tvanzyl

The problem I see with this at large events such as rock concerts is the speed messages come in with. In just small group chats of 5 or 6 friends sometimes everyone sends so many messages that I can't keep up. What happens at a rock concert when you have hundreds of messages coming in? Will people even read them or take the time to scroll up to see past comments? At that point it basically becomes impossible to carry on conversations.

Here's the link to an Engadget article that explains a bit more about it:

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/16/googolplex-siri/

Thought it was a cool idea, but if it always routes you through Safari I could see it getting quite annoying with the wait time. Siri is still slow enough that I'd rather just do things myself, it's usually faster than waiting. With GoogolPlex I might have the same issue. I'll definitely give it a try though and see.

edit: wording

Off the top of my head Enron in 2001, WorldCom in 2002, Lehman Brothers and AIG in 2008, and GM and Chrysler in 2009 all seem to be better fit than Blackberry for the 'century's biggest corporate disasters'.

> The only material things worth a damn are (a) 80/20 good health practices like regular moderate exercise and calorie restriction

There is a study showing that caloric restriction increases life span in monkeys [1], but apparently there were issues with that study. According to a NYT article [2]:

>Its authors had disregarded about half of the deaths among the monkeys they studied, saying they were not related to aging. If they had included all of the deaths, there was no extension of life span in the Wisconsin study.

Another study on caloric restriction in monkeys showed no increase in average lifespans [3]. Also the NYT article mentions that other studies on rats have also shown no increase in lifespan using caloric restriction. So there's not really a great consensus out on the effectiveness of this yet.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5937/201.short

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-d...

[3] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature1...

It's not about running a caloric deficit, but a caloric restriction. Usually the goal is reducing your caloric intake by 20-40% compared to your regular diet. You don't need to run a deficit and burn more than you take in or you would waste away.