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  1. Re:Satellite measurements [Re:Oh good] on 25 Years of Satellite Data Shows Global Warming Is Accelerating Sea Level Rise (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The possible errors in satellite data are far larger than in a differential GPS corrected tidal gauge.

    Where satellite data is referenced to tidal gauges I trust it most, where it isn't I trust it less. Where I trust it most there is no appreciable acceleration.

  2. Re:What did you expect? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    That's one way to read what he said if you have a mindset which believes Russians cause everything on the Internet you don't agree with.

    I assume he meant "humanity is awful and doing awful searches". No exploitation needed.

  3. Re:Engineering Design is easy.... on German Navy Experiences 'LCS Syndrome' In Spades As New Frigate Fails Sea Trials (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Underestimating the weight and the thing listing aren't integration problems, they are a symptom of a system rotten to the core.

    That they fucked up software engineering when they so utterly fucked up something so much more easily predictable is no surprise at all. The weight and balance should have been known before they started construction, how the fuck do you fuck that up?

  4. Re:What's in a name? on Senate Cryptocurrency Hearing Strikes a Cautiously Optimistic Tone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Free? If the US bans credit card transactions and wire transfers with all exchanges cryptocurrencies are dead in the water.

    Being free from government is an illusion, the best you can do is own part of it.

  5. Re:See Equifax on Samsung Billionaire Gets Off Easy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Gery Shalon is a much better example. Of course nearly no one is aware of the lawsuits against one of the biggest hackers ever and the fact that an Israeli newspaper reported he already has a plea deal to walk, because US mainstream media doesn't talk about it.

    It really is good to be king.

  6. Re:The Problem isn't C.... it's undisciplined prog on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 2

    If you test at all you recognize your fallibility. If you are fallible then your tools should make bugs less likely to have severe consequences. The only way your thinking could be consistent is if you removed the testing part. If you are convinced you can do it first time perfect without testing, then better languages to be able to consistently express constraints and guarantee them are not necessary ... you are, so they are.

    Instead you convince yourself that your tests, which we both know will not have had 100% coverage, caught 100% of your bugs. Not even your impressive resume makes that kind of thinking justified.

  7. A football career doesn't start in the NFL on NFL Players With Long and Short Careers Have Similar Death Risk, Study Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They start their competitive career in inducing brain damage in high school.

    Why would it kill you any sooner? Headaches aren't lethal and you don't need to be a genius to get old. It's about quality of life, not duration. Of course for NFL millionaires it might all be worth it, it's the much larger number of players who don't get drafted but are still forced to live with migraines and other fun consequences of concussions who are the real losers.

  8. Re: At 2.3 Billion on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If they made a loss with that they made a trading loss, which was one of my options.

    Regardless of what they exchange for new tether, they can convert it to dollars and put them in US government bonds and money market funds..

  9. Re: At 2.3 Billion on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't need a banking arrangement, it eats into their profit but they can exchange the bitcoin/ethereum/whatever they get paid for new tethers to dollars on another exchange.

  10. Re: At 2.3 Billion on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They are printing tether ... but people are buying it at 1$, or the price would be collapsing. It's a zero sum game, all those dollars to buy new tethers go into their pockets.

    Even if the CEO has been on a non stop cocaine fueled bender buying prostitutes and supercars he's unlikely to have blown through 2.3 Billion dollars. There's only two ways they have substantially less. Either it got stolen/embezzled or they traded with it and made losses.

  11. Re: At 2.3 Billion on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They are the sole miners, so any coin they sell they get 1 buck and they can spend that buck again to buy it back (minus litecoin transaction fees).

    So in theory they can simply adjust the stock to match supply and demand ,,, right down to just buying all the coins back.

  12. I understand capitalism. Meat is expensive, if the level of land available could make it cheap it would be cheap.

    Massai are still healthy even after transitioning to a 50% cornmeal diet.

  13. You'll still die in the end ;)

    Keto might work fine, but in the end it's a diet for rich people and it's hardly the only diet with massive improvements over the mean. The Okinawa diet works fine too. Europe and Asia were on carb heavy diets long before the diabetes, heart attack and dementia epidemics, though we consumed less sucrose/fructose/glucose and meat of course.

    Keto might be a solution to individuals, but as a health plan for society it's unsuitable. Carbs are the staple, it's the only way the world can work.

  14. Not sugar, not carbs ... fasting blood sugar levels. Not the same fucking thing.

  15. Re:Don't eat meat on Scientists Calculate Carbon Emissions of Your Sandwich (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure transporting avocados halfway across the world is completely inconsequential.

    You worry about your sins, I'll worry about mine.

  16. Re:China China China on China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Worst he can do is pass the gene onto his kid, any kind of gene transfer to another organism could just as easily (which is to say, not easily at all) occur in animals or plants which are open season for genetic experiments.

    This has no more broader impact that parents being able to decide to have their kids undergo hormone treatment (which is to say, some).

  17. Re:Of course it's garbage on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    Some variants of Spectre work on every modern CPU, but Intel is uniquely vulnerable and requires the most performance penalties in mitigating it.

  18. Re:Where is the proof? on Researchers Find That One Person Likely Drove Bitcoin From $150 to $1,000 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't lie so much to yourself so much, it's a bad habit for a gambler. No such thing as pot committed in this game, get out in time.

  19. Re:Guess they were not serious about climate chang on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Your wholesale prices, which Audi and Porsche pay are very low. That's why it's such a brilliant scheme.

    As for why the WTO might intervene, they don't generally like industry subsidies unless specifically allowed.

  20. Re:Guess they were not serious about climate chang on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    PS. I meant "high consumer electricity cost" and "low industrial electricity cost".

  21. Re:Guess they were not serious about climate chang on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Dispose indeed ... I find it curious how few people understand that renewables for Germany are a form of mercantilism.

    1 Suppress internal consumption with high electricity cost
    2 Subsidize internal industry with low electricity cost
    3 WTO doesn't dare say a thing, because global warming
    4 Profit

    It only works because they raced to that particular scheme the fastest of course, otherwise everyone would just have high electricity costs and nothing else would change.

  22. Re:Not really on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    Nuclear fuel recycling for traditional reactors is only useful for two things, getting plutonium and wasting money. Significantly reducing waste, not so much.

    It's a once through process, the remaining waste from burning MOX is just too much of a mess ... even wasting money has a limit.

  23. Internet and intranet access should not mix on Hackers Could Blow Up Factories Using Smartphone Apps (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    If you allow remote access to factory systems with anything else but special purpose laptops with hardware VPN and zero Internet access, you're doing it wrong. Any data crossing between from internet to intranet should require red tape, any software mountains of red tape (all on physically archived paper). Any data from intranet to internet should be across busses verified to be strictly unidirectional (ie. not tcp/ip with some ungodly complex stack written in C).

    Almost everyone is doing it wrong ... the only place you should BYOD is the unemployment line.

  24. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The truth doesn't matter when preaching to the choir, but all sides like to have some selective truth for propagandizing to the normies.

  25. Re:PC world gone mad on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because the truth can be used in a false argument, doesn't mean that is all the truth is good for.

    Knowing when their algorithm fails will be valuable knowledge to many, not knowledge Google would be necessarily interested in handing out, but still valuable. In this case it's a truth solely hidden because it feels offensive.