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  1. Re: This judge needs to be barred! on Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The article also mentions that the numbers are for "open helmet".

    If you are concerned about noise: 1. Don't buy and modify (as you mentioned) a Harley; 2. wear a full-face helmet and close the visor. Earplugs should come as #3

  2. Re:Not memory it's storage on Samsung's Fastest Phone Memory Ever Goes Into Production at 512GB (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The product is a memory, the application is storage.

    So yeah, Samsung is producing a 512GB memory chip.

    Note: I work in semiconductor manufacturing

  3. slashdot analogy on Gab Wants To Add a Comments Section To Everything On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's basically like having comments filter set at -1. Who wants to do that, especially on Gab which advertises itself as "free speech" but is in effect a favorite of far-right or alt-right users who have been banned or suspended from other service.

  4. gender? on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I am fairly certain that all those people are men...

    I remember reading something a while ago (maybe it was in Wired?) about how AI may displace disproportionately male jobs, as women tend to have service jobs that are harder to automate.

  5. SI prefix, please on China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    >100 million degrees is a record for plasma, perhaps. If it proved that reaching 100mK was possible, it's only in the tokomak design, because the Z Pulsed Power Facility achieved 1 billion K in 2006!

    No, not "100mK" :)

    The SI prefix "m" = milli = one thousandth, like:

    • mm = millimeter = 1/1000th of a meter
    • mg = milligram = 1/1000th of a gram
    • mA = milliAmpere = 1/1000th of an Ampere
    • etc.
  6. Re:Celsius? on China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    You are quite right. 100 deg C = 212 deg F, therefore 100 mil deg C = 212 mil deg F. I salute your intelligence!

    "mil deg"? Why do Americans have to invent new units/prefixes everyday? Now how do I know if "mil" stands for one thousandth or for one million? :)

    I know, nobody uses the SI prefixes for high temperatures (have you ever heard of a kK or of a GK>), and we all like shorthands, that's why the scientific community prefers to use the electron-Volt. 100 million degrees (C or K) is about 8.6keV.

  7. you're looking for scapegoats on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    couple of family member illnesses hit in 2006. Then the 2008 crash wiped me out when I started getting back on my feet.[...] The double whammy of Clinton Democrats and the GOP both siding with mega corporations against me left me screwed. H1-Bs flooded the market and my wages plummeted. I think the Berniecrats will eventually fix it, but I'm pretty sure I'll be dead by then.

    Don't blame the H1B. The horrible money-extracting system American people call "heathcare" is at the source of your situation. It is leading more workers to bankruptcy than any single-payer system that is the norm in other OECD countries.

  8. Re:What about the other units? on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You keep using this fundamental units, it doesn't mean what you think it means.

    The SI system is a complete clusterfuck of "fundamental units":

    * Amp depends on the definition of kg * candela depends on the definition of kg * Kelvin depends on the definition of kg * Mole depends on the definition of kg

    These units should be ORTHOGONAL; not dependent on one another.

    yes, except you can't because, you know, physics?

  9. Oh the irony! on Making Trains Run on Time (economist.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    A researcher *in the UK* is trying to make trains run on time *in Japan*? You just broke my irony-meter.

  10. Re:Nuclear power and hydrocarbon synthesis on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily due to accidents, but if you look at the whole of chain of energy production:

    for coal: by-products storage and disposal - https://content.sierraclub.org...

    for dams: large populations have been moved, and agricultural lands are now underwater so the impact is not exactly 0.

    Look, I am not saying that nuclear energy is the cleanest, but if you take into account externalities the picture for nuclear is less dark than what people think. The problem with nuclear accidents is that they are dramatic, they are very heavily reported and so we have a large psychological bias against them that other energy sources have not (even though they may be more dangerous or polluting).

    The problem with energy is that renewable (solar, polar, wind) is far from covering all our needs. I hope it will someday, and I have opted with my energy provider to pay more and have some of my electricity sourced from renewable. Still, we need either gas, coal, or nuclear to fill the gap. Personally, I'd rather leave 50miles from a nuclear plant than from a coal plant.

  11. Re:Nuclear power and hydrocarbon synthesis on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or when did you actually hear a solar plant go boom? Or a coal pant for that matter? How often do or did dams break?

