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  1. Re:Silly Monkeys on The Case For a Muon Collider Succeeding the LHC Just Got Stronger · · Score: 2

    Muons are actually much smaller than the nano scale, which is typical for small molecules. The Muon is like a big electron.

  2. It is not wrong, it is odd: Wondering about object usage after buying instead of before.

  3. This is consumerism at its top: first buy, second look for an usage.

  4. Re:Bad faith on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    But that said, the psychological aspect of not worrying about your security doesn't really translate into workers who are more "focused".

    I used "can" and "may".

    French workers productivity is among the highest, but it is not obvious to tell why. Protective labour laws may help, so may education, healthcare, infrastructures... In fact all that factors probably contribute.

  5. Screams on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    If it would have been a government-run spacecraft, we could hear screams about wasted money and inefficiency. Had it been foreign-government run, we could here about nation's X decline or lack of experience.

  6. Other sides on Professional Internet Troll Sues Her Former Employer · · Score: 1

    The interesting point is that Russian zealots online do have their US opponents. Are the later paid by the CIA or did the USA managed to find propaganda workforce for free?

  7. Bad faith on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    His bad faith is obvious. Many companies manage to do profitable business in France. Labor laws indeed protect workers, but this is just something you can live with and still succeed.

    Moreover, I could argue that protective labor laws can help increase workers productivity. When you do not have to wonder about securing your income for the next year, month or week, you may start focus on your job.

  8. Glycin supplement on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    Gizmag's paper reports the research is about a Glycine regulating gene, then suggest Glycine supplement may sometime thrive as anti-age treatment.

    Is it just me, or did the person that wrote the second part failed to understand what is gene regulation?

  9. Re:Computers Kill Trees on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 1

    Sure, but paper-production forest do not contain 100 years old trees. The idea is to plant trees somewhere there were no tree before.

  10. Re:Computers Kill Trees on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 2

    Paper-production is actually pushing humans to plant more trees, and that trees act as carbon sinks. Killing a tree is not a huge problem since you immediatly replace it

  11. Nix on Sex-Switched Mosquitoes May Help In Fight Against Diseases · · Score: 1

    Nix, like the Greek goddess of infernal night?

  12. Split on Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn · · Score: 1

    I am split. On one hand I support freedom of speech and I think it would be nice to enforce it. On the other hand I support Democracy and if the Brits want to restrict freedom of speech, an outer undemocratic body like EU should not be able to bar them.

    But after some though, I think that there should be no natural laws. People sovereignty should be the source of any law and therefore Democracy should trump freedom of speech. After all in a democratic regime, freedom of speech restriction wan be overturned later by another sovereign decisionn therefore it is no big deal.

  13. Re:Slow torture on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 0

    Greece has a military?

    Here is a table of per-country military spending, as shared of GDP.

    Even after EU-mandated austerity plans, Greece spends more than Turkey, but also more than France, United Kingdom, or China. I guess EU "partners" considered they were the best country to keep the Germany submarine industry alive.

  14. Re: Slow torture on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    pay you train drivers 7000 euors per month.

    Do you have a source for that? (Bild does not qualify as a decent source)

  15. Slow torture on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    The term slow torture is interesting. Eurozone "partners" indeed pressure Greece government to act against its own national interests.

    The primary tool so far has been BCE supply of money to Greece's banks. While this mechanism has nothing to do with sovereign debt, it has been used as blackmail: "act as we ask, otherwise your banking system will collapse because of liquidity shortage".

    The reforms they were not asked to perform are interesting. Greece has been asked to reduce salaries and pensions, and even to sell some territory. But when did EU "partners" did push for a tax reform so that the wealthier pay their share? When did EU "partners" asked for military budget reduction? When you have trouble paying debts, it sounds strange to let wealthy people's money leaking into fiscal paradises, and to buy submarines from Germany.

  16. Re:"Decides"? on Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the title negates the fact that states still have some sovereignty left.

    A better title could have been "UK forces Amazon to pay its taxes"

  17. Bureaucracy on Al-Qaeda's Job Application Form Revealed · · Score: 1

    Do they have Pointy Haired Boss?. Pointy-bearded boss, perhaps?

  18. Capitalism at work on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 4, Informative

    Expert's opinion do not weight much. Even if they were all against it, as soon as there is profit to be made, it would happen anyway.

  19. Message beyond the accident on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 1

    It does not look like an accident, but rather like a message: "Civil servant did the grunt work, now the People has to decide and the political leaders will just have to push the button. Do not believe anyone telling you we cannot do it"

  20. Re:Comparison on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    So a race to the bottom is the only solution?

    It is the only alternative according to the stupid people that govern EU countries. But it is not a solution to improve anything. Even if we just blindly look at economic indicators like GDP, without any consideration for human beings, their politics are plain failures.

  21. Codec? on YouTube Live Streams Now Support HTML5 Playback and 60fps Video · · Score: 2

    What in and out codec are? You do not transcode into HTML5, it is just a container format. You transcode H264 in VP8 or Ogg for instance.

  22. Re:Comparison on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    debts so bad the EU is rejecting their budgets and forcing them to reduce their spending

    You have to tell the whole story

    The robots from EU commission are allowed to have their word on France's budget because french president Francois Hollande signed a stupid treaty that binds state deficit below 0.5% of GDP.

    This means at the same time France is borrowing money at a 0% rate, which is a bargain, and gets bad comments from EU commission because this is forbidden deficit.

  23. Re:Comparison on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the riots in the streets of Paris

    I wonder what riots you refer to. Any source?

  24. Re:Comparison on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Well, austerity policies are going to fix that divergence.

  25. Proved science on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 1

    Microsoft people that made it a successful company were raised with pens, paper and chalk.

    That set of tools is old fashioned but we know it works.