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  1. Re:The three debates on AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the odds of him ever fading from the public eye before his death are zero. He'll be making up ever more outrageous claims in the years to come as he begins to feel ignored, and somebody will take the bait.

  2. Re:There is still a way to get science out of this on Schiaparelli Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact, European Agency Says (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, you've lost all your internet points. Hopefully that teaches you to stop making things up without googling. The landing area is the same as Opportunity's landing area, and Opportunity even attempted to image the landing: http://www.planetary.org/blogs...

  3. Re: 6.8 Billion on First New US Nuclear Reactor In 20 Years Goes Live (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    All power plants are beautiful in their own way.

  4. A vigilante is someone who takes the law into their own hands to persecute someone who hasn't been found guilty in court. That's the exact opposite of trying to help out someone who they feel is being persecuted without having been found guilty in court, which is what these wi-fi people are doing.

  5. Unless the Earth crashes into Mars, the impact isn't going to melt the planet's crust. You can do an underground backup of humanity much more cheaply on Earth than on Mars.

  6. Landing a manned ship on Mars is actually theoretically more reliable, because it's too massive for anything except rockets to be considered. That makes it insanely expensive, but more reliable than parachutes and skycranes and bouncing landers and so forth.

  7. Tiny chance? 1.3 million people die in car accidents a year, along with nearly 50 million injuries a year. Carnage in Aleppo and Mosul is nothing by comparison.

  8. Re:Incidents vs. population? on Elon Musk: Negative Media Coverage of Autonomous Vehicles Could be 'Killing people' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, being only 4x more dangerous at this early stage of experimental testing sounds pretty impressive.

  9. Re:Sorry - whose car is this? on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hick" farmers worth millions of dollars? Unfortunately there isn't an inheritance tax for non-millionaires.

  10. Actually more like 6% so far.

  11. Riiiiggght. The media has never mentioned anything about Clinton's email server. It surely has not received a gazillion hours of news coverage everywhere, the liberal media wouldn't dare. They're quite happy to cash in on the controversy of her actual failings, they just don't always bother reporting complete fabrications.

  12. Re:Trump is fine with gay marriage... on Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Clinton is a candidate who says a lot of things I don't like to hear, and some that I do, and will probably do a fairly harmless mix of both that will leave us not much worse off in 4 years. She's consistently careful and calculating, not the sort who would take on huge risky projects. Basically, she's a conservative in a much truer sense than Trump who wants to implement drastic changes fast.

  13. Re:Trump is fine with gay marriage... on Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even Obama was technically against gay marriage before he fought for it. It wasn't politically tenable to be publicly in favor of it until recent years.

  14. Re:There Is No Rivalry on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    China's new FAST radio telescope on the ground could be nearly as important as James Webb, but I do wish they'd focus more of their space launches on that kind of science.

  15. Re:There Is No Rivalry on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA is perfectly capable of landing a probe on the moon at any time. It's a lot easier than Mars, where we've landed numerous probes/rovers. There simply hasn't been any interest in doing so -- the USA's current interests in the moon have been better served with orbiting probes and intentional impacts.

  16. Re:Her " Environmentalism is a Russian Hoax" on Transcripts of Clinton's Wall Street Talks Released in New Wikileaks Dump (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm voting for the green party, but even I don't have an issue with that statement by Clinton. It's entirely possible that some environmentalist groups around the USA and the world were funded by Russia in order to try to raise the price of Russia's primary export. I'd have to see her list of exactly which groups she considers phony in order to decide whether to express disagreement.

  17. Re:More spin against Trump on Transcripts of Clinton's Wall Street Talks Released in New Wikileaks Dump (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Do some critical thinking. If they were false accusations, we'd be hearing accusations about incidents in the 2010s. Nobody who's making stuff up for the purpose of harming a candidate is going to pretend it happened decades ago, they're going to pretend it happened recently so they can show the guy hasn't changed.

  18. You joke, but that already happened: treasure island. It wasn't originally for civilian housing, but it is now.

  19. Re:Lots of cheap housing in US, just not in San Fr on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Offer a free valley home to homeless people in SF and almost all of them will move. If you're going to be homeless wherever you are, though, it makes a lot of sense to go to SF where you don't have to worry about extreme heat or cold and everything is close enough to walk to. Being homeless in the valley where you need a car to get anywhere and will be uncomfortable outside most of the year doesn't make much sense.

  20. Re:Not enough affordable housing? on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Around here (Placerville), the public went insane over a proposal to turn a dangerously confusing nearly circular 3 way intersection into a traffic circle because they feared the traffic circle would enable the intersection to handle more traffic, and it thus must be an evil plot by developers.

  21. Re: Not enough affordable housing? on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're not going to build the affordable housing in SF, you might as well just build it all in Stockton where it's 5x cheaper. But then you have to convince people to move there.

  22. Re:No more KDE on KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you do a fresh installation? When I upgraded from Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 it was an unstable POS, but a fresh 16.04 hasn't had any issues.

  23. Re:So how does this affect the Drake Equation? on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    We now know that the building blocks of evolution and the conditions it required are not at all unique to Earth. That gives us good reason to suspect there's other life even in our own solar system, probably several places in it. Technological civilizations are much harder to predict the frequency of, but we be pretty sure there's life.

  24. Re:So how does this affect the Drake Equation? on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    According to your quote, Lord Kevin specifically said that he believed airplanes would no doubt eventually be invented: "Some day, no doubt, some one will invent a flying machine that one will be able to navigate without having to have a balloon attachment. But the day is a long way off when we shall see human beings soaring around like birds."

    That's the opposite position from what was asserted. The context here was a claim that scientists who believe warp drive is physically impossible and cannot be invented even with unlimited resources and a billion years are equivalent to historical scientists like Lord Kelvin denying the possibility of airplanes. But you've just shown us that Lord Kelvin was completely confident that airplanes could and would eventually be built, and simply greatly miscalculated the timing.

  25. The perfect tax haven. Soon, all of Apple's profits will be recorded as happening in Asgardia at a 0% tax rate.