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  1. Re:Cue the usual suspects. on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Which remaining scientist still use the imperial weight system ?

  2. Re:Security is hard... on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Didn't the pre-9/11 style cockpit door somewhat block the U-93 passengers and crew from accessing the cockpit? How did that result deciding to have in the cockpit doors reinforced?

  3. Re:Electric pumps for when it's not raining on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    The joke IS not on me: I am well aware of pumped storage stations; there is one in my country too.

  4. Electric pumps for when it's not raining on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, they only need to install electric pumps for when it's not raining, and they're 100% renewable forever!

  5. Re:meanwhile on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    Just for my information, suppose you sell your house with a profit, then buy another house in the same country, do you still have to pay for capital gains ?

  6. Re:the establishment really does not like competit on Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids · · Score: 1

    It's not "the establishment does not like competition". Nobody likes competition. However it is actually illegal for your competitor to not abide to rules you need to abide to.

    The correct way is that the market should integrate the actual, legal innovations of Uber (i.e. an app that matches drivers and riders), which should come easier if Uber is driven out of business by law enforcement.

    Once law abiding taxi businesses have integrated these innovations, information asymmetry between dispatcher, driver, and rider -which is ultimately what taxi businesses are about- should plummet, and you'll end up paying something X between Uber price U and taxi price T (UXT), T-X being the value of the current information asymmetry, X-U being the money Uber currently externalizes to (i.e. steals from) driver and society.

  7. It's called Namur on Data Research Reveals When Taking a Yellow Cab Is Cheaper Than an Uber · · Score: -1

    n/t

  8. Re:The next big bubble? on Uber Rival Lyft Raises $530M, Will Beef Up IT · · Score: 1

    Makes me wonder: in countries where prostitution and proxenetism are legal (Germany, Switzerland...), did anyone think of making a Uber for sex ?

  9. this is 2015 on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tuxracer and xbill don't count as games anymore

  10. Of course it's not a planet on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 1

    Pluto's Mickey's friend.

  11. Re:If there are no jobs then war, duh on 5 White Collar Jobs Robots Already Have Taken · · Score: 2

    If there is money to let ISIS exists, there is money to let them live without being terrorist.

    Do you really think we could afford WWI or WWII ? This doesn't mean they didn't happen. War is the number one justification for spending money countries don't have.

  12. Re:Changing for you maybe on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 2

    "You'd get whiter skies. People wouldn't have blue skies anymore."

    Living in Ireland, the sky is white or grey about half the time. You get over it.

    The other half, it's just night time.

  13. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 2

    The plural of virus is not virii. Even if it was desirable to use a latin plural form, it would be viri (actully not, virus is neutral and also has no plural form). The singular for of virii would be virius.

  14. Re:Gadget guys vs photographers on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 1

    . I shoot high school gymnastics. During the season, which started a couple weeks ago, I regularly shoot 4000 to 5000 images at each meet,

    Not really on topic, but I have a backlog of about 100k first person sports pictures that I never ever look at, because they all look similar (5s or 10s auto shoot) and I have never found software that allow to quickly and effectively select which to keep and which to toss. What software do you use for that purpose ?

  15. Re: Comcast Business Class on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're not using their wireless, just put the router in a metal box.

  16. Re:I am Pluto? on Why Pluto Still Matters · · Score: 2

    Pluto is not anthropomorphized. He's antropomorphic Mickey's dog. Antropomorphic Mickey's antropomorphic friend is Goofy.

  17. What's Duke gonna do? on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Nuke 'em ?

  18. Reverse engineering on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, the assignment is only semi clear to begin with. Also, one can try and try and not find a solution. At that stage it's very tempting to just look up how other people did it. Without looking at the code, this allows to see what the expected results are for a number of inputs. This is not even copying yet, at least from a coding point of view. Even with looking at the code, if that's what's needed to find what's wrong with your code, what's the deal? Where is the line? Copy paste ? Copy paste with variable renaming ? Ask a buddy to analyze, then design based on his analysis? Assume both roles on your own? Kill self after seeing someone's code ?

  19. Re:RIP argument of authority on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    I'm also mentioning this in my post, "affirmation of the BS". But at least they get exposed to the differing view.

  20. Re:Good! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    point 4. "of" is not a verb. Additionally, science never claimed consanguineous children are necessarily unhealthy, it only tells they will be if a defect is not counterbalanced with a healthy gene. This is why hemophiliacs are mostly always males, as females rarely have BOTH X chromosomes fucked up, while the Y chromosome doesn't carry that gene to begin with.

  21. RIP argument of authority on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    The Internet simply destroyed the argument of authority. Whoever has access to the Internet has to possibility to check facts, and will be exposed to debunk of the BS, affirmation of the BS, BS ate my balls, BS's tweets. "Authority says so, it must be true" is doomed with the ease of checking, although this is somewhat balanced by the ease to forward BS you hear on your Facebook account, itself balanced by obsessive compulsive nerds like myself who take a pride in debunking it in less than 12 seconds.
    Then seven years ago smartphones came along, and even at the bar BS is easily debunked. Some story some dude tells at the bar can't leave a mark in people's subconscious anymore.

  22. Re:EUREKA!!! on Another Possible Voynich Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    OVOmaltine!

  23. Re:South Korean Government: on South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable · · Score: 1

    Good on anti-trust enforcement..

    Then how come they HAVE to run Windows only software in order to do e-gov and e-banking related stuff?

  24. Re:Privacy on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 1

    whoa! 2005 is so gonna blow my mind!

  25. Re:Humans are ignorant. Critical thinking IS king! on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Do I believe in the lessons in the Bible? Sure I do.

    Either you're a dangerous sociopath, either you cherry picked the lessons that make sense and chose to ignore the others. What other holy book did you use as an axiomatic ruleset to do the cherry picking ?