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  1. Re:It's about time! on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dealers are a huge lobby and major contributors in all states. This is a clear case of entrenched influence against the public interest, in opposition to individual rights.

  2. Re:I take 6 grams a day on Scientists Find Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Large doses, particularly ascorbic acid, may promote diarrhea. Non-acidic forms like calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, and ascorbyl palmitate, are more tolerable. YMMV.

  3. Re:Dr. Fred Klenner cured polio with Vitamin C on Scientists Find Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis · · Score: 1

    Another reference, to Boissevin and Sillane, dates back to 1937.

  4. Look at the complainers on The Canadian Government's War On Science · · Score: 0

    I read one of the "long list" references. Blah blah this union claims that the gov't is anti-science. Blah blah that union says the conservatives are stifling research. Hoo hah yet anther union complains that the environment is being threatened.

    Anyone see a pattern here?

  5. Re:Bad News, Everyone! on EPA Makes a Rad Decision · · Score: 1

    41K is stable, and it's 6.7% of Earth's potassium

  6. Re:Where did the chips come from? on EPA Makes a Rad Decision · · Score: 2

    Your math is defective.

  7. Re:Can they just stack them? on Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Some people are needle-phobic, and will refuse an injection for anything less than death, severe pain, debilitation, etc.. Some people think the time and expense is a waste. In recent years, only enough influenza doses have been manufactured for about 45% of the United States population, so a majority doesn't use them. I don't, and probably never will.

    The safe version for the very young and stronger version for healthy older children is a reasonable approach. Lifetime immunity achieved in youth should be the goal for many diseases.

  8. Re:My Tax Dollars on Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo · · Score: 1

    I'm sure millions of Americans are malnourished, but the number of Americans who are involuntarily undernourished due to the inability to get enough food from their family's money, charity, or government handouts is very small. Literal starvation usually implies someone who is mentally defective, physically injured and isolated (an oldster who has broken a hip and can't reach a phone), or other situations where tax money won't make a bit of difference.

    Or are you a member of a community none of whom, yourself included, will help a person in need?

  9. Re:What do these things eat? on Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US · · Score: 1

    There was an old lady who swallowed a horse. She died, of course.

  10. Re:wi-fi is not good on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 1

    You've cited an interesting article: 10 minute exposure, 900 MHz, intensity low enough not to cause heating. The authors refer to the radiation level as "low", however 5V/m, while not high, is not what I'd call low. Response to radiation, if I read the article correctly, was dose-dependent.

    It lends credence to the student's results, and suggests lines of inquiry with variables like frequency and intensity. Seeing a trend or threshold effects would be instructive.

    Thanks.

  11. Re:Mobile phones...routers...? on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 1

    They are both considered UHF because UHF is defined as 300 MHz to 3 GHz.

  12. Re:Need a control. on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft will love this. Linux kills living things!

  13. Re:also need a single payer health care system on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    also need a single payer health care system

    So you can sit on your fat ass and force honest people pay for your quadruple bypass.

  14. Re:No problem on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    And what, over the past 20 years, has provided evidence for that?

    GP answered your question. More broadly, the internet.

  15. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1
    People worked in factories because they would have starved to death trying to live on farms. Better machines meant more production with fewer people: tough for those newly out of work who had to scramble for different jobs, but
    • Scrambling for a new job is more productive than rioting and destroying machinery
    • These are people who would have been dead anyway without the factory

    It's easy to scream "Foul!" when you drop context.

  16. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at the definition of "need" recently?

  17. Re:Yep on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1
    The only thing that inevitably leads to some form of socialism is the success of the thieving class and those who pander to them. Neither great manufacturing nor great scarcity lead to socialism. Great manufacturing leads to goods that more people can afford; at some point even the richest person doesn't want another fluffy bed and the next bed is sold to someone who's willing to pay less for it than the rich guy would.

    After all, what good's being rich if nobody's poor?

    The sort of person who believes that is mentally defective and is shunned by decent folk.

  18. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    True random numbers - thermal noise - cannot be produced by an algorithm. If creativity involves random input, then creativity not being algorithmic does not mean that creativity cannot be generated by hardware.

  19. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Good laws would force...

    No need to go further, you've already contradicted yourself.

  20. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Economies of scale apply to some things. There's no need for twice as many bridges as the population doubles, bridge quantities are determined more by location than by traffic except in places where traffic is heavy, e.g. Manhattan. To some extent, the same argument applies to roads: Double the population of Los Angeles County and a lot of single family homes will be replaced by apartments, but the number of roads won't increase by anywhere near a factor of two. Technology should reduce the requirement for fire protection as things become less flammable and electronics fail less often; technology should reduce the requirement for educators (alas, runaway lawyers and teachers' unions have resulted in brain damaged children getting the full-time attention of two teachers.) With the end of the Cold War, the proportion of military personnel has come down, to be replaced with domestic bureaucracies bent on impeding industry and controlling individual lives.

    Your claim that the relative population of government has come down may be true (I doubt it), but the burden of government has increased.

    On a state level, consider Connecticut. In 1960, a 3% sales tax and no income tax. Now, 6.25% sales tax and 6.5% income tax; a net quadrupling of taxation.

  21. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Claims of cycles in economic events, as if cycles are a driving phenomenon without underlying causes, are extremely dubious. Our current economic problems are due to ignorance of economics (the voting public) and knowledge of economics with the intent to destroy (most Democrat leaders and many Republican leaders.)

  22. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Enacting laws to prohibit advanced production technology has been a losing bet whenever it's been tried. This goes double for easily duplicated, easily hidden tech like AI robotics.

  23. Re:If you ignore the best news in supercomputing . on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    Where does CMOS even enter the question? All modern fast processors use dynamic NMOS devices in the signal path; PMOS is only used to recharge nodes to start a new cycle. For a particular set of process dimensions, CMOS is about 1/4 the speed of dynamic NMOS.

  24. Re:No? on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    You are misinterpreting and misapplying the data on metastability to computer systems. Once data is inside a synchronous system that isn't being clocked so fast that data isn't fully settled at flipflop inputs, slowing the system isn't going to enhance reliability. (Similarly, if you're running a synchronous system much too fast, not even a single instruction will execute properly.)

    Metastability is a concern for asynchronous inputs. There are techniques for dealing with it, although it becomes tricky as data rate approach clock rate.

  25. Re:It is tough on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    Moore's Approximation is already known to be defective for several reasons.
    Saying that "All laws in science are observations" is untrue. Eventually, laws in science are based on observations, but to say they're they same thing attempts to shortcut and denigrate the steps needed to get from observation to law.