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  1. Re:Expectancy of expectancy? on Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a prediction of life expectancy for people that haven't been born yet.

  2. Car makers are selling Autopilot knowing full well that the people behind the wheel will be texting/surfing on their phones or in car entertainment systems.

    Car makers are selling cars without Autopilot knowing full well that the people behind the wheel will be texting/surfing on their phones or in car entertainment systems.

  3. If insurance goes up and the cost of accidents does not or goes down, another insurance company will undercut. Once again, bet on greed.

  4. Re:Extend technology to eliminate CEOs on Fans Choose A New Football Team's Plays With Their Smartphones (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't necessarily mean that the play calling was bad. A score of 78-47 implies serious problems with both team's defense and the article mentions problems with the Eagles' offensive line.

  5. Re:IIRC, you don't have to give them the password on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't be compelled to give your password, you can however be denied permission to travel if you withhold it.

  6. Re:Sure on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Washington state does have a B&O tax and a royalty tax that should both apply.

  7. Re:the court is wrong on Your Personal Facebook Live Videos Can Legally End Up on TV (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    Except he didn't sue for invasion of privacy, he sued for copyright infringement.

  8. Or, more reasonably, make it on par with shoplifting for punishment.

  9. Even a torrent site isn't necessarily illegal, and in the case that it is, it wouldn't necessarily be used for video.

  10. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 2

    That's kinda the point, they aren't anti-semitic and neither is PewDiePie.

  11. At least the right turns will be at low speed, the ones that scare me are the people turning left that only look at oncoming traffic and not at the crosswalk.

  12. Re:Or.. on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    That will refresh the ice surface, but it will also reduce the thickness of the ice if you don't have some form of cooling to compensate. That isn't much of a concern for skating rinks but would completely defeat the purpose for the arctic ice.

  13. Re:Only 86%? I would have expected it to be 100%+ on 86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A load following plant or peak plant or balancing plant is completely capable of producing "base load". Facepalm. Base load is just current, electric power, just like any other plant.

    Modern grids wont have any base load plants any more as they are neither needed nor economical.

    In other words, it's this power plant that is allowing you to get away from a traditional base load, not the wind and solar. The wind and solar are just the reason you want to get away from it.

  14. Both pursuing music and building a video game could be considered work. The difference being that it's work that actually interests you instead of whatever you can find that will get you paid.

  15. If you have enough money to live on, but not enough to pay for entertainment, what will you do with your time?

  16. Re:Only 86%? I would have expected it to be 100%+ on 86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In order to get 5% always fulfilled without storage you would need massively more than that in production. To completely convert your base load to wind and solar you either need to be able to store some of the energy or you need to have enough generators that even in the worst conditions you're still generating enough power to meet minimum demand. The latter would require you to have far more capacity than would be used on anything like a regular basis.

  17. Except the mice with modified genes are still fertile, they just only have male children.

  18. The average human lives about 40 million minutes, killing a random person will reduce their life by 20 million on average. Wasting 20 million minutes of people's time is equivalent, on a societal level, to murder.

  19. I supported unions until I saw union workers "working" and heard about the workers that the unions' lawyers were and were not defending.

  20. Re:WTF? Why is this even news? on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    It made it on Slashdot then too, this is just a review of the resulting savings.

  21. Re:more or less? on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    The individual drivers and trucks are traveling more miles, the fleet as a whole is traveling less as they eliminated some trucks.

  22. Re:Total distance traveled on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Less time per delivery- > more deliveries per truck -> fewer trucks -> less distance repeated by multiple trucks

  23. Re:Do drivers get dinged for unauthorized lefts? on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Traffic

  24. Re:Something is missing on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    I have encountered a UPS driver that got overloaded on a set route (industrial area where almost everyone gets a delivery every day) and had to return to the depot for the rest.

  25. Re:Only 86%? I would have expected it to be 100%+ on 86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A traditional base load constantly meets the minimum demand of the grid. If you have a relatively windless night, you can't generate enough power to provide that base. Assuming you have enough generation to meet demand in general, the problem is storing that power to allow constant output.