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  1. Re:Five bucks, NONE will be democrats! on Facebook Will Share Copies of Political Ads Purchased by Russian Sources With the US Congress (recode.net) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Even closer than that, one of Hillary's closest advisors, John Pedesta, had intimate ties with Russia. If the issue is election manipulation, why is he not being looked at? And how did Hillary go from being so broke upon leaving the White House that they had to try stealing the china, to being a multimillionaire a few years later?

     

  2. Re:Who knew high altitude was such a big deal? on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The FAA (and I presume other aviation authorities) have even implemented specific rules to govern how high you may fly and for how long before needing supplemental oxygen. One would think they had spent a few moments looking into it before just writing the rules.

  3. Re:Perfect Timing on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you had suffered through watching "Bad Moms"?

  4. Re:This Story Brought to You By... on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the vacuum in the tube supposed to be higher than what it is at 30,000ft? One of the issues is that the more pressure you put inside the airplane, the more stress you put on the containment mechanisms. The Hyperloop's issue is likely to be even worse.

  5. Re:Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    There are airplane graveyards in the New Mexico deserts. The location were chosen specifically because of the dry air.

    "Pure" aluminum doesn't corrode after the first layer of oxide is laid down if the water is acid free.

    Airplanes don't use pure aluminum, since it is way to weak.
    Water is rarely neutral or salt free coming from the atmosphere.

  6. Re:Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless you add some copper to the alloy to increase its strength. You might name such an alloy 2024 or 7071, and you might use it all over the place in airplane construction.

  7. Re:Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Steel corrosion is called rust, and rust is both water soluble and hydrophilic (it attracts water). Once a steel part starts rusting, the corrosion rate tends to increase, so we are very familiar with the process.

    Aluminum corrosion is a white powder that is not soluble and is hydrophobic (it repels water). Normally, the aluminum will corrode, producing a layer that will protect the rest of it. However, aircraft aluminum is typically 2024 or 7071 allow. Both alloys contain a lot of copper, which makes the allow much stronger but allows for a inter granular galvanic reaction. The corrosion is able to seep deeper into the metal by going between the granuals. They are so susceptible to corrosion that they come with an "alclad" layer which it a skin of pure aluminum about .001 thick.

    Some designs, such as the Zenith Zodiac I built, are engineer for 6061 aluminum. While not as strong as the other two mentioned, it does not suffer from the inter granular corrosion. In order to save weight (a light aircraft paint job usually costs about 25lbs), many builder will polish the bare aluminum to a mirror sheen instead of painting it.

  8. Re:Yay! A Nuclear Gentrification Bomb! on Cities Are Competing to Give Amazon the 'Mother of All Civic Giveaways' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Bwhahahaha!!! Well, boo-fuggin-hoo!

    Well, maybe the people working at the new high-end shops can buy from the average local shops, but I'm among what would be considered one of these "wealthy workers" and I still price hunt like a hound dog.

  9. Re:Race to the bottom on Cities Are Competing to Give Amazon the 'Mother of All Civic Giveaways' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How is low cost NOT a differentiator?

  10. This is purely between a state and a private business. This is not dealing with sale of goods between states which is interstate commerce.

    Seems to me that this is a private business that is openly auctioning off the privilege of hosting its corporate branch to all the states. That would make it interstate and commerce.

  11. Re:Huh? on Internet Is Having a Midlife Crisis (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to visit a Disney park.

  12. Why? Why invest that much effort into the controller? The position indicator would be the friggin' pole coming up through the floor. Want more price level indicators? Put a tape measure on the side of the the pole. All the controller does is make the pole go up when you push up and go around when you push to the side. What would be accomplished by investing hundreds of thousands in R&D for a what amounts to a toggle switch?

  13. Re:It's not a technical reason on The Father of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because the question is not parseable until you define what "best" is. Answers are easy. Asking the right question is what's hard.

  14. Re:Shit is Stupid Now on The Father of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I used winamp back then, and gave up on it.

    I just wanted to have something playing in the background in the garage while I worked on my lathe or an engine or something. That friggin' program practically required a college education just to play a song.

