Three -> it keeps me programming for hours at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfMC2DIA1A&list=PLe8GYqVK4w...

The English crime statistics have violent crime happening to men at almost twice the rate of women.

What I found interesting was a recent study that found rape has a much higher rate of PTSD occurrence than other crimes - maybe it's so uniquely traumatic (and the threat of it so terrifying) that it forces women to be more careful than men even when men are statistically much more likely to be assaulted by strangers.

The worst has surely got to be the 'Buckets for the Cure' campaign by KFC.

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/04/16/5/301/3019466/0d0b...

I think this is also why home ownership is prized so highly in Britain - at least since the rental market was deregulated.

Net neutrality matters wherever you are.

Picture if BT started offering higher bandwidth speeds or lower costs for Youtube, Netflix and Facebook usage. Yes, us superusers would switch away, but a large proportion would think that this is a great idea.

The losers would be anyone too small to bribe BT for fat pipe usage. We'd end up with the two/X tier internet we fear, and it'd be all wrapped up in the sugar pill of speeding up your most beloved services.

Programming is an industry where taking a 3-4 year gap is career suicide, because of the constantly shifting practices and technologies.

Some women in tech notice this and move away before raising a family crashes their career. Some don't notice this and are forced to shift careers when re-entering the workforce. Both of these outcomes result in a high attrition rate for women programmers. I have no clear solution for this dilemma.

I guess that's the difference between this and say, threadless. Threadless has amateur custom designs submitted and voted on, and the top designs float up to the front page. Because most people simply aren't very good designers...

He does mention in the comments that he only published the story once he was out of the country. Certainly publishing it while in Mexico would be courting disaster.

Comcast can charge a crapload of money for cable.

If they offer internet services at netflix prices and are highly successful (lots of signups) - if this allows a small fraction of their cable customers to cut ties, Comcast loses money.

This is spotify's approach.

He says 9 pounds for two pints. £4.50 a pint sounds about right for London.

Probably £55 - £80k a year, depending on how 'hot' the stack you're on is and how willing you are to work for hedge funds / banks.

Yep, age will. If the average age of an American woman has changed from, say, 30 years to 50 years (aging population, changing demographics etc.) then this could contribute to weight differences because people tend to become more overweight as they age and get less active.

I craft a playlist of new tracks that I like and then hit 'start playlist radio' to let Spotify find me other emerging bands that sound like this.

This is a pretty solid way to discover new music, but you do need that jumping off point to enable you to say to it 'find me stuff like this'.

There are plenty of American shows that should have been cancelled after a single season, but weren't because they were popular.

Stuff like Prison Break, Heroes. In fact Prison Break's season 1 had a very clear, obvious conclusion (they broke out) - so there was no clear path for the story to take after that. In Britain it would not have been picked up for a second series.

By then, of course, the sewer people will have risen up and reclaimed control of the overworld. A slippery slope.

Frightening.

Yes but if you make up the 'price' of licensing the various IP from the tax haven subsidiary each year, and the eventual profit equation for the UK subsidiary adds up to 0 every year over several years, it's clear that the IP licensing purchases are just being used to avoid taxes.

That's profit shifting.

As far as I can tell, they shift profits overseas by shifting extra, semi-fictional 'costs' to the UK subsidiary - for example, if the UK subsidiary of Starbucks makes $100m profit, but has to pay the Canary Isles subsidiary $100m in licensing costs, suddenly the UK subsidiary owes no tax.

Given this structure, how does the HMRC plan on distinguishing between legitimate costs and semi-fictional ones? I imagine as soon as the law is changed, the companies will alter their books so that they shift all their 'legitimate costs' to the UK subsidiary.

I suspect that this shift will end up benefitting tax accountants and lawyers.

Excellent stuff, thanks for responding

I'd really love to know the library used to get these lovely pixelated graphics - did this gentleman write his own, or are there mature options out there?

Unless I'm mistaken, the fish head upstream to die. None of them will encounter the cannon twice, unless the same river has multiple dams on it.

This seems to be very laggy (on chrome), getting a very low framerate considering the simplicity of the polygons on my fairly beefy machine. I might have been spoilt after seeing the unreal 3 demo on asm.js ...

This is a dynamite title.

BMI is a quick but very rough way of measuring health, particularly regarding 'fit' individuals - muscle is far more dense than fat.