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  1. This wouldn't harm Bitcoin at all. It would just affect DDoS individual nodes until they patched. No lasting impact on the network.

  2. Re:but with unknowing item and 1099's drivers on Amazon Plants Fake Packages In Delivery Trucks As Part of Undercover Ploy To 'Trap' Drivers Stealing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't. The FedEx depot is way down by the airport.
    I walk lots, dipshit.

  3. Re:but with unknowing item and 1099's drivers on Amazon Plants Fake Packages In Delivery Trucks As Part of Undercover Ploy To 'Trap' Drivers Stealing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    They use company vehicles, so almost certainly have to drive back to the depot.

    Nope. There are 4 or 5 very large, very obnoxious FedEx vehicles parked on my street at any given time at midnight. The drivers use them as their personal vehicles, then go to the depot, load up, drive around tossing packages at doors, then park them on the street when going home.

  4. Re:The people wrong must be banned from Math on Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    If you actually read Einstein's original journals, you'll find that it's about the subjugation of the working class.

  5. Observation / interaction have NOTHING to do with being conscious. It could be a rock and a can of spray paint.

  6. The whole point of the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was that quantum physics can apply to large scale things like cats and people, indirectly, if you design a mechanism to make it so. It's not about the whole cat decaying. The experiment is that if a geiger counter detects a single atom decaying it triggers the release of a poison to kill the cat. Thus the quantum state of the single atom determines the life or death of the cat.

    Except if there was a cat in a box with a valve and pipe and container of gas and a relay to a geiger counter and some isotope...
    Everything would be interacting with everything, and there's no physical uncertainty. Just you not knowing until you look.

    Much of quantum physics crap today is fundamentally the "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" question. If the tree falls it's already interacting with shit. If you can even KNOW that the tree is there, then it's interacting with shit.

  7. Re:Recycle everthing possible ffs on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    60 to 80% of them are NOT recycled in any way.

  8. You're the one pretending. Look at the percentage of power generated by coal / fossil fuels TODAY.

  9. Re:You left out grants, work, and future service on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's why you sign up for the Coast Guard or the Air Condition Force. Or, soon, the Space Force.

  10. Re: The long fall to Socialism on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What about hoboism?

  11. Re: The long fall to Socialism on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The US was quite busy with its own Western front - the Pacific.
    Had it not been, Europe wouldn't have taken nearly so long after the US decided to get in.

  12. It doesn't matter if his company lives are fails electric vehicle technology is here to stay. Existed way before Tesla and it will exist long after. how many steam powered cars are you all driving these days?

    Burn coal
    Create steam
    Turn turbine
    Generate electricity
    Charge electric vehicle
    Drive to work
    Shitpost on slashdot with retardisms like "how many steam powered cars are you all driving these days?"

  13. Re:Elon, don't make announcements while high on Tesla Is Facing US Criminal Probe Over Elon Musk Statements (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pretty sure he made this statement before going on Joe Rogan's podcast. Also if you'd listened you'd know that he took one puff and said he didn't like Marijuana because it stopped him from getting things done.

    If YOU had listened, you'd know that regardless of how little he inhaled, the dude was either high out of his mind or just out of his mind.
    He was going on about "love is the answer" and other vapid, meaningless shit.

    Before that video, I had never subjected myself to listening to anything the clown has to say for more than a few seconds. If he's like this all the time than he's a complete and total nutjob. If he was like that just that once, than he was mentally incapacitated in some way.

  14. Re: A reversal of fortunes on Game Streaming's Latency Problems Will Be Over in a Few Years, CEO Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How would caching work for LIVE GAMEPLAY? (It wouldn't.)
    If there's some static content that doesn't need intensive rendering (maybe you want to cache the menus for some stupid reason), why wouldn't you just cache them on the end user's device?

    As far as connections go, in what way is that a "clever trick"? I already mentioned taking the most direct route possible:

    Making sure you have a minimal number of hops and the routers/switches along the path aren't slowing you down isn't a trick or clever.

  15. Re:A reversal of fortunes on Game Streaming's Latency Problems Will Be Over in a Few Years, CEO Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you have a point or did you just want to throw out a Tropic Thunder reference?

    You bring up high frequency trading. Then you point out that, of course, "it's all distance".

    Then you go on to say "but all the other clever tricks will be deployed to stream games.". What "other clever tricks" are you referring to? You JUST said that it's, of course, all distance.

    Making sure you have a minimal number of hops and the routers/switches along the path aren't slowing you down isn't a trick or clever.
    There's no trick. There's no clever. As you first said, it's all distance.

  16. Re:Pixel camera on Which Company Makes the Best Camera Phone in 2018? Not Apple · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend

    We discovered this pretty early on in our relationship

    we own an SLR, it lives in the closet and comes out for weddings and that is just about it.

    You've been with here long enough to have a "pretty early on" period of your relationship, you consider an SLR camera to be joint property, and multiple weddings have been attended by one or both of you during your relationship, yet she's still only your girlfriend?

