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  1. Re: Well, once the panels are installed on There Are Now Twice As Many Solar Jobs As Coal Jobs In the US (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar costs continue to drop. Coal, being a mature technology, is variable pretty much strictly by way of market volatility. In 3 years, your 3KW becomes 5-6KW. In 10 years, it becomes 10KW, which is to say, cost-competitive.

    Developing policy for a future in which coal is anything but an afterthought is a bad plan.

  2. Re:Electric Cars Were Better on Next-Gen Samsung EV Battery Gets 300+ Miles of Range From 20-Minute Charge (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Guessing they're referring to this.

  3. Re: Not to rain on the parade, but... on Next-Gen Samsung EV Battery Gets 300+ Miles of Range From 20-Minute Charge (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They're clearly using adjusted dollars for both figures.

  4. Re:YES ! on Silly Putty Makes For Super-Sensitive Sensors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna guess Stepford Husbands are the simpler ask, though probably still won't come along til after dudes get what they want.

  5. Re:So basically nothing's ever Musk's fault. on Implication of Sabotage Adds Intrigue To SpaceX Investigation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In his defense, not that he needs it, he's quite often got proof behind him. In this case, they've been investigating a while and are running out of threads. It's not exactly like his first call was "ULA DID IT!"

  6. Re:Jews on Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's always helpful and constructive to look back thousands of years to find the reasons why your shitty racism is justified.

  7. Not to mention Israel's a multicultural society that includes Christians, Muslims, and lots of other folks.

  8. Re:welcome to the new microsoft on Google Cancels Project Ara Modular Smartphone Plans, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's not what they're good at. That's a built-in component of how a market works - if you're not productive with a technology you own, see if someone else thinks they will be, and then sell it to them. Licensing is like selling, except you get to be owner as a service, which is, you know, better.

  9. Re: Driver or Autopilot? on Tesla Owner in Autopilot Crash Won't Sue, But Car Insurer May (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As will humans, of course.

  10. Re:Same as S7 Edge on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Launched, Features Curved Display, Iris Scanner (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Same as S7 Edge on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Launched, Features Curved Display, Iris Scanner (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think using the S Pen is an edge case. I bought a Note 2 and a Note 4 specifically to have a built-in stylus. I would suggest that given the number of high-quality large phones out there, yours is much closer to the edge case, for exactly the reason you stated - the Note is the only flagship device with a stylus.

  12. Re:Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Directors being sociopathic dicks aside, the fact that you *can* get reactions is entirely outside my point. Those actors could certainly have given those performances without those stimuli. What you're describing is called "The Method", except because these directors are stupid sociopaths, they don't trust their actors to use the method in the appropriate way. See, the normal way that shit works is that you find a piece of yourself that maps to the moment in question, and then you work on that mapping internally until it fucking clicks. You don't use shit off the cuff, and you don't fuck around with things you're not ready to use. Putting the stimulus into the real world eclipses any hope of actually doing that work.

    I've cried in productions. Cried to break my worthless little heart. It's not fucking hard. It's hard not to when you get the work done and you get into the scene. There's nothing interesting about taking the option of doing the work out of the actor's hand; it's quite simply something that caters entirely to someone's worthless ideas about what they want.

  13. Re:Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, this is a complete misunderstanding of how acting works. The way that an actor expresses surprise - or shock or fear or love - is very different from the way their character does so. Making a moment surprising or shocking or horrifying for an actor is anathema to the process of creating a moment using an actor. If you want that, just do documentaries and reality TV. You don't need to hire someone whose entire life has been spent refining their empathetic muscles if you just want the person onscreen to display their own feelings.

  14. Re:What is your solution? on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 1

    Structuring actually follows pretty stringent requirements. You can get an exemption from normal structuring processing as a small business owner. Source: I actually work in the industry.

  15. Re: wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is in a hundred years my grandkids will be happily living their lives as ghosts in the machine and/or megaflocks of nanomachines?

  16. Writing for comics on Interviews: Ask Warren Ellis a Question · · Score: 1

    I'm writing my own material and learning to draw because I don't see another way to make what I want to make. I look at your body of work and I wonder: How you were able to slide these incredible missives from the Gonzoverse under the brane, and was there anything you did early on that allowed you to make the incredible defining works in your bibliography (Transmet, Planetary, Authority)?

  17. Re: Bad Science on Why the "NASA Tested Space Drive" Is Bad Science · · Score: 1

    They got micronewtons from watts, not kilowatts.

  18. Re:Bad Science on Why the "NASA Tested Space Drive" Is Bad Science · · Score: 1

    That depends,of course, on how well it scales. If you can get enough thrust from a small enough energy input, you can partially or completely remove the dependency on giant volatile chemical vats.

  19. Waiting on a stand with a Dell Inspiron 7500, the biggest, heaviest beast of a laptop I've ever owned. Months later I was accused of programming while driving the taxi, which never occurred to me but, it occurs to me, would have been texting-while-driving before it was (un)cool to do so.

  20. Ablative battery armor on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    So someone takes this, layers it with ablative armor, and suddenly you have a long-range, well-armored vehicle. What's the problem?

  21. Re:One problem.... on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    Luckily having a giant tank of gas under the car is much safer.

  22. Re:Not All Of the Magic Words on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    And powered by thorium?

  23. Re:Flawed model on It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information · · Score: 1

    basic IQ can be measured.

    And it is subject to the Flynn effect. So saying "It can be measured" hardly invalidates the idea that a better model of intelligence for aged brains will incorporate the various other things that are affecting the measurement.

  24. Re:Orders of magnitude on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    Because scientists, unlike media, have a method for indicating precision of results, and order of magnitude is an intrinsically fuzzy term, whereas about ten times is not.

  25. Re:Stop posting about non-existent fuel cells on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    Which it isn't. The past 20 years haven't been at a standstill. Predicting future product releases based on not having released the product would always give you an infinite horizon. It's not a useful metric.