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  1. Re: California is too expensive for a billionaire on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 0

    No.

    Texas has a Constitutional block on a state income tax and many other of the socialists style (it's not actual socialism) programs.

    Don't come here looking for a hand out, you will be sorely disappointed. Make no mistake, if you fall on hard times, you have resources. But if you come here to leach, you will likely end up living under a bridge in Austin or Houston.

  2. Re: California is too expensive for a billionaire on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 0

    Interestingly, this is what the Democrats want for America with their talk of eliminating the Senate and Electoral college.

  3. There is no doubt that his actions were not only sanctioned, but explicitly supported...until all the blow back from the world's scientific and ethics communities.

    All this is just Xi Jinping cleaning up something that turned out to be an embarrassment instead of the triumph he was expecting.

    People seem to forget or ignore the fact that China is an Authoritarian Dictatorship.

  4. Re:Goodbye Warehouse Picker on Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So..you are an open borders motherfucker.

    I see.

  5. Re:Goodbye Warehouse Picker on Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    All you have are excuses for breaking the laws.

  6. Re:armed robots? on Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    They are also working robot protesters.

    Complete with black masks, stupid signs and recorded shouts of "Nazi!"

  7. Re:Goodbye Warehouse Picker on Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well shit, you have to get a Consent Contract signed and notarized before you can even hug a woman these days...EVERY TIME.

    No wonder PornHub is so popular,

  8. Re:Goodbye Warehouse Picker on Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think creating a job that requires back breaking work in bone chilling cold or soul oppressing heat could be called giving a shit about humans.

    Almost every aspect of farming is back breaking work and the more that is automated, the better for everyone.

  9. Re:Pepperidge Farms Remembers on US CEOs Are More Worried About Cybersecurity Than a Possible Recession (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like they enticed the students into a brightly lit, shiny room full of visions of a rosy future,

    That is, in fact, how most operate. They widely market their school, provide tours, interviews with professors, etc. promising great things and a bright future if you just come to their University.

    No money? No problem! Plenty of federal loans available! Just sign here!

    I've seen it in action.

  10. Re:Pepperidge Farms Remembers on US CEOs Are More Worried About Cybersecurity Than a Possible Recession (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In 2007, the crash was the result of repackaged bad mortgage debt traded like it was good debt.

    The only thing close to that now is student debt. However, I would hope that the Universities would be held accountable for that since the cost inflation and the lack of suitable employment skills falls directly in their laps.

  11. Re:Nuclear deaths per terawatt prove otherwise on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The deaths in the nuclear industry undoubtedly counted people falling off ladders, crushed by equipment, etc.

    How many people have been irradiated to death?

  12. Re:The sun is the largest nuclear reactor on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The very fact that nuclear waste is radioactive means that the reactor design is inefficient and leaving fuel unburned.

    Breeder reactors can burn fuel down to nearly inert lumps of rock.

  13. Re:The sun is the largest nuclear reactor on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And don't think for one second that wasn't the intention.

    Anti-Nuclear activist, including many in Congress, have done everything they can to gun up the nuclear power industry.

    As a technology, nuclear is only in it's very first stages.Promising technologies like breeder reactors that can burn nuclear wastes to almost inert piles or rock were arbitrarily outlawed. Promising avenues such as micro reactors are mired in red tape and make no mistake, lawsuits will follow them where ever they think of putting one.

    What is needed:

    1. Two to Three standard designs, vetted by some group of nuclear engineers as safe. Facilitates factory production of components
    2. Processes to fast track environmental reviews
    3. Limited indemnity for developers to prevent frivolous lawsuits.
    4. Some form of expedited processed in the courts to review lawsuits and settle them quickly.
    5. Reopen Yucca Mountain. Fuck Harry Reid. Hell, bury his soon to be dead ass in it.
    6. Ongoing research into new designs, module designs, etc.

  14. Re:NOthing Since Gun powder on Giant Leaf For Mankind? China Germinates First Seed on Moon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Theft of I.P is not, "capitalism".

    It's theft.

  15. Really?

    What's to track? You give them a credit card number and that's it.

    When you c an't afford it or don't want it, you cancel. No one is sending you paper bills for you to write out a paper check.

  16. Re: Greed != good on Streaming TV May Never Again Be as Simple, or as Affordable, as It is Now (sfgate.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would the Avengers Universe have been created out of Passion?

    Passion gets you 15 minute short films at best.

  17. Not really. Even subscribing to 4 of the current players is STILL less than a cable bill.

    Netflix $10.99 pe month
    Hulu $10.99 (as low as $5) per month
    Amazon Prime 8.25 per month
    Disney $10.99 per month

    Cable television companies report average spending per subscriber of about $85 a month, while the average among satellite TV providers tops $100 a month,

  18. No copyright, virtually no profits.

    Means no new content.

    Pretty much right in there with the Marxist Viewpoint.

  19. Interesting on So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    People that seem to have no problem with H-1B Visas holder taking US Jobs, are mightily concerned about those jobs going away due to automation.

  20. Navigation Aids on Astronomers Discover 13 New Fast Radio Bursts From Deep Space (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess something like this could be used as a deep space GPS if you knew exactly where they originated from

  21. Oh look. he remembered to post Anon this time.

  22. you didn't post as anon

    Probably an oversight. His mother distracted him when she yelled down into the basement to change the laundry.

  23. I've tried this burger.

    At best it could be described as a bland replacement for beef.

    In a burger, beef is actually a minor player when it comes the various tastes. The condiments, oz for oz have a much higher impact on taste than the beef does.

    And the taste that most people seem to prefer in a hamburger is not necessarily the "beef" taste, but the taset provided by the Maillard reaction (a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that gives browned food its distinctive flavor).

    When cooked properly, the Impossible Burger does a good job of imitating the end result of this reaction, as well as reproducing the "crunchiness" that also results.

  24. Interesting play on words.. on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it "Acts" like it's been deleted, then that suggests it is actually running and therefor able to, "act".

    Is this an unfortunate and awkward statement on their part, or is it a deliberate effort to suggest the app is inert while being truthful about that fact the app is still running?

    Don't put anything past the lawyers.

  25. Roger...go it.