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  1. Re: Bummer on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So why are you buying a worthless coin with amazingly high and wasteful transaction coins again?
    Since when is it worth 220 billion or whatever (10k Ã-- 22 million for this crap? )

    Bitcoin as is is useless for day to day transactions. Others are more efficient.

  2. Re:Do the evolution on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    It definitely is.

    That doesn't change the fact that I think a world which get to keep all the amazing animals and plants it have had is much more interesting than one with much less variation of them.

    I'd much rather than 20 different types of cat animals than 1.

    I'd much rather than 5000 different butterflies than 2.

    Maybe the later would be the case of man induced changes and evolution but that doesn't mean I think it's better. Also I think the diversity pool is a strength for evolution by itself.
    The more difference the better the change of being able to handle some other change.

    We shouldn't destroy it on purpose / by ignorance just because "well it is what it is." Because the situation is better now than what it would be afterwards. Both in genetic and just "look at the pretty" diversity.

  3. Re:Do the evolution on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean that everything living now is useless and that the world will be a better place once it's all gone. .. also eventually humans may be one of those gone things too. Some insects will likely out-survive us.

  4. Re:What can you do to help? on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    "As a result, a large percentage of grains grown in the US are used in animal feed, with 47% of soy and 60% of corn produced in the US being consumed by livestock."
    http://www.sustainabletable.or...

    The corn and soy would feed humans more if consumed directly by humans rather than put into a cow first to then eat the cow.

  5. Re:What can you do to help? on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    If they eat (basically just one kind of) grass in the Brazil or soy beans and corn in the US then it of course is.

  6. Re:The Answer is Unique Titles on Nintendo Switch Outsells Wii U In 10 Months (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    One person claim the Game Gear did 1-2 hours with 6 batteries, Atari Lynx wikipedia page says 3-4 hours for it.

    The Atari Lynx wikipedia page says 4-6 hours for Atari Lynx. Lynx II even better.

    Nintendo Game Boy claim here http://nerdlypleasures.blogspo... is 15 hours in the manual but others have estimated 35 hours!

    Game Boy Advance SP on brightest 7-10 hours according to this: https://www.nintendo.com/consu...

  7. What I find totally retarded about the whole thing is that he's definitely a video game pioneer regardless.
    He may not have behaved as a rock among women and he may not be a woman himself but he's definitely a video game pioneer.
    That women maybe haven't been and whatever he's done otherwise doesn't change that.

  8. Re:The Answer is Unique Titles on Nintendo Switch Outsells Wii U In 10 Months (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Nintendo portables has always done great. So there's that ..

    But yeah, battery life is poor where we've seen other consoles fail due to that. I don't really see it as much of a saver for the Switch but I guess the fact that you can play games on it hooked up to the wall to some extent makes up for that by a tiny bit because at-least you're not limited to just playing for three hours and then charging it. I guess another thing which may have changed since the Game gear days is how we use batteries and live our lives and play games too. For people (mostly kids?) who bought non-rechargable AA batteries and had to replace them all the time maybe it was a larger problem than people who may play in small burst once they got the time and with a device which recharges pretty quickly.

    To me the fact that one can play two people on a portable would make up for quite a bit of other issues. There was a game & watch for two player or something too wasn't it?
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
    Seem like it.
    Given the same system otherwise the simple fact that you can sit and play with a friend make the system better.

  9. What make them more fun than EV? The loud noise? Loud MCs in cities are the worst.

  10. Think what the rulers / SJWs claim is "wrong" actually is factually wrong and not just opinions and views they don't want to be heard and shared.

  11. Maybe this song can help you remember?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re: Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Sweden.

    Since I live there and we don't have it I wondered which countries do have it.

    Televerket (Originally Kongl. Elecktriska Telegraf-Werket) was created 1853 and owned and administrated the telephone, the TV and the cellular phone network of Sweden until 1993. 1920s-1980s in practicality alone though not in law (as in you could create a competing network I guess but would you try than the state already have one in place just about everywhere?)
    Sometime before 1977 they started to roll out digital cellular network and 1987 we had nation-wide coverage (first in the world)

    Frequency administration was moved out in 1992 to Post- och telestyrelsen (authority) and radio and TV was moved out to Terracom (stock company) the same year. 1993 the rest was moved to the (nationally owned stock) company of Telia.

    Year 2000 30% of Telia was sold and a lot of regular Swedish citizens bought stock.
    2002-2003 Telia join the Finnish telephony operator Sonera and becomes Telia-Sonera.

    2007 Skanova becomes Telia-Skanova and they do sell network capacity to others.

    Anyway as far as I know the copper network in Sweden is owned by Telia-Sonera but parts of Telia has been sold out so it's both national/public and private and as for how ownership of Sonera is I don't know.

    The operator Net1 own their own cellular network and Telia, Telenor, Tele2 and Tre all build and run their own networks but sometimes in co-operation with each other. So we have five different cellular network creators of which just one in part is national, definitely not a monopoly of either of the network itself or the services on it. We actually have 25 companies which offer services on those 5 networks but who don't own a network of themselves.
    https://www.induo.com/s/g/vilk...

