I'm saying it would have been much better if the majority of the US was informed by a somebody else.

Yes, it would clearly be better for everyone if Hollywood told nerds and geeks that they had absolutely no chance of ever being loved by someone they found attractive.

Al Gore's lecture on climate change convinced me it was true. I'm not sure it was such a bad idea - recall that there was basically zero political movement on the issue before he took it up.

I noticed that as well. In the methods there is no mention of whether or not the researchers administering the medication were blinded. The methods say "All packages of medication were coded by the pharmacists and given to the subjects in three groups; A, B, C." but this isn't particularly helpful. That's what makes a…

But just because it will be a pain in the arse AND there will be long discussions about where to put dried fruit and frosties, it doesn't mean it is not worth doing.

These are good points and maybe the rules wouldn't have to apply to things that everyone knows is 'candy', like doughnuts or ice cream.

Because that sounds like something industry can prevent.

Food killed a lot more people in 1900 than it does today, by about two orders of magnitude. Refrigeration and the decline of home canning has done a lot for food not killing you, but so has the centuries-old practice of using ingredients like benzoin gum to prevent food spoilage and degradation. Never heard of benzoin…

You mean rewind to when people died of diseases that stem from malnutrition and food spoilage, instead?

That's not what Europe does, though. The things they ban are things that US farmers and producers use, so that Europeans have to pay more for food but the money goes to Europeans instead of Americans.

It's "Silicon Valley", btw.

This might be the law in India, though, as it is (or until recently was) in many states in the US.

This is from her TED talk, right?

They asked her to put the gun down and she didn't. That was her chance to get out of the situation before the use of deadly force, and she declined. Maybe she was not in a mental state where she was able to rationally make that decision, but at that point she was a deadly danger to those around her and that,…

I agree with all of the above. Dudes jumping in to shut down discussion with "not all men!" horseshit is a far bigger problem than a few strokes painted, accidentally, with too broad a brush.

Hey, it's a privilege.

As a man, let me just put a word in for ridiculing the entire male gender: we can take it, especially if it's funny. Hard to get hurt feelings when you're basically playing life on Easy Mode.

If you are not guilty of said action, then it doesn't apply to you.

A good comment means I know what goes in and I know what comes out.

It depends on language, I guess, and where the programmer learned it. Some languages have an official style guide, which is helpful (and also allows the use of "lint"-esque tools to verify style). Some languages have multiple competing styles, which in practice means that programmers just do what is easiest since…