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  1. Re:Crimes against humanity on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    they weren’t a little guy like him

    Here, right here, where you labelled a multi-millionaire CEO as a little guy is where you lost the remaining pittance of a credibility you had left after that garbage apologist post.

  2. Re:Coal rockets and a gay ban in space? on Senate Confirms Climate Denier With No Scientific Credentials To Head NASA (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You know the future.

    No, he makes predictions of the future. He would make predictions of the future if Hilary was elected too, but those predictions are less accurate based on the lack of data.

    Use your brain.

  3. and more with the fact that they believe that people ought to have sex only inside a heterosexual marriage

    Clearly beliefs are a sliding scale. I know quite a lot of people who were happily fucking all over the place yet have quite the problem with gay people, specifically not just gay sex but any signs of homosexual attraction (e.g. men holding hands).

  4. You know Jack Shit about him other than what various activists have alledged.

    You clearly haven't seen his twitter account if you think our only source of information about him is from 3rd parties. ... Or watched his reality TV show, or seen his depositions in court when people have sued him.

  5. Re:Bad idea if only for long term maintenance on Can Tesla's Batteries Power Puerto Rico? (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    Ever try keeping a gas turbine plant running? Not so simple. Or cheap. Solar cell / battery plants are quite a bit easier to maintain than 30 foot tall jet engines.

    30ft tall jet engines? I think you've never tried to do maintenance on a solar system that big either. You're talking about two different levels of scale. Little microturbines on the other hand seem to require a similar level of maintenance as a typical house gas hot water system.

  6. Re:Does facebook ask ... on Facebook Starts Its Facial Recognition Push To Europeans (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No you don't understand the point. Facial recognition still happens, the point here is that Facebook doesn't auto-tag or suggest who the person may be.

  7. Re:Cue Up Nobel Prize For Trump on North Korean Leader Says He Will Suspend Arms Tests, Shut Nuclear Test Site (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. I mean if they give it to one guy for doing nothing then they should also give it to another guy who did nothing. Hell where's my peace prize. I didn't cause a war today, why don't I get one!

  8. Re:If you know it's comming on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe lobby for more vocational schools and better funding for public universities

    What makes you think they aren't? We have been doing that for the best part of the past 5 years, but this kind of approach takes a long time to achieve a result.

    Are you willing to have a vacancy for 10 years while you're busy fixing the world?

  9. Re:But... on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At the very least, it would be extremely destabilizing,

    Isn't that one of the primary goals of this current government?

    Replace all science with anti science leaders.
    Reverse the trade practices that America spent years building.
    Piss on the relationships that America spent years building.
    Constantly berate a nuclear power.

    It would be perfectly consistent to start a war with an ally.

  10. Re:But how many jobs will this AI create? on AI Will Wipe Out Half the Banking Jobs In a Decade, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    I have to go to a branch and get a teller every month to pay my rent.

    What is a branch? Or a teller?

    My bank actively discourages ever visiting them. 5EUR every time you want to talk to a teller. And really there is zero reason to ever talk to a teller in this age.

  11. Re:Non-Scientific Language Question on No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you just re-enforced what I said with an equal but different example.

    Arbitrary involves arbitrary words.
    Non-arbitrary involves pointing to something specific: "THIS". Additional knowledge is required to realise that it is in fact arbitrary.

    This string can be measured. By extension everything specific we point to should be measurable.
    But wait this border can't be measured because there's an additional factor (fractal problem) that affects its length.
    But wait this rubber band can't be measured because there's an additional factor (extension) that affects its length.

    Neither of those are intuitive to the general public.

  12. high quality audio conversations

    300Hz to 3300kHz.... "high quality" ... I can only assume the rap music has wreaked your ears or your brain for you to come up with that post.

  13. Re:Slimy on The 'Terms and Conditions' Reckoning Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I hate Elon Musk? He is sending us all to Mars.

    He lied to you. He's going to mars himself and leaving the stupid plebs behind. He's already had his car shipped there.

  14. Re:Easy, just make a new unit! on No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    How many laps around the library of congress building is that?

  15. Re:Non-Scientific Language Question on No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't as obvious however that this is arbitrary.

