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  1. Re:lolz de-ionizing in IT on Kickstarter's Staff Is Unionizing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In USA a chemist's salary goes up to $55 an hour or $114K a year, my friend who graduated high school with me makes almost twice that with his own business and a couple apprentices.

  2. Re: so a couple decades to solve an engineering is on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    there are tables of sunshine for major cities, it's been collected and archived for over a century. In the old days was via lens charing arc with sunlight on paper each day.

    So believe it or not, for this particular problem of only making up a water deficit there is enough sunlight to do the job via solar power, even in jolly old English cities. Some of your cities even have over 1800 hours a year of sunshine...

  3. Re: so a couple decades to solve an engineering is on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Plenty of cities in England get over 1600 hours of sunlight a year... that's enough

  4. Re:so a couple decades to solve an engineering iss on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    it is energy intensive but solar power level even in UK can do it. There is no problem just engineering issue

  5. so a couple decades to solve an engineering issue on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A perfect application for solar energy for a place surrounded by ocean... not seeing any real issue here that isn't readily solvable with known tech. And it's not like they have to transition to getting all their water that way, just some percent on the order of a tenth or so

  6. Define terms like a real tech news website on LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL (phoronix.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    LLVM is a set of compiler toolchain components, it is used to provide the middle tier of a compiler system for many languages. It's written in C++

  7. Re:Ye Olde Politizzianze, Trump Anyone? on Scientists Grow 'Mini-Brain On the Move' That Can Contract Muscle (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    those are not human life, and our ancestors were cooking meat 250,000 years ago if not 1.8 million years ago, it's natural.

  8. the study seems very flawed, not distinguishing between the known bad type of cholesterol and the kind found in eggs.

    Plenty of studies show no elevated level of bad cholesterol in blood form eggs, because they don't have nor cause LDL

  9. lolz unionizing in IT on Kickstarter's Staff Is Unionizing (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wouldn't want the pay cut

    collectively bargain your way out of employability

  10. Re: So, we have this beamy space thing on Pentagon Wants To Test a Space-Based Weapon In 2023 (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    this isn't about making something go boom thats sci-fi nonsense, laser weapons are about blinding and disrupting sensors.

  11. Re:Resurrect the 80's Start Wars program ? on Pentagon Wants To Test a Space-Based Weapon In 2023 (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    these are different weapons than those programs proposed

    lasers do blind and disrupt aircraft and spacecraft sensors. this isn't about vaporizing them or other sci-fi FX

  12. Re:This is incredibly stupid on Pentagon Wants To Test a Space-Based Weapon In 2023 (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    uh, you missed the memo about Russian hypersonic warhead tech? They initiated this...

  13. Re:How about getting your story to be consistent? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    and you bring up the Mediterranean climate of Israel?!! are you fucking shitting me, that is VERY mild climate.

    You put Swiss or Israelis in their "winter clothing" outside for an hour in the weather we had two weeks ago and they would be dead, that's a fact. you think high 20s F is "cold"? you have no idea what cold is, when every cold snap has a body count in the news

  14. Re:How about getting your story to be consistent? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    lolz sorry but Switzerland is indeed mild, winter temperatures only 28 - 45 deg F. Hell that's early spring here.

    Minus 20 to 30 F, that's the kind of shit you'll see in midwest and north winters. Those pansy swiss would die.

  15. Re:How can you trust anyone... on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    oops, sorry, slashdot suppressed troll and showed you post as reply to me

  16. Re:How can you trust anyone... on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    oh you think storing passwords in readable form is fine, and saying that's bad is trolling?

    You are the one who is less than mediocre at certain things

  17. Re:Ye Olde Politizzianze, Trump Anyone? on Scientists Grow 'Mini-Brain On the Move' That Can Contract Muscle (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not an argument for the gung-ho pro-abortion crowd, which even wants to kill babies after birth, they don't care how developed the mind and brain of a baby is. They claim it's a woman's right but don't care about other humans' rights. They want to use murder to keep people from properly dealing with the consequences of their actions.

  18. Re:How about getting your story to be consistent? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No it's solid logic and math. 350 million USA people won't matter when billions are ramping up their emissions.

    You're confused, those "renewables" they're installing don't make up for the huge coal plants they're bringing on globally, not just at home but around the world as they go to near colonial model.

    they're not enlightened, they're ramping up the carbon pullution

    you're fooled by token greenie B.S.

  19. Re:How about getting your story to be consistent? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No USA is falling fast down the list, india will be like China around 2060

    per capita doesn't matter when the big places under central control are ramping up hugely.

    No point in 350 million USA reducing emissions a bit, won't matter when billions are going into high gear. math wins, feel good greenie bullshit trying to lower U.S. living standard loses.

  20. Re:How can you trust anyone... on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    lolz you're talking about a place that stores passwords in plain text, they're morons. forget about your advanced concepts being something actionable by them.

  21. Re:The sun is the center of all planetary orbits on Mercury -- Not Venus -- is the Closest Planet To Earth on Average, New Research Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You are very confused, the center of mass of the earth-moon system moves in an elliptical orbit, because orbits are elliptical. to the stool in the corner with the pointy hat, dunce.

  22. Re:rather stupid on Las Vegas Approves The Boring Company's Underground Loop (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    2nd express set of rails for Blue Line has long been discussed, would be 20 minute trip. Cost a bundle of course. Less than a Musk tunnel with autonomous cars however.

  23. rather stupid on Las Vegas Approves The Boring Company's Underground Loop (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here in Chicago we already have vehicles in underground tunnels with a side going each way. They are electric trains. We also have some up in the air on elevated tracks.

    After going to the trouble to make tunnels, why not be smart and put a train in them, that's much more efficient than storing electric power in batteries for use later!

    Sure, vehicles might be used at the train stations to go to separate destinations, but that's the same thing that could be done in any city... maybe autonomous taxies to/from bus and train stop to homes could be market for Musk.

    Reinventing things badly seems silly. Put trains in tunnels!

  24. Re:This ain't rocket science on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    bahaha, you're so naive. The alternate pile of fake paper is dealt with by 120+ year old trick.

    This is why geeks can't design a secure anything.

    thanks for playing, geek

  25. Re:Some remarks on photon sails on 'Halo Drive' Would Use Black Holes To Power Spaceships (space.com) · · Score: 1

    hahaha, it's ALL on paper ignoring really difficult engineering problems. Your lights sails are going to be rendered into swiss cheese by the plasma explosions of micrometeorites passing through at 20% C

    a solved problem, at least on paper.....bahahaha, you're not an engineer are you?