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  1. Re:Bringing coal to Newcastle on Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought you were going to say "then try getting married"

  2. Re:Men will become obsolete on Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The DNA also allows for a male only culture since we are talking artificial births. It's just as stupid as all female. Why does everyone think that this tech is going to turn the world into a monoculture? It's far more likely to do the opposite, but at least furries will be easy to spot when they are sporting real fur.

  3. Re:open a box of chocolates on Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Never understood this easy replacement of only males. From a technical standpoint, if you can replace one gender in replicating natural pregnancy you are pretty close to both. And after seeing several women go through pregnancy, the artificial option sure seems like it would be better for everyone.

  4. Re:open a box of chocolates on Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I watched the Star Trek where Riker gets horribly raped by a woman. But it's ok he was raped because all men want it (Though he specifically says no just before the rape) and we all know women can't commit sexual crimes. Even afterward on the show, everyone is just fine and happy whereas if you reversed the gender roles it's textbook rape. We aren't going to get anything fixed while male rape is so funny victims can't even go to the police because thier ass will be laughed out to the curb. The golden rule only works if you use it uniformly.

  5. Re:Content like Zootopia may be safe for work on People Are Using PornHub To Stream 'Hamilton' and 'Zootopia' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you work but I'd expect if a manager burst in on someone with something important, and they were watching cartoons instead of working, they would suddenly find themselves with more time to watch cartoons.

  6. To be fair on People Are Using PornHub To Stream 'Hamilton' and 'Zootopia' (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is quite a bit on porn hub that resembles "Zootopia". Maybe some people were viewing it for traditional purposes.

  7. I found one the other day, not a retail business at all but some kind of private salvage yard for which somebody had left 5 stars. FIVE WHOLE STARS! I know it's a joke vote, but it points out how hollow reviews can be.

    I don't know... I'd give any place able to launder my coke money 5 stars.

  8. Every second or third Wednesday on Bitcoin Starts a New Year by Tumbling, First Time Since 2015 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin has never been stable, the entire crypto currency market seems to fare slightly better than a sim in a drunken game of roller coaster tycoon.

  9. Re:Follow the money on America's Doctors Are Performing Expensive Procedures That Don't Work (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, we have an unrestrained free enterprise system for medicine in the US. Doctors have rigged the payment system (CPT codes) so that specialist procedures are reimbursed many times their worth in time and training. The result is that most doctors train to become specialists and focus on doing highly remunerated procedures such as those enumerated in this report. There is no effective regulation of these procedures and so as long as you're not killing a large number of patients, anything goes.

    So what your saying is healthcare is hardly different from any other business. Getting forced to process patients in 1/3 a reasonable time while getting a consistent stream of complaints dosent doubt like my ideal job, it sounds like any production job. But to each thier own. This is what market pressure does to healthcare.

  10. Re:So cool! on Construction Workers Find 30 Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Eggs (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, incorrect methodology is clearly to blame here. Not to mention all those oil companies with thier oil well drilling. Simply use the right methodology and you convert plants to crude oil in no time. Idiots.

  11. Re:In other words, there's an optimal distance. on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Just shove your way in, don't telegraph your intent by signaling - that just lets them know to cut you off. Ohhh, you meant safely.

  12. Re:In other words, there's an optimal distance. on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What would be far more interesting is to teach people the effective methods of driving as part of a test for competency. Here in the USA it's very minimal, focused on regurgitating rules mostly no one obeys. How about looking 2-3 cars ahead and preparing to brake/accelerate ahead of time (feed forward control)? How about speeding up to merge instead of slowing down? How about actually zipper merging instead of some genital posturing contest? There are a dozen things that reduce or eliminate congestion and make driving more efficient and safe that almost no one does.

    God forbid people know how to drive when the vehicle starts to lose traction, when cars start to lose control in videos I watch maybe 5% actually do remotely the right thing to keep control.

