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  1. Re: Let's play! on Cathay Pacific Data Breach Hits 9.4 Million People (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Polio

  2. Re:But we don't know on Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not much, but the Romans added lead on purpose.

  3. Re:So What on Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as "hating vegetables" goes, most people I know that hate them only know vegetables as this thing that comes in a can or a freezer bag and mom boiled the fuck out of. I loved my mom's cooking, but when it came to having 2 working parents, there was no time to cook fresh meals.

    Fresh vegetables and direct, high, heat is your friend here. Grill if you can go outside, wok or broiler if its cold out. Don't use too much oil, get just a little char on it, and you are good to go.

  4. I guarantee the Pixel 4 won't support this on Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They tried wireless charging a few phone generations ago. I bought the $50 charger. It worked like shit and charged slow. Next generation, Google doesn't support it.

    Fuck proprietary bullshit and fuck you, Google.

  5. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Full scale? What is it, a 1 mile or 1km tube? It gets nowhere close to full speed, it doesn't carry passengers, and they don't have the ability to inject cars while the tube is depressurized.

    Blah, blah, its only a prototype. A prototype that doesn't do any of the things they claim it can do.

  6. Re:You're reading it wrong on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:A useful shibboleth on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    Neither do I, but if you pronounce it wrong, you are dead.

    https://www.biblegateway.com/p...

    As always, the brick testament does it better:

    http://www.thebricktestament.c...

  8. Re:You're reading it wrong on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    44. Fear the Day of Judgment.

    Fear the day your project is released to the public. For that day ye shall be judged.

  9. Re:Why even adopt it on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    This can fall under a general, "Mods can ban anyone that is disruptive to the project." rule. If they are a cunt in their personal life, but act civilly and professionally on the project, why bother? Sure, someone that is a cunt probably can't help themselves to bring it into all aspects of their life. Wait until they do, then drop the ban hammer on them.

    Why have a zillion other rules that have nothing to do with software development? My guess is the people that are coming up with those rules do not give a shit about development or the project.

  10. Re:AvE for the win. on YouTube Is Investing $20 Million In Educational Content, Creators (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  11. The choice is not between no water and the dehumidifier water, it is between dehumidifier water and some more cost effective way of delivering water.

  12. Re:Waiting for Dave's rant on this on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It's usually cheaper to put a tank of water on a truck.

    This is exactly the point. Nobody is saying that dehumidifiers don't work. They are saying there is no way to use them as a water supply in any way close to being economical. Anyone that claims otherwise failed basic science class or is lying to you.

  13. But get burned to death.

  14. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    And now you see why right-wing, alt-right, and brexit people get so pissed off about him. He made the cardinal sin of not toeing the line on every single policy.

    Personally, I ignore the political videos, they are not that interesting. I think he worked at an EU funded science lab in the past, so he has a vested interested for keeping the EU together.

    Once politics is over, debunking bullshit is the next big youtube frontier.

    Oh, and does a lot of debunking videos of Hyperloop, which is sure to piss off a huge number of people. :)

  15. Not really that new of a scam, actually:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    Whatever you believe about crowdfunding, Triton and Fontus were straight-up scams from the start, backed by fancy kickstarter videos.

    Anymore, the more polished a kickstarter video looks, the less likely I am to trust that the product is real.

  16. Re:Who honestly thinks this does anything? on Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's like pissing in to an ocean of piss.

    But I think it has shown that memes do affect people. Maybe the people spreading the memes already made up their minds, but maybe not.

  17. Re:Second article this year Iâ(TM)ve seen abo on Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/04/18/worse-than-y2k-quantum-computing-and-the-end-of-privacy/

    This is worse than y2k

    If it is 10x worse than y2k, then it will still be no problem at all.

  18. Or he accidentally becomes invisible.

    Funny story: Richard Dean Anderson was actually in the greensuit during the scene with T'ealc.

  19. Re:I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas. on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is my understanding that you are correct.

    But, holy fuck dude; that is some people are actually doing that. What a way to torture one's self.

  20. Re:I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas. on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I have never been convinced that the wager was Pascal's reason for believing. That it was just a thought experiment, and if it ensnared those with no ability to think for themselves, so be it.

    I can't believe that he thinks you can just "decide to believe" in anything, he was smarter than that. I don't believe "fake it till you make it" exists; at least not for rather profound things like believing in a deity.

    I have no proof of this, but I am not a philosopher or a historian.

  21. Re:I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas. on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahh, the old "do the research" argument. Can't fail that one.

    I bow before your brilliance. I am sure Pascal would be proud.

  22. Re:I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas. on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you are Islamic?

  23. That is probably the dumbest jump of logic I have seen this week.

  24. Re:I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas. on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, which of the thousands of gods will you put your wager on?

  25. Re:"Features" that are gone or almost gone.#1 Priv on Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    What would be the point of a phone with 4G but no TCP/IP stack?