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  1. Re:Driverless transport is the future on 'No Drones or Driverless Trucks', Demands Teamsters Labor Union (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
    I love when two of slashdot's sacred cows go against each other and all the hypocrisy comes out.

    I'm almost out of popcorn

  2. Re:That's stupid. on Facebook Says It Can't Guarantee Social Media is Good For Democracy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    encourage people to think critically

    And when top educators, advisors to presidents, suggest that critical thinking is the reason that we're in the mess we are today andthat perhaps consensus building is a better way to go?

    Given how far astray critical thinking has often taken us, maybe it’s time to embrace the Millennial Generation’s approach and see if it leads to even better results than the preferred methods of older generations.

    -- Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore. and Director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government

  3. I thought he was a hollow earther.?

  4. Re:90% of flat-hearters are trolls on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    I was going to join in college, but pre internet it was too difficult to find out how. Same thing for muon and nambla (what ever happened to them? You used to hear about them all of the time.

  5. Re:Practically immune, not theoretically immune on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Why launch anything. Blow it underwater in the harbor. 100MT is a lot

  6. Re:Interesting fuel cycle on Rocket Lab Successfully Reaches Orbit and Deploys Its First Satellites (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Power density is close, but H2O2 powered pumps still had them beat last time I calculated, but there's always more than one criteria (safety, complexity, cost, certification for example).

  7. It's totally fake. There's no way rockets work.

  8. Another thing is this went straight up for the whole first stage without adding much tangential velocity. Probable a much higher power to mass ratio.

    Calculus of variations.

    How does it work?

  9. Re:Space Age on Rocket Lab Successfully Reaches Orbit and Deploys Its First Satellites (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Getting Low Earth Orbit is the hardest part of getting anywhere in the solar system. Until you can demonstrate you can do this, everything else is a waste.

  10. It was aimed to fuel division and increase hostility by producing material aimed at both left and right

    This. x1000.

  11. Re:More important than ever on What a Government Shutdown Will Mean For NASA and SpaceX (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Space exploration could move on without D.C.

    Because we know the rest of the world sure isn't going to do it.

  12. Re:The Problem on How To Tame the Tech Titans (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Making money is not 'wicked'. I worked for a company that did not make money and they wound up firing hundreds of people including a lot of engineers before going out of business. I quit five years before that happened, but the writing was on the wall.

  13. Re:Make Tax Rates Scale With Size on How To Tame the Tech Titans (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    already knows the government would run them into the ground

    Which is why I'm sure many foreign countries would love to see this happen and promote it, albeit anonymously, inside the US.

  14. Re:Make Tax Rates Scale With Size on How To Tame the Tech Titans (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are suggesting Starbucks be nationalized? Perhaps they could stick them in all of the postoffices because there isn't one within 1.5 hours of me. Hopefully the service would be better than the DMV.

  15. Re:facebook free for a week and loving it on Tim Cook: 'I Don't Want My Nephew on a Social Network' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need anyone or anything to show me the things that actually matter in my life.I would be very wary of anyone who tried. So I may be missing out on a few things, so what? I have far more than enough to keep me busy indefinitely.

  16. Re:AI crap again... (Not AI) on Lifesaving Drone Makes First Rescue In Australia (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonono. Anything with a computer is AI.

  17. Re:Bay Area Idiots on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    So Mission Bay in San Diego?

  18. Re:What? on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, they're pretty good. How did I miss them?

  19. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why we have a republic and not a democracy,

  20. My primary use of email on Less Than 1 in 10 Gmail Users Enable Two-Factor Authentication (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    is to remind my girlfriend to buy dogfood when we're out. Good luck to anyone who steals access.

  21. Re: With a few minor exceptions on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Other than fish (carp) jello, this is the only thing that I was afraid to try. Natto.yumyum

  22. Why? Paying farmers not to grow crops actually encourages them to grow more.

  23. Re: AI? Really? on French Songwriter Kiesza Composes First Mainstream Music Album Co-Written With AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://tones.wolfram.com/gener... This has been around 20 years and claims a lot of things

  24. Re:Polish... on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was in Poland, everyone called it chai(?). Google translate has it as herbata. I wonder if it's a mashup of herbal tea.

  25. Re:With a few minor exceptions on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wandering aimlessly through the Savannah of Tanzania, we came across a village and were offered what essentially herbal tea. The elder called it medicine (at least this is how it was translated). It's still chai in Swahili, but wonder if tea is ever translated as medicine?