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  1. Re:Winter is coming on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    How is permanently cutting out a trade dependency a broken window fallacy? That's practically the definition of economic investment. I'm not trying to articulate a "creates jobs" argument here.

  2. Re:Thank you for that. on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    Not to be disagreeable, but the US is investing in more renewables. Not a ton, but some.

  3. Re:Winter is coming on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is there a point to this post, exactly? I mean, I get the capacity variation is both a real concern and a common kind of FUD regarding solar, but this data point isn't about that.

    It's about how rapidly a changeover in energy production to sustainable can occur. Germany was one of the world's biggest nuclear energy producers(France being the leader of that pack), and they've gone from that to one of the biggest solar producers in only a year or so.

    With a really large economy, without losing much GDP. The point that's being demonstrated is that a power infrastructure changeover can be done without sacrificing being a first world nation along the way.

  4. Re:Well, this won't backfire! on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    I'm not a lawyer, I don't know the details of libel laws, but I was relatively sure that good faith belief is all that is required.

  5. Re:Mark of times on The Rise and Fall of the Cheat Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pay to stop playing, of course.

  6. Re:Well, this won't backfire! on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    And of course, the BLP rules of wikipedia help establish that all such material is posted in good faith. If you have a reliable source that says X about the subject, it can go a long way to help establish in court that you believed, in good faith, that what you said was true.

    If the editors here had been skirting that rule... well... it could work out badly for them.

  7. Re:Mark of times on The Rise and Fall of the Cheat Code · · Score: 2

    Only they've worked a little harder on inventing games that are totally unfun without cheats.

    Intentionally including busywork in games so you can pay to avoid it.
    Slowing your rate of activity down to fewer decisions/hour than playing chess against your granddad. So you can pay to speed it up.

  8. Re:Why do people believe that? on Venture-Backed Bitcoin Miner Startup Can't Deliver On Time, Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    Of course, those cons make all sorts of claims to help the gullible along. Being a conman just requires no compunction against lying.

    "Oh, didn't you know? It's against state law for psychics to play the lottery. I'm kinda breaking the rules by telling you the numbers. So keep it quiet."

  9. Re:Castle Doctrine Defense on Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, he didn't kill anyone, particularly not anyone black, it won't stand up in a Florida court.

  10. Re:Give me a break. on Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah, it's not like I was responding to a specific incorrect assertion of fact, or anything. Please pretend I was responding to some "greater" debate rather than one of the many specific kinds of ignorance that comprise the denialist position.

  11. Re:Headline is backwards on Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    Well, no, since the plaintiffs of the case were arguing that they should not be allowed to be regulated at all it's not backwards, so much as not as precise as necessary.

    Which is why we have a summary and article.

  12. Re:Right decision, wrong reason? on Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This would be checked authority, by definition, since it was reviewed by a court as being in keeping with the law as written. It's almost like all 3 parts of the government played exactly the roles they were supposed to.

    But don't let me stop you from making things up, just because your ideology demands that the science be wrong, thus imagining acting on the science is wrong, thus twisting your mind to invent new and interesting ways of stating the opposite of reality.

  13. Re:Give me a break. on Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 0

    Absorption spectra do not exist.
    --A very important lesson to us all.

  14. Re:Are customer able to evaulate that objectively? on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 0

    My own personal solution is to remove as much advertising from everything I can(screw your financial viability if that's what you depend on), and to avoid every single brand name I can on all occasions where possible.

  15. Re:Are customer able to evaulate that objectively? on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which is why advertising is a poison to society and must be destroyed. The set of advertising that is tolerable: (i.e. makes you think "That is an excellent point and I should reconsider my purchasing") is so heavily outpaced by the kind that's hellbent on being emotionally and psychologically manipulative to get you to do things against your own interest that it would be entirely acceptable collateral damage in my opinion.

  16. Re:Twitter, Skype, Instagram, Facebook... on Fabien Cousteau Takes Plunge To Beat Grandfather's Underwater Record · · Score: 1

    Question: what does he get out of people paying attention to him?

  17. Re:I don't understand how this is a "record" on Fabien Cousteau Takes Plunge To Beat Grandfather's Underwater Record · · Score: 1

    You got it backwards. Navy experience gets people into the tech industry, not the other way around.

  18. Re:I don't understand how this is a "record" on Fabien Cousteau Takes Plunge To Beat Grandfather's Underwater Record · · Score: 2

    Because subs have tight clausterphobic environments, a need for constant quiet, severe rationing, constant work to keep sailors busy, and a chain of command to shit all over you.

    Clearly they're just too nice an environment to count.

  19. Re: Misleading summary on Judge: $324M Settlement In Silicon Valley Tech Worker Case Not Enough · · Score: 1

    Ok, as far as I can tell, the main point you're trying to express here was "I am crazy and can barely manage to turn words into sentences"

  20. Re:Sexism on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    No, it's pretty damn sexist when it's used for an excuse.

    I know exactly how crazy that sounds if I imagine myself in the role of an idiot who likes being sexist. I understand your position. And your position is super duper shitty.

  21. Re:Sexism on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    Or you know, you could just stop being in denial about the very fundamental way in which you are actively failing as a decent human being.

  22. Re:Sexism on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    I just want to reemphasize that you are not "sort of" sexist or sexist in the "that guy hit on a girl" sexist, but in the "I am just deciding that a gender is like X for made up reasons" totally evil backwards shitty kinda sexist.

    Like you are the worst. You are fucked up and wear your wrongness as a badge of honor and it is absolutely shameful.

  23. Re:Sexism on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    "I just want to ascribe all total differences to fundamental biological differences, you baby, who I'm also going to generalize"

    You're a moron, and a sexist, and congrats on holding the species back for no reason.

  24. Not the same as male pattern baldness on Scientists Successfully Grow Full Head of Hair On Bald Man · · Score: 4, Informative

    I mean, that's obvious, but just in case anyone is too hopeful.

  25. Re:Sexism on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    "Maybe women are fundamentally different form men" is sexist.

    "You're ignoring the fact that men and women have different interests"

    Jesus Christ. It's like 0% of bigots can even recognize the basic idea that maybe you shouldn't generalize human beings like that. It's absolutely sexist.

    How this goes:
    "It's not sexist if it's true"
    "But there's absolutely no evidence to say it's true"
    "I WANNA KEEP THE GIRLS OUT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

    You should be ashamed of yourself. You're awful. Terrible. Like a shitty human being.