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  1. There is this retired cosmologist called Jean-Pierre Petit, who has been pushing such a model for years, with a few papers published in peer reviewed journals. His videos are very interesting for an introduction to cosmology. Some were translated in english.

  2. Necessary for who? on NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber has already put out a statement saying that increased driver earnings "will lead to higher than necessary fare increases"

    Necessary for who? In Uber mind, not for the drivers, obviously

  3. Could first on Is Linux Taking Over The World? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Gartner states that 80 percent of internally developed software is now either cloud-enabled or cloud-native.

    Network bills are that cheap?

  4. I would rather say it looks Greek.

  5. Cuba on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    [US] life expectancy fell by one-tenth of a year, to 78.6 years

    One tenth of a year was the difference between USA and the 50 years embargoed Cuba in WHO 2015 study.

  6. the scammers had extracted money from thousands of victims, most of whom were American or Canadian.

    Then why India cares? It cost taxpayer money to relief wealthier countries

  7. What are our politicians doing about this? on 'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a huge problem, and one that liberals in particular should have capitalized on this election cycle.

    Indeed they should have, but unfortunately, they seems to still think they lose because of Russians.

  8. I wonder who will use that service. Except for the case of people getting infected with ransomware, the interest for cryptocurrency in the general population is rather low.

  9. It looks like MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD) approach that power Russia's recently announced missiles.

  10. Desirable cafeine on Decaf Tea Found In The Wild (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    these methods can affect the brew's flavor and destroy compounds that are associated with lowered cholesterol and reduced risk of heart attack or stroke

    Compounds like cafein, you mean?

  11. Dead fish will also release nitrogen, where will that go? It is a usual pollution source from big farming.

  12. Re:Queue Some TechnoLuddite on Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    HTTPS does two things

    You actually forgot a third valuable thing: content integrity. HTTPS makes sure a man in the middle cannot push a malware inside your recipe pages.

    And that is not a James Bond scenario. I have seen a Windows malware running on a PC and infecting the HTTP stream that passes within its reach.

  13. 96 million repositories on GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft (github.com) · · Score: 1

    96 million repositories, and has over 31 million contributors

    More repositories than users? I guess that 96 million figure counts the forked repositories that we have to create in order to submit pull requests.

  14. Claim for existing stuff on 86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Summary suggests they claim things that already exist: appeal procedure, human reviewer. How does it makes sense?

  15. Re: Not hot enough on China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I do not know this Tony, but he seems smart.

  16. Not hot enough on China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    One fusion dirty secret is that it produces neutrons that cannot be confined by electromagnetic fields, because they have no charge. They will damage the reactor, and the only way to get rid of them is to use some a-neutronic fusion reaction such as hydrogen+boron.

    But hydrogen+boron fusion require much more input energy than hydrogen+hydrogen. Is 100 million degrees hot enough?

  17. This is an easy thing to grasp with climate change: warming means more evaporation, and more evaporation means ore rain.

  18. Re:Problem already solved on Billionaires Are Chasing The Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Still better than fusion reactors, that do not produce energy at all.

  19. Why is Chrome to blame? on Facebook Patches Vulnerability That Could Have Exposed User Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a CSRF at Facebook, but why blame Chrome? The browser seems to just do its job.

  20. Trust them for privacy on A 'Clippy'-Style Chatbot -- and Other Creepy Online Dating Innovations (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook users will be tasked with creating a new profile that will exist separately from the one that all of your friends and family can see.

    Sure, that will be true until Facebook leaks it one way or another.

  21. intergenerational collaboration on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 2

    [older workers] complement those of younger workers, and their guidance and support enhance performance and intergenerational collaboration.

    That may happen, but one harsh condition is that younger workers accept the idea that their elders have something valuable to share. Too often in IT we see old known problems solved again from scratch.

  22. No proof on Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? (omaha.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First we are said without proof that Russians made the 2016 presidential elections. Then we are told without proof that they were stopped from influencing the 2018 midterm elections.

    Alternative explanation: Russians try to influence all US elections with negligible impact, and democrats lost in 2016 because they chose the wrong candidate.

  23. Fragile nature on David Attenborough To Present Netflix Nature Series 'Our Planet' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the beauty and fragility of our natural world

    This is a misconception in my opinion. Nature is strong and resilient, but the ecosystem that supports human life is the fragile part. Once our pollution will have the earth unsuitable for our own life, nature will carry on without us.

  24. Reynholm Industries on Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Can someone explain me the joke about Reynholm Industries?

  25. Government of judges on EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here again the EU court of justice pushes its agenda about free market obsession. And since EU institutions do not have a real legislator, this landmark ruling will be law unless all member states agree to overturn it.