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  1. Re:Milestone on Human Go Champion 'Speechless' After 2nd Loss To Machine (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget pot odds and pot management, much of what you do depends on what others did when you folded before the flop. Sometimes your only mistake is sitting at the table with too many suckers and someone had the hand to take them.

  2. /. said this the day it happened on Snowden: FBI's Claim It Can't Unlock The San Bernardino iPhone Is 'Bullshit' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I would note there were /. commenters that provided this exact mechanism for the FBI to get the phone data on the day this story broke. Well done, folks, this site is still relevant.

  3. Could this be a move to remain relevant? on Microsoft Releases First Public Preview of RTVS Under MIT and GPLv2 Licenses (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand the EEE logic, and that was the MS MO for a long time. But Linux has established itself as an enterprise mainstay, and if I were in their shoes, I would make sure that their products could work on the operating systems that their customers use. They would like to extinguish, but they can't, so they need to join them.

  4. Re:Radiation Exposure Models are WRONG on 32,000 Workers At Fukushima No. 1 Got High Radiation Dose, Tepco Data Show (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    Well of course background radiation can be tolerated to much higher levels because it is natural. Processed, highly concentrated radiation from nuclear power plants is much more dangerous.

    I wouldn't say much more dangerous. This debate continues in the International Commission on Radiation Protection under the topic of Dose to Dose Rate Effectiveness Factor (DDREF). In general, high dose rate, shorter exposure times are considered twice as dangerous, so if you got 10 mSv in one hour, it would be considered 20 mSv. All of the doses that these recommendations were made on were based on their admittedly scant data for lower exposures; you'd need 500 mSv at a minimum to start correlating to actual cancer cases.

  5. Re:The thermodynamics is a off here... on Scientists Have Created Batteries Using Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere (thelatestnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If this machine were solar powered, it would run on average 6 hours a day, so we're down to 4 times as effective as a tree. Add in the inevitable inefficiencies of the process (cleaning, outages, etc), and I'm betting on the trees again.

  6. Re:The thermodynamics is a off here... on Scientists Have Created Batteries Using Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere (thelatestnews.com) · · Score: 1

    My math is probably off in a million different ways, but there must be better ways to get carbon nanofibers than this process. Cool science, but the implementation wouldn't work.

  7. Re:The thermodynamics is a off here... on Scientists Have Created Batteries Using Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere (thelatestnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on your basis, I've seen both metric ton as Carbon and metric ton as CO2.

  8. The thermodynamics is a off here... on Scientists Have Created Batteries Using Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere (thelatestnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they are going to reduce carbon dioxide to carbon and oxygen, then at a minimum they will need to add -394.39 kJ/mol of CO2 to the system because of the Gibbs Free Energy of Formation, which would yield 12 grams of carbon. and 32 grams of oxygen.

    If we're looking at replacing one metric ton of carbon per hour, then this process would need 1,000,000/12 = 83,333 moles carbon*393 kJ/3600 seconds hour = 9.1 MW of energy minimum, assuming 30% efficiency, would yield the need for 30 MW of solar panels. At 5 acres per megawatt, they would need 150 acres of land.

    Again, trees look like the better option for carbon removal.

  9. Re:Have they thought this through? on NRC Engineers Urge Shutdown of Nuclear Plants If Design Flaw Not Fixed (utilitydive.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary does not reflect the actual severity of this condition, which, while not insignificant, is not cause to shut plants down permanently.

    Not noted in the summary or article, the plants test their emergency diesel generators every month to ensure they are working. Plant trips happen, and sometimes when off-site power is not available (sometimes loss of off-site power is the cause). Someone I know who worked at the plant noted that there was always just a little bit of concern until the generators turned on, but turn on they did, consistently.

  10. Re:STOP! Pushing Forbes for Science articles!!! on Hubble Shatters the Cosmic Distance Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be fair, the first link is to NASA.

