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  1. Re:No shit on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    BS. It isn't the same. The eating experience is more than just calorie counting. The fact that you feel sated earlier or not is important. People typically don't weigh their food and calorie count when they are eating. They just eat until they feel they're full enough. The taste is important and sucrose isn't the same in terms of taste as HFCS even if it had the same percentage of the broken down byproducts which it typically does not.

  2. Re:What is "Robot"? on South Korea Moves Towards The World's First 'Robot Tax' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is one central computer with 200 manipulators one robot, or 200 robots?

    It's one robot with 200 manipulators. It's one robot because it has one central command unit and they are all interconnected.

    The tax would probably be related to productivity. I believe that Oracle, among others like IBM, has several licensing models which are based on the IOPS or the MIPS of the machine in question. i.e. the number of transactions it can do. Good luck fudging that. The same model would easily apply to a robot. Other ways would be to simply tax the acquisition of robots, or force companies to pay a yearly tax which is a given fraction of the price of the robot, or increase the rate of corporate tax and give rebates on corporate tax for people who hire actual humans who pay income tax.

  3. Re:Maybe it makes sense on South Korea Moves Towards The World's First 'Robot Tax' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many quite simple definitions of what a robot is. You could basically claim that any mechanical device with programmable functionality is a robot.

  4. No way. Pentium M or Intel Core sure. But P4 (especially the 'Presc-hot' version) of the 'Netbust' architecture were anything but that.

  5. Re:Tomorrow's headline about this on Thousands of ATMs Go Down in Indonesia After Satellite Problems (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Only one problem with that. Indonesia *is* the largest Muslim country on Earth.

  6. Re:Officially Pissed Off on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    But the thing is none of what he did was illegal and you actually only owe tax once you sell something. Until he gets paid for those Bitcoin in his wallet he doesn't actually own anything that's worth something. It's basically like owning stock.

  7. Re:Officially Pissed Off on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Or the last option, they basically did it because they can, period.

  8. Re:Officially Pissed Off on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 3

    There are people who already collected all his writings so that wouldn't exactly be hard to find.

    Why did they search for him? One possibility is they want to recruit him. Other than that it could be they simply want to track his activities given his known past record with distributed crypto. Or they want to find a way to subvert the protocol in case it comes to that.

  9. Re:Officially Freaked Out on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    You assume they didn't have the code for this already. I've heard of similar tools being available for years now. The only way to escape is to stay in the dark. But still it took them one month of effort to determine his identity so the process isn't exactly cheap.

  10. There's been more people than those mentioned here who left Tesla. Chris Lattner is one.

  11. Sounds Like a Terrific Way to Kill Stealth on Engineers Discover How To Make Antennas For Wireless Communication 100x Smaller Than Their Current Size (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If the wavelength is large enough, it becomes basically impossible to hide an aircraft with stealth shaping. So things like VHF radar will typically pick up stealth aircraft. So far the main issue has been that large wavelength antennas take up too much space precisely because of the limits explained in the article. If this stops being the case then VHF radars can be physically much smaller and portable and render stealth useless.

  12. ... when 3rd parties independently test it.

    Good luck.

  13. Re:It's a miracle on China Relaunches World's Fastest Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, in the City of London condo's that you "buy" aren't actually yours either. You are paying a 125 year lease to the actual owners of the land: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.u...

  14. Re:Length inaccuracies on China Relaunches World's Fastest Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The gas tax hasn't covered the expenses to maintain the road system in the USA for quite some many years now.

  15. Re:Foobar2000 on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah same here. But the thing is Youtube basically killed both.

  16. Re:Typical History Ignorant Article --- iTunes ... on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    AOL at one point was merged together with Time Warner remember?

  17. Re: Activist? You misspelled traitor on EFF Honors Chelsea Manning, an IFEX Leader, And TechDirt's Editor (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    I thought he was in Hong Kong along the way. You do know you can just walk over into China from Hong Kong right?

  18. Re:5,000 source files in 3 months? on Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code (bingj.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the typical lamer OO-coder project. All it takes to create a couple of files is to use the IDE to create a new class.

  19. Re:meanwhile in Korea and Japan... on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The most expensive thing about rail typically is getting the right of way rights, only afterwards does laying track and track maintenance come into the equation. Lowering the train speed doesn't solve that issue.

  20. Re:meanwhile in Korea and Japan... on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In the USA traditional rail is cargo first and passengers second. That's why it takes forever to get anywhere by rail.

  21. MRI machines have gotten a lot cheaper recently. The computational resources required to analyze the results are now doable with a standard desktop machine and there are better superconductors available which can do most tasks without requiring as much cooling as the old devices which needed to be at the temperature of liquid helium. So I expect this situation to change eventually.

  22. The phone design looks horrible to me and the widgets like the 360 degree camera are lame as heck.

    People forget that Rubin's original Android OS design sucked donkey balls and that Android phones back then looked a lot different than what they do today. It took quite a lot of iterations before Android got decent. I wonder if Rubin still has however fixed his design still around to clean this shit up.

  23. Remind me to sell a micro-percent of my shares to my best friends for $1000 USD so I can beat their valuation.

  24. Yeah me neither. I usually go to restaurants without a queue. I do typically look to see if the place is deserted before I go in though. I mean if no one wants to eat there there's probably a good reason not to go. I also quite often look at what other people are eating there. But queues? Please.

  25. Re:Because AMD got onboard? on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No. It's probably because Intel would rather move their production to China.