But an autonomous object that behaves wildly unpredictably simply because of a malfunctioning sensor or a software bug is something that defies known reasoning which you're normally trained to respond to. You can no longer make eye contact with drivers at a crosswalk, instead you can only assume the AV will behave as normal, and if it doesn't and runs you over there's nothing you could have done differently and you were just unlucky and lost the statistics lottery.

I am very uneasy of car manufactures and regulators writing me off as a factored-in statistic. You are basically then allowing vehicles on the road with a deterministic cause of incident.

Peek and her team found that muscle repair after injury was greater when mice were active or awake compared to when they were inactive or resting.

It seems sleep alone isn't the most important factor. Otherwise more sleep would linearly be beneficial to health and recovery, but, from a courtesy look into it, it appears sleep above 9 hours is inversely correlated with negative health.

note that the experiments were carried out without food being cooked. While cooking, the water and steam which comes from the food being cooked aids the process of hydrolysis. The absence of food in these trials may have allowed for a greater impact of oil oxi- dation when compared with other deterioration reactions

They didn't test the affects of water and food contact on stability and note the potential significance of hydrolysis.

But just going by that, I'd avoid all refined oils and heating/frying.

Rough math: 3 * 300 * 4 = 3600 calories surplus/month. A pound of adipose tissue has ~3500 calories IIRC. So you're now gaining a pound of fat a month, and you're not even indulging yourself, really.

In reality, physical activity and diet aren't so steady, so some months you maintain weight, some you lose, and some you gain a lot. But over time it averages out, and you've put on 12lbs in a year.

I just tested simple concatenation and bat is over 10x slower:

  $ time cat 1GiB 1GiB 1GiB 1GiB >/dev/null
  real 0m0.414s
  user 0m0.014s
  sys 0m0.400s
  $ time bat 1GiB 1GiB 1GiB 1GiB >/dev/null
  real 0m4.257s
  user 0m1.659s
  sys 0m2.594s

So in your post when you refer to "reading", do you actually mean listening to audiobooks? While audiobooks have their place, I don't believe them to be the equivalent of reading. To think so is to believe the value of the book is the content itself, but literature as a medium is more than its written word. Literature can be an art, and not just in terms of prose and the writer behind it, but also in cases before mass printing was invented and entire books were written and illustrated painstakingly by hand.

And between reading and listening, I wouldn't be surprised if reading required more "brain power" to process, in the same way that (supposedly) reading does compared to watching TV. The auditory system is just more innate than the process of reading is, which is a learned skill you aren't born with. Of course this makes audiobooks more accessible and easier to digest, which would be one of their merits for a lot of people. This is my largely unsubstantiated opinion and I'm not trying to insinuate anything in particular. I just believe reading to be its own distinct pastime and skill.

Personally, I can't stand listening to audiobooks, especially while doing menial tasks like chores, because it feels like anytime I get distracted, the words go in and come out the other ear. The retention just isn't there, it might as well be background noise.

> Uber [..] Grindr

Can I just comment how contradictory this is? I understand "privacy" means different things to people, but when used like this it's diluted to an arbitrary buzzword. What I mean is:

Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16735956

Uber pulls U-turn on controversial tracking of users after trip has ended: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/29/uber-u-tu...

Uber has user route history, payment history, etc, and law enforcement is readily utilizing this data, e.g. in the recent Jussie Smollet fiasco, in cases. Even if you're not worried about that, Uber had a massive data breach, which they were investigated for and fined.

I don't quite follow. This is because the gif is decoded and played. No different than a video. You don't need a proprietary player to loop a video, you just go back to the start of the video. For streaming, this is only problematic for large videos that can't be cached, but the same applies to large gifs. Browsers can loop video, it's just a right-click setting. HTML5 can loop video, allowing sites to serve video in e.g. a banner, replacing gifs. You can save any video file just like a gif.

> Something that browsers treat as a moving image and not a video.

The entire point of deprecating gifs is because video is superior. Gif as an image format being able to specify frame duration and looping is hardly a noteworthy feature.