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  1. How quickly did it burn in the atmosphere? on Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "The asteroid was 12 kilometers"

    How big was it when it entered the atmosphere? How quickly would it burn? How big was the atmosphere back then?

  2. Re: Google killed off a product? on It Sure Looks Like Google's $599 Celeron Pixel Slate is Dead (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the antisemitism when discussing a Google product?

    WTF? Is a Shekel worse than a dollar, a pound, or a euro? Since the product was conceived in the US, it makes sense to use Shekels.

  3. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone who has been worrying about glaciers worried about herbicides instead?

  4. How about blondie vs non-blondie on Google Found it Paid Men Less Than Women For the Same Job (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Tab-users vs space-users (based on the user's real preference not project's coding guidelines) vim vs emacs? In the end everyone within the same position will have to have the same salary...

  5. Will that include firewood deliveries? on Amazon Plans To Make 50% of Shipments Net Zero Carbon by 2030 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Not really impressed on Google Docs Gets an API For Task Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    After looking at some code samples in the documentation - I'd rather go back in time to the 90's and work with MSOffice and VBA.

  7. Re:Correlation is not causation on Worrying Rise in Global CO2 Forecast for 2019 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's an exercise for you: find the numbers for total amount of oil, coal, and gas that the world has used ..

    We couldn't have scripted it better. Here is your question answered by a Nobel laureate in physics.

    https://youtu.be/SXxHfb66ZgM?t=1428

  8. Correlation is not causation on Worrying Rise in Global CO2 Forecast for 2019 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the temperature rising because of the rising CO2 level or is it vice versa - the CO2 level is rising because of the rising temperature? Why would the temperature be rising? Well - because of the sun activity... Where is the CO2 coming from? The oceans release it as the temperature rises. I heard the above theory I and am genuinely interested - prove it wrong.

  9. WTF? on Boeing's First Autonomous Air Taxi Flight Ends In Fewer Than 60 Seconds (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't why Boeing is doing this but I don't believe that "Boeing believes the vehicles, more commonly referred to as air taxis or flying cars, will be a solution to traffic congestion." Imagine that half of the cars in LA lift off... Reminds me of a comedy where a party secretary takes a taxi ride in Moscow(?) and wonders why so many people crowd at bus stops. "They could all be riding taxis comfortably" says he.

  10. I knew it was coming on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    A while ago I posted a prank comment under an article about e-mail format. The article was suggesting that all e-mail should be text only or HTML only, or whatever. I said that text only e-mail was orders of magnitude easier to process and render, and it would be interesting to measure the energy savings and their effect on the global warming. That comment was modded as insightful, with a score of 4.

  11. Google should be praised on Google Criticized Over Its Handling of the End of Google+ (vortex.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google should be praised for its handling of social media. Should Facebook follow suit, I will praise them too.

  12. It appears that the global warming is truly global, affecting Saturn's rings.

  13. PR stunt by porn guys? on Porn Sites Collect More User Data Than Netflix Or Hulu (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    With a bit of effort you could write a similar piece about drug dealers as well.

  14. Re:Most bang for the buck ever poll on Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    unlike climate change "research" which is a vortex sucking all our research dollars these days.

    How about gender studies?

  15. I thought IOS only sent a soundtrack to the cloud and played the response.

  16. Where does this turtle charge her device? on Scientists Followed a Leatherback Turtle Through Hurricane Florence -- Here's What They Saw (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    A few months - that's a long battery life!

  17. Re:Walt Disney's dream on Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    In the end you want to re-use existing infrastructure (existing roads). The problem is kicking the old, human-driven cars out of it.

  18. Walt Disney's dream on Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is not going to happen on regular roads as we know them. Instead some big corporation is going to build a new city (possibly around a new campus) where regular cars will be banned and all trafic will be autonomous and roads will be smart as well with sensors, broadcasts, and what not. It will be so much simpler (for the AI) and so much more convenient for the humans. And once the benefits are obvious, other cities will follow suit. Building a city from scratch was Walt Disney's dream btw.

  19. tens of thousands of timing violations (..) as well as occupies space

    Size matters but timing is everything!

  20. I still do not know how to send a text message to a contact's mobile phone via Skype. I figured it once or twice and it was totally unintuitive and I don't remember anymore (push a button in the upper left corner and then at the bottom right or something like that). And sometimes it is not possible to answer a Skype call. (I push all available buttons and then end-up returning the call myself). So, pretty please - rather than annoy customers with upgraded colour schemes and having to re-login after each update, fix the simple things first.

  21. "Comfort-of-a-laptop" lie on New Microsoft Surface Hardware Is Arriving Tomorrow (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I totally don't understand "Comforts of a laptop, convenience of a tablet" sales pitch. A laptop I can hold on my LAP. A tablet with this detachable keyboard needs to be placed on a table. So it's more like "Clunkiness of a desktop, convenience of a tablet".

  22. This Musk guy must be behind this on Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And there is no doubt that the article was sponsored by Tesla!

  23. 10 degrees more and I am not afraid on Antarctica Is Melting Three Times As Fast As a Decade Ago (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I moved to a warmer country. The average temperature is 10 degrees Celsius higher than back at home and I enjoy it very much and wish that summer would be longer still.

  24. Sure it's cheap on Sucking CO2 From Air Is Cheaper Than Scientists Thought (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Just plant some trees and they will suck CO2 from the atmosphere and change it to green matter.

  25. Re:Is it even a smart speaker? on Apple's Stumbling HomePod Isn't the Hot Seller It Wanted (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think Apple got it all wrong. They should have released it without Siri. Not only would the speaker have made it to the market much faster but also the lack of Siri would be seen as an advantage in view of the recent privacy concerns.