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  1. Re: Cars don't matter on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh, Tesla will likely persist having made it this far, with their scale of battery manufacturing they'll end up making batteries for the other car companies at worst.

  2. Re:Trucks? on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I realize a lot of those are work vehicles and that they're very popular as personal vehicles as well, but it is staggering to think that we must also be wearing out a significant portion of that many trucks every day.

  3. That sounds more like how they group some item sources together, where you can't really tell if you're getting supplied by the 'good' vendor, or the one with knockoff stuff.

  4. Then you send it to Israel and have them crack it and give you the files, I guess. I suppose either case is still beyond "goon with a pipe wrench".

  5. Could you tell the difference? on European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Transgenic sequences would stick out, but if you CRISPR away just a few things here and there, and pass it off as conventionally mutated, it doesn't seem to me they'd be able to tell very easily. It'd be unethical, but seems like the type of thing a tiny LLC could perpetually license to a big firm before inexplicably going bankrupt and burning down... if only they'd thought to put their development documents in offsite archive...

  6. The reason to contrast the battery life (about 8 hours) is because that's where they'll need to improve before it would replace all the iPad use cases. Plus side, it charges off of USB-C vs some proprietary crap. As for Linux, this is Slashdot; had I been discussing TI graphing calculators someone would want to know if it'd run Linux.

  7. Re:Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, checking on one check is easier than a dozens from the different departments operating independently now. E.g., UBI vs someone on Social Security, Disability, Food Assistance.

  8. These tablets with mobile OSs are probably on the way out. I bought what is basically a HP clone of a Surface on clearance and while the battery life isn't great, it is a full Intel i7 powered computer in tablet form. I'm not sure how hard it'd be to put Linux on one of these PCs, but they are only going to get better and they remove the use case for "basically a really big phone" style tablets.

  9. I'm not sure how FaceID compares, but with Windows Hello, it works 'good enough' but not nearly well enough to have a hope of logging in as someone with their bludgeoned, dead carcass. Besides which, if you have the PC in question, just pull the drive and crack it elsewhere.

  10. Re:by default? on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know, and I'm saying that I think your opinion is incorrect. You'd need more than just atmosphere, and something like Mercury was probably too close to support life even if it briefly held an atmosphere. Within the "goldilocks zone" your conjecture is more likely to be correct.

  11. Re:Dying business model on MPAA Seeks Stronger Actions To Fight Streaming Video Piracy (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It already has blossomed! See Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, Amazon Prime... next is when the petals fall off some of them and there's some consolidation. "The market" is still trying to figure our how much all of these back catalogs are worth, which is part of why everybody's trying to build up their own before they get into cross-licensing.

  12. Some places use contract hiring for entry level positions to essentially avoid paying benefits to otherwise full time staff. At a laboratory with lots of 'early career' scientists I worked at, the contracts weren't even uniform; if you knew somebody that needed a job you wanted to refer them to the 'good' contracting agency, as if you referred them directly to management they'd bring them in through the 'bad' contracting agency that had crappier terms, no PTO, etc. It is different than in software where the contractors are short term and set contracts favorable to them.

  13. Exactly! But what if you got the same taste and texture as beef at the price of the lame beans!

  14. Meat production costs a lot, so maybe you could have a burger that is healthier (?) and also much cheaper. Think how cheap beans are vs ground beef. Might be a way to make a dystopian nutrient paste more pleasant to slurp, at least.

  15. Re:by default? on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No, plenty of celestial bodies have no atmosphere and were too far out to have had liquid water. Without a fluid for chemistry to take place in I don't see how you could have life as we know it.

  16. Re:so what exactly is being streamed? on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing like kicking back on the couch, turning on the ol' console and seeing that it wants to download GBs of updates, sighing and walking over to the PC. Waiting to load games off of DVD seemed a little lame back in the day, but waiting for them to install all 24 GB to the hard drive (before it then decides to check the internet for patches) really makes the thing a weird experience.

  17. Re:Don't all call centers have this already? on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually 0 gets you a human, or press numbers that don't correspond to options until it figures you're a confused grandma or something.

  18. Yeah the complaint is silly, you can order a business laptop if the consumer ones are shooting for aesthetics too much, and there are plenty of large gaming laptops if you need that much horsepower but don't want a desktop for some reason.

  19. I'd be shocked if the hardware didn't already exist to do this on a variety of phones? You can definitely do it on the 2in1 detachables.

  20. Re:Another problem with an irremovable hard drive/ on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    If you need to do that, your workplace will generally have blanked out 'loaners' so you don't have to take apart your normal work computer. In principle, though, I agree that the locked in storage sucks.

  21. Aren't the externalities of fuel consumption made internalities by fuel taxes?

  22. It does seem like it might be better to set aside some funds to compensate land owners impacted by protecting species, we subsidize farming is so many other ways you could probably wrap it into those bills.

  23. Index species like apex predators are a good measure for protecting an ecosystem, because you can see them easier than, say, mice, and they have large and complex habitat requirements, so if they're doing well you're maintaining a healthy environment. If you are only looking at crickets... you can't tell so well if you're doing a good job or if you're going to be looking at some sort of Dust Bowl disaster. .

  24. Re:Thanks to gene editing on Weird New Fruits Could Hit Aisles Soon Thanks To Gene Editing (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, but it isn't hyperbole or bullshit, just not getting into the weeds about how genetics works to someone that thinks GMO is scarier than the pastoral Norman Rockwell-esque setting they pretend the food they don't think is scary came from.

  25. Re:Thanks to gene editing on Weird New Fruits Could Hit Aisles Soon Thanks To Gene Editing (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that you aren't eating original-gene grown crops while you wait! You just think you are, and you have no idea what genes the radiation was used to change, whereas with CRISPR you could know. You know less and find it comforting to be ignorant.