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  1. Re: Flip a flag on Even Years Later, Twitter Doesn't Delete Your Direct Messages (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it surprise you to find out that most DB schemas don't have referential integrity?

  2. Well, it couldn't remember how many horns a unicorn has by the second sentence, but you are right, it did seem to stay on topic.

  3. Re:Flip a flag on Even Years Later, Twitter Doesn't Delete Your Direct Messages (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has ever built a data-driven website knows this. You never actually DELETE a record from a database.

    You should know that this is probably illegal under GPDR. Yes, that is going to cause problems with database design, for reasons that anyone who has ever built a data-driven website knows.

  4. Re:A quarter will be electric cars? on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I could go on but I'll just stop at the definition of a battery

    Yeah you should, because you're sounding kind of ignorant! haha

  5. Re:A quarter will be electric cars? on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The basics of chemical storage of energy means that no battery can ever be as energy dense as gasoline.

    What basics are you talking about here?

  6. Re:Can anyone believe them? on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly these folks and their ideas are funded by the oil industry.

    Oil isn't really a competitor to solar. Cars run on gas, power plants run on coal.

    BP might want to get rid of electric cars, but they invest in solar plants.

  7. Re:A quarter will be electric cars? on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is nothing as energy dense, convenient, safe, and inexpensive as hydrocarbons

    Hopefully batteries will be in 20 years. (btw gasoline is not safe.)

  8. OSX and iOS are already the same OS with a slightly different GUI toolkit. Even those are rather similar.

  9. Re:Fuschia on Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fuchsia is Google's NIH solution to the Linux kernel. They got tired of running their own custom fork (because it takes effort to merge) and thought it might be easier to make their own kernel. It's mainly a kernel.

  10. Re:Your stats are from where...? on Common Weed Killer Glyphosate Increases Risk of Cancer By 41 Percent, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    It's something to look at. To put it into perspective, everything we eat both causes and cures cancer.

  11. I didn't see that example in the article. Maybe you read it somewhere else?

  12. Re:Better examples in the video on New AI Fake Text Generator May Be Too Dangerous To Release, Say Creators (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What video?

  13. Re: Timezones are antiquated and ignorant on How India's Single Time Zone Is Hurting Its People (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, first you were talking about a single worldwide timezone, and now you are talking about daylight savings time. Are you one of those people that can't stay on topic?

  14. Despite bragging that their AI could stay on topic, the example they gave in the summary didn't stay on topic, in place, or even in the same century.

  15. Re: Alleged? on Man With 3-D-Printed Gun Had Hit List of Lawmakers, US Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    More importantly, you don't have to worry about getting sued for libel if the court finds him not guilty.

  16. Re:Timezones are antiquated and ignorant on How India's Single Time Zone Is Hurting Its People (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a solution optimized for a very small percentage of people who need to program with timezones. The rest of us don't care (and those of us using Joda-time don't care either).

  17. Amazing, you don't know the definition of rational.

  18. Re: China wins again! on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Read my post again. I was responding to someone who said "property laws in China are so weak you can remove people by gunpoint." You need to go through the courts first, and it can take a while.

  19. Re: China wins again! on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're an angry little nincompoop.

  20. Caltrain got their improvements on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Caltrain still got money for their improvements, so Pelosi doesn't care.

  21. Re:China wins again! on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not that easy in China, actually. Check out these nail houses. China has strengthened the property rights dramatically since the 50s.

    Although China has a large population, the population density is also high, so there are a lot of wide-open spaces across the country.

  22. Re:Merced and Bakersfield on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There STILL isn't any clue about how to get rail from Bakersfield to Los Angeles

    Really? Why not just route it over the grapevine, along the freeway? Seems fairly straightforward, to me.........

  23. The study in the link you shared took a computer model (the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's CM2.5 model) and used it to model rainfall in Australia. The model predicted that in the future, rainfall would decrease as more warming was globally felt. They found that recent changes in rainfall seemed consistent with the changes in warming.

    Because the study relies so heavily on a climate model, the question is, "How accurate is the model?" According to the IPCC (AR5, chapter 9) climate models are not very accurate in predicting rainfall. The are also not good at predicting temperature changes in smaller areas (although their resolution is relatively small). (It might be pointed out that Australia is not particularly small.) Furthermore, rainfall in Australia is heavily dependent on ENSO, and models are not good at predicting ENSO (which is not surprising, considering how little data we have on ENSO).

    Conclusion is that a model's predictions are interesting, but the error bars are too wide to draw any firm conclusions. If El Nino becomes less frequent, then Australia could easily see more rainfall as a result of AGW.

  24. Fear is a valid human emotion

    Every emotion is valid, every emotion is irrational. Emotion is the antithesis of rationality.

  25. Link looks interesting I'll have to dig in deeper later.