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  1. Re:So on It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're working form home, just put in a decent router with QoS and prioritize you over everything else. Streaming audio/video would never notice a difference.

  2. Re:We're fucked on It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    What makes you think it's a signal issue? If you're surrounded by people whose only broadband is cellular and a rural tower is covering dozens of square miles, your share may not be much.

  3. Re:Satellite/cell Internet will replace that as we on It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pair it with a DVR if you want something other than soaps in the daytime. Broadcast TV still has some good stuff in the primetime hours.

  4. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes - they definitely exist. But trees near bodies of water are way more plentiful. Probabilities are on the side of boats before coal.

  5. Terrible experience by comparison

  6. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if you can't read

  7. Hint: words don't mean the same after they leave their native language.

  8. Re:Literal butterfly effect. on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Both monarch butterflies and milkweed can easily stand a 1.5 degree increase in temperature.

    That isn't in question. It's whether they can survive the compound effect of the temperature increase. More turbulent hurricanes, changes in rainfall patterns, hot spots and cold spots (that may average to 1.5 degrees, but can still diverge in extremes).

  9. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And you think that discovering subsurface black rock that burns is easier than observing that fallen tree branches float and maybe tie a few together to make a raft?

  10. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, you think that the acid from acid rain is still causing severe harm in regions where NOx and SO2 emissions have been taken care of?

    No. Your reading comprehension is just very poor.

  11. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Since OPs premise is that you can't clean up after it, it's not really relevant if done small portion are willing to spend money cleaning up during. Nothing really solved.

  12. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There are relatively few places where coal could have been found near the surface. And how likely do you really think it is that anyone is going to keep trying to burn rocks after granite and quartz fails?

  13. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you'll accept Merriam-Webster adopting such lazy usage. After all, the English language has no formal gatekeeper and any word usage that becomes common gets in the book, whether stupid or not. Just don't pull out the pitchforks when they update the definition of "modem" to include a desktop computer tower.

  14. Re: Misleading: coal being killed by natural gas on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In the short term, pumped storage could make coal more cost effective. You can dump coal generated power into the grid almost immediately with demand rather than worrying about spin up time.

  15. While that's probably the default behavior of the mobile phone version of the site, the desktop version is fully functional. That's no less annoying (and I won't use anything that forces mobile visitors onto an app or blocks desktop users), just more accurate.

  16. Re:Alternative for seamless PC to mobile transitio on Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020 (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    I may see if I can set up a Google Voice # for messaging only (no calls, and no SMS to my cell #)

    You can do this....and use the number with Hangouts for SMS messaging. Still no idea what the replacement for that will be when Hangouts is gone.

  17. Re:Alternative for seamless PC to mobile transitio on Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020 (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention all this but with Google Voice integration too.

  18. Re:Good riddance on Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020 (9to5google.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. I've been using it as my default messaging app since my Google Voice number is my primary number. I can send and reply to text messages from my computer with a full keyboard using the Hangouts Chrome app.

  19. Re:Minority Report? on The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    You sound too much like Clippy. I can help you rewrite that.

  20. Doc Martin shoes are very different from Doc Martens. Both are British, but one of these are fictional.

  21. If efficiency led to reduced work, we'd all have a four-hour work week. Efficiency makes cheaper power, which leads to increased usage. It's a zero-sum game.

  22. Just nuke Yellowstone. Problem solved.

  23. Re: The sulfates that fell to earth on Controversial Spraying, Sun-Dimming Method Aims To Curb Global Warming (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought that was a Gatorade flavor.

  24. Re: Upgrading Has Little "Bang For Buck" Ratio on Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players (ofcom.org.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was the 3D or the frame rate, per se. I think it was that special effects toolchains were not set up to account for differences in motion perception - tl:;dr the VFX (even subtle ones you weren't supposed to notice) just looked like a video game. Need more motion blurring, for one.

  25. Re:DVD players?? on Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players (ofcom.org.uk) · · Score: 1

    Since those both play DVDs, I would assume they're already included in the numbers.