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  1. Re:Well duh! on Open Offices Make You Less Open (calnewport.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked for a company that for several years had fewer desks and computers for engineers than engineers. There was no work from home. Although nobody "owned" a desk, it was understood that established engineers had their own places. New hires had neither a desk nor a computer, and were expected to work at a laboratory bench. The CEO (a marketer) insisted that all engineers' desks face a blank brick wall. Of course, sales and marketing people had private offices with overstuffed chairs, and frequently amenities like a minifridge.

  2. An inertial navigation system accurate to a couple of meters over the hours it would take to drag it to the boys from the diver's entrance would do the job. I don't know if such equipment exists in a compact, ruggedized, pressure-proof form.

  3. Re:What can Musk offer? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For a very rough approximation, the volume of fuel required to boil water is 1/10 the volume of the water. That's a lot of fuel, and would cook the children after asphyxiating them.

  4. Re:Not sure - Big Flex Pipe? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    For someone slightly claustrophobic like myself, it's close to terrifying. Not even slightly fun.

  5. Subsidies reduce the investment cost (and thereby reduce the risk) of low-return investments that the legislature (or other subsidy-issuing authority) has received bribes for or has determined will increase their power and likelihood of continued employment.
    FTFY

  6. At least 2 states I know recommend a 3 second gap between cars. Police would not be able to handle the number of complaints about drivers violating this guideline. More than half of all cars on the road at any given time are in violation, about 30% are closer than 1 second, and perhaps 10% closer than 1/2 second. Mile after mile, regardless of speed even 10 mph in excess of the legal limit.

  7. Re: Finally, the Stasi can have their way! on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In the U.S., fatalities, fatalities per mile, and fatalities per capita hit a low 4 to 8 years ago and has risen significantly since then. Two possible causes occur to me: intelligent phone distractions and legalized marijuana.

  8. The name of his boss, Kim, gives no clue as to sex.

  9. 1000 watts is what an electric space heater might use; the cost would be below 20 cents an hour. 1000 watts is enough to be received in your car 20 miles away. Within 10 miles of the pirate transmitter, the pirate could easily overpower a legal station. This might cause financial harm to the legal station and its advertiser who expects to be heard in the pirate's region.

    Your solution is not unreasonable, but the low power licensee would have to actually obey the restrictions he's licensed to operate under.

  10. Caffeine != Coffee on Scientists Use Caffeine To Control Genes (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of bio-active chemicals in coffee, caffeine being the most obvious. Interchangeably using the words coffee and caffeine to report the results of an experiment is sloppy and misleading.

  11. Re: Like early Razer on Microsoft Re-Launches Its Classic 'IntelliMouse' (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    If it's not ambidextrous it's not worth having.

  12. Ask for advice from Planned Parenthood.

  13. A libertarian society would not have public streets and public parking places. Businesses would have to own or rent parking capacity. In the hypothetical case of the hardware store and the restaurant, when a restaurant customer parked in a place owned by the hardware store, the hardware store would have a number of options open to it, such as charging for parking, having the vehicle towed away, or arresting the driver for trespass.

  14. Re:Let's work on energy efficiency! on We Still Have No Idea How To Eliminate More Than a Quarter of Energy Emissions (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Your citation shows that transportation is where more than half of the waste happens. Many people are working on that problem, and have been doing so for a long time. It's not trivial. The Carnot cycle is not easily persuaded to stop limiting efficiency.

  15. for Climate Change, the only thing that matters is cumulative emissions.

    Proof required. Hell, even a proposed mechanism that shows no pollution ever being removed from the biosphere would be a reasonable start.

    (crickets)

  16. Biofuel/biomass fatalities may include third-world asphyxiation deaths from burning dung indoors for heat.

    Much of solar panel installation is done on roofs. People still fall off roofs, and of those many are badly injured or die.

    Hydropower: dams fail.

    No human activity is risk-free.

  17. Because massive and unnecessary profits to insurance companies and hospitals is how innovation occurs.....

    Massive and unnecessary profits ... so that's why hospitals go into bankruptcy.

  18. Re: What they' really working on on Inside the Effort To Print Lungs and Breathe Life Into Them With Stem Cells (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easy to get big numbers when you discard reasonable assumptions, such as "most connections are local."

  19. You're new here.

  20. Re:90% on Science Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison Dies At 84 (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, well. So he plagiarized, too.

  21. Re: Let's ask the oracle! on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy the results of wisdom, i.e. wise statements. But without wisdom, you can't recognize them as being wise.

  22. Re: Fermi Paradox is useless on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The periodic table pretty much names all the available materials anywhere, once you allow for isotopes. Your "lack of materials" conjecture is silly.

  23. Re:Circular reasoning on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Volume of Earth: 260,000,000,000 cubic miles.
    Length of Earth's orbit: 584,000,000 miles.
    Dividing, that results in a cross sectional area of 445 square miles for a ring around the sun, using only the materials of planet Earth. Allowing a thickness of 528 feet, that gives a ring width of 4,450 miles.

  24. The summary is misleading. The turtles went beyond the moon and came back, but they didn't land on the moon, they didn't even orbit the moon.

  25. Re:Consistent on Judge Rules Big Oil Can't Be Sued For Climate Change Costs (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No one ever promoted fossil fuels as environmentally responsible.

    Specific fossil fuels are being promoted as environmentally responsible, e.g. natural gas is better than gasoline is better than coal and dung.