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  1. Re:That's a PR stunt, not planning on NASA Begins Planning For An Interstellar Mission In 2069 (nypost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fifty years is a long time. And with an ion engine, we would only need ~10^35000 kg of propellant!

  2. Re:Meat is murder? on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Most vegans i've met don't look healthy...

    You should see their vegan pet wolf

  3. Re:If it is good enough... on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 2

    I get free eggs from the chickens that wander around my yard. If I don't eat them, i'd just have to throw them away because they tend to explode after a few weeks. And you don't want to be in the same hemisphere as an exploded egg.

  4. Re:Article is manipulative on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 4, Funny
  5. Re:cygwin on More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 (neowin.net) · · Score: 1
    Worked for me.

    del *.*/r is the uninstall command.

  6. So, AI is just software? on CMU Researchers Reveal How Their AI Beat The World's Top Poker Players (triblive.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew it

  7. cygwin on More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 (neowin.net) · · Score: 3, Informative
  8. Re:Jesus AGAIN! on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Very true. "Phones" are computers though. The kind people were talking about 30 years ago about supercomputers in your pocket.

  9. Does anyone really care anymore ? on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    It is what it is.

  10. Re:Housing costs on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Just say no. It solves many problems. Your kids won't hate you forever and it will give them an advantage in life.

  11. I remember that tv show.

  12. I think ordinary evidence would suffice.

  13. Re:Housing costs on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    The price of the average home has nearly doubled in the US over the last 50 years

    So what you are saying is that houses are getting cheaper per area?

    "The average American house size has more than doubled since the 1950s; it now stands at 2,349 square feet".

  14. Re:Those who were there vs those who were not on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    That came from Korea

  15. Those who were there vs those who were not on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    73% among those 50 and older say life is better now compared with 59% who say this among 18- to 29-year-olds

  16. Re:Ignore the news on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1
    “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/...

  17. Re:be unemployed on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've been unemployed for years and I can't think if any friends who aren't talking to me.>/p> Maybe you need better friends.

  18. Re:You'll grow out of it. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 0

    I'm not good with giving up hope

  19. Re:This should be good on China Is Building a Solar Power Highway (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the physics doesn't work.

  20. Re: Stop it, it's annoying and disrespectful. on The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you know that you can access slashdot from a raspberry pi? And all of my keyboards are clogged with dog hair,

  21. Re:Stop it, it's annoying and disrespectful. on The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's a significant amount of what I make every year, maybe up to a double digit percentage if I'd have to pay $1-$200/month for it, and personally would have almost no utility since I work from home and am on the internet ~24 hours/day.

  22. Sort memory spans on Amazon Acquires Connected Camera and Doorbell Startup 'Blink' (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't I read here yesterday that people don't use doorbells anymore, they just call the person when they're at the door?

  23. Re:Stop it, it's annoying and disrespectful. on The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when is lack of money smug? Not like I'm flying anywhere anyway.

  24. Re:I'm not one for fashion really.. on Magic Leap Finally Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    So do a bunch of people walking around staring at smart phones. But it seems to be all the rage today to the point that you look silly if you're not doing that.

  25. Re:WHat it for? on Magic Leap Finally Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen very many AR/VR headsets then. I used to be into this stuff in the early 90's and they looked like you were wearing a microwave oven on your head with a couple of motherboards, hard drives and toasters wired in.