    That's the thing with the "masses". They don't care about what you (or Kay) care about. Their minds are focused on different issues that are just as important to them as an infinitely configurable music player is to you. The stupid thumb is actually more than I can be bothered with as Pandora is playing now. I'll use it occasionally, but there is no way I'm going to stop welding and pull my PPE off to tell some remote computer that I like or dislike a particular song. Keep playing something that sounds like Phil Collins, I'll keep playing with whatever grown-up toy I'm playing with, and it's all good.

  15. Just like every other technology on The Father of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And the father of TV thought it would be used for education and to bring symphonies to the masses.

    Instead, we have exposed the dregs of the human soul.

  16. dirty word on Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says We Need To Start Over (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The future of AI is a dirty word "stereotyping".

    The brain works by making associations, and then drawing stereotypes from them. Every time I've seen a dog or hooded man in a dark alley, it has attacked me. I stereotype dogs and hooded men in dark alleys as being scary and run from them. But then one day, I meet a green hooded man with a bow in the alley, and he saves me from the dog. I have to 'learn' by reshaping my stereotype to include men in green hoods.

    Stereotypes get a bad name due to people the refuse to update or rely on bad ones, but they are actually a very useful tool humans have developed to deal with the world.

  17. Re:The figure that matters... on Samsung Unveils New Electric Car Batteries For Up To 430 Miles of Range (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Last I heard several years ago, at the end of the year North Carolina will send you a tax bill for $1000 is you have an electric car. That cost is assumed to be built into the purchase of the diesel fuel.

    Somebody has to pay for laying all that asphalt and concrete.

  18. Re:There are some for whom this could be bad news on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And some who don't have a complete picture:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/04/solved-why-poor-states-are-red-and-rich-states-are-blue/

  19. Re:It All Makes Sense Now on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This might cause you a lot of confusion, but:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/04/solved-why-poor-states-are-red-and-rich-states-are-blue/

  20. Re:warming models wrong on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Hurricanes? What was it everybody was saying when the Congressman carried a snowball into the legislature? Ahh, yes!!

    "That's WEATHER, not CLIMATE, stupid!!"

  21. Re:I am a globalist libertarian on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    No straw here.

    I had a long debate with an ex girlfriend. Her argument boiled down to the fact that she preferred a strong central government to make rules for everybody, because the local people were not as smart. When I argued that the people sent to DC were chose from among the same collection of ignoramuses (ignoramii?), and that now the problem was harder because the solution had to fit widely divergent situations, she responded that she didn't care, the people in her own city and state are dumb, and that people in DC are smarter.

    I've come to find this to be a popular sentiment.

  22. Re:Well, duh on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

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    Sadly, it's very easy for those of the common people on the losing side of this to just 'blame brown people' - most of us being white, after all.

    Equally sad is the easy ability of the globalist getting rich from this situation to misconstrue and even misrepresent the concerns of the common people as being about brown people.

  23. Re:Nobody did on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah! The foremost driving force behind political animals is that they want to decide what other people do. Whether it is being intolerant of people that want to smoke weed, or intolerant of people that only want to live near people that look like themselves, both the left and right want to be the ones that get to decide what the others do. Libertarians come along and say, "Leave everybody the fuck along!!", so of course both sides have to tear them down.

    -Libertarian: "Asset forfeiture without a conviction is immoral"
    -Conservative: "Libertarians are CRAZY!!"
    -Libertarian: "Getting kicked out of college for a rape accusation without due process is immoral"
    -Liberal: "Libertarians are CRAZY!"
    -Libertarian: "Punishing someone for smoking a weed in their own homes is immoral"
    -Conservative: "Libertarians are CRAZY!!"
    -Libertarian: "Punishing someone for getting paid to braid some other willing person's hair is immoral"
    -Liberal: "Libertarians are CRAZY!"

  24. Re: Wait, who thought they were libertarians? on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for that. Most in the Soviet Union are also far left of the US. We also don't like how things are run in Saudia Arabia. Why do you think we would care how Europeans run their countries?

  25. The AV software I've had experience with have mostly done this, bringing the system to its knees every time it ran. I don't trust them to do anything but make my system useless.