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  1. Re: Are you afraid of a new vote, Brexit traitors? on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dunno about begging but if they have sense they'll rejoin and it'll result in stronger EU for all. Short term Brexit will be bad for all, but Brits need to get it out of their system, canceling Brexit at this point would not be good idea, it would come back to haunt everyone in a year or few. Once the dust settles a better path forward can be agreed upon.

  2. Re:Brexiteers are hilarious on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    And enough people listened to that dribble or failed to turn up on the referendum. Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.

  3. Re: Are you afraid of a new vote, Brexit traitors? on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Barely passed is still a pass. Referendums have consequences, public vote is not a bloody facebook like button and "we were idiots" is not an excuse. There is no new information, all the consequences of brexit were as obvious then as they are now. It's going to suck, but you'll survive and learn a lesson about listening to politicians.

  4. So let me get this straight on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Boeing is selling airplanes where safety is optional?

  5. What it's really about on Humans Might Be Able To Sense Earth's Magnetic Field (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Here's a video of it in action. So it demonstrates that there is a mechanism where changing magnetic field results in brain signals, maybe if there is no error in experiment. Which kinda makes sense, it does work for other animals after all so it's biologically possible. But there doesn't seem to be any mechanism of a person actually noticing it as a sense, so maybe these brain waves are just trees falling in the forest, nobody there to hear.

  6. Re:All raytracing is not equal on Crytek Shows 4K 30 FPS Ray Tracing On Non-RTX AMD and NVIDIA GPUs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    In the end, nobody cares about how it's done, what matters is what the end result looks like. That's a pretty sweet demo they have there, if anyone can take that demo and apply that rendering engine to a game... Does it still look as good? Are there unforeseen complications? Practice is the criterion of truth.

  7. It's a good bet that all you needed to do was browse to an address and click a button on web interface, tons of stuff like that, doesn't surprise me at all.

  8. Natural selection applied to computer security on Hacked Tornado Sirens Taken Offline In Two Texas Cities Ahead of Major Storm (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Leave a door open and it's only a matter of time until someone waltzes right in and takes a dump in the corner. If you leave unsecured systems out in the open, it's as good as declaring that you don't give a fig about what happens to it, it's no different from leaving physical property abandoned.

  9. Yeah, it's not exactly a brilliant and groundbreaking idea, it's a pretty obvious consequence of how our biology and medicine works. But it must be pointed out, because for some reason it's conveniently forgotten every time the topic of gene editing ethics and dangers comes up.

  10. Re:If only there was a way on Sealed Cache of Moon Rocks To Be Opened By NASA (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty convinced that one of the first commercial Moon mining operations will be bringing back plain old rocks for the express purpose of auctioning off tiny pieces to be used in fancy jewelry etc. "Give your significant other the Moon, limited supply, available for limited time only!". For a period it could exceed mass value of cut diamonds.

  11. Re:Now is the Right Time on Sealed Cache of Moon Rocks To Be Opened By NASA (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, for a long time it looked like new Moon missions and samples weren't coming for a long time yet. So it made sense to keep most of it bagged up. Now it looks like Moon missions are about to go forward soonish again, so it makes sense to crack open some of the goodies.

  12. Re:Encyclopedia vs. News on 'Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages' (huffpost.com) · · Score: 1
    Point of Wikipedia is to gather as much information and references in one place as possible about as wide range of topics as possible, but it will never be, nor can it ever be the ultimate arbiter of truth. It's merely the first reference to look at - just like any other encyclopedia, only on a larger scale than has ever been done before.

    Wikipedia is without doubt one of the greatest achievements on internet and it very much does what it's supposed to, just don't expect more than it can deliver.