    How many more times are you going to make her go through one of her friends' weddings?
    How many more times will she have to act happy for someone else while wondering if she'll ever get her turn?
    How many more times will she have to laugh off the "So when are you two finally going to get married?" question instead of honestly answering "I don't know and that scares me."?
    How many more times will she have to look for, try on, and buy a dress she's not happy with and will wear only once?
    How many more nights will she have to spend with fake people making small talk about their fake lives and careers?
    How many more times will she hear "You're still young, you have plenty of time to figure it out."?
    How long until she's feels she wasted her 30s just like she already feels she wasted her 20s?

    Do you really think the handful of times it's come up casually counts as "talking about it"? And do you really think she meant it when she dodged by saying she doesn't want/need to get married? Do you know the kind of shit she gets from her parents? Oh, everything's "fine"? How'd that work out the last time she said she was "fine"? About as well as when she said you didn't need to get her anything or do anything special for her birthday / Valentine's Day / Christmas, etc. and you actually took that at face value?

    Why won't you commit?

  17. Re:Recycle everthing possible ffs on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they typically don't get recycled because of all the layers of different materials all glued together. It makes no sense to recycle them to recover the materials. Look it up. "Recycle juice box".

    In the 90s, people started complaining about this packaging, and a few companies in the US started recycling them to prove that it could be done. Yet it's still not feasible to do so, and today most places in the US won't recycle them. If they take them they'll likely end up in a landfill. The most efficient thing to do with them is to burn them for heat or to produce electricity.

    In Europe, they're recycled more often due to legislation requiring it. But that doesn't mean it makes sense from an energy, economic, or materials/resources standpoint. The standard process it to shred and boil it for ages to create a slurry like pulp, then chemically extract the metal and nobody cares about the rest. I guess you can make shitty paper based product out of it.

    The leading manufacturer of this shit, Tetra Pak, has a goal of getting up to 40% of the things to be recycled by 2020. How are they getting to that number? By building a handful of facilities that can separate the layers (at great cost) and then telling other recycling facilities to fucking ship empty juice boxes to them. It's absurd.

  18. Re:Are you being deliberately dense or what on Is Tech Billionaires' Educational Philanthropy a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    More accurately, they want to get the government to pay to teach people to read so that we have more people who meet the bar to be a factory worker and can thus lower wages in a more competitive (for workers) job market. They almost never put their own actual money on the line, and when they do it's because they're buying influence and power (see Gates donating money on the condition that a school use all MS products).

  19. Re:Recycle everthing possible ffs on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I was going to give you a serious list of examples, but then I noticed your username.

    Just in case OTHERS want to know, look at your county's website for recycling centers, then check them out and see what they won't take. Then search for "recycle" and those things. Plenty of products are created in such a way that it's too costly, or outright infeasible, to recover the materials. A classic example is a juice box. Cardboard, plastic, foil, and lots of glue.

  20. Re:Recycle everthing possible ffs on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    It maybe a inferior product, but if it takes less energy to generate then starting from scratch you are still coming out ahead.

    It almost never does. Recycling only makes sense when the material is rare or valuable, or when the method of recycling is dead simple and cheap compared to making new.

    I'd say there's about an order of magnitude of importance between each of reduce, reuse, and recycle.
    That is, 90% of the focus should be on not using and wasting so much shit.
    Then 9% of the focus should be on fully utilizing the shit you do use
    With .9% (or a whole 1%) of the focus being on recovering materials from the thing when its functional life is over, IF those materials are worth recovering.

    But no - society expects you to buy a new iPhone every year. Lease (not even fucking buy) a new car every 3 years. How many people do you know who will spend a few minutes to stitch and mend clothing (or even know how to)? What about appliance repair or basic home maintenance?

    One of the few things the hippies got right is that the disposable, consumption based society is fucking retarded.

  21. Re:Recycle everthing possible ffs on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Recycling is the worst option of all.

    1: Reduce
    2: Reuse
    3: Recycle

    Recycling is not reusing. Recycling takes tons of energy to recover material from something and repurpose it. It often creates an inferior product.

  22. Re:nano-SIM madness ? on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    A SIM card is the same size as a credit card. I don't know of any cell phone that used it. They all used the mini SIM, then the micro, then the nano.

  23. Re:Your phone has a DAC, why not use it? on Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No wonder why the Google phones are not selling anymore.

    The Google phones are not selling any more because they are made by garbage companies LG and HTC. Neither one knows how to make a device worth one tenth of one shit. Burned once by a supposedly "premium" device, how many users do you think will go back for another?

    Nononono

    The Pixel phones are all made by Google!
    They had a huge marketing campaign! They had a hashtag! #MadeByGoogle

    How DARE you insinuate that Google has no actual hardware design or manufacturing capability! I don't CARE about the truth!

  24. Bitcoin is up almost 55% year-on-year.

    Yes, it's volatile. No, it hasn't crashed.

  25. Re:They have been broken by design on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    And they go on roads. And if there are roads, buses will be run.