    Think of the usual "how long is a piece of string" question. That is arbitrary. However when you say "how long is THIS piece of string" it ceases to be arbitrary. Now a string is flexible and can be stretched out then measured end to end to come up with an exact answer.

    By logical extension the costline can as well, except it can't due to the fractal problem. And this is where I'm getting to: With this line of thinking the intuitive answer is that there should be an exact solution to the problem. How long is "THIS" coastline, THIS is a thing and things are measurable.

    Unlike the string example it's not immediately obvious that the question was arbitrary.

  16. Re:Human Caused Global Warming? on Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    Seems the water in Sydney, Australia [seatemperature.org] has about an 8 deg C change pretty much every year.

    Ahh yes the inability to understand the difference between a cyclical mean and it's peak values. Keep the ignorance coming. I like how people know more than scientists who study this for a living.

    Type on keyboard warrior.

  17. Re:Stiff the creditors on Puerto Rico is Experiencing an Island-Wide Blackout (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How does any company have more working valuable assets than a territory of the USA?

    You're joking right? Aside from the fact that the USA can't give 2 shits about it's territories, have you seen the state balance sheets of many of the USA's actual states for that matter?

    How many assets you have to back you needs to be wagered against the amount of debt you are in, and your willingness to part with those assets. You can't just sell an entire government.

  18. Re:a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones ? on ZTE Exports Ban May Mean No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where can I get a phone that is sentenced to death?

    China, India, online from many places. Seriously look around. There are MANY devices out there that don't qualify for Play Services. The fact you haven't already got one just shows how much your post is more about hyperbole than actually caring about Google.

  19. Re:Human Caused Global Warming? on Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the "ups and downs" of long term cyclical temperature shifts over the last 10-15,000 years, how can that conclusion be justified?

    Rate of change matters.

    If the temperature rises you can always move closer to the poles.
    If I set you on fire, not so much so.

    We are effectively setting corals on fire with the sudden rate at which we changed their living conditions.

  20. because it would disturb the artificial sense of crisis created by stories like these.

    You managing to grow a daisy in your garden doesn't make the fact that we're destroying the worlds largest coral reef any more "artificial". On the scale that matters the news is actually bad and one day through your gas mask you may realise that putting you fingers in your ears, closing your eyes, and going lalalal wasn't the fantastic method of dealing with the situation you thought it was.

  21. Its because the traffic planning is so bad that they use these apps.

    Traffic planning may be bad, but that's not why in general people use these apps. They serve many purposes including getting to somewhere you don't know, informing you of unforeseen problems along your route and routing around them, redirecting you if you need to take a detour etc.

  22. As I say to my wife who is a teacher: Damn you and your excessive leave. Normally that is just met with a cynical stare. :-)

  23. we live in the place most people want to go to

    LOL, you live in a bubble of delusion. Many people no longer even want to *visit* let alone live in the USA.

    So yeah, enjoy those days off in the one bedroom apartment you don't own, the tiny car you drive, with the one kid you can afford.

    There is so much wrong with that but let me educate you:
    - Most people own their apartments with just enough bedrooms for the number of people living there. McMansions are truly bizarre concepts.
    - The tiny cars we drive are the tiny cars we want. Sure I could buy a dodge charger, but I prefer a car that fits in normal parking spaces and isn't an absolute pain in the arse. Sure my car is second hand, it only cost me $10k. But it doubles in value every time I step into it wearing my wristwatch. But keep waving your tiny dick ....err sorry I mean big car around like it matters to anyone other than you.
    - As for the one kid we can afford. We're socialist, don't you remember? The government will support us to afford as many kids as we want. But popping little shits out of our vaginas only serves to decrease quality of life. It's quite ironic that the birth rate is highest in the poorest countries of the world yet you criticise us (without knowing who us is) for our low bithrate.

    Keep living the dream mate. I'll send you a postcard.

  24. I never accept a position that offers less than 15 days

    Neither have I. Doing so would be in breach of the law in every country I have lived, .... and that list of countries continues to get longer.

  25. Re:If you're allergic ... on Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried to find a longer clip where his date corrects him about what antipasto actually is right before the chef hurls abuse at him saying "when you gonna get a new joke".

    But alas Youtube failed me :(