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  1. The summary says they will ban vehicles. You are saying they are banning cars. Perhaps the paywalled article clarifies this. I must say though trucks and bicycles sounds like a bad mix. I’m not sure how it’s a huge improvement.

  2. Re:TRY READING, REPUBLICAN MORONS on Starting in 2019, Oslo Will Restrict the Use of Vehicles in its City Center (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I’m not a Republican. It is a legitimate question. If they block off the roads to automobiles but allow trucks that seems like it would still make the roads dangerous for bicycles and it would still need to be kept for vehicles. I can’t RTFA because it’s paywalled and I can’t find any other article that explains how they will handle it. A city center with no restaurants or shops sounds awful.

  3. How will goods be brought into the city without the use of vehicles? Will they use pack mules? It sounds like a good idea, but all the businesses which provide jobs will have no way to bring in food, and retail merchandise.

  4. Re:I'm looking for a language ... on Python Displaces C++ In TIOBE Index Top 3 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there a programming language out there, that is as fast as C++ or even C, has a proper strict type system (no duck typing, nothing like Python or JS), fast garbage collection

    No.

    Neither will there be. There's always a penalty for garbage collection.

    I think go is the closest to your requested feature list.

  5. Re:Wake me when they switch DBs on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 2

    How is Postgres not an option? I’ve used it in some super heavy installations and it’s always been amazing. In fact if we are only discussing the database itself, Oracle has less features in many areas.

  6. They died when they stopped doing physical magazin on Linux Journal Ceases Publication (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 2

    I was a subscriber for many years. One day they told me my print subscription had been converted to an esubscription and I wouldn’t get a refund. I never even looked at the esubscription and never renewed it. I would probably still be a subscriber if they hadn’t done that.

  7. Re: That's just too damn bad. on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 0

    The second amendment specifically states the right to bear arms is for use in a militia. I have no issues with guns for that purpose. You can have them on duty. Here's the text "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.". It was judicial overreach to declare the rights to mean outside of use for a militia.

  8. Re: Dangerous on New Heating Technology Uses Seawater and Carbon Dioxide (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    CO2 is just the refrigerant. It is not consumed by the heating cycle. CO2 has been used for cooling in many places, this is the first I've heart of using it in a heat pump for heating though.

  9. Re: How will they then migrate to south in summer? on Netherlands Looks To Ban All Non-Electric Cars By 2025 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, the only countries that are more productive per person than the US are Luxembourg and Norway.

  10. Re: Get on with the times on Netflix Has Twice As Many US Subscribers As Comcast (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Maybe your provider sucks? I have used broadvoice for 12 years or so, and my home phone has the best quality voice compared to any cell phone. I rarely use it, but quality is not an issue.

  11. Re: Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The model S is rear wheel drive as well and handles well in snow. The reason it does well is a combination of excellent traction control, combined with the weight distribution. In a combustion engine vehicle the engine is in the front l, typically. So rear wheel drive has poor traction since the weight is located in the wrong area. Also front wheel drive is prone to fish tailing when braking, rear wheel drive experiences much less of that (though traction control does a good job minimizing that for both FWD and RWD.

  12. Re: Cooling towers on Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers · · Score: 2

    They still use a compressor, but instead of running normal outside air across dry coils, they run the air across wet coils. The evaporation makes the coils cool faster and more efficiently, at the cost of losing water. The non evaporated water is reused and pumped back to the top. Because the water is reused it can get kind of nasty and needs frequent cleaning. (Note I'm a licensed technician, but I don't work on cooling towers).

  13. Re: Get rid of the fucking adverts completely on How Television Is Fighting Off the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would you be willing to pay that much to watch a bunch of sweaty men running around hitting a rubber sphere with their feet? How can that be so entertaining you'd pay $100/month? I understand how sports can be fun for the players, I just don't get people paying money to watch others play them.

  14. Re: Been saying this for years on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Ironically, Europe has been switching from HFC refrigerants (which are safe and non-flammable, as well as energy efficient) to hydrocarbon (fossil fuel) based refrigerants (which are flammable, and use more energy to transfer heat). HFC refrigerants are major greenhouse gas contributors, hence the shift.

  15. Re: You Mean...? on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    I use both, but I feel media player classic has the inferior UI. VLC in full screen hides the UI elements intelligently, like Netflix does. I couldn't figure out a way to do this in media player classic.

  16. Re: Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    When people say ISA nowadays they mean the Instruction Set Architecture. So x86 or ARM for example.

  17. Re: I'm a bit conflicted on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Personally I don't think it goes far enough. Not vaccinating your child is child abuse and attempted murder. I think if a child gets a preventable disease like this for any reason other than the doctor not allowing the vaccination due to health concerns, the print should be charged with child abuse for their own children as well as any child who contracts the disease from this child.

  18. Re: They should resurrect some shows... on Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming · · Score: 1

    Yes! Funniest show I've ever seen. I was devastated when I found out they cancelled it. This is definitely prime Netflix continuation material.

  19. Re: Wow on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 0

    It's costing him almost $1 million each. Even if he sells them at cost, it's hard to see how it would be "affordable". Maybe he's not planning on breaking even, but that's pretty crazy to spend that much on a low income home.

  20. Re: Cooking on Newly Discovered Sea Creature Was Once the Largest Animal On Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've often wondered if they can bring back the dodo or the wooly mammoth if we will domesticate them for food, since both were believed to be hunted to extinction by man, they must be delicious.

  21. Re: I am going to fork it. on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 2

    I'm leapfrogging that and doing straight to R410A

  22. Re: Look around you on Humans' Big Brains Linked To a Small Stretch of DNA · · Score: 2

    While I slightly disagree with his comment, I think it just needs to be phrased differently. When we say "smart" we may mean depth of knowledge in one or more subjects, or able to grasp new things quickly, but there is a much greater diversity in useful intellect. My father is not what most people would call "smart", he's not great at learning new things, has a below average grasp of math, doesn't read or enrich his mind, etc. yet he can look at a problem in the real world and find a solution to it in a few moments. He can't always articulate it well to others, but it's astonishing to see. He will often build something with 1 person as efficiently as 2, because he comes up with contraptions for anything you'd need another person for. He rarely uses brawn, he uses simple machines, jigs and more. He's so much smarter than I am in those areas. I can sit down and read a book on a subject and remember everything I read, and often be able to do that thing immediately afterwards. I bought books with all my income growing up, I taught myself programming and started a software company, but I will never be as good as my father at seeing a problem and solving it rapidly without the help of others and without the use of costly devices. He's "smarter" than me in that area. If IQ tests tested for that he'd be in the top 1%, Id be in the bottom 10%. There are many gifts we all have and devaluing others gifts, because they differ from our own by calling them dumb, shows just how much more you need to grow.

  23. Re: IE once again kills innovation on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's hard to take your knowledge in this matter seriously, since you call it HTML/2.

  24. Re: *cough* bullshit *cough* on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not bullshit. Many commercial buildings in hot dry climate use evaporative chilers. You can also get devices that do it indoors. The issue with doing it indoors, is that once the air becomes saturated with moisture it stops working. Plus the room gets wet and cold, which is not a good environment, it leads to mold and mildew. Indoor evaporative coolers are best used in places that you only want to cook on rare occasions, that are very dry, and are located far from a window.

  25. Re: Rare? on Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000 · · Score: 1

    Nintendo Entertainment System, NES for short