  13. Remember folks... on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Never drink and derive.

  14. Re:What? on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    This assumes men and women are born and die in such a way as to have 50% men and women - not really true. Never underestimate a good war to free up those younger women for the oligarchs while still leaving nearly all the poor men something to marry. It's a win/win /s

  15. Stability on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've had a fair number or friends in open relationships/marriages over the years. I'm not interested in one, but it dosent bother me at all so I was fine being friends with them. Over the long haul, maybe 15 years, I've seen how these play out versus traditional relationships. In most cases, for awhile, the relationships were mutually acceptable to everyone. However, eventually a particularly outspoken and judgmental individual started making waves which didn't combine well with the few polyamorists who couldn't just be chil and laid back but instead made the drama worse. There used to be 50 or so of us in the social circle (20 or so were in non traditional relationships) but this fractured the group into roughly 3 groups even though many members were friends for 20 years. It's sad because we all used to go out and do things, and now that is ruined. People have enough trouble in a 2 person relationship, 3+ becomes far more complicated and unstable and is far easier to devolve into fighting the larger the group gets. While it's obvious you can't only blame polygamy for violence, having men take multiple wives and never the other way around, only creates a shortage of women and is just asking for younger males to become violent in competition.

  16. The earth is shielded by its magnetic field, through a shock wave formed with solar wind, in which many particles that don't bounce off become trapped and bounce/twist toward the poles. So it's a very large funnel, of several earth areas, that dumps into a relatively small area on the earth. During solar flares (SPE) local concentrations of radiation can be quite high and actually be quite dangerous for short times in limited locations. The original NASA link shows research to predict these events, is in fact, warranted.

  17. The atmosphere dosent protect earth inhabitants like the magnetic fields do. During solar storms, flights are already diverted due to risk of radios not working. A single polar flight has been shown to dose people with 12% of a years safe dose in a single one way trip. There should be monitoring of workers on routes near the magnetic poles, as we should monitor people who frequently (once a week) make these trips.

  18. Re:Typical Businessinsider.com Clickbait Bullshit on Flying in Airplanes Exposes People To More Radiation Than Standing Next To a Nuclear Reactor (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Minor correction - the earths atmosphere does far less to protect the inhabitants from radiation than the earths magnetic fields. It is common for flights to be diverted due to communication issues near the poles already. Air crews working polar routes really should have the same radiation exposure protection as any other high risk job. As should any person frequently traveling these routes.

  19. Tiny, cheap, fast on NASA Begins Planning For An Interstellar Mission In 2069 (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm holding out some hope that laser propelled microsatellites are feasible. If you fired a stream of them you could piggy back broadcasts between them back to earth, greatly reducing the distance each would need to transmit to get back home. You wouldn't need to slow down either, with a steady stream of small disposable craft.

  20. Re:Maybe the isotope profile... on Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The first iron used by humans was meteoric iron making it alien in origin. It was quite popular for swords and daggers as it is basically naturally occurring stainless steel.

  21. Aliens have superior technology, obviously. So why would they cast doubt when 3-D printing doubt would be much more effective?

  22. Create a company that croudsources the most convienent "destination" and orders the right combination of requests to bypass the most wait times. Much like a cross between partial leg air fare calculators and ad blocking. Future billionaire that cashes in on this, you are welcome.

  23. This has to be the most stupid thing I've seen argued about on Slashdot in years.

    I'm just wondering if the last time you logged on was years ago. CowboyNeal would never have stood for this nonsense.

  24. Re:Shame shame on Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol $5. Many mobile games people blow 100,200, even 500 usd per month. I've even seen someone actually spend 10 thousand usd on a crappy mobile mmo in only a year. Instead of the devs cutting off this guy (who isn't rich), they specially catered to him and treated him as a VIP.

  25. That assumes that Bitcoin plummeting won't have a chain reaction to other crypto-currencies.

    If Bitcoin slowly drops, say, a daily decline of 0.25%-0.50% of it's daily opening value, the markets of other crypto-currencies could adjust. But if Bitcoin drops, say, 30%-40% in a day, how do you think other crypto-currencies are going to fare?

    That's every other Wednesday in the virtual currency market.