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  1. Re:Bigger = more fuel used on Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' · · Score: 1

    What about someone who has a 60kg special needs wheelchair, but weighs a normal amount?

  2. Re:well if its universal on Spoken Language Could Tap Into "Universal Code" · · Score: 1

    I used to work with a guy named Herb. So it's not incapacity.

  3. Re:Meanwhile actual linguists... on Spoken Language Could Tap Into "Universal Code" · · Score: 1

    1. Language is a behaviour of the brain.

    Isn't it also a feedback loop where language also influences the structure of the brain?

  4. Re:Doubt there's much universal here... on Spoken Language Could Tap Into "Universal Code" · · Score: 1

    Note that yeast occurs naturally in the environment and doesn't need to be explicitly added. Mix flour with water and let it sit uncovered for two days, bake it and you have bread. If you save part of the uncooked bread and add it to a new water/flour mixture, you only have to wait a few minutes and not days. The uncooked bread is called mother. Yeast was not discovered (at least observed) until about 1700 and the invention of the microscope. Mid 1800's, Pasteur finally recognized was yeast was as a living organism.

  5. Re:Nothing to see here... on Spoken Language Could Tap Into "Universal Code" · · Score: 1

    Or Daniel Quinn before that.

  6. Re:Sounds scary, but it makes sense. on "Chaotic Architecture" At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From 20 years in aerospace:
    You need a good process if you having things break is unacceptable.

  7. Re:The obvious question on Drone Racing League Receives a $1 Million From Miami Dolphins Owner · · Score: 1

    The same goes for space exploration

  8. Re:false premise on Massachusetts Embraces Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education · · Score: 1
    You can teach the basics like a do-while loop to anyone, but to produce anything of value is going to take hundreds and thousands of hours of practice.

    Young people have very limited options in life - go take a bath, go play in the yard, ride the bike, rake up leaves. Older people have many more opportunities for distraction - go on vacation, go out to eat, go to work and earn some OT, go buy some new toy, ad nauseum.

    Why use up good chunk of what's left your life learning a skill with limited value as compared to practicing a mastery of skills you have spent decades honing? /I spent a few years showing 80 year olds how to program...smart people from technical backgrounds.

  9. Re: Ran it like a business on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    He's Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, posting anonymously.

  10. Re:Yay science reporting... on Our Early Solar System May Have Been Home To a Fifth Giant Planet · · Score: 1

    That's a lie It was created 14ms ago and will be gone just as soon.

  11. Re:I've considered this on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Do you think that might have anything due to (in the US at least) a high school education not being worth as much as it used to?

  12. Re:So much wrong with this on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    According to wikipedia, there are only 4 socialist countries with socialist governments: Cuba, North Korea, China and India.

  13. Re:Professor? on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    There are literally dozens of people who tell me what to do all day and every day. That doesn't mean that I do what they tell me to do.

  14. Re:And so why not? on Breathalyzer Bike Lock Stops Drunken Cyclists In Their Tracks · · Score: 1

    I had a neighbor who got a DUI in his front yard because he had his car keys in his pocket and was standing next to his car.

  15. Re:We need a bigger station on Growing Vegetables In Space, NASA Astronauts Tweet Their Lunch · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Day of the Triffids on Growing Vegetables In Space, NASA Astronauts Tweet Their Lunch · · Score: 1

    It's on youtube. /watched it a few weeks ago. I don't know why

  17. Re:Lettuce should not be pink on Growing Vegetables In Space, NASA Astronauts Tweet Their Lunch · · Score: 2

    Spirulina seems like an obvious choice. It could be grown in tubes external to the station. It would have a side benefit of filtering water, removing waste and providing a supply of oxygen.

  18. Not if you can 3d print those also. I'm sure the iot will help out here also. Maybe one day we'll have 5d printers and it will make a universe of things.

  19. Why has this been on the front page of google news for like the last 4 months? Even when not logged onto a gmail account in a library, it's like google thinks I care. The last time I remember hearing about Jenner was on a wheaties box back in kindergarten.

    My mom bought wheaties once and I hated them. Transitively I've always hated Bruce Jenner.

  20. Re: What energy prices have risen? on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    1. dilute it back down

  21. Re:What did they think was going to happen? on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    This goes a long way to answer your question, but requires 3 hours of reading and a thorough` understanding of eighth grade math. It was written by a physicist and contains a lot of numbers. No algebra is required, but it does have a lot of numbers. Most people don't like numbers because they can't argue against them.
    No science or sociopolitical knowledge is required as there are no moral judgements made, just numbers.

  22. Re:Burn the protestors... on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    That's my general take on environmentalists. It only works if you apply the rules to the people whom you care little about because they are different from you.

  23. Re:It'd be hilareous if not so sad... on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    Population growth seems to decrease and go negative with higher energy consumption. Source: every statistic ever.

  24. Re:It'd be hilareous if not so sad... on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    Not everyone lives in Quebec. Without looking up the actual numbers, I would bet that less than 5% of the world's population lives in Quebec.

  25. Re:This might hinder their innovation on Google Is Restructuring Under a New Company Called Alphabet · · Score: 1

    Do shuffled people really move that far and often from their core competency. Eg, moving from server farm optimization to driverless car navigation.