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  1. Re:Goodbye suckerberg! on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    ...like this would be the bad outcome of this law....

  2. Re:What it's really about on Humans Might Be Able To Sense Earth's Magnetic Field (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That has also be tested and no evidence has been found.

  3. Re:Secure voting? on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you prefer $50 to vote for who I tell you or a bullet in the knee of your daughter?

  4. Re:Aircraft with four 9s reliability is bad on Chinese Carriers, Ethiopian Airlines Halt Use of Boeing 737 MAX 8 Aircraft After Crash (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Without any accident investigation (and they are usually though) an analysys two crashes in six months are just a coincidence.

    Your speculations are worthless.

  5. Dear frickign huge conglomerate... on Amazon To NYC After Reconsidering HQ2 Plans: It'd Be a Shame If Something Happened To Your Kids' CS Education · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...you already enjoy economy of scale, you already enjoy legal tax elusion, you already enjoy near-monopoly lock-in mechanisms, you DO NOT deserve any further preferential treatment. Are the small business who deserve preferential treatment.

  6. Re: FBI hoarding DNA data on One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With the FBI (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not a crazy conspiracy theory because it is at all reasonable that authorities would do their best to have access to such data.

    Other conspiracy theories are crazy because they are based on unreasonable hypothesis and only deluded people would believe them (all of them, probably).

    Of course, it you're one of those you will not be able to see the difference. That's part of the problem.

  7. Re:20-40 terabytes? on The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The failure mode of SSD may be very gentle, like seeing an increase in correctable block errors until they become uncorrectable block errors. You only have to hope the controller's firmware is not buggy and does not crash hardly.

  8. Re:$92-$234 too cheap... on Sucking CO2 From Air Is Cheaper Than Scientists Thought (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the part where you are comparing nominal power output and ignoring that a nuclear power plant outputs its nominal power for 95% of the time while solar for 5%.

  9. What are you going to break this time? on Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    New and improved breakage!

  10. Usenet on Reddit Bans 'Deepfakes' AI Porn Communities (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't look so bad anymore eh?

  11. Underscores are not valid in hostnames but are totally legitimate in DNS labels. SRV records come to mind.

  12. This will surely cause a spike in autism.... on Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection, Could Be Readily Available By 2018 (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...among anti-vaxxers :)

  13. Re:A good reason to replace old reactors on There's A 50% Chance of Another Chernobyl Before 2050, Say Safety Specialists (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The high cost is a myth. A nuclear reactor produces so much energy in its life that the decommissioning costs are only a small fraction of the kWh sold on the market. Do you want to double the reserve? Fine, it would still be economically valid.

    That said, the "usability" of the land is a moot point. How "usable" is the land of a hydroelectric basin that is permanently made unusable *by design* ?

  14. A good reason to replace old reactors on There's A 50% Chance of Another Chernobyl Before 2050, Say Safety Specialists (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful


    To me it does mean that we should invest more to replace old reactors and replace them with newer models which are not subject to the same kind of failure with those consequences. Better yet we have to invest on LFTRs.

  15. Re:temp decrease in demand is not sustainable ener on Chile Has So Much Solar Energy It's Giving It Away for Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It solar there is subsidized the way it is in Italy they will keep producing because they will get paid a lot even if the market value of energy is zero.

  16. Re:All Energy Is Renewable on Half of Scotland's Energy Consumption Came From Renewables Last Year (heraldscotland.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, thermodynamics tells that ALL the energy is not renewable... entropy and stuff...

  17. Re:Wrong title on Half of Scotland's Energy Consumption Came From Renewables Last Year (heraldscotland.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know about Scotland but hydroelectric is so much effective that usually is saturated already and it's not part of the debate about how to generate THE REST of the energy.

  18. Re:Saftey & Planning on Students' Experiments To Fly By Glider To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Nope, wave flying in a glider is always smooth. Entering in a wave at 850 km/h may not be.

  19. Re:Where will the speed come from? on Students' Experiments To Fly By Glider To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Such glider with probably fly around 60 kt (IAS) with at 90.000 feet would be 168 kt (TAS), not supersonic at all. The only aerodynamic issue is resistance to flutter which has been accounted for.

  20. Re:Why stick to backwardian? on Students' Experiments To Fly By Glider To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    I fly gliders in Europe and we use metric on gliders. Very convenient indeed :)

  21. Agreed. It will be renamed to Sybian.

  22. Re:Sad, isn't it? on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    Or, better yet, a scary-looking antenna connected to a fake device with an on-off button

  23. Re:Not even that... on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 4, Informative

    A Thorium molten salt reactor would be able to produce Pu-238 without any considerable proliferation risk.

  24. Re: Not fear but precaution on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 1

    Oh god I'm full of nucleotides!!!

  25. Seems fair on ICANN Asks FTC To Rule On .sucks gTLD Rollout · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The new gTLDs are a monstruosity under any technical viewpoint. So it seems fair someone abuses them.