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  1. Online threats on Tim Berners-Lee Launches Campaign To Save the Web From Abuse (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    abuse and discrimination, political manipulation, and other threats that plague the online world

    Because fortunately, none of this exists outside of Internet!

  2. Problem already solved on Billionaires Are Chasing The Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We already know how to harness power from fusion. The technique is called "solar panel".

  3. UBI, regressive flavor on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    8000 USD per year is the regressive UBI flavor. Of course nobody quits its job, since it is impossible to live on such a low income.

    On the other hand, employers will have a good reason to refuse raises: you already had 8000 USD. It will also be possible to hire with salary lower than before but still acceptable by workers, because of UBI help.

    In other word, an UBI that is not enough to live on it is just taxpayer money subsiding employers.

  4. Local government on UK Announces Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    Technology giants will have to pay more tax in the UK under new regulations unveiled by the local government today.

    It is a bit odd to call local a nation state's government. Is there a global government that oversees UK "local" government?

  5. Cost per job on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    3 billion USD for 13,000 jobs means taxpayers give 230,000 USD per created job. Let us hope the factory will remain active for a few few years .

  6. Re:Yes but on Should Parents End 'Screen Time' For Children? (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Plenty of kids can make their own decisions without parents hovering over them. Not all kids need their parents to micromanage their social lives.

    Indeed, but there are also kids that are not yet mature enough manage addictive stuff. In that cases, parent have a duty to take care of the problem for them.

  7. They will make money using the name of the most famous navy failure. This is literally capitalizing on failure.

  8. Search by the plaintiff on What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home For Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How can a search by the plaintiff itself be ruled legal? This should be the police's job. Or at least a third party that would have no interest into planting fake evidence during the search.

  9. Junk food on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    My first idea was that people that eat organic food are more likely to eat healthy food overall. This could be a bias, but it seems the researchers addressed it. The paper states they had a look at junk food, for instance:

    Ultraprocessed food consumption was assessed using the NOVA classification

  10. Hack proof? on Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It seems naive to believe the hardware will not be found to be vulnerable in the future, up to the point it will require replacement.

  11. Not patentable on Lavender's Soothing Scent Could Be More Than Just Folk Medicine (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Dr. Kashiwadani believes this new insight is a key step in developing lavender-derived compounds like linalool for clinical use in humans.

    Since Big Pharma will not be able to patent this natural compound, they are not likely to promote it.

  12. Business model? on 190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses · · Score: 1

    Despite popular beliefs, MOOC are not free to run. The University must appoint teachers to support them. Indeed less teachers per student are required than on a regular course, but it is still a cost. How is it funded here?

  13. Already blocked since iOS 11.4.1? on Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought they already addressed Graykey in iOS 11.4.1

  14. Re: Supersonic on Bloodhound's 1,000 MPH Car Project Needs Money (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it really adds extra engineering problems

  15. Supersonic on Bloodhound's 1,000 MPH Car Project Needs Money (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    1000 mph is supersonic speed, which means they will have some extra engineering to tackle

  16. Are UX/UI designers special? on Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? · · Score: 2

    The question should rather be: how UX/UI designers are different from software engineers, if the former do not contribute to free software like the later?

  17. Re:Rescuing? on Rolls-Royce Wants To Fill the Seas With Self-Sailing Ships (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It happens a lot in Mediterranean Sea nowadays, with people trying to reach Europe on ships not suitable for sailing high sea.

  18. Rescuing? on Rolls-Royce Wants To Fill the Seas With Self-Sailing Ships (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    human-free ships could be 15 percent more efficient to run, because they don't need energy-gobbling life support systems, doing things like heating, cooking, and lugging drinking water along for the ride.

    How do you fulfill your shipwrek victim rescue duties, when your ship cannot support life?

  19. Re:What level of UBI? on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    If the level is high enough everyone working will be paying more of their wage in new taxes to pay for a UBI.

    You can imagine a system where instead of spending money to pay wages, companies spend the same amount of money to an UBI fund, which in turn pays the workers. I do not know if such a model would push people to work, but at least it does not add any tax.

  20. France went there too on America Finally Abandons Plan To Convert Plutonium Bombs Into Nuclear Fuel (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    France also tried that. The Superphenix reactor was designed to burn plutonium. It was completed in 1981, and abandoned in 1997.

  21. What level of UBI? on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    We can imagine an UBI that empower workers. If the level is high enough that you can tell employers you are not interested by their projects, the story becomes different. But that requires a huge amount of money.

    Nothing impossible, but the scale is about socializing the whole labor market: Companies would pay an UBI fund to get the UBI paid workers abroad. The more a company pays, the more workers it can employ, but it still have to convince workers their project is worth it. Of course, this is a completely new idea and have never been tested anywhere, hence we do not know if enough workers would be interested by working at all.

  22. A cylinder with a diameter of 160m and 35m depth for 200k salmon? If I could correctly, that leaves 80 liters of water per fish, and those are big fishes. It sounds insane.

  23. This is funny until a software at the border decides this is not you on the passport photo.

    At that point, at best you spend the whole day explaining what is going on to custom officers.

  24. social network of connected brains on Scientists Connect the Brains of Three People, Allowing Thought-Sharing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    'social network' of connected brains

    That already exists, and is known as human societies. Media is speech, written text, and other non verbal signals.

  25. No more piracy claims? on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, if users are taxed, then there should be no more piracy claim about their usages. All sources should become legal to use. Even The Pirate Bay.