  13. We are already screwing up our gene pool, sooner or later it will become a necessity to fix it. Consider for example cesarean section, what happened historically when a woman could not give live birth the natural way? Well, as sad as it is Darwin happened and genes that lead to this faulty morphology were removed from gene pool. Now medicine can bypass that particular selection pressure and the genes remain in circulation. That's the same for every life modern medicine saves prior to procreation. Give it enough generations and every life will start in an incubator with constant medical intervention for a lifetime just to not die. If fatal errors do not get removed by natural selection, then we need an artificial method to do it. It may not be an imminent concern, it's fine to wait on it for decades, but it's not wise to put a permanent moratorium on gene editing humans, because eventually we must do it.

  14. Re:LOL, 25-100 years of data on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Spoken like a true ignoramus, Sun is the best known component of the entire complex problem. We know exactly what it has been doing the entire Earth's history and what it will continue to do for the remainder of it. But, by all means, do explain how younger Sun caused climates warmer than today, with numbers pretty please.

  15. Re:So would any movement then? on Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it actually has more mass overall, good ol' e=mc2 the tiny amount of potential energy translates to miniscule amount of extra mass, but it's actually there.

  16. Re:So would any movement then? on Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Does compressed spring have more mass than uncompressed one? Apparently yes. From that soundwaves having mass doesn't surprise me at all. What I don't quite understand is where the negative value comes from.

  17. Re:Makes sense to me on Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes sense, but how is that different from any other mass? Unless I'm completely misunderstanding physics, then mass of anything is just an artifact of binding energy and interactions with Higgs field.

  18. Of course it's premature to declare the plane dangerous, but the situation is highly suspicious and in light of that it's prudent to just sit on the planes for a few days or a week until at least some preliminary details become available.

  19. Re:If it ain't Boeing, on Chinese Carriers, Ethiopian Airlines Halt Use of Boeing 737 MAX 8 Aircraft After Crash (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You'll excuse me if I take with a grain of salt anything an "eyewitness" in rural Ethiopia has to say. Could be that it was a bomb, could also be some bum making shit up in hopes of getting money out of a white journalist.

    Two early crashes in a new plane with somewhat similar circumstances is mighty suspicious and certainly warrants waiting for solid details from the investigation.

  20. Re:As an old Radio Amateur, I can sort of get it.. on EU's Plan To Ban Sale of User-Moddable RF Devices Draws Widespread Condemnation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    While a lot of trouble could be made by a dedicated hacker out to cause harm and some potentially self made radio equipment, is there really an issue in need of a fix and does it in any way get solved by forcing compliance on consumer tech? Honestly I'm not seeing it. It's a problem that doesn't really exist and a solution that doesn't really work.

  21. Sorta but not really on Satellite Magnate Argues Post-Brexit Britain Will Be 'Lost In Space' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Putting up barriers hardly helps, it is in fact going to be quite damaging, but to claim that companies just wouldn't do business in UK anymore is nonsense. If you have engineering intensive work to do you go where ever you can find competent engineers to do the job. Limitations of a location can be worked around, at a cost. Lack of engineers in your preferred location is not so easily solved.

  22. Re: Cash still a good thing on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Court order can freeze a bank account and take money from it to cover debts, many people have more debts than money to pay them. Someone with no money, but also no debts can of course get a debit card. But someone deep on the red... they would never see any money they put to bank again. And then there are people who don't pay taxes, they are allergic to any institution with accurate accounting. Should the law make it simpler for people not pay their debts, their taxes and hide criminal money? Probably not, but I think you can see why many people really like their cash.

  23. Re:CRISPR on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    In principle yes, in practice naive use of CRISPR to do gene editing on an adult organism results in cancers sprouting up like weeds all over the place. CRISPR is better than previous methods, but it's still not perfect. You can gene edit a designer baby that is immune to HIV. But to take an adult patient and 'fix' his genes... not so much. Not yet anyway

  24. Re:What a bunch of Cnuts on European Parliament Set To End EU-Wide Daylight Saving (dw.com) · · Score: 2

    Shift your working hours to whatever you want? Close the curtains? Get used to it?

  25. The entire project was bs from the very beginning, no surprises whatsoever here.