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  1. Re:Naw, it's not colonialism on Breakthrough Study Reveals How LSD Dissolves a Person's Sense of Self (newatlas.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even more disturbing is the fact that the government refuses to accept any thereputic value to weed or the harder stuff.

    Yet ketemine seems to accutely end severe suicidal idealation. MDMA can be great for therapy (couples or PTSD). LSD plus therapy while on it looks promising for addiction to more dangerous substances (alcohol included). Mushrooms microdoesed for depression (anecdotally, this is a more tenuous claim than the others).

    All of this, but the government decided there is no thereputic value, and judges decided no legal argument can be made to strike down the laws.

  2. Re: Is there a mechanism for lost cards? on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If one is in a hurry, that's probably a bad strategy.

    Not sure how it works there, but my experiences with lost tickets have been generally a punishment with time wasted, forgiveness, and a warning not to do it again (mostly parking garages).

  3. I assume GP meant post shower/bath wrinkle fingers.

    Mine fails then.

  4. Re:Cheaper than Netflix. on MoviePass' Low Subscription Price Just Got Lower (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a violation of their merchant contract?

    https://www.creditcards.com/cr...

  5. Re:It depends what you're wearing . . . on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Picard always seemed to make it off alive.

  6. Re:China already doing it on BMW Says Electric Car Mass Production Not Viable Until 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My mistake, I meant 240V I guess?

    I'd hardly call a stove or dryer circuit exotic.

    A stove is often 240v 40A, which gets 125 overnight (8 hours sleep plus an hour on each side).

    I was simply doing the math that the special charger for the volt does 50 miles in 4.5 hours, so it should be possible to do 100 overnight with a typical at home 220(240?v) charger.

    I am not convinced trenching would be needed as it can be wall mounted and has a 25 foot cord.

    That's my point though, a pretty typical at home charge accessory gets 100 miles + a day (I assume that it will spend less time in too off mode to do 100 miles all at once).

    If the full range is 1,000 miles, I will essentially never need to charge at home, maybe once in a blue moon to I break 1,000 miles away from home, and only once a month 100 miles.

    Sure, there are people that always need to drive more than 100 miles/day, but I bet they are exceedingly rare. As batteries get better, I expect ranges to increase, if not to 1,000 miles, close to it. Over the last decade we've seen some pretty big gains.

    In 4 years there's been a 17% increase (Tesla, 85->100) and a 25% range increase (312->393), I'm not sure where they will decide the trade off is that makes it not worth it anymore for range (cost or weight related), but it seems likely we'll get cars that can handle an extreme driving weekend without the need to recharge, and can be slowly topped off during overnights at home (either that or plugin hybrids come to be the main thing).

  7. Re:No, COMPULAB Switched on Linux Mint Ditches AMD For Intel With New Mintbox Mini 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen them called mini PCs

    I don't think a mini computer counts as a PC.

  8. Re:The real issue on MoviePass' Low Subscription Price Just Got Lower (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet they will, I can imagine tons of people will use it the first couple months, the stoop.

    They got their full year, plus float.

  9. Re:Cheaper than Netflix. on MoviePass' Low Subscription Price Just Got Lower (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You get a special credit card they fund with the exact price of the movie when you want to go.

    Unless you clone it, and it's not chipped, you won't be able to share it as easily as you imply.

  10. Re:Waaaaaaah on FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering they're short range and thousands of them would be needed to adequately cover medium through large cities, that a real cost.

  11. Re:I probably would have hit her on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Human drivers tend to think 10mph over the limit is safe, and don't consider night extreme in my experience.

  12. Re:China already doing it on BMW Says Electric Car Mass Production Not Viable Until 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume batteries will get bigger too.

    If I can go 1,000 miles a charge, that pretty much covers me on most round trips.

    I don't need fast charging then, as long as I can charge 50-100 a typical night at home with nothing exotic (I think a standard 220v home circuit does that).

  13. Re:China already doing it on BMW Says Electric Car Mass Production Not Viable Until 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice to know.

    I'm a 1 car household, and I do a road trip about once a month, so a pure plugin would need a considerably higher range (750), but the 50 advertised of the current Volt seems perfect for the other 28 days a month.

    I'm right on the edge of electrics being there for me, but that much car rental adds up.

    I'm working on getting a carport built before my current car dies too (I live in a city and need my back yard to be a driveway, and I'd be more comfortable with it covered).

  14. Re:China already doing it on BMW Says Electric Car Mass Production Not Viable Until 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Volt is a plug-in hybrid though.

    Likely my next car will be a current (as in current today) generation Volt used.

    The 50 Mile electric, plus 270 per tank of gas seems perfect.

  15. Re:Still killed though on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dog should be avoided (as should all property damage)

    A cow should be avoided (as should all property damage)

    Cars hitting bugs is generally acceptable (I've never gotten in trouble for my windshield)

    These aren't very difficult.

    More interesting is should it protect the driver? Do drivers protect themselves (perhaps swerving onto a sidewalk of people to avoid getting T boned)?

    I'd think breaking in an attampted to minimize inact damage is a good enough response when coupled with faster reaction time, the trickey part will be for human drivers to learn that they need a bigger following distance.

  16. Re:Making Google Search less and less relevant on Google Makes Push To Turn Product Searches Into Cash (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why can't the two be related.

    If I want to buy product X, whyvis store Y that sells product X not a great option?

    I find the sponsored links very helpful when actively trying to take part in commerce.

  17. Yeah, and double fuck trains, do you have any idea how long it takes them to stop?

    It's down right irresponsible.

  18. Re:The first of many incremental tests . . . on Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman in First Fatal Crash Involving Pedestrian (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the precedents that require them to accept 3rd party parts?

  19. Re:The first of many incremental tests . . . on Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman in First Fatal Crash Involving Pedestrian (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a human driver in the seat expected to avoid these things.

    How is it any different than cruise control in that context?

    Especially since the human was a professional, this isn't like when Tesla auto pilot fails and maybe they over sold it, this is a professional failing at their job.

    Maybe the incident was unavoidable, maybe it was a reasonable accident, or maybe it was negligence on the humans part, but it isn't a failure if a self driving car (and there are actual self driving cars on the road now).

  20. And yet the human driver failed in this case, just as they do every day.

  21. The sensors we're human eyes.

    That's why there's a person there watching, to assure adequate sensors and processor (human brain) are on the task.

  22. Re:Wow revenue! on Lyft Says Its Revenue Is Growing Nearly 3x Faster Than Uber's (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon has profited 2 billion dollars over the last 20years.

    That is very different than Uber, which has been losing money for a very long time now.

    Amazon was profitable in year 4 (2003), Uber is still losing tons of money in year 9.

    In general Amazon's losses were shrinking year on year, Ubers are growing.

    Source for 20year profit.

    https://revenuesandprofits.com...

  23. Re:Gonna suck. on Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com) · · Score: 0

    I disagree (which is to say it's subjective I guess).

    When it's dark in the morning, my productivity suffers.

    Sun in the morning when waking up is better than sun after work.

    It can be pretty dark in the mornings even on winter time, I'd really hate it and hour darker.

  24. Re:Isn't year round DST on Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    No, summer time year round would be year round daylight saving time.

    Winter time year round would be no DST.

    I assume this is why they need Congress to approve too (a state can choose to have DST or not, but the federal government sets the days).

  25. So much meditating.