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  1. Was that not what I said?
    "Climbing" backward down a slope?

  2. The "O! My god! The planet is overpopulated!" freaks would argue otherwise. Lets reduce females to 10% of the population ...

  3. Re:Why Mars #1 Focus For Colonization? on Ice Cliffs Spotted On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Mars has an 25h day/night cycle.
    Moon has a 28day day/night cycle.

    Mars has 1/3rd of Earth gravity.
    Moon has 1/6th of Earth gravity.

    Mars has about +20C at the equator in summer ... and obviously down to -150 (or so?)C at the poles in winter.
    Moon has about +300C at the equator (and basically everywhere on the day sie) and about -200 or -250 on the night side.

  4. Re:primu posut on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    By all fairness, if the words would not be translated, then a spanish speaker or french speaker would perhaps recognize 10 words in the list like vir, mondo, pordo or sinjorino. And I doubt e.g. a french would recognize vir, he probably already has trouble to understand pordo. Heck, a french would have problems to correlate infano with enfant, he probably would think about inferno, rofl.

    Also I understood that arth in fact speaks spanish ... no idea why you claim he don't.

  5. Re:primu posut on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So, if we have 3 or 4 language groups to chose from, and the final distribution would be:
    a) 40%
    b) 30%
    c) 20%
    d) 10%

    Then _you_ would say, the language is _primarily_ designed by a)
    And _I_ would say: no it is not, as the other languages together have a bigger contribution.

    Anyway, the roman part of esperanto most certainly does not come from Spanish but from Italian and Latin and a huge degree from Romania.

    And more important, the language was not designed by picking some natural languages and pick words from it, that sounded simple, but by analyzing thesauri.

    E.g. the word for "ticket" is "billetto". The english "bill" comes to mind, and in german we have the word "Billet", which is not in wide spread use, but we adopted it via French.

    Bottom line this approach of finding synonyms that are common all over europe formed the vocabulary.

    Your previous post and the wikipedia claim imply that he _deliberately picked_ mostly words from Spanish or roman languages, which is wrong. And if you speak Spanish you still only understand 10% of esperanto, probably less. E.g. look at the numbers 1 - 10 ... similar but simply just strange. They are _derived_ from latin but changed so much you have to explicitly learn them, otherwise you don't recognize them in text if they are written as "words" e.g. "kwar" and "kwin".

    But then again a noticeable amount of english or german words are of latin origin ...

  6. Re:It's not a "vision problem" - it's genetic real on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What about Koko should be fraud?

  7. Re:Self driving car ethics on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do people always come to such idiotic scenarios?
    How the funk should a car that has its speed adapted to the conditions, come into a situation where it has to chose to hit one group of pedestrians? Pedestrians walking directly on the road? Directly behind a curve in a wood?
    The car will break, that is all, it wont turn away from 5 people in front of it to hit one to the left or one to the right. And you can damn be assured, it does not even check if what is in front of it is a human, an other obstacle or two cows. It sees an obstacle and breaks, thats it.

  8. Re:This is why I will never be selected for Jury on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the rape is already proven by DNA tests. The murder he admitted, but he is silent about why he did all day.
    Hence they want to make a profile of his movements.
    Germany has no juries in trials, like most countries have none.

  9. An iPhone 4 has an accelerometer, so yes it can count steps etc.
    Further more it has GPS, so yes it can measure climbs. Considering that a climb is a low speed step with harder shock when setting down the food, it is easy to distinguish without GPS even. Especially if it is a downhill climb as in this example.

  10. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In middle east countries new born often get their birth certificate up to half a year after birth.
    With an adjusted date. That means if one is born in January, the birth certificate and later the passport will show May or June.
    If they throw away the passport and claim to be 17, that still might be what they think as old they are, but in fact they are up to half a year older.
    The rational behind it is that they avoid counting child death in the first month. But for many children it later is disturbing, because the family wants to celebrate the real birthday, but officials e.g. schools etc. the fake birthday. For females it is even worth, as they are often made even younger. E.g. born June 1977 gets shifted to March 1978, so they look on paper nearly one year younger than they are.

  11. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have evidence that there is something covered up, point it out.
    Otherwise you are just showing us that you believe in conspiracy theories.

  12. Re:Too Bad on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Herman has no weird grammar rules.
    The grammar is more or less the same as english.

