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  1. Re:robots will just push the manufacturing back to on Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    You think we can do robotics cheaper than China? That is a laugh...... All the new robotics equipment is made in China.

  2. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah he mentioned that it wasn't the 'real' cause. However a facebook divorce is probably a lot more publicly humiliating.....

  3. Re:Pig with Human Consciousness? on American Scientists Working On Creating Chimeras: Half-Human, Half-Animal Embryos (ibtimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    "What would a human be like with pig consciousness?"

    Ummm... they would move to Texas?

  4. Re:Awesome timing on Scientists Discover Why Your Dirty Laundry Stinks (discovery.com) · · Score: 2

    The speed of most chemical reactions (including the surfactant action of detergents) doubles for every increase of 10C. Washing in cold water is just silly.

  5. Re:I doubt it was innocent mistake on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Try 50 grams carbs day and eat what you want... seriously I am not being a jerk. It's not easy but it works.

  6. Re:Story is wrong. on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow, who modded this up? I am not even going to bother to explain why this idea is dumb.

  7. Re:So, Amazon was counting on only a few customers on Amazon Stops Giving Refunds When an Item's Price Drops After You Purchase It (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I would prefer having lower upfront costs than access to this perk, which is more like some kind of lottery that unnecessarily complicates their business model.

  8. Perjury only pertains to court proceedings... it has nothing to do with the private matters.

  9. Re:Yet the deniers will be out on India Records Its Hottest Day Ever As Temperature Hits 51C (123.8F) (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said, I don't deny anything but statistically meaningless. I don't have the chops to statistically calculate the number of records you would expect to be broken for the thousands of temperature measurements but someone does.....

  10. Re:Yet the deniers will be out on India Records Its Hottest Day Ever As Temperature Hits 51C (123.8F) (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    While I don't deny anything, the fact that somewhere on earth a 60 year old record was broken by a fraction of a degree doesn't mean much.....

  11. Re:RFTA - It has some good points: on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    I felt that way about Avengers.... I hated it but understand why some would like it.

  12. Re:Switchable on Transparent Displays Are Here, But They're Pretty Useless · · Score: 1

    thats called a cube wall ....

  13. Re:AR / Windows on Transparent Displays Are Here, But They're Pretty Useless · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tons of applications in retail- think about a glass table top in restaurant where menu or other information is displayed, or items in glass cases could be queried about product information. A sensitive camera and computer could probably figure out what item you are looking at....

  14. AR Enhance Visualization on Transparent Displays Are Here, But They're Pretty Useless · · Score: 1

    A significant number of people become sick from this.... kind of makes it a non-starter for serious applications.

  15. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot medicine and education as well....

  16. Re:Amazing isn't the word I would use. on China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    You don't know that... maybe they know something you don't.

  17. Re:Coming To an American Statup Near You? on China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices (techinsider.io) · · Score: 2

    And why wouldn't you? If I had a reasonable expectation of becoming a multi-millionaire, I would certainly do this for a few years.

  18. Re:The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! on Tech Layoffs More Than Double In Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is true- the only time I have been laid off was for a California company...

  19. Re:robot for pleasing wife on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Your pool boy is a robot?

  20. 1990's wants it's headline back on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Farmers have been using GPS to automate tractors and farming for a long time.....

  21. Re:Intelligence is genetic and heritable, news at on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't necessarily agree. There are plenty of things like abuse that demonstratively stunt intelligence.. IMHO this is actually a survival advantage. A person with lower intelligence is probably less likely to go crazy under severely deprived environment. Add in a dash of epigenetics and you can see how this would persist over a few generations.

  22. Re:fp on Atomic Oxygen Detected In Martian Atmosphere (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you explain to us there merits of having your hand chopped off vs your foot?

  23. Re:Atomic Oxygen! on Atomic Oxygen Detected In Martian Atmosphere (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In our atmosphere free oxygen is actually bonded to another oxygen atom and is called diatomic oxygen. Atomic oxygen is just a single atom and is more reactive than diatomic oxygen.

  24. "How safe? The car reportedly broke the machine NHTSA uses for roof-crush evaluations. Watch the Model S endure its crash tests in the videos below."

    is a far cry from

    "The NHTSA had to get a more powerful machine before they could successfully measure how much the Model S could take"

    That is the baloney part.

  25. Re:This is why Trump is popular. on Newspaper Chain CEO 'Pleased' To Announce IT Plan, Then Fires Tech Staff (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it prove he is a shitheal? If he reorganizes debt and saves hundreds of jobs that makes him bad? You do understand what reorganizing debt means....