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The American diet isn't carbohydrate-heavy, it's food -heavy. Americans eat a lot more of every macronutrient than the average person on this planet.

If you mean the clones, that's not exactly what I'm suggesting. I want Apple to continue building computers, but to use industry standard form factors, and to use as many commodity…

I wish Apple would just make their own ATX case (or any other standard *TX form factor), their own ATX motherboard with their TPM on it, and then use commodity components for every…

People are naive and easy to manipulate. Often (in history) they are manipulated into killing other people against their own interests. Few people are wilfully "good" or "bad".

It's illegal to cross through a red light, even if there is an emergency vehicle behind you that wants to get through.

You say that but people will happily drive at 50+ down a narrow country road. I think the "narrow = slower" only works for a limited period of time before people get normalised to …

A high rate of road deaths isn't a fait accompli. Musk would have us believe that technology is the only answer. The UK has the 2nd-lowest rate of road deaths in the world (after S…

It's not comparable with Python, which broke correct code to the point where even `print "Hello world"` was broken! This mootools issue only affects a very small number of users. I…

Most people just don't care about the voice assistant on their phones, despite the efforts of Google, Apple and Samsung to make them care. Using a voice assistant in a public place…

Or Google and Facebook will be held to a higher standard of compliance.

In the past, "nutrition" meant "getting enough calories", as in the opposite of malnutrition. Grains are plentiful, cheap calories and so they are "nutritious". Of course if you cu…

It's true of everything. If you freeze when you are not in equilibrium, you will... fall over. Maintaining equilibrium is an active process.

If your coworkers are so bad, wouldn't you rather get a nice message in your console when they forget to handle an error? With callbacks, error handling is entirely on the honor sy…

They could make a Linux distro, a "yellow box" for Linux. I know it sounds totally ridiculous, but if Apple really doesn't want to make computers for software engineers, it doesn't…

Anybody who has used node.js for more than 10 minutes knows that the callback style makes code completely unreadable. Unreadable code is a breeding ground for bugs. Back in 2009, t…

What made Whatsapp popular is that it worked just like SMS. Users are identified by phone numbers, so you can use your existing contact list. However unlike SMS it didn't cost eye-…

So? Let them be confused and frustrated. The world's not going to end. Big corporations have enough advantages without giving them rights that ordinary folk don't have. Say that I …

Does someone know what the differences are between the final version and the draft that Chrome and Firefox enabled in Feb 2017? How much did they have to change for the middleboxes…

If you're not there for the 9am meeting do they give you a detention?

Obligatory: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff If you want error-free software you need a blameless culture based around process, not individual ownership of …

This is the first time I've ever heard someone suggest that easy access to guns makes rape more difficult.

It depends where you live. I've sat on a jury in a wealthy urban area in the UK, and I'm happy to say my fellow jurors had excellent critical thinking skills. Each of us had differ…

The UK is still an influential country, and data protection laws here have teeth. The risk for Facebook is that stronger regulations adopted in the UK may spread to other countries…

He is not being called by a court. He is being called as a witness to a parliamentary committee. The chair of the committee can call anybody in the world that they deem appropriate…

I agree. People wish not to avoid death, but to lessen their fear of death. Arguments about how relatively safe self-driving cars will be are beside the point. A self-driving car i…