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  1. Two otimistist population limiting solutions: on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    1: Universal Basic Income.
    This one works just the same way as existing capitalism, except it's maybe a little more honest is all. The income cap for unemployed makes it tough to reasonably start a family.

    2: Direct Birth Control.
    China has already demonstrated this as a very successful solution all round.

  2. About gravity being the curvature on Physicists Observe 'Negative Mass' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always viewed gravity as being the mass interacting force that warps space-time, ie: the curvature is an effect of gravity rather than gravity itself.

  3. Squeaky wheel syndrome on CC'ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted, Study Finds (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    ... and I might provide some light entertainment for the boss.

  4. Dump the law that covers this prank on Should Burger King Be Prosecuted For Their Google Home-Triggering Ads? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Where I come from, laws that put people in prison for these sorts of pranks is known as Nanny-Statism. Such laws keep growing and festering.

    Eventually a popular uprising occurs and a nut-job is voted in to power ...

  5. Money is a tool of our own making on New UBI Program Launches In Canada To 'Define Our Future' (thestar.com) · · Score: 2

    Society can choose to use that tool in a variety of ways. Mostly it's used as a dishonest form of social classing and the subsequent population control - One step up from serfdom.

    It's possible this may change in the future.

  6. It's 21:26 on 1 April where I am on New UBI Program Launches In Canada To 'Define Our Future' (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's been fools day for quite some hours for us.

  7. Fox is all tinfoil hat territory on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fox is the reason why these groups are becoming the norm.

  8. Need to lose some moons as well on A New Definition Would Add 102 Planets To Our Solar System -- Including Pluto (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nothing should be called a moon if it doesn't have the gravity to produce plasticity in the rock.

  9. 4300 km/h is my first rough guess of the needed Moon-relative launch velocity to kill the Earth-relative orbital velocity that the Moon naturally grants the projectile.

    Given the mass requirements of high velocity atmospheric-entry I suspect that's a pretty big launcher needed.

  10. Re:Aren't all islands... on New Zealand May Be the Tip of a Submerged Continent (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    I think bazmail is trying to point out that there is a huge number of small islands around the planet. And that most have shallow seas around them.

    Hawaii would be an exception to this in that it's a chain of deep sea volcanoes.

  11. A tool is not a product. on Patent Office Rules CRISPR Patents, Potentially Worth Billions, Belong To Broad Institute (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    When I say "product" I mean one for sale.

  12. Better still, and simpler, - on BlackBerry Files Patent-Infringement Suit Against Nokia (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    If the patents no longer protect any product the patents should be voided. Otherwise the patent system gets trolled into garbage disrepute.

  13. Is there a product these patents protect? on Patent Office Rules CRISPR Patents, Potentially Worth Billions, Belong To Broad Institute (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    If not then the patents should be voided. Otherwise the patent system gets trolled into garbage disrepute.

  14. Is there a product these patents protect? on Chrome's Sandbox Feature Infringes On Three Patents So Google Must Now Pay $20 Million (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If not then the patents should be voided. Otherwise the patent system gets trolled into garbage disrepute.

  15. "by and large" on Glass From Nuclear Test Site Shows the Moon Was Born Dry (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Dang. O_o

  16. Depends on the ambient pressure on Glass From Nuclear Test Site Shows the Moon Was Born Dry (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    Planets start forming as cold dust with all the water-ice evenly distributed in 3D. Pressure builds progressively as the temperature also rises. The water, by enlarge, stays trapped throughout as a liquid - only slowly escaping to the surface. If the surface is too cold then it'll freeze again as it rises.

    I predict The Moon, like The Earth, will have plenty of water below deck.

  17. Digital compressors and filters on Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The development of digital compressors and filters would be the bare tech at the heart of MPEG and all that followed. And that'll cover all modems too.

    Separating hardware from software becomes difficult.

  18. Re:Propellantless doesn't mean reactionless on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no mass being expelled in laser propulsion either.

  19. Re:Propellantless doesn't mean reactionless on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Read second sentence of article - "Such an engine would violate the law of conservation of momentum ..." The author is referring to Newton's laws of motion (action and reaction).

    No one doing the research is claiming such a violation. The journo is just making stuff up.

  20. Propellantless doesn't mean reactionless on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 0

    I can't read the original Chinese announcement but I'd be surprised if they were claiming the EmDrive as reactionless at this stage.

    And I'm not seeing anything more than a token amount of money being spent at this stage as well.

  21. "data available about themselves to businesses" on Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course government agencies are going to go after this stuff. And it's not just governments diving in either. The whole ad structure business is flawed to the core.

    The problem is the existence of that data in the first place! I don't understand how businesses have been let away with such a free for all. It should have been knocked on the head a decade ago.

  22. I'm no guru but you're not making any sense talking about ads. If ads happen to end up blocked then that's just a side effect of poorly constructed website.

  23. Yep, NoScript is my default defence on Malvertising Campaign Infects Your Router Instead of Your Browser (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Most sites I simply don't engage if they require any scripting at all.

    Before NoScript existed I just left scripting disabled at all times. Now I also use additional selective blocking, ie: all third party scripts, for the few sites that I deem important (banking, Google Maps) to use scripts on.

  24. Would that be a DISLIKE button? on Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    ???

  25. I blame the sales pitch on Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    It certainly seemed to me, from the all the talk, it was meant to do absolutely everything. When I realised it couldn't make a System-on-Chip I figured someone was bullshitting.