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  1. C programming language strikes again on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Two of the bugs only possible in with unsafe referencing/allocation ... par for the course.

  2. Re:Not cheese, but on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    Netherlands. 1L organic milk is 1.12 Euro at my nearest supermarket, organic yoghurt is 98 cents. Difference hold for non organic.

    I assume it is because they have less risk on yoghurt sales due to longer shelf life and lots of competition.

  3. Re:Not cheese, but on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    Yoghurt is cheaper than milk for me ... I don't really see the point.

  4. Re: With Apologies to Rick and Morty on No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you aren't making a lot of money before the payment schedule runs out, you're golden. If you make a lot of money before the payment schedule runs out, you're fucked.

    For women it seems a good incentive to have kids young BTW.

  5. Re:Wealthy Eat Real Food on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then don't buy celery ... buy frozen pees, frozen broccoli, dried lentils etc in bulk. Supplement with fresh if it's affordable, or don't, there's enough variety without it.

  6. If it's like TVP probably around a third of the protein in weight ... so probably not good enough for a religious keto diet which tries to stay below 50g carbs and above 1g protein per kg bodyweight.

    Not that a religious keto diet is significantly different than a low carb diet in anything but the ritualistic adherence for the same calories, but some people need the ritual.

  7. Citation needed ... it seems unlikely.

  8. Re:All unconstitutional depts and agencies need to on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Interstate commerce clause, you can make anything and everything constitutional with it.

  9. Re:Why [cisco|intel|...$USBRAND] gives $NOTUSA and on Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    In exchange we formed the EU and are killing ourselves.

  10. The Protactinium produces U232 if it decays while still mixed with the Thorium.

    The same reactor concept LFTR lovers promote to reprocess fuel, ie. LFTR49, was meant produce near pure U233 for use in different reactors. In which case you also don't want it contaminated with significant amounts U232, it has to be processed, stored and transported after all. So as long as I'm going to entertain promises of LFTR in the first place I'm just going to take their word for the fact that processing the Protactinium with sufficient purity is possible as well.

  11. The theoretical waste processing in some LFTR isn't the reprocessing the US government called a proliferation risk ... that's purely about producing MOX fuel.

    Although reprocessing in a LFTR is a massive proliferation risk in it's own right of course. The LFTR49 concept would intentionally breed pure U233 to feed LFTR33s down the line.

  12. Re:monocropping annuals on Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 2

    Every culture has collapsed ...

    Animals change fuck all about the equation ... or at least intermediate animals in between the plants and humans don't. If you keep extracting nutrients faster than geological processes can replenish them and washing them out to the ocean, eventually the soil gets fucked. Or in other words, you need to shit and be buried where you eat. Intermediate animals shitting part of their nutrients out on the soil they are eating from doesn't help, if the nutrients they provide to human animals are still lost.

  13. Reprocessing is only useful for one thing, getting plutonium for weapons. To reduce waste it's not very useful, because it's a once through process ... MOX fuel waste is almost impossible to reprocess. So all it really does is waste a colossal amount of money and increase the risks of pollution.

    To reduce waste, you need fast reactors.

  14. You can't easily turn the thorium fuel for a power plant into a nuclear weapon, you can easily turn thorium into a nuclear weapon if you have a big fast neutron source ... such as a nuclear power plant (thorium or not).

    By giving a nation nuclear power plants and reprocessing technologies you are giving them everything they need to breed pure U233.

  15. Re:Why nature abandoned asexual reproduction? on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 2

    All I see is genetic manipulation taking less than a handful of proteins useful for pest control and pesticide resistance and spamming them across every plant across the planet. Meta-monoculture.

  16. Re:Why nature abandoned asexual reproduction? on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    We can't control the pathogens in open air agriculture ... and open air is the only commercially viable way to feed the world.

  17. Re:Don't they have PUBG to thank? on Epic Games, the Creator of Fortnite, Banked a $3 Billion Profit in 2018: Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The PubG aesthetic could never have caught on with kids like this did. Epic fluking into the teen market made this as huge as it is.

    They caught lightning in a bottle, trying to convert their current near monopoly on teen gamers into enticing them into buying more games through an Epic storefront is a very smart way to follow it up ... worked for Valve.

  18. Horse steak is pretty good and you can put pretty much anything in sausage. There's still a big, not very animal friendly, horse meat industry in Europe and Argentine.

  19. Re:Gravity. We need it. on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just common sense. This isn't a space elevator. Spin it and it will create centripetal force, at levels well below what can be handled with a low weight tether.

    It's less space, weight and cost efficient than just letting their muscles and bones atrophy for the moment ... so we don't do it. If we had to do it, there's nothing really stopping us. Just throw engineers and money at it.

  20. Re:Gravity. We need it. on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A rotating habitat connected with a tether to a counterweight.

  21. Re:Bill Nye on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Television personalities are useful to shape kids. He used to shape them into liking exploration and scientific progress. Now he shapes them into people who see science only as a tool for social "progress".

  22. Re:Ops, you're a bastard or you child isn't! on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    30% of paternity tests, not 30% of paternity tests done for a random selection of children ...

  23. Re:Cryptocurrency exchanges on Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, those exist too ... but without the real money exchanges bitcoins would never have gone beyond their techno nerd niche and the real money exchanges have no choice but to interact with governments.

  24. Re:Odd Choice of Target on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Was a while since I checked, it's ironic that Aducanumab failed to dissolve old plaques but is actually producing more promising cognitive effects.

  25. Cryptocurrency exchanges on Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    How did he expect exchanges to avoid playing ball with governments if they wanted access to electronic real currency transfer? He seemed oblivious to the true power of government to me. Life is not lived online, you can't route every interaction through hidden channels ... they'll always catch you at the edges to tax/regulate you.