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  1. "and it's of course traumatizing" on Tesla Factory Workers Pushing For a Union Send Letter of Requests To Company's Board Members (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I was vaguely sympathetic until I read that.

  2. Re:The obvious solution is... on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 2

    how one achieves being a parent without a child?

    People can die before their parents.

  3. The obvious solution is... on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 0

    don't have LinkedIn and track running apps on your cell phone. Twitter and Uber are pretty damned useless, too, and FB is for parents with children.

  4. Re:Terrestrial ATSC or DVB Television on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 2

    It's obvious that some Windows nerds read /., but honestly... personal domain controllers? Is this a dormitory or fraternity house?

  5. Re:I get immediately suspicicious when... on 100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that I remember these kinds of claims being made 35 years ago in Silicon Valley.

  6. Re: No dashboard on Tesla Model 3 Test Drive: Car Has Bite and Simple Interior (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Moving the cluster to the middle reduces that shift, making it faster. It also puts more of the road into your peripheral vision.

    When it's in the center, I keep my eyes on the road, and my peripheral vision tells me if the speedometer dial is approximately where it should be.

  7. Re:Not that tough. on 100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To be honest, not every part needs to be as strong as a turbofan blade.

  8. Re:I get immediately suspicicious when... on 100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    promises of a cost advantages of a couple factors over existing products in a rapidly advancing field are so sexy and an easy way to defraud investors.

    Well, they are "sexy" in Silly Valley.

  9. Re:I get immediately suspicicious when... on 100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream (newatlas.com) · · Score: 4

    You should be old enough to have seen so many companies that get huge up-front investments, have snazzy demos and then fail to perform up to the hype.

  10. I get immediately suspicicious when... on 100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream (newatlas.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I see things like this written: The company has raised a ton of money in the last few months, including some US$115 million in a recent Series D round that brings total equity investments up over US$210 million.

  11. Re:No dashboard on Tesla Model 3 Test Drive: Car Has Bite and Simple Interior (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm not blind in that eye, but there's a damned good reason why important gauges are put right in front of the driver...

  12. Why does it even send the info back to iRobot? on Roomba Is No Spy: CEO Says iRobot Will Never Sell Your Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keeping it local is all that's needed for effective room vacuuming.

  13. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I own the question, not the answers, because I'm some dude on /., not a PhD candidate writing a thesis.

  14. Re:Question Validity on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    It always cracks me up to find people on the interwebs who don't even know what a computer is.

    It always cracks me up when someone with a 5 digit ID tries to be snarky and then falls flat on his face because he doesn't know that computer doesn't sprinkle magic pixie dust on mathematical models, miraculously making them super-duper awesome-accurate.

  15. Re:Surely they mean nitrates and phosphates? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Carbon monoxide is rare

    Not in regions of poor combustion.

    NO2 is called "smog."

    Clean your glasses. I wrote NO2-, which is definitely not smog.

    Any other ESL questions I can help you with?

    Any other chemistry (and reading comprehension) questions I can help you with?

  16. Re:Question Validity on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't tell whether or not you're serious, or contrived an excellent example of the anecdotal fallacy.

  17. Re:Surely they mean nitrates and phosphates? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    By the same token we refer to carbon dioxide as "carbon" and NO3- as "nitrogen".

    We do? Then what do you call carbon monoxide and NO2-?

  18. Re:Surely they mean nitrates and phosphates? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Magazines mandate that writers write to a certain audience grade level.

  19. Re:Surely they mean nitrates and phosphates? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    The word "nitrate" is apparently too complicated for the people who read nationalgeographic.com.

  20. Re:What happened to the 100 year drought? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2

    You missed what they actually said, which was "more droughts", not a worldwide 100 year drought.

  21. Re:What's the *need* for Twitter? on Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    The county where I live sends text messages as severe weather alerts.

  22. But one screen of code looks pretty much like any other, especially to managers.

  23. Re:What's the *need* for Twitter? on Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why in the world do you want to repeal the 17th Amendment? (Unless you're a Poe, in which case: good job!!)

  24. Static binaries? on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    But I thought that modern OSs figured out how to share even them in RAM.

  25. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Since I never asserted that my way is the only way, much less whether or not I actually have a way, as opposed to questions without strongly formed opinions, it's patently obvious that your assertion that I've decided what everyone should have access to is a steaming pile of zealot crap.