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  1. The idit is you.
    As obviously millions of programmers use Phython and like it.

    Chances are: you are indenting your code the exact same why a Phython programmer does.
    If that is the case, that makes you look even more retarded.

  2. Re:Don't Roll Your Own Crypto on A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Stocks are not a very good, probably even a super stupid example to explain deflation problems.
    E.g. while the 'price' not the 'value' of stocks drops the value of the money increases. A zero sum game.
    Secondly: the 'prices' of stocks have absolutely nothing to do with recessions.

    The problem with deflation is hording money, but bottom line it only means: instead of getting interest in the bank, your money increases under your matress. The oroblem is that people postpone investments, as buying a new car. As in the long run cars would become less 'pricy', that would hurt car companies, and perhaps affect their stock price.

    Even with a currency in deflation e.g. food is still distributed, bough,t sold and transportation and ordinary services like medical care, energy etc. are still consumed. They only drop in 'price' not in 'value'.

  3. Re:A lack of imagination? on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets assume a sphere of 100m diameter.
    How many milligrams of "force" would there be on a human somewhere inside?

    We are not talking about a swingby at a black hole ... but about a body in the solar system.

    I doubt we have instruments fine enough and cheap enouh and small enough to put them into a 100m diameter ship to measure the slight tidal effect on a human inisde ...

  4. Re:It's a lack of leadership on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 0

    Most of the things you mention existed 100 years before the space age.
    The amount of 'new things' the space race created is greatly exaggerated.

    Just think about a WWI submarine ...

  5. Re:A lack of imagination? on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    They could sustain accelerations in swing-by maneuvers no human would survive.
    The human inside of the space ship is accelerated with the exact same rate like the space ship around him: ergo he is in free fall and does not experience any acceleration at all, a no brainer.
    And then again, a swing buy maneuver does not have such great effects anyway.

  6. Re:where's James Burke when you really need him? on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    WoW, Super Article!

  7. Re:Air Matters on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oxidation bad! You're letting the wine degas when you let it 'breath', not oxidize.
    Depends on the wine.
    Most of the time you want it to oxidize the bad smelling/tasting aromas.
    Wine actually is not supposed to have any gas inside, are you sure you are not mixing it up with "Champagne" style wines?
    The problem with regions and countries regarding mass market wines is: the good wine is usually only sold inside of the country. I agree that France (but also Spain) has plentiful superb wines. And that Germany and Italy mostly sell only second grade stuff on the world markets. However the same was true for a long time for Australian, South African and Californian wine.

    The big difference is that Germany is more focused on the type of grape in the wine and Spain and France are more focused on the region, but allow to mix grapes. (In Germany we mix grapes, too. But if the wine is sold by grape type "Riesling", "Silvaner" etc.) then a very high percentage of that grape needs to be in the wine.

    It is surprising how good wines you can get from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and even UK. White ones especially.

  8. Re:litre of beer is the common size in Germany usa on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    One liter is not common in Germany.
    The normal sizes are 0.4 or 0.5 for a big glass and 0.2 or 0.33 for a small glass. Smalers do exist.
    Some beers are served in traditional glasses, which implies 1 liter in Bavaria or 0.2 in Cologne and Duesseldorf.

  9. Re:I don't think... on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is no EU proposal.
    There is a bunch of media that want the EU to make a proposal.
    Big difference!

  10. Re:Unreliable Peaker Plants is a bad idea. on Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    There are three or if you want four levels of power generation.

    Peak load
    Load following
    Base load

    And Balancing power. Basically what you american layman call peak, because you have no name for what people in the industry call peak.

    Battery storage as a power source, is excellent for Peak and Balancing power, as Base load it makes no sense.

    (Balancing Power is provided by the plants that can react in seconds to demand changes ... most of them have a high CF ... "ordinary Peakers" have very low CFs ... they are off at night when only base load is pumped into the grid)

  11. They are inefficient and the hotter the outside temperature is the more inefficient they are.
    Not ore inefficient than any other thermal power plant, like a nuclear or coal plant.
    The temperature difference regarding outside heat is close to irrelevant.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Or you read Greg Bears excellent story: "Queen of Angles" which happens to play in Los Angeles, too.

  13. Re:Move those people out ! on The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I never checked how far away the earthquake was from Tokyo, but from Fukushima it was 450 miles.
    If you belive an building can withstand a 9.0 mag earth quake, you are not very smart.

  14. Re:Shit hole city planning and false liberals on The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but except perhaps the great pyramids, nothing will withstand a mag 9 earthquake.
    If you want to refer to Fukushima, the quake was 450 miles away from Fukushime ...

  15. I spent about 50% - 70% of my income on foods and drinks ... no idea for what else I should spent it.

  16. Re:Are you out of your Falcon mind? on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    A washing machine from 1980 had more CPU power than the few stages and space crafts of an Apollo / Saturn V.

  17. I'd be a multi-millionaire today if I had done that.
    You likely would not. Because you also have to sell at the right point ... which implies a buyer.

  18. It is a general rule that you don't take a dept, to speculate in some market.

  19. Re:Werner Von Braun said on SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Launch Will Now Take Place In 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a glorified after war propaganda.
    The americans did not "acquire", "capture" any german rocket scientist.
    The rocket scientists convinced Hitler that it is a good idea to "hide" in south Germany/Bavaria in "remote" areas which have "underground cities" aka very deep bunkers for relatively large populations.
    They deposited about 14tonnes paper with research results, plans etc. there and lived there until the area was "liberated" by american forces. And then they simply came out of the bunker and said: "Hello! We are rocket Scientists, we like to talk to your commander". That was Werner von Braun and his "closest stuff". About a hundred or a few more _rocker scientists_ (Your wikipedia link is about all kinds of scientists)

    In America, the rocket scientists where not allowed to work, where isolated and basically kept captive in a fancy resort till about 1960.

    On the other hand Russia *captures* about 2000 of the remaining scientists in East Germany that where not privileged enough to follow Werner von Braun, not smart or resourceful enough to flee on their own.

    They were put to work immediately, and had a relatively nice life and returned mostly to Germany in the mid 1960s.

    In both situations there was no "operation super secret" involved.

    The smart ones "prepared to be captured" by the USA and the less smart ones "got captured" by the USSR.

  20. I said there are no known kinds of acoustic phenomena that can produce the precise combination of symptoms that are being seen here. Especially the brain damage.
    And there you are wrong, sorry.

    https://www.scientificamerican...

    Sonoluminescence and Cavitation are real effects. No idea where you spent your time the last 50 years.

  21. Re:Meh. M. E. H. Meh. on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Most if not all are electrified in Europe.
    Of course you find BIG countries with LOW population like Sweden where they have a 2000km rail that is not electrified.

  22. Re:Cleaner perhaps but not clean on Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Methane in the (upper) atmosphere stays there for a few years ... not centuries.

  23. Re:Don't use formal training, buy them a computer! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 was not mentioned in the original post.

    And this would explain exactly why you aren't working in IT. It also justifies the evaluation of IT staff, which is my standing point.

    I worked in IT. On UNIX(TM). If I had to use a clickeldy click click interface to manage a Windows system chances are the IT center would burn down. Regardless of halon gas and sprinklers.

  24. Re:Are you out of your Falcon mind? on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean with "Teflon assertion"?

    IC where long developed before the Apollo program.

    And there is nothing relevant in the Apollo program that would not exist without the program.

  25. Re:GW Bush cancelled the Space Shuttle, not Obama on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "you" as in "one"