    Dam breaking: August 1975: The Banqiao Dam flooded in the Henan Province of China due to heavy rains and poor construction quality of the dam, which was built during Great Leap Forward. The flood immediately killed over 100,000 people, and another 150,000 died of subsequent epidemic diseases and famine, bringing the total death toll to around 250,000—making it the worst technical disaster ever. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were made homeless

    Coal plant: not a lot of coal plant accidents indeed, but coal mines have been killing flocks for centuries. For example, 13 May 2014 The Soma coal mine disaster was an explosion at a coal mine in Turkey that killed ~301 and trapped a further 600 underground.And that's without the indirect deaths by air pollution

    source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. A more fuel efficient car may be trading passenger lives for higher miles per gallon.

    A heavier, less fuel efficient vehicle may be trading safety of the occupants of other vehicles it may get into an accident with for the safety of its occupants.

  13. Re: be woman on Cody Wilson, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer, Arrested In Taiwan (reason.com) · · Score: 2

    >Lie about age when signing up to prostitution website >Lie about age to man to get money and sex >Willingly have sex >Willingly take money for that sex >Admit to doing all of this, WILLINGLY >Claim this was "assault" >People actually take your side

    THE ABSOLUTE STATE

    I think that you misunderstand the charges. From a legal point of view, even when consensual, having sex with someone underage is considered statutory sexual assault.

  14. Re:Does anyone really believe the government here? on Cody Wilson, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer, Arrested In Taiwan (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    That was just flat out a damn stupid thing that he did.

    You say "stupid", I would say "disgusting". But I am not a "pretty solid constitutional".

  15. Who counts the length of essays in pages anyway? on Times Newer Roman is a Font Designed To Make Your Essays Look Longer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In the European education system I have experience with (France, UK, Germany), the length of essays was counted in words, not in pages. Stringers can be paid (at least in France) by the number of pages, but I assume that the font is imposed.

  16. Good enough for the 19th century on Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess mobile broadband is good enough if you don't need internet in your line of work... That probably excludes most professionals working from home and farmers who are more and more reliant on technology.

  17. Re:Carbon footprint of this? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 2

    Heat loss is proportional to Surface area while core heat is proportional to volume so bigger bodies can survive better in cold climates. Of course in hot climates its more efficient to be thin and short.

    Here you go. You just disproved the reality of climate change in the United States, esp. the South. ;)

  18. Re:We've reached peak Bells & Whistles on 'It's Time to End the Yearly Smartphone Launch Event' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    [...]wouldn't it be cool to come hone, slam your phone into a dock and have a mouse, a keyboard and a couple monitors linked to that dock, complete with Internet access, LAN access, etc.

    Yes, it would be cool, but how do i use my phone then? Do i need another phone-form factor device that wirelessly connects to my phone? :)

  19. Let the information be free, make 3D-printed guns illegal. The 2nd amendment doesn't give the right to own any weapon.

    In addition, even with the improvement in CNC machines 3D-printed guns are not up to the safety standards of mass-manufactured weapons and may be deemed to dangerous to use for their owner/maker. They wouldn't be the first items banned out of safety concerns.

  20. Re:First things first on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    We did that back in 2016; Trump is more "naturally" intelligent by a mile than Obama ever was.

    Citation?

    Here is the only comparison I could find: Trump's own twitter feed, which is obviously a reliable source, since we all know that Trump is not prone to overstatements

    . What we know for sure is that he speaks at fourth grade levels We can all agree that there are very clever fourth-graders, but they are not 71 years old.

  21. Re:Is "sort things out" an euphemism? on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 2
    No, semiconductor manufacturing has just gotten awfully complicated. If Intel haven't found yet a process integration scheme that gives an acceptable yield, they are not going to put it on the market and sell it for a loss.

    Discloser: I work in the semiconductor industry

  22. Direct democracy is even more dangerous. It just takes a well-crafted series of facebook posts to convince millions they're in danger, and their votes can be swayed.

    Luckily you don't have direct democracy in the US, as this list can attest.

  23. They wanted to mine? on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will end up mining!

  24. What's wrong with a world without male privilege?

  25. Re:I love where I live on Seattle Finds Facebook in Violation of City Campaign Finance Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You know, it's funny: before Trump was elected, it was all about piling power upon power into the federal government. We can't have everyone consulting state and local governments every time they want to do something, too burdensome. Inefficient. Moreover the people at the federal level are smarter and better at their jobs. They have advanced degrees from better schools. Who has Seattle got? People with degrees from State U?

    Then overnight, it went to inefficient burdensome regulations written by the poorly educated for everyone. Suddenly it was good? You realize one of Trump's "things" is that we don't need a federal government to do everything and state & local governments can do for themselves? You're just falling for his con man act. I thought you were smarter than that. Resist!

    When the federal government is failing, the local government takes the necessary measures to protect the population. Still, that's a government failure and it is not something to rejoice about.