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  1. Re:4th Phase of Water on Scientists Create a New Form of Matter: Superionic Water Ice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I forgot that hydrogen has only one electron and oxygen only two free to bind too.
    Do if you strip a water molecule a single electron it breaks apart.

    However I do not agree that plasma is consisting of ionized nuclei ... an ionized molecule also forms a plasma. However, I agree again, plasma physics would find that probably super boring.

  2. Re:No surprise here on Detroit Quietly Bans Airbnb (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Except you are not getting around hotel taxes or vat.
    AirBnB is keeping that part of the payment and is paying it to the local tax offices ... at least that is how it works in Europe.

  3. Re:Genuine question here: on Detroit Quietly Bans Airbnb (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course they are collecting taxes.
    Or do you want to accuse ever AirBnB host of tax fraud?

  4. Re:Darn and I wanted to visit Detroit! on Detroit Quietly Bans Airbnb (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in 2017, I visited there for 10 days to give some lectures and participate in a symposium
    I guess you stayed in an AirBnB?

  5. Re: Obviously on 'Modern AI is Good at a Few Things But Bad at Everything Else' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Several mistakes:
    a) a self driving car is not an AI, nor does it use AI, it uses several so called "cognitive systems"
    b) shipping is so absurdly cheap, the cost is not relevant for anything
    c) just because shipping might become cheaper, it does not increase the amount of shipped goods. To increase the amount of shipped goods you either need to make people "ship something", or make customers buy more.

    Considering that above a certain price most shops offer "free shipping", customers wont be affected by a) or b) and shops wont lower prices just because shipping become more cheap.

    Simple example: above $100 shipment is free. Shipping costs $5. The $5 are included in the $100. Drop shipping costs to 5 cents, now you "could" lower the price to $95.05. But now the question comes: do you offer free shipping from $95 on? Because that would share the savings with your customer. Or in other words: keeps your profit constant. Or do you still offer free shipping from above $100? So you keep the profit of cheaper shipping?

  6. Re:What's hard [Re:I wonder how long it will be... on 'Modern AI is Good at a Few Things But Bad at Everything Else' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Computers have no cognition.
    That is nonsense.
    Every most stupid neural network "program" is trained to "recognize".
    And the programmer did _nothing_
    Every NN is basically an off the shelf empty brain, working the same way as any other empty brain, in other words: nothing at all. Only after training it does what it does: recognize stuff. Aka: performing "cognition".

  7. Re:Of course it's outdated... Wink Wink. on Apple Says the Leaked iPhone Source Code is Outdated (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Even^H^H^H^HEvery a small group of developers doing agile (the right way) will be committing changes multiple times a day.
    FTFY.

  8. Standard GPS route finders don't even know about cap drivers shourt cuts, e.g. through pedestrian areas.
    The way from my pub to my home is a 5 minutrs drive ...
    I saw now close to ten different routes.
    The slowest are the guys who need to type in the destination address into their 'navi'. Asking three times about the correct spelling ... we already would have been half way.
    Mean while I don't give my address anymore but a drop off location 20 yards away.

  9. It's a grueling process unmatched by any training taxi drivers have to face anywhere else,
    It id the same in every european city I know about ...
    OTOH London is particular big.

  10. It is most likely not vibration but inised gases.

  11. Re:4th Phase of Water on Scientists Create a New Form of Matter: Superionic Water Ice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    It would be the fifth phase after ice, liquid, vapour and plasma. Unless you want to argue it is not water plasma but a mix of oxygen and hydrogen plasma.

  12. Well,
    you could always bind her to the bed and put the phone out of reach.
    But god forgive: avoid getting a stroke then!

  13. Re:Reverse engineering != copyright infringement on Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No it is not ... I guess with your skills find easy links to convince yourself.
    On the old iPad it is difficcult to search with multiple taps as the tap I'm typing thisin is reloading all the time.
    But think about it, how an I buy your database (schema) and drop all data, put in my own data, without infringing copyright, if the schema would be copyrighted?

  14. Re:How much Blizzard code ... on Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Copyright infringement can only be 'prosecuted' by the copyright holder.
    Usually infringers are only liable for damage. There is no punishment.
    However that changed in reasend years with DMCA etc. where criminal accusions can be added that are beyond copyright e.g. intruding into compuer systems, conspiracy and other things, or criminal attempt to support/help copyright infringers to do their 'business' and help them to be undetected (King Dot Com).

  15. Re:There's no quality control on Internet porn on Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated 'Deepfakes' Porn Videos (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The people (electors) once could vote as they saw fit, now they are required to vote like their voters wanted. They get removed and replaced if they vote different.

    And I doubt being a liberal has anything to do with knowledge. Or does your lack of it make you a redneck?

  16. Re:Until we can actually go there... on Scientists May Have Discovered the First Planets Outside the Milky Way (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I did not answer to the wrong post. I just wanted to support your stand point.

  17. Does not change the fact that it is a European consortium.

  18. They are not clones. The article is wrong about that.
    How is an egg produced? You basically have a 'normal' cell that splits into two. That means the chromosome pairs split up into halfs, and the two egg cells have a random set of chromosomes.
    Humans have 21 chromosome pairs, 42 chromosomes. That makes 2 ^ 42 possible eggs and sperms. Never wondered why not all kids of two parents look identically?
    Just imagine you have a zipper, left side is red, right side is blue. Suppose you open the zipper, it would create two strands of DNA, but it is not blue or red, it is a random sequence of red or blue pits, one taken from the left side, one from the right.

    In the case of those shrimps it is more complicated as they don't have a double chromosome DNA but a triple ...

  19. Ariane 5 is not French. It is European.

  20. Well,
    my first linux machine was called Cunilinux ... running Slackware 0.9x or was it 0.8 ... don't remember (was mid 1993).
    No idea if that is anti feminist or sexist ... I liked the name.

  21. Perhaps you should be more tender to your wife?

  22. Re:ML is a language, not "machine learning". on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    No,
    I don't teach languages I can not grasp my self.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    As I said: it is a variation of Lisp.

    Some people can work with a labyrinth of braces some can't. I can't.

    Just look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    From the probably 100 programmers I know only 4 or 5 worked with Lisp, not counting the mandatory Lisp course in university ... 2 of those 4 or 5 enjoyed it ... one is an Emacs fan and likes to do Lisp stuff in Emacs, the other one shifted to Prolog and now works for SAP and makes boring java stuff ... everyone else hates Lisp/Scheme.

    I would never even dare to ask a beginner to try lisp/scheme.

  23. Re:had light version in Europe for years on Tesla To Construct 'Virtual Solar Power Plant' Using 50,000 Homes (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, in Germany most "similar schemes" the company doing the "management" and the owner just share the profit. After all, the profit is changing extremely over the day or the year.

  24. Re:Reverse engineering != copyright infringement on Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Reverse engineering != copyright infringement on Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No,

    I'm not living in the USA.

    If the lawyers you talked to disagree, they are idiots.

    What happened to your google fu? http://www.iusmentis.com/datab...