    On the copper network you can get the actual service from others than Telia-Sonera too but I assume they charge quite a bit for the network itself.

    As for Internet connectivity there is xDSL on that copper network, there at-least was isdn, there's connectivity over the cable-tv network where the largest one with 75% Comhem previously was the one under Televerket so as such also created by the public/nation/government but also at-least three others, and then there's private and municipal and I guess also the government/public/Skanova copper or fiber Ethernet networks either for just one service provider or for multiple ones.

    As for where I live if I had copper telephony I assume that network would be owned by Telia-Sonera. But I don't have any.
    For my cellular connectivity I use Hallon and Universal-Telecom which use the the cellular networks of Tre and Telenor.
    I don't have cable-TV service but the network my apartment is connected to is Comhem.
    My copper Ethernet is connected to Bredbandsbolaget whom only offer their own services but the building is also connected to StadsnÃt which is a municipal network I could and likely should had switched to which offer plenty of services providers.

    So one can definitely argue much of that infrastructure was created and ran by the state (I used the word nation before but I won't go up and change it) but they don't own any such company fully any longer and they haven't had a legal monopoly and don't have a de-facto monopoly of it and as is me personally I can choose from 30 cellular providers on 5 different networks of which one was created by the state, a whole bunch of xDSL services over the one copper telephony network originally created by the state, one cable TV TV and Internet services provider from one cable-TV network provider which originally also was created by the state and finally Internet over Ethernet from I guess around 10 different service providers through two different ~fiber networks of which one is private (I assume) and one is a municipal co-operation between this municipality and the one south of this one.

    My mother is having her house conne

  13. Re: Intel needs there cheap labor to crush AMD on Intel Told Chinese Firms of Meltdown Flaws Before the US Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with cheap labor?

  14. Re: Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you mention such a country?

  15. Re: And the others..? on A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused.

    (((Innocent)))?

  16. They were all innocent on A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    Thoughts shouldn't be a crime

  17. Re: Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Riv on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. Seem like ours was "at-least 9000 degrees C."

  18. My point really is that enabling XMP on the ASUS Z370-F Strix motherboard claiming support for up to 4000 MHz memory OC depending on the processor with an i7 8700K and Corsair Vengeance RGB 3466 MHz CL 16 2x8 GB kit on the QVL list of the Z370-F and with Samsung B-die chips AFAIK doesn't work reliably and generate memory errors in memtest86 within seconds-minutes on test 6 (block move) and crashes on a daily bases at normal use.

    So clearly 3466 MHz with the i7 8700K I happen to have didn't worked either.

    I haven't been following Ryzen lately but I assume Ryzen 2000-series will improve things too.

  19. Re: Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Riv on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Depends HOW you burn it.

    Burning it in open air, low temperature fires, is not the same as plasma gasification.

    But if anything I assume generic waste is burned at an even higher temperature than just plastic waste?

  20. My i7 8700K crashes like crazy with 3466 mhz cl16 ram from motherboard qvl so don't worry about ryzen just doing 3200 mhz.
    Also new models in April. Threadripper seem to have better support than ryzen.

  21. I assume they will built in a check for what memory is accessed, just like AMD already have.

    So.. I guess it's .. ARM for you or something.

  22. Re: Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Riv on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Haven't stopped two of them from starting some ocean focus group like yesterday to get a head-start of some UN thing after 2020 or whatever it was.

    That of course line up nicely with yesterdays or so /. post about how Sweden was #2 in how innovativeness (well, USA being #11 or whatever it was, but the second placement was in there too.)

    They would of course prefer if one could show Swedish solutions or ideas on the subject. As for whatever that cause economical returns I don't know. I guess the group by itself may not be very expensive.

  23. Re: All the other non-CO2 pollution on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Self driving cars will be here faster than a lot more rail roads that's definitely for sure.

    Also here in Sweden the collectivists talk about faster travel competing with planes, better transport capacity for the industry and less lorries and especially public transport. The problem is just that one rail-road track won't do that. Three would.
    The heavy cargo transports are slower. The local public transports need to stop often. The fast trains can't have the slow ones going on the same tracks and the track need to be angled / have slower turns. And how does the economy look when you consider that?

    Now if we had public one person automatic vehicles which linked up as trains when suitable however ...

  24. Re: Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Riv on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I was interested to see what haopened here in Sweden since we like to think we're good at it. No idea about exports but I know we burn our own and others waste and before you were supposed to throw soft plastics with the rest garbage simply to burn it.
    This is 17 years old so unlikely accurate but:
    "Sverige Ã¥tervann, enligt PlastForum nordica 2001/7, 79 % av all plast, 17 % materialÃ¥tervanns och resterande 62 % energiÃ¥tervanns, dvs fÃrbrÃndes."
    "Recycled" 79% but just 17% as material and 62% was burned. Yay. Recycling. Now if you burn waste in general what's the difference?

  25. Re: Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Riv on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Learn the trash people to act like responsible educated people?

    Americans don't seem to be all that great in this regard either. But maybe better. At least they collect their trash. Into one pile but ...