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  1. Re: In other words on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice try but left wing progressives don't hate Jews and many Jews are left wing progressives. You may have confused antisemitism with dislike of some of the actions of the Israeli state, most obviously their mistreatment of the Palestinians.

  2. many of the companies he met with on the trip were already "every interested in how they could come to Wisconsin and partner for that new ecosystem."

    many of the companies he met with on the trip were already "very interested in how they could come to Wisconsin and be given free money."

    FTFHim

  3. Re: Nature vs Nurture on AI Can Detect Sexual Orientation Based On Person's Photo (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The study says that although grooming styles differ, gay men and women also tend to have different facial shapes from their heterosexual counterparts. It looks increasingly likely that God is making gay babies.

  4. Re: You must be joking. on Plastic Fibers Found In 83 Percent of World's Tap Water, Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US? Either lead or High Fructose Corn Syrup.

  5. Re: How did they kill it? on Power Company Kills Nuclear Plant, Plans $6 Billion In Solar, Battery Investment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a spreadsheet in the boardroom.

  6. Does "can't look at files" mean they're unable to look or not allowed to look? Is access prevented, audited? Does anyone check?

  7. Re: We've seen this before... on 60,000 Germans Evacuate While Officials Try To Defuse a WWII Bomb (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Doodlebug was the nickname for the pulse jet powered V1 flying bomb. They weren't easy to lift, let alone take up to the bedroom.

  8. Clean on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 0

    How clean is Cummins' "clean diesel"? Is it just a marketing term like "clean coal" or is there a substantial decrease in particulates and NOx emitted by the exhaust?

  9. Sorry about that, you're probably right. I won't risk diacriticals here on mobile.

  10. Re: Headline is wrong on Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death (manchester.ac.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whereas Ernst Schroedinger's letters are both.

  11. Re: His detest may have more to do... on Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death (manchester.ac.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It does not seem to be well-known that Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) spent two academic years at Princeton University, from the summer of 1936 to the summer of 1938.

    Alan Turing returned to the U.S. during WWII as a liaison between the two communities of cryptanalysts for about four months, from November 1942 to March 1943. He arrived in New York City on November 12, 1942, before heading to the headquarters of the U.S. Secret Service (now the CIA) in Washington, D.C.

    Source

  12. Re:Arrogant and ill trained US navy crew. on Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe it was a stealth tanker.

  13. Re: Other possibilities on Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Tomorrow Never Dies was the first thing I thought of when I read about the latest crash, closely followed by wondering if it was the Chinese. Though like in the film it could be the Russians pretending to be the Chinese, or Rupert Murdoch pretending to be the North Koreans or just a coincidence.

  14. Re: Sounds good on the surface but on People Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries To Power Their Homes (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the photos looks like they were testing individual cells, a necessary process but tedious for more than a few.

    The thin wire in the bus bar video will fuse at about 10A so I guess that's the current protection for each cell though as each module can only be monitored as a unit, unless the fuse or the cell itself blows there's no way to find which of the 80 cells have failed without unsoldering them. All I've read says soldering to 18650 cells will damage them which makes me wonder how competent the guy is.

    For a fixed installation, the batteries could be immersed in an inert liquid for cooling and fire suppression.

  15. But that's commun... no, that's not the word, wait, sensible, that's it.

  16. Re: And with the UK's very limited health care... on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That comment and the parent are complete lies and such obvious lies I'm surprised anyone went with it.

    In the NHS you get care for as long as you need it, free of charge if you're a UK citizen*. It almost certainly will cost a lot less than in the US largely because the NHS is more efficient than a million doctors, hospitals, insurers and drug companies all spending on advertising and sending bills to each other and all extracting profits from the patients.

    It's not all great. Because recent governments have introduced the private sector into the NHS, the kind of shortcuts (do the minimum the contract requires - charge fees for everything else), incompetence (get rid of lots of staff, specially the more experienced, hire some new cheap not-as-good ones) and fiddles (no-one ever checks so we'll make up the figures) which grow when profits are the main motive are creeping in there too.

    * For those not poor, old or chronically ill, prescription medicines are £8.60 and dentistry costs a maximum of £244.30.

  17. According to the "post" link in the story, they were on the Cloudflare Pro (Early Bird) plan.

  18. Only conservacuck libtards use emacs.

  19. Re: 1968? on Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    And those hippie drug fiends are today around 70. Why not ask granny about those trips she went on?.

  20. Re: Black Lives Matter on No Cash For Hate, Say Mainstream Crowdfunding Firms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It still seems extremely high. The arrest rate for the UK for the same period was one eighth of the population rather than one third.

  21. Re: If you make VPNs to bypass government censors on China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And then you'd get an extra kicking for being a foreign agent.

  22. Ah, the McGyver answer to national infrastructure policy. The individualistic attitude which made America great has gone too far and its inefficiencies and corruptions risk damaging the U in the US of A. Taxes for the common good are resisted and the infrastructure crumbles and is not updated.

    With broadband this has created a digital flyover country, a new fault line to disunite the country. If Mr Smith has to leave Smalltown, Illinois and Mrs Hernandez can't start an internet business and little Johnny gives up his dream of downloading Slackware because of their poor, costly internet connection, why should anyone care?

    A forward-thinking government would mandate a national fibre network to nearly everywhere, just like they somehow managed with the POTS in ancient times.

  23. Strawman poll on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I asked some of the professional cosmologists here and they variously talked about Frosty Piss, Gay Wiggers, a lengthy explication of a homosexual encounter, Appy apps and why Hillary, feminists and transgenders in Seattle bathrooms should be blamed. Others called it Fake News and promised that Trump would fix it, possibly with a hosts file, and there was a steady chorus denying any Russian involvement in anything. It's not my field so I can't say if they're right or not.