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  1. Solar/Wind subsidies are still there on Budget Deal Has Tax Credit Extensions For Nuclear, Fuel Cells, Carbon Capture (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This puts back credits for a couple of things that Obama cut (nuke, fuel cells, etc.). It doesn't remove the subsidies that solar and wind need to stay in business.

  2. Re:Can you believe these lying Republican punkasse on 'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger (phys.org) · · Score: 1
    From the summary:

    It found factors such as wave patterns and sediment dumped by storms could offset the erosion caused by rising water levels.

    Please explain how you got "totally negated oceanwide" from the study's conclusion.

  3. Re:Why would certain activities be exempted from O on Maine Dairy Company Settles Lawsuit Over Oxford Comma (bostonmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether someone is actually working overtime depends on the time period. Seasonal activities like fishing and agriculture are done for a short time period with long slack periods in between; basically they're looking at the hours worked per year rather than per week.

  4. Re:Dumb court ruling is still dumb on Maine Dairy Company Settles Lawsuit Over Oxford Comma (bostonmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    The meaning of sentence is clear: "storing, packing for shipment, or distribution". That has to be how it was intended because the style guidelines for writing Maine laws explicitly calls for the Oxford comma. Lawmakers are not permitted to write it with the extra comma.

  5. Re:What? on Uber Settles Dispute With Alphabet's Self-driving Car Unit (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe they want to try and fix it. Maybe it's already being fixed.

    More likely they don't care - Google is pretty toxic in their own way, except they discriminate in a way you think is okay.

  6. Re:The challenge of interpreting signs on US Suicides Spiked 10 Percent After Robin Williams's Death, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't confuse the troll with facts.

  7. Re:Who is responsible? on Seattle Finds Facebook in Violation of City Campaign Finance Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    They don't need to know in advance. But if it's a political ad they need to reveal who paid for it.

    How to identify something as a political ad is an entirely different problem.

  8. Re: Stop just stop. on Dutch Intelligence Agents Watched Russia Hack the DNC (volkskrant.nl) · · Score: 1

    Why was this modded down? That's been the Clinton way for decades (see Kenneth Starr as the best example).

  9. Re:Much More Worrying... on A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    NATO is still around despite the wealthy first world nations of Old Europe that are well able to defend themselves.

    Look at what led up to World War I, those same countries had very strong armies and navies. But they were all afraid one would attack another, so they kept building even bigger armies and navies until one little spark set the whole thing off. An alliance like NATO makes everyone more comfortable (or at least less uncomfortable).

  10. The difference being that those spears have no chance of hitting the helicopters

    However there have been several instances of people being killed when they went ashore because their boat wrecked or in an attempt to make contact with the Sentinelese people.

  11. And then most of them probably already were Trump supporters in the first place, who merely grabbed hold of the propaganda as confirmation of their already-held point of view

    That's the most important point. Being exposed is not the same as being influenced. I find it very hard to believe that anyone who subscribed to those accounts changed their vote because of what they read there.

  12. Re:Why the quotes? on Interviewing the Interviewer (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    Pay attention to how they report both sides of the story. Usually it's gushing prose for the liberal side, with carefully selected soundbites to support their it. Then a couple of quotes taken out of context to mock the conservative side, usually read in a snarky tone by the reporter.

  13. Drunk driver.

  14. Well, not with an electric car on GM Will Make an Autonomous Car Without Steering Wheel or Pedals By 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Computer, park next to the second gas pump for regular unleaded.

    I can't do that Dave. I'm an electric car.

  15. Andrew Cuomo on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is publicity whoring for Cuomo. He'll be announcing his candidacy for President in a few weeks. Expect plenty more of the same over the next couple of years.

  16. Re:The Actual Process on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    except for Metronidazole and Vancomycin (which are both not normally given for infections, Vancomycin especially has some very nasty side effects)

    Nonsense. Vancomycin is one of the more commonly prescribed antibiotics in hospitals.

    The new discovery is that it is not just the absence of healthy bacteria in the GI that triggers CDI, but the presence of this food additive

    That's not how I read it. There are a couple of strains of C.diff that can metabolize Trehalose, making it equivalent to glucose - as you state in your second paragraph. So hospitals should treat it with the same caution as they do other sugars when a patient might be at risk of a C.diff infection. Otherwise it doesn't pose any particular threat.

  17. What they've found is that certain strains of C.diff can convert trehalose into glucose; so the bacteria are using the sugar that's available to them. The important thing to keep in mind is that millions of people consume trehalose every day. It takes more than a bit of this sugar in one's food to cause the problem.

  18. Re:Will they use it on a manned launch? on SpaceX's Latest Advantage? Blowing Up Its Own Rocket, Automatically (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The only manned flight these days is to the Space Station which is inclined about 51 degrees; that's apparently "roughly parallel to the equator" according to the BS summary. Polar orbits are used for weather and spy satellites.

  19. The program does not determine if an article "contains actual information". It only classifies whether or not the article is written in the traditional style of a news article. It could still be total bullshit.

  20. In other words, if you want a conventional car/truck you go to Germany and bring it back as a used vehicle instead of buying a new one in Norway.

  21. When did you stop beating your wife? on New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    promoting routine audits that would dramatically reduce the danger of interference from foreign governments

    Typical of the /. narrative we see these days. I haven't seen any evidence that this "danger" exists. The real danger is absentee voter fraud.

  22. Arab Spring Revisited on Big Tech and Democracy Need To Work Together, Microsoft Executives Say (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    How much credit should "Big Tech" get for Arab Spring, Brexit, Trump? How about the protests going on in Iran right now? Could similar political waves happen in China or North Korea?

    Those who want to control what can go on in social media need to be very careful what they wish for; fake news and government propaganda are the same thing.

  23. Or look at voter registration on How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be easier and more accurate to simply look at voter registration records? Everything else is mostly a guess.

  24. Re:VCs on Healthcare on How Big Tech is Getting Involved in Your Health Care (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    Fixed it for you:

    Businesses were likely to get backed, but only if they collected a lot of user data and had a lock in.

  25. Re:Digital Ledger. on Blockchain Brings Business Boom To IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. It's clear that most of the CEOs interviewed in the linked article have no clue what it is. But the buzzword is hot this season so they have to be all in on it, whatever it is.