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  1. Re:Can't see the forest for all the trees on Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    By your standard, The Fifth Element should never have been made.

  2. Re:The new device uses 35 microliters of sample... on Researchers Develop App That Accurately Determines Sperm Quality (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    About 4 nanoVolkswagens.

  3. Re:If the U.S. adopts a "dig once" policy... on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I read recently that one big cause of large families is a high infant death rate. Hows that? If your first couple of kids fare well and that's the tendency where you live, you may stop at 2 and be fairly well assured that your offspring will survive to adulthood. If one child after another dies before the age of one, and that's the tendency where you live, you'll start popping out as many as you can in order to have your family continue.

    Well established civilized places have a low birth rate and don't have a lot of murder committed by the native population.

  4. Re:Want good Internet? Move to a city. on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Indoor farms aren't suitable for things like growing wheat for bread, which requires huge expanses of land. The capital expenses for covering thousands of square miles with greenhouses would be enormous, and environmentalists would have fits.

  5. Re:Yeah, maybe on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because technology will never advance to the point that fiber is not needed for broadband communications.

    We must have automated horse poop scoopers to keep the roads clean.

  6. Re: well, botox is accepted on Spider Venom Might Protect Us From Deadly Strokes (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I recall that as much as a half kilogram has been used therapeutically, although by drip over several hours rather than injection.

    Large quantities of ascorbic acid will usually cause diarrhea before vomiting. Sodium ascorbate, calcium ascorbate, ascorbyl palmitate, etc. are likely to react differently.

  7. Assuming that there aren't other disadvantages, if there's a faster algorithm or faster implementation that achieves the same goal, the slower approach is slower than it should be. For instance, using bubble sort when you could use quicksort.

    Just barely meeting your requirements leaves you vulnerable to a competitor who can do a better job.

  8. Any human not deaf can hear an audio sine wave with a period of one millisecond. The same is not true of a sine wave with a period of one microsecond.

  9. Unlike simulations of, say, climate, the universe being a simulation requires that every aspect of everything be quantified and that those quantities be stored in some manner. That storage would require a great number of physical storage devices to record the status of each subatomic particle. The storage for each particle is thus much larger than the particle, and the storage for the whole universe would be larger than the universe. But by definition, the universe is everything. Thus the size of storage (which is part of everything) is larger than everything. Contradiction, a thing cannot be larger than itself nor can a part of itself be larger than the whole.

    Looking at it more generally, the universe being a simulation implies that there's something outside of the universe doing the simulation. But again, the universe is everything, and speaking of something outside of everything is nonsense.

    To get around these objections, it must be denied that the universe is everything. At that point, the use of language has been rejected and all attempts at logic and communication are futile.

  10. He's Badenov, Boris.

  11. Re:Con or Confirm on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Science is also Marie Curie unintentionally giving herself a fatal dose of radiation. Don't try to fool folks into thinking that science isn't sometimes dangerous, Mr True Scotsman.

  12. Some batteries inherently have high internal resistance, which helps discourage explosive potential without regard to energy density.

  13. Using pure metal electrodes allows higher voltages.

    Not necessarily. In any case, material science doesn't promise much possibility for significantly higher voltage from a single chemical cell. You'll never double the present-day maximum that's near 4 volts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_electrode_potential_(data_page)

  14. It's probably a lithium iodide battery of the type developed by Catalyst Research in the 1980's. Hence popular part numbers like CR2016.

  15. Re:Contempt of the court... on 'Sorry, I've Forgotten My Decryption Password' is Contempt Of Court, Pal - US Appeal Judges (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is what you get guys.. when you vote Republican!

    Lying under oath is standard operating procedure for leftists. So is abusing public office and flouting the law. Some of it can even be found in leftist strategy books like "Rules for Radicals".
    Just take a look at the two rejections of Trump's executive orders on entry to the US, both of which were based on the judges opinion of Trump's statements and were completely unrelated to law.

  16. Re:You are proof that the DNC is dead on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither first lady nor Secretary of State are elective offices.

  17. Trump, being a businessman, won efficiently. That made it look as if he wasn't trying very hard; that doesn't mean he didn't want to win. He did just enough to ensure his victory, expending the most effort at the end of the campaign when it would be most effective..

    Trump has a good idea of what he wants to do as President, and how to accomplish it. The blind, spitting opposition by Democrats is the greatest risk of continuing America's decline.

  18. Re:Hooray! MAGA on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "The country's social crisis" consists of what?

    Mental defectives protesting
    Don't let them marry each other.

    Bad race relations
    Reverse Obama's program of agitation and paid unemployment. Working people are too busy doing worthwhile things, to cause trouble.

    High murder and crime rates in some cities.
    Deport illegals.

    Trump seems to be on track to fixing the latter two.

  19. Re:Happiness on the wane? on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which one? Joe? John? Robert? Edward?

    The Kennedys - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  20. Re:USA happiness index will rise on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump removing the burdens of over-regulation from the United States will improve the lives of every person on Earth, except only those whose lives are dedicated to destroying the US.

  21. Re:TLDR: UN says more whites = happiness? on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the word "individual" unknown to you?

    It is perfectly acceptable, and indeed preferable, to reject your forbears if they were evil.

    Morality is an individual issue. It is NOT hypocritical to reject your ancestors, their actions and yours are mutually exclusive.

    "Collective thought" is an oxymoron.

  22. Re:TLDR: UN says more whites = happiness? on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't part of Portland's problem that they're all wet? The weather, I mean.

  23. Clairol was right. on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Blondes have more fun. Thus the happiness in Nordic countries. Happiness in the US is decreasing because the illegals invading the US are anything but blondes.

  24. Re:Yeah, the bubble will pop long before that on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many more highly competent classical musicians than paying jobs in classical music. Many end up working conventional jobs, playing other sorts of (more popular) music weekends and at special events.

  25. Re: Why do state universities have patents at all? on Maryland Legislator Wants To Keep State University Patents Away From Trolls (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    The entity applying for a patent is required to cite relevant prior art - although failing to do so in a complete fashion is very rarely subject to any penalty. The patent examiner is supposed to be knowledgeable in the field and is expected to catch an application that isn't new. So it takes 2 failures (a probably malicious failure by the applicant and a probably incompetent failure by the examiner) for an invalid patent to be issued.