  11. Notice the stock package isn't listed on Buffer Sees Clear Benefits To Transparent Employee Salary Policy · · Score: 1

    Any recruiter in the Bay Area will tell you the compensation is based on two areas: the base and the equity package. They have low-risk/high-risk in this calculator, but they say nothing about how much equity goes with the higher. My bet is that the rock stars get a lot more stock than the average joes.

  12. Re:Increase the punishment on Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I like the concept of what you are saying, but implementing this appropriately and consistently seems impossible. As much as people like to think psychology is a quantifiable science, it is far from it. Nor can the tests account for the effects of drugs and alcohol. Maybe they are great when they are sober, but monsters when they are drunk.

  13. Re:Ya-who? on Yahoo Closes Lab, Among Other Things (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    What's funny is that they are still one of my primary content portals, I've used them for almost 20 years and old habits die hard.

  14. Re:It will happen on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The reason I know that apes never try to harm one another, is because I carefully cultivate shocking ignorance about anthro--

    I know you're joking, but for those that didn't get it, apes (well, chimpanzees) are known to go to war.

  15. Re:Highly dangerous? on Radioactive Material Stolen In Iraq Raises Security Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    RT is not a source for health physics studies. The Wikipedia article has some decent references, in summary, no causal link was found by reputable researchers.

  16. Now that all of the possible jokes are posted... on 3D-Printed Ear Comes To Life After Implantation In Mice (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    How about some real applications for this. For example, the articular cartilage in my shoulder (the cartilage cap on the humerus) has worn away completely. In addition, my labrum, and the menisci in my knees are screwed (thanks American football!) and will need eventual operations.

    Nowadays people simply get the whole shoulder/knee/hip replaced and it's never the same. It would have been wonderful if the surgeon could have replaced that tissue with new cartilage as opposed to microfractures or teflon equivalents.

  17. Re:So? on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are irate posters on both sides. Scientists, those that continue to review the evidence and not assume they are correct when an association has not satisfied all criteria for proof of causation, would note that California had 200 year long droughts when Heidelberg first started as a university, long before the industrial revolution or little ice age. Then the weather/climate would rapidly shift.

    Climate science is far from settled. Most of the peer-reviewed papers are cautious in their conclusions. Most of the journalists that misreport and misunderstand the conclusions in the abstracts resort to calling people religious terms like 'deniers.'

  18. Re:Java, utter bloat to sink your boat on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm more into numerical modeling and such, and I agree IDE's need a lot of resources, but what's wrong with an IDE checking your variable consistency, object exposure, and having a debugger that makes it easy to see your values without writing print files?

  19. Re:Alternative, negative tax rate. on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    I first came up with the idea (before I found out that it had been around for a long time)

    Heh, an entire industry in patent law exists because so many people do not do the research required by the parenthetical of your statement.

  20. Alternative, negative tax rate. on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone posted on Twitter an interesting alternative to UBI; adopting a negative tax rate. I.e., if your income is below a threshold, then you are paid money by the government instead of paying taxes. This would prevent people from getting the UBI if they didn't need it, and also provide for those who need the assistance.

  21. And now the engineers... on It's Official: LIGO Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Gravity Waves (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    ...need to figure out a way to surf these waves.

  22. Re:Why they have to delay the announcement till Th on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 1

    If you ditch work this afternoon, and promise to do the few small things I ask you; I will in return show you the most important thing that any living organism has ever witnessed.

  23. Re:Things that I wish wouldn't keep getting repeat on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    D-T reactors would activate the reactor materials, but the wastes would be relatively short-lived (most in the range of a couple hundred years). There wouldn't be any transuranic wastes.

  24. Re: Energy in? on Carbon Dioxide From the Air Converted Into Methanol (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    If you had a 10m^2 column and a superficial velocity of 1m^3/sec, you could process about 36,000 m3 of air an hour per column, so you'd need 50 columns to process the 10 second residence times. That's a lot of columns. Then you'd need dozens of distillation columns to separate the methanol. And amines degrade at higher temperatures, so that would need to be replenished.

  25. Re: Energy in? on Carbon Dioxide From the Air Converted Into Methanol (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    My estimates on total system volume are way off, I need the solution concentration, but it will be a massive system.