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  1. Dont trust automated systems on Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The system should be disabled by pulling back on the stick hard. Having a system designed to nose dive into the ground and completely override the pilot unless a complicated procedure is follow to disable it is asinine. Boeing has the blood of 300+ on its hands.

  2. Daylight Saving(s)? on EU Parliament Votes To End Daylight Savings (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Isnt it Daylight Saving Time?

  3. Endless AI warfare on Boeing's Autonomous Fighter Jet Could Arrive Next Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Endless Sky has an interesting endless autonomous war.

  4. What really needs to go away are credit cards. Having a 3% or higher tax paid on every transaction is a huge drain on the economy and pocketbooks. No way we should be paying that kind of extortion.

  5. So whats the answer? on Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Is the anime good or not?

  6. HT available only for one process? on Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    How does this exploit work in practice? Do you have one legitimate process doing encryption/decryption while another process tries to get itself hyperthreaded with the first in order to spy on it?

    Why not have HT available only for threads of a single process? That would stop two unrelated programs from sharing the same core simultaneously.

  7. What good are animals? on Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't speak! They can't operate machinery! I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic?... If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one!

  8. Nothing will be done on IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing will ever be done to seriously combat global warming. Those in power are only concerned with the short term. If any politician goes in for the long term, then short term interests will attack them as being wasteful, costing us too much, jobs, etc etc. As seen from Dumpf et al, the masses are easy to fool with this rhetoric.

    Two, those that contribute the most to warming are also those that have the money and resources to mostly comfortably ride things out, at least in the mid term before things get too bad.

    Three, most people forget what the weather was like ten years ago, so have little basis on which to judge the climate. Also does anyone remember that the sky is supposed to be completely blue? I would say everyone under forty maybe has lived their whole life with the horizons in a brown haze. Change is so slow, people dont know how things are supposed to be anymore.

    Four, global warming does strange things, like exacerbate the polar vortex causing big winter snow storms. Narrow small brained politicians like to trot this out every year, forgetting that it is a global average, not local weather. There will always be dumb arguments available.

    Five, it will cost a lot and require a lot of working together to solve things from politicians to business to populations. I think that is more than we can handle as a species. It is far better to come up with good plans for solar, wind, nuclear power options, electrical transportation, etc, now and when there is time to implement rather than the mad dash to the exits once the shit hits the fan. Im sure so little will be done, that in fifty years all hell will break loose once the last denial and excuse has been used up.

    Collectively we are grasshoppers, not ants.

  9. Why didnt the L or Metra connect with OHare in the first place? They connect with Midway. This is a larger problem of cities not connecting transpiration hubs together just to pad the taxi coalition.

  10. But you're not supporting the troops if you dont unquestionably support endless war and the military industrial complex!

  11. Re:History disagrees with you on 'Automating Jobs Is How Society Makes Progress' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There will be plenty of jobs made available after full automation. For example I see lots of opportunity for people to pick through our garbage dumps for scrap to sell. This works out quite well for many other countries around the world, and helps with recycling and better for the environment. Why not here?

  12. I dissected a broken camera once that had been sitting for quite a while. I was able to determine the capacitor was still fully charged... HOLY FUCKING HELL

  13. Of course there are technical questions to how well this could work. Will it depress wages because you are subsidizing them? Perhaps, but also some people will work less, so wages may have pressure to go up from this. Also it will affect inflation in more than one way. Balancing the size of the check and the tax progression will need to be optimized as well. But if in the future even hamburger flippers are being replaced by robots, we may need to seriously look into basic income to keep the economy stable.

  14. .. because there are too many people with low empathy who are currently in charge. They cannot stomach giving hand outs to poor and especially to anyone not white. Their arguments will always go back to the lazy poor couch sitter. But this is a straw man. It doesnt matter if some people do this. By giving them money, they are locked into the economy. Money doesnt "disappear" or can be "wasted". Their entire checks will be spent which will directly contribute to consumer confidence, which is the most important barometer for the economy.

    Others will use the check to continue in school, or will be encouraged to work hard because now they can start to really afford their dreams, or work less to help raise their family, or work in lower paying jobs such as basic science, teaching, charity, etc, that benefit us all.

    It just doesnt matter that some will take the money and do nothing. That money will quickly be spent at Walmart and Amazon and get recycled back into the system. Increasing the velocity of money is a good thing for the economy.

    I am probably part of the 1%, I pay well into six figures in taxes. Please republicans stop trying to give me tax breaks. Tax me more, and give the rest to the less well off to spend. I dont make money by cutting my taxes, I make money when warehouses are busy and buy more of my products. When you cut social programs you cut at the bottom of the tree, the consumer spending that supports the general economy. The economy is not a zero sum game, the better off people are, the better the economy is, and the rich can earn even more money than before.

  15. Just as you cant put the nuclear genie back in the bottle, so too genetic engineering. You may delay it, but eventually the dam will break.

  16. Re:sounds totally backwards on Theory Challenging Einstein's View On Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, there is no gravity in the early universe. For there to be gravity, you need a direction. If all the universe is uniform, every point pulls equally on every other point, so there is no direction to go and you would feel no gravity.

  17. Re:Interesting on Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    We are a small manufacturer in the US and half our production is done with robots. Also on other parts we need made or molded, we have moved nearly all of it back to the US as well since it is now cheaper and delivery is far faster.

  18. Absolutely. End this thing once and for all. And why stop there? Time to elect a President who will make America great again. Proud, strong leadership to lead this country into the new century, and mass genocide on a scale that would shock Hitler. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

  19. Re:Simplest Ramanujan anecdote ... on Golden State and the Mathematical Magic of Seventy-Three (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting, but that leads me to wonder why he was sure it was Namagiri Devi and not another?

  20. Mine updated, and bricked! on Old Kindles Will Be Disconnected Unless You Update By Tuesday (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yay Amazon!

  21. Re:Green or Brown tie? on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    Had a similar experience with brown and green. Bought a beautiful chocolate brown couch for my office, but when it was brought indoors under the florescent lights, it was an ugly puke green. I was sure they delivered the wrong couch until I took a cushion outside and it was dark brown again.

  22. Re:Where do you fill up? on Multiple Manufacturers Push Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, But Can They Catch Tesla? · · Score: 1

    And what happens when you run out of "gas"?

  23. Re:As usual, the title is wrong! on Researchers Find Evidence of How Higgs Particle Imparts Mass · · Score: 1

    Could one learn to control this field using mental training and gymnastics?

  24. Re:ioccc 2013 US president matching code on Regex Golf, xkcd, and Peter Norvig · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain, how are they using 1[..] as the name of an array? I tried making a simplified program and gcc kicked out the approriate error.

  25. Re:bfd on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    I assume TFA is referring to wholesale energy prices, so you cannot directly compare that to your retail rate.