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  1. Re:One of those is easily solved on The Decline of American Peyote (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize that so much stupid could be compressed into one post.

  2. Carbon "negative" is easy on Norway is Entering a New Era of Climate-Conscious Architecture (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's called a log cabin. Literally TONS of carbon are locked away for the lifetime of the structure. The more carbon you lock away in the form of trees, the more insulation and thermal mass you have as a result.

  3. A dredge on a long cable is all that is necessary. Nothing needs to be pressurized.

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

  4. In some places, weight and tensile strength also come into play. Copper is heavy, and a couple hundred yards between towers requires a lot of metal.

  5. The "stuff" was developed after some houses burned down. So, it probably didn't exist at the time your father ripped the circuits out.

  6. Re:Billionaire class. on A New Engine Could Bring Back Supersonic Air-Travel (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you tried applying yourself instead of whining on /.? I've never heard a worse case of self-limiting victim mentality as what you've got going on there. "Developers only come from Ivy League schools"? Seriously? WTF?

  7. Re:Will they beat flying cars? on A New Engine Could Bring Back Supersonic Air-Travel (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    How many people old enough to afford it can stand the 9Gs necessary to accomplish it?

  8. Re:New York City to Hong Kong in 2 Hours on Virgin Galactic Successfully Reaches Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    The original plan for the Concorde was Paris to Los Angeles. Boeing bought some regulations from the FAA in order to block them. The problem is that with the longer route blocked, there was no reason to continue to develop the Concorde to bring down cost, and it became an albatross.

    In space, no one can hear your sonic boom. I would expect the rockets to eventually be assisted by hyper ram jets, cabin room to be expanded, and cheaper initial launch system designed. There are a lot of ways that an enterprising engineer can search for cost savings, but first you need a platform stood up that you can expand from.

  9. Re:The customer is not always right... on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you had a look at what that website would pay for those cheap, Chinese knock-offs of designer clothes, and what they're charging the clueless imbeciles buying them? They could literally burn their warehouse to the ground every other week, and as long as the ships keep coming from the slave labor countries, they'll keep making a profit.

  10. And Marathon tried to push that middle ground in their direction a bit, just like every other industry in the country. What's the problem?

  11. Re:Thank You, Oil Industry on The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell me again, who is President and who still controls the Senate?

  12. Re:Thank You, Oil Industry on The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They lobbied to get congress critters to do their bidding...just...like...every...other...INDUSTRY!! And how did they lie? When did they say, we're not trying to sell oil?

  13. Re:Thank You, Oil Industry on The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't the ones buying a driving the cars, or buying the products from China.

  14. But does the company you work for get paid enough to afford those things. Or, are you required to work 9to5, with no vacation or health benefits, at a rate that gives you just slightly less salary than the full-time employees.

  15. Re:I worked somewhere like that ... on Google Training Document Reveals How Temps, Vendors, and Contractors Are Treated (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked at a large company that make networking equipment. I was a "contractor" for way to many years. When a permanent position came up, I was allowed to "interview" for it. I was told that I was not smart enough to work there (after taking the initiative to fix there completely broken test automation system).

    I was gone by the next week, but I still kick myself for waiting around so long on continued promises of a permanent position. Particularly galling was the senior engineer's snide remarks that contractors weren't "loyal". WTF? I work for you for years without vacation or health benefits, and you want to decry my "loyalty".

  16. Re:I thought Obama fixed climate change though on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? His war against American industry and under the table payouts to solar panel companies that had political supporters on their boards did plenty to help our climate.

    Fortunately, the price decrease in the solar energy sector has seen the same pattern that literally EVERY other technology has seen. Which leaves us to believe that all politicians together have done jack-squat to affect anything.

  17. Google could easily fix their algorithm by adding "I wish I had never clicked on this" button.

    Amazon's video service has the same problem. I search for videos, and click on a couple. After two minutes in I'm wanting to tear my eyes out. It is that bad. But, now the movie is in my "continue watching" list, with no way of taking it out.

  18. Re:Wrong answer. Correct answer is on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they should. But, at that point, they are editorializing content and should not longer receive common carrier status.

  19. Re:Local governments must not have this power on Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm strongly libertarian, but I also believe that any land the government acquires through imminent domain should remain under government control or returned directly to the landowner it was taken from. The government should be in control of the communication and power distribution networks for the same reason that they are in control of roads. In all those cases, the networks are necessary to create markets.

  20. Re:When surveyed, people lie! on What Student Developers Want in a Job (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    There is an assumption that salary is going to fall in the same range. It is when Corp A offers you $70k and Corp B offers you $67k that salary becomes a "nice to have".

  21. Re:Where is MONEY on this list? on What Student Developers Want in a Job (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all millenials graduate with a Comp Sci degree.

  22. Senior Developers want the same on What Student Developers Want in a Job (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    It is my experience that senior developers want the same things.

    After doing this for 20 years, I don't care about video games at work, or anything else you are trying to use to keep me there. I'm going to work to work, and when I'm done I'm going home to have fun. All the companies pay in the same ballpark, and I'm paid enough to afford my own lunch.

    Give me something to work on that isn't going to completely bore me to death.

  23. Re:Anyone can aspire to work in computer science. on Driveway Encounter With Microsoft's President Led To $25 Million For Code.org · · Score: 1

    "it takes a special kind of personality and family connections and seed capital "

    And not just any family connections, but a father who was a lawyer that was able to train you to think like one.

    Bill Gates did not get where he was by technical prowess. M$ products, to this day, are the definition of technical mediocrity.

    Bill Gates got to where he is by legal manipulation of a nascent industry. Due to his upbringing, he had weapons at his disposal that his competitors did not even know existed. Due to his upbringing, he had a set of morals that allowed him to use those weapons with an unrivaled ruthlessness.

  24. Re:Sure they can move it out of China on GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The people that Bernie was hanging out with didn't even think that it worked on a small scale for him. They had to kick him out of the commune because he wouldn't work.

  25. I don't think this is for burgers. First, aren't the burgers cooked on a conveyer through an oven, like all the pizza's are cooked? And second, burgers aren't cooked in a deep fryer, are they?

    This sounds more like a conveyer to dunk "food" (and please, let's use that term lightly) in a deep fryer. Seems like that should be a fairly simple machine, too. Can you really call that a "robot"?