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  1. Re:Can metal printed with 3d printer last? on America's Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back -- And Hypersonic (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardening metal by heating and subsequently cooling it makes the metal contain less crystals. This is important because in a metal the crystal planes can easily slide against each other, what makes the metal malleable and thus weak. So you want as few crystallites as possible in the metal for most applicatiojs where strength is an issue.

  2. Re: Victorian on The Human Cost of the Apple Supply Chain Machine (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, they would be self-sustaining and not need the West to take away their assets for far too cheap because they are too expensive thanks to the labour laws.

  3. Re: Designed for the Left on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which is why many kids I spoke whith who were born in the 2000s like the music of that and earlier eras often better than the music that is made now.

  4. Victorian on The Human Cost of the Apple Supply Chain Machine (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    19th century working conditions. If all countries had laws that required the selling company to prove that their workers are treated and paid humanely the world would look quite different. Which, of course, is exactly why this will never happen. Greed is good for too many people in high places.

  5. Re:Huge breakthrough on Intel Unveils 'Breakthrough' 49 Qubit Quantum Computer (extremetech.com) · · Score: 2

    You're way smarter than Siri. You understood the sentence I wrote.

  6. Re:Predictions on Intel Unveils 'Breakthrough' 49 Qubit Quantum Computer (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Quantum biology is slowly becoming big. Proteins are the answer to the cooling problem.

  7. Re: Predictions on Intel Unveils 'Breakthrough' 49 Qubit Quantum Computer (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't see the connection.

  8. Re:Huge breakthrough on Intel Unveils 'Breakthrough' 49 Qubit Quantum Computer (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Never in my life have I met a human who is as dim as Siri is.

  9. Re: Huge breakthrough on Intel Unveils 'Breakthrough' 49 Qubit Quantum Computer (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought a quantum computer can do all calculations simultaneously? Surely one is enough!

  10. This.
    When I was in high school I was in a class with 27 females and three males, myself included. Quiet but strange.

  11. Too much information! Yuch...

  12. Re:iPhones drove smartphones to the masses... then on Some Smartphone Salesmen Aren't Sold on the iPhone X (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I take it you hate every smartphone on the planet.

  13. Re:With bad design comes great misinformation on Some Smartphone Salesmen Aren't Sold on the iPhone X (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I stick with Apple for the time being. Too many security and other problems with Android.

  14. Re:iPhones drove smartphones to the masses... then on Some Smartphone Salesmen Aren't Sold on the iPhone X (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a Nokia E65 back then, which was much smaller and had less features than the N95 and still was better than the iPhone. The first usable iPhone was the 4.

  15. Re:Spaghetti monster on A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    YW.

    I don't know how the story ended unfortunately. I wonder if he ever got his Ph.D. I personally doubt very much if someone who acts like that deserves it.

  16. Re:Spaghetti monster on A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's the direct link: http://www.dvhn.nl/drenthe/Pas...

  17. Re:Spaghetti monster on A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That is strange. For me it works fine, also from the link above.

  18. Spaghetti monster on A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This reminds me a bit of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Conjured up as a joke, and now people think they seriously believe in him. Here in the Netherlands there was even a lunatic who wanted to do his Ph.D. defense in Delft with a colander on his head: https://translate.google.com/t...

  19. Re:We should lock him up, twitter is irrelevant. on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't answer my question.

  20. All the good stuff is phased out on Apple Product Delays Have More Than Doubled Under Tim Cook's Watch, Says Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only can you not change the memory on almost all Apple's devices anymore and are Apple's laptops flimsey, overpriced and underpowered, but they stopped making the wired keyboard for the iMac (which is infinitely better than the wireless one because it doesn't use batteries and, more importantly, has a numeric part), they stopped making Mac Mini, which was a great little thing, and they discontinued the Time Machine and Airport Express and Extreme, which were by far the best wireless routers on the market because they never break down.

  21. Re:We should lock him up, twitter is irrelevant. on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    For what does Trump deserve the death penalty? He hasn't done anything significant that even remotely deserves that. Do you want everyone dead who you don't agree with?

    If any American president deserves the death penalty it's George W. Bush, together with his henchmen Dick Cheney and Donals Rumsveld. They were war criminals of a kind we hadn't had in a Western country since Hitler.

  22. Wireless is horrible even at much lower speeds. The people living around me have so many wireless access points that hickups and other connection problems due to interference and such are unavoidable. For simple web browsing that isn't a problem but if you want to move large chunks of data to or from uour data server it's unacceptable.
    So indeed, only idiots trust wireless.

  23. Re:It doesn't help on Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's very stable on my machines. But I only use AdBlock on it. No other plugins.

  24. Re:Antitrust on Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Has any US administration done anything ever about this kind of shenanigans? Remember the dancing monkey?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    That was because MS was basically rewarded for their monopolist behaviour back in the 1990s and early 2000s.

  25. Re:Good for them. on Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe in the US, but in civilized countries we like our good roads and social security and pensions and medical insurance and police and so on and so forth. So we like corporations to pay their taxes.