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  1. no, physicists will devise experiments and look for a predicted particle. sometimes they will find it.

    Trump invents things in tweets.

  2. Re:Clueless editor about singularity on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    + and - infinity aren't numbers, and no they really don't solve the 0 / 0 problem. that quotient is just undefined for useful maths

  3. quanternions for SR? on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    nah, normally 4 vectors are used which are NOT quaternions. Not seeing what advantage their use would give over four-vectors since they wouldn't represent space-time but rather space and operations in space.

  4. what do you mean, the Trump adminstration has the NSA, which guards our privacy and keeps us secure from the terrorists in our ranks. you might even be a terrorist and not no it.

  5. since we have oil pumps toiling away in farm fields here, I'd say you're exaggerating the hit.

      even so, the roads are minor too, they're not going to pave over all the land where they beetles live. you are buying into hysteria for a "feel good" emotion when reality has nothing to do it.

  6. 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

    it IS an edge case for the majority of their customers. The DO refresh that often, my employer buys me a new macbook every 3 years. That's the norm!

    Don't bring irrelevant "greenie" concerns into this, the servers of the internet are 95% the hit on the environment, not laptops.

  7. 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

    Nope, raises cost and is pointless on 99.99% of the macbooks sold. Engineering for the outliers and rare cases is wrong.

  8. Large banks, traders and insurance clearing houses were my clients, they do refresh hardware. If a mom and pop shops don't, or your local governmetn doesn't, that's a small time problem.

    Fearmongering about unknown future bugs is pointless.

  9. 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

    keep your files in a encrypted volume image file on external disk. Give that file a misleading name.

  10. you really think that every square mile of burying beetle soil is going to be drilled?

    no, that's silly. the majority of bugs and everything else will be left alone. irrational "protections" that are "symbolism over substance" and "mere horn tooting" should be eliminated

  11. Software can be subverted, these flaws have to be addressed in hardware redesign

  12. conservation status is "least concern" and they're in europe and asia besides the USA.

    great grouse, threatened or near threaten, okay lets watch out for that one.

    but the burying beetle? world can live without it, we have 2 million or maybe 30 million species of bugs in this world, losing that one won't matter (and we're not going to lose it anyway, even with drilling, the land area its on is huge)

  13. you are hilarious, the BBC is controlled by the UK government. Fascism tactics are tried out in the UK first, then rolled out in the USA. Pry your head out of your ass....or keep it in and we'll enjoy the freak show.

  14. Re:Who owns it if extra terrestrials claim it? on Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they'd want Earth, we have a nice cozy blue planet in the habitable zone, even with a little extra CO2, "what plants crave".

    So they engineer a virus or some grey goo and kill all humans. Then, pop open a cold one on their new acquisition.

  15. Re:Who owns it? on Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree it would be "impossible to defend" an asteroid. Upon seeing a ship lauched on trajectory to intercept, one could start moving the asteroid. Weeks, months later the incoming rocket would miss by distances that are of interplanetary scale.

    orbital mechanics make "attacking" a moveable target a bitch.

  16. Re: Oh the fools! on Corning's New Gorilla Glass 6 Will Let Your Phones Survive 15 Drops (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't read it since they either, this is the only thing I remember that was funny.

    I agree I should have put attribution there:

    https://www.theonion.com/fuck-...

  17. From the desk of Wendell Weeks, Chairman, President and CEO of Corning, Inc.

    Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of smart phone glass in this country. The Gorilla Glass 4 was the glass to own. Then the other guy came out with a 14 drop glass. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Gorilla Glass 5. That's good to 15 drops on concrete. From 1 meter. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happenedâ"the bastards went to 16 drops. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling 15 drop glass. Meter height or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to 20 drops.

    Sure, we could go to 16 drops, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, 15 worked out pretty well, and 16 is the next number after 15. So let's play it safe. Let's make it tougher and call it Gorilla Glass 7. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!

    You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-drop tests. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Corning is the best a man can get.

    What part of this don't you understand? If 15 drops is good, and 16 drops is better, obviously 20 drops would make us the best fucking glass that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the glass game by clinging to the 10 drop standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, 20 drops is the biggest chance of all.

    Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to inventâ"I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick five more drops in there. I don't care how. Make the silicon so dense it's like neutronium. Put some fucking carbon nanotubes in the batter. I don't care if they have to invent and cram transparent aluminum in there.

    You're taking the "safety" part of "safety glass" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it. Let's roll. This is our chance to make glass history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that 20 drops can happen, and it will happen. If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father. Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the 20 drop glass becomes the smart phone glass for the U.S. of "this is how we view, swipe, and select now" A.

    Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in DragonTails wake and make kinda strong windows. Ha! Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like DragonTail is the day I leave the glass game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die!

    The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle. It's as easy as, "Hey, carrying a phone good for only 15 drops is like using a cracker for an athletic cup." Or "You'll be so cool, women will line up to suck you off." Try "you phone will be so in the fucking win they'll walk up and tie a fucking olympic gold metal to it"

    I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which Corning is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, twenty drops, sweet Jesus in heaven!

  18. Re:Silly headline, much Ado about nothing on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    call them on being "evil" when they use fossil fuel energy? and you do too.

  19. Re:not what the article was about anyway on Telescope Offers 'Clearest View Yet' of Milky Way - Including Plasma Filaments (ska.ac.za) · · Score: 1

    It is clear you don't have a degree in the physical sciences. The current flows predicted by the debunked EU theory have not been observed. The papers of Alfvén, Carlquist and Anthony Peratt all have failed to predict observed reality. The major website of EU "theory" is a jumble of technical words pieced together without understanding. You shill totally debunked nonsense that is the laughing stock of peer reviewed astronomy, cosmology and physics .

  20. storm surges last for days and go many inches. look at all the major fiber that fails when that happens.....nope.

  21. Re:Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    amazon made a profit 4 years after going public in 1997

  22. 45mm is not not "a few inches".

    You are being manipulated and believe nonsense.

    no additional conduit will be submerged if the average ocean depth increases 45mm more.

    waves are higher than 45mm! tides are more than 45mm

  23. I can do math too, 3mm times 15 years equals 45mm, or 4.5 cm. Oh my we'll drown unless we pass out snorkels!!!

    Pffft, get a grip you alarmist idiots.

  24. Re:First question that comes to mind... on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    one nice thing about bugs, if you're a thing that eats bugs, is that the world have an incredible number of types of bugs. The are only estimates on the number of species of bugs, maybe 2 million, maybe over 30 million. We've only cataloged 925,000 of them but there are so many more we'll be at it identifying the others for more than a century.

    so don't worry, bug eating critters have plenty more stations in the buffet line to chow on, they'll be fine.

  25. Re:Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    and by that measure they're dying, since they're not making a profit