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  1. Re:We need to stop big tax dodgers useing loop hol on Silicon Valley Billionaire Takes Out $201 Million Life Insurance Policy · · Score: 1

    Interesting that the 45% rate isn't really California's tax.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...

    Federal death tax is 40%.

  2. Re:abstract wacky name on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Well, that helps with naming clarity.

  3. Re:This job is only temporary. on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Management thinks using IPs as unique identifiers is fine. And that they'll never change.

  4. Re:abstract wacky name on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    To naming a kernel after penguins....

    which makes no fucking sense at all.

  5. Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    People have been cloning live, unfrozen mammals for 20 years now.

    FTFY.

  6. Giant hairy elephants, or just hairy elephants?

  7. Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    Good to know.

  8. Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    Also, directly to wcrowe's point, from that article:

    Making cloned mammals was highly inefficient (Dolly was the only lamb that survived to adulthood from 277 attempts - although by 2014 Chinese scientists were reported to have 70-80% success rates cloning pigs[21])

  9. Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    Why do so many people keep missing the point that Dolly wasn't dead when cloned? Or frozen?

    Also, I didn't realize Dolly was named after Dolly Parton because the cloned cells came from the mammary gland of the donor.

  10. Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    I don't think they freeze the embryos, do they?

    Just the separate zygotes.

    Not sure it really matters either way, but some people get squeamish about such things.

  11. Re:"LONG extinct"? Hah. on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 2

    Would a nearby supernova that happened to sterilize Earth be evil?

    From our point of view, yes.

  12. Re:This is more than a little bit naive. on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    It's almost as if we still can't store energy.

    In water or batteries or capacitors.

  13. Re:no one teaches programming, you learn it on How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I'm down to about 1.5.

  14. Re:This is more than a little bit naive. on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well if the $50B includes buying up the lands/rights where coal is, no one else could go into coal.

    But I think $50B towards wind/solar would help replace coal more than trying to block it out.

  15. Re:Give us men of ability on How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers · · Score: 1

    talented, cheap people.

  16. Re:no one teaches programming, you learn it on How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Depends on if you can tell a period from a comma.

    Some fonts make it hard.

    Lots of older eyes make it harder.

  17. Re:reduce the amount on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah, 20TB over VPN is *very* useful. /snicker,snicker

  18. Re:Hmmm... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 2

    This was the greatest trick ever.

  19. Re:Everyone surprised, raise your hand. on Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance · · Score: 1

    Except the ones who DON'T know their assess from a hole in the ground actually vote on these things.

    All those other people just get coffee for them.

  20. Re:Message from a farm in Somerset, UK.... on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 2

    It's easy to move water.

    They ship it inside of alfalfa.

  21. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    It may take 20+ years though.

  22. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    but they consume way too much water.

  23. Re:This is cool but let's not delay commuter rail on Ice Age Fossils Found During Los Angeles Subway Exploration · · Score: 1

    But think of all the horribly delayed & self important LA-ians!

  24. Re:i interpret it to mean on Can Science Ever Be "Settled?" · · Score: 1

    Percy Jackson?

  25. Re:Shazbot! on Vast Surveillance Network Powered By Repo Men · · Score: 1

    Wait, so you think a 'definition' without definitions is a definition?

    Yeah, you're crazy.