Interesting Links for 04-01-2017

[andrewducker]

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[kalimac]

It's not true, or at least it wasn't true, back when keypad layouts were being set up, that phone numbers in the US had random digits. Originally, 1 was prohibited as a number in the first two digits of the prefix (the first three digits of a 7-digit phone number), and 0 was prohibited in all three places. They were also both prohibited in the opening and closing digits of area codes, although the middle digit of area codes was always 1 or 0. (A way for the phone to distinguish area codes from prefixes, before the prefatory 1+ was invented.) But that last didn't increase the use of 1 and 0 much: area codes were rarely dialed before the 1960s; most places did not have direct long-distance dialing, and even when they did, long-distance calls were extremely expensive and hence rare. Most of these rules have since gone by the wayside with the pressure for more numbers, but they were there then.

[steer]

The full paper for the ASB report is here:

https://icseclzt.cc.ic.ac.uk/pickup.php?claimID=AP33mziEEwRbQ22M&claimPasscode=7D4k9dv5WATYKJF2&emailAddr=caroline.brogan%40imperial.ac.uk

I think it supports the assertion in the article that it is an opinion piece more than a systematic review. They cite a bunch of evidence some of find ASBs support weight loss and some of which does not find that. They don't attempt to combine this evidence in a meaningful way.