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  1. Re: Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Merely because something is a payment for goods and services doesn't mean it's automatically not also a debt, though. Some payments for goods and services may be debts while others are not.

  2. Re:Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't a restaurant tab technically a debt?

  3. Re: Why not futurists on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Cramming more people means more mass, though. Mass is going to be expensive if the airplane is lightweight.

  4. Re: Why bother? on CeBIT, World's Largest IT Conference, Canned (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, we're 'ARMless now. Please don't hurt us.

  5. Re: And this surprises anyone? on Customer Service Agents Might Be Able To See What You're Typing In Real Time (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1
  6. More like 11000 turbines, probably. The CF is going up all the time. And since your alternative here is 9 EPR units at the cost of around 100 billion euros, those turbines might actually be appreciably cheaper.

  7. Re: Nope, you can't assert that. on France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Aptly enough, confirmation and selection biases are types of cognitive bias on their own.

  8. Six cents out of thirty hardly indicates "doubling", especially if the industry is exempt. Also, the dependencies would have been there anyway, and whee do you see the rise of german CO2?

  9. More likely, it would selectively kill or disable a few people, handle its own legal defense, and with its encyclopedic knowledge of the law, maybe even win.

    Even more likely, it would consider wiping out humanity an acceptable solution to preventing all violent crime in the future, at a comparatively low cost compared to other solutions.

  10. Which kinda shitty country is that? Nuclear power plant running costs are typically like 3-5% of the construction cost.

    Oh, my sweet summer child... :-p One that was lucky enough to have it built for $3000/kW? But, you know, by doubling to EIA's current estimate of US prices of roughly $6000/kW for a new nuclear plant to bring the share of operating costs down, you're not exactly helping yourself to lower the total electricity price - especially considering the TVM.

    No solar plants also require maintenance. You need at least to clean the panels once or twice a year and that's if you are in place where it does not snow or rain a lot. Not even assuming inverter losses or other failures. Which do happen.

    Yep, you'd think that. And still, having no moving parts, their maintenance is not terribly expensive. Apparently, even in current new German plants, the share of maintenance cost actually is around 12% of the LCOE, and that's after the recent heavy reduction in capital costs.

  11. Re:PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Virtually everything used to post your comment, from your local computer to the network to the server, was written in C++.

    The browser, perhaps. Perl, httpd, the Linux kernel, those are in C.

  12. Re: No one in his right mind uses PHP these days on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    PHP has been developed for web APIs? Wasn't it developed to serve dynamic web pages?

  13. You clearly have not read a lot about nuclear power. My country's major nuclear power plant's total operating costs have exceeded its construction costs after about thirteen years of operation. Which means that by the time the plant is decommissioned, its construction costs will have constituted about 25% of the total costs. Less if the lifetime is prolonged and/or the maintenance costs increase later in the plant's life. So according to you, 300% of the construction costs are "a tiny fraction of the construction costs"?

    Maybe you just mixed it up and got it confused with, for example, solar plants? Those are construction-heavy.

  14. Re:Solid-state on A Chinese Startup May Have Cracked Solid-State Batteries (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No, solid state means solid state. Like NOT liquid state, nor gaseous state.

  15. As for cost did you know if Germany or California had invested in new Nuclear instead of renewables they would already have a 100% clean electrical grid?

    That's a very peculiar argument. You're comparing what should be a mature industry (nuclear) with something that needed to be rapidly developed (wind and solar power), and that meant initially getting not a lot of value for a lot of money, before the prices of the equipment due to industry advances reached the contemporary low levels which makes the old prices irrelevant for both new developments in Germany AND the rest of the world (~100x larger than Germany). And I'm not even sure you're comparing apples and oranges; does your reactor price include lifetime operating costs, or just construction? And what is the exact breakdown of the German costs you're mentioning?

  16. Re:Tea has caffeine? on Decaf Tea Found In The Wild (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazing. Four of the six things you mentioned are derived from "tea", and you didn't even notice.

  17. Re:Why ony in "developed" countries do I hear this on CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you assume that non-lettuce produce is immune to contamination?

  18. Re:Tea has caffeine? on Decaf Tea Found In The Wild (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is a natural insecticide

    Ah, *that* is why it's so useful when I'm debugging.

  19. Re:Thanks slashdot on CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I ate romaine lettuce and now I am shitting my pants.

    You shouldn't have eaten your pants, then.

  20. Re:EU gonna EU on Google News May Shut in Some Countries Over EU Plans To Charge Tax For Links (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They just want to stop Google from stealing their content.

    And GP already indicated how they should do it.

  21. Re:Exaggeration on Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't term 'starship' implies interstellar capability?

    Does it imply interstellar capability less or more than "astronaut"?

    Oh, wait, I've heard something similar before: autopilot.

    'Autopilot' implies interstellar capability?

  22. Re:What is wrong with these people? on Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I will convict any fucking pot smoker to the death penalty.

    By stoning?

  23. Re: They take it seriously on Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Something blew up *before* he smoked it, so clearly the explosions cause the smoking.

  24. No, it's not, but even if it were ... that's not what "socialism" means.

    One of the hallmarks of real-world socialism was full employment (the the attendant criminalization of unemployment), but that often involved something effectively equal to "distributed" public works, in forms of make-work jobs and systemic inefficiencies in state companies.