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  1. Re:So why didn't Obama submit it to the Senate? on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Which make pulling out of it a move that the rest of the world will see as a giant "Fuck You!"

    If it's not binding, then it cannot possibly harm the USA.

    The only reason for this is to mug for a few coal miners and an even smaller number of mine owners.

  2. Re:"Not possible to be fair" on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because transitioning the USA's energy sources to renewables does benefit the USA?

    Coal is dying, not because of "regulations", but because it is being out-competed by solar and wind. Why promote a dirty, polluting energy source that is dangerous to human life on earth over cheaper, non-polluting sources?

  3. Re:And what did the Panama Papers result in? on 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Here you go:
    http://bfy.tw/Erz6

    Perhaps you should not have included "India" in your searches?

  4. Re:Thank Bush 41 on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The parties switched ideologies in the last 15 years or so.

    A convenient but false narrative. Convenient because it allows people to rationalize their support of the party of racists and bigots.

    What has happened is that the center of politics has shifted to the right, so that the Dems are now where the Republicans were a few years ago and the Republicans are far to the right.

  5. Re:And what did the Panama Papers result in? on 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1

    I seem to recall the Prime Minister of India being ousted as a result of the Panama Papers.

    No, you don't recall that, because it didn't happen.

    The Prime Minister of Pakistan did lose his position as a result of the Panama Papers. After all, Pakistan and India were the same country in 1947, so I guess it's OK to mix them up. It's not as if you could have google'ed it and found the correct country, is it?

  6. Re:Thank Bush 41 on Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years (weather.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Which shows how crazy the current crop of Republicans are.

  7. Re:I'm fake multiple times on 9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yet- it's already suggested real life friends among the people who 'might' be my friends.

    Probably, your friends installed a mobile app, which sucked up all the contacts in their device and then Facebook found your email address amongst those addresses.

  8. Re:What about agriculture subsidies? on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about charity?

    It's not charity when I have no choice about the amount of tax I pay nor where those dollars go.

  9. Re:What about agriculture subsidies? on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I am.

    My problem is that they turn around and elect the bigot-in-chief and his cohorts who are doing their best to impoverish everyone who isn't super-wealthy.

    My problem is that they feel entitled to votes that count for at least 3 times mine and that their decisions (which led to the situation that their states are poorer) should override decisions made in wealthy states.

  10. Re:Yet Another Connector 8-( on Four Automakers Team Up To Create an Electric Car Charging Network Across Europe (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, they are using CCS.
    https://electrek.co/2017/11/03...

  11. Re:Good riddance, but... on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, we also need to charge drivers the full cost of the roads

    If drivers were charged the real cost of the roads, trucks would face a very large increase in costs. Cars do almost zero damage to roads, while almost all the wear and tear is due to trucks.

    "The federal government has estimated that a 40-ton, 18-wheel truck causes the same damage as 9,600 midsize cars."
    http://beta.latimes.com/opinio...

  12. Re:What about agriculture subsidies? on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why should your burden of federal support be passed onto everyone else who does not live in that state?

    What burden? California (and other blue states) contribute more to the Federal budget than they receive. It's the red-leaning states that are typically the net recipients of everyone's Federal tax dollars. Perhaps we should first stop the agricultural subsidies, which are counter-productive in every way (except to make big agricultural companies and wealthy farmers more wealthy).

  13. Re:"will depend primarily on the amount of greenho on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Typical /. response.

    A. Study produced by eminent scientists based on lots of research, taking many man-years of effort to produce, shows clear conclusion.

    B. Random /. poster, misrepresents article, then says: "nope, I know better".

    [Misrepresentation is pointing out the article doesn't explicitly say that most CO2 is produced by humans, but ignores the clear statement at the beginning of the article that says: 'It is "extremely likely" that human activities are the "dominant cause" of global warming,' ]

  14. Why not both?

  15. It sounds a little like the Titanic and the suggestion the it hit the iceberg because of confusion between the use of Tiller Orders and Rudder Orders.

  16. Re:Good idea to burn it? on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not really. Natural processes remove methane from the atmosphere over time, while the same is not true for CO2.

  17. Re:Good idea to burn it? on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Methane has a grater impact on greenhouse effect than CO2,

    Yes, but methane, unlike CO2, doesn't stay in the atmosphere forever.

  18. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't.

    If you had bothered to read that page properly, you would see that the test you reproduced was the result of a formatting problem, not actual code.

  19. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't support your original claim that Python was dominating because Perl was lacking in libraries.

  20. Re:sell dollars buy nickels on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    $0.041 was based on 25% nickel content

    That statement is either untrue or misleading, depending on how charitably one reads it.

    Your statement suggests that the melt value of $0.041 was due either entirely or mostly to the value of the nickel, when most of the value of the metals in a nickel is in the copper.

    To look at the context, one should look further back in the thread, where there was a suggestion to buy nickels and melt them down, expecting an increase in the value of nickel would give an increased value.

    My point was to highlight that any increased value of the metals in a nickel coin due to nickel price rises would be small, because, at present, the value of the copper dominates the melt value. You tried (and continue to try) to deflect from this point.

  21. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    numpy, matplotlib, any of the neural network libraries

    I suggest you read this posting

    In Perl we have these same capabilities and tools if not more:

            PDL - The Perl Data Language, which has:
                    N-dimensional array objects
                    integrated scientific computing libraries for science, mathematics engineering
                    integrated 2D plotting libraries via PGPLOT and PLplot
                    integrated 3D graphics libraries via OpenGL and TriD
                    and much more...
            Statistics::R, Statistics::useR - basic integration between Perl and R for statistical computing
            ExtUtils::XSpp and SWIG - interoperability between C++ and Perl
            Countless other libraries on CPAN for math, science, engineering (just look at Math::*, Statistics::* namespaces for example)
     

    As for neural networks, try this

  22. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you mean like C::TinyCompiler?

    So, I ask again, what libraries are missing for Perl?

    Or is your aversion to Perl not fact-based?

  23. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's an application written in Python. It appears to support Perl.

    Not related to the question of what libraries/packages are missing in Perl.

  24. Re:Bullshit. CR is right on on Fewer Than 1 in 100,000 New Surface Devices Go Wrong, Microsoft Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Every single one of our surface systems have issues. Most of the problems orbit around really crappy drivers from microsoft related to power management and switching between tablet/laptop modes. The remaining seem to be caused by crappy patches for windows 10 that need to go through more debugging before release

    In other words, working as designed, so not a failure in Microsoft's eyes.

  25. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And once you want to move beyond some simple automation scripts it has a much larger ecosystem than Perl.

    Have you actually looked at what is available in CPAN?

    What are you doing in Python that is hard to do in Perl because there isn't a suitable package to support it?