    And what exactly is the difference between world war I and worldwar II?

    Oh, the second is a compound word and that is .... difficult?

  13. Re:Adding or reviving languages should be illegal on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Rofl ...
    Nevertheless your parent is right.
    Many parts of Africa, note 'parts', have french as the main language or even official administration language. And/or have a currency derived from french franc and bound to euro.

  14. Re:primu posut on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Esperanto has not much to do with spanish.
    Flexion is _greek_
    The vocabulary is an attempt to collect words that are common in as many european languages as possible.

  15. Re:The Actual Process on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all, it was not clear that you talk about CDIF.
    Then again, it makes no sense to talk about it in the context of antibiotics as the article is about the fact that cdif is resistent to antibiotics.

    Furthermore, you might want to educate yourself a bit instead of talking out of your ass about things which you are clearly ignorant "If infections had a 60% death rate I would be probably dead 20 times now." NO RTFA, PRE ANTIBOITCS MOST SERIOUS INFECTIONS WERE FATAL...

    And I pointed out that this is nonsense. As I I minimum had 20 infections where I did not get antibiotics, why should I?

    "Before antibiotics, 90% of children with bacterial meningitis died. Among those children who lived, most had severe and lasting disabilities, from deafness to mental retardation.
    Obviously. And why is that so? Because the immune system has not full access to the brain and surrounding areas. So super smart from you to pick one of the few examples where antibiotics actually are necessary.
    What about acne? Or as I pointed out, pneumonia, or you cut your finger and it gets infected? How is there the death rate without antibiotics? 60% ??? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

  16. Re:Germany 2nd Most Expensive Power in the West on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    The links you gave were false. More precisely the information in them was wrong.
    21 of 58 reactors are offline: https://www.reuters.com/articl...

    Biomass releases the exact same amount of CO2 regardless if it is burned in a power plant or left rotting on a field. How stupid are you?

  17. Re:C programs are too dangerous for net-connected on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I never worked with unicode in C, so I did not get what you meant.
    Nevertheless this is stuff which should be written in the documentation, and should not need to make it necessary to know implementation details.

  18. Re:Oh lord, that again? on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically all Java JIT compilers compile byte code to native code.
    Your idea about C (and not C++) used in kernels, especially the ones you mention, is plain wrong.

  19. Re:C programs are too dangerous for net-connected on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The last time I checkt strcpy() was implemented like this:

    char* strcpy(char* dst, char* src) {
          while (*dst++ = *src++)
                  ;
          return dst;
    }

    So obviously it does not work for UTF-x or wide characters.

    I guess you picked a bad example.

    P.S. just for the other idiots (not you), no: I did not to need to google for it facepalm

  20. Re:C is still king, thank Engineering Schools on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I can write C very easily as I have written about 700k lines C++ myself.
    Next try?

    Sorry, where does that obsession about 'C is so hard' come from? It is a portable assembler, much easier than most languages, there is nothing particular tricky about it.

    If you can speak spanish (or sometimes even portuguese) you simply can talk to an italian in spanish and let him talk italian, works most of the time.

  21. Re:Germany 2nd Most Expensive Power in the West on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    You did not cite any sources.
    1/3rd of the french nuckear plants are offline since 5-6 years because of security issues.
    Biomass does count, if you think otherwise please file a paper and get your Nobel Prize.

  22. Re: "otherwise harmless additives" on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Rofl,
    why that hostillity?
    I only pointed out that salt deficit for a modern western life styke is extremely unlikely.
    So bottom line you have no salt deficit but a deficit of other minerals? So why do you try to get more slat then?
    Seems I don't grasp it :)

  23. Re:The Actual Process on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What has that to do with the claimed death rate of the parent?

    If infections had a 60% death rate I would be probably dead 20 times now ... or do you think I'm superhuman that
    I survived 30 infections? Have to tell my siblings that we are from a superhuman family. Perhaps all germany is like this? Are we all .... oh my god ... Zomnies?

  24. Re:No dinner for Andre. on Can Mesh Networks Save a Dying Web? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That example of yours is not the definition of amesh network, facepalm.
    Why do you think I tried to give a simple explanaition?

  25. Re:Oh lord, that again? on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Cache misses for what?
    Data or code?

    Yes, compiler optimizations might have different impacts, I was more thinking in terms of data structures (I believe the parent, too).