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  1. Re:What ignorance gets published these days on Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Welll,
    that mirror thing extends to "skype" etc.

    I think cats (and other animals) have a special kind of smartness: they realize the mirror image, or my image on skype: is just an image, and not the real thing.

    The cat of my ex GF most certainly recognized herself in the mirror. She kept making exercises and cleaning herself while watching herself in the mirror, just like a girl in love with her ow beauty.

  2. When I was in school, the mantra was: a girl is born with a fixed amount of eggs.

    But thanx for your simple update :D

  3. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Does not really matter how long it will be maintained, as long as you keep the tool suit around.
    As it is open source, and there are already alternative compilers, I would assume you have a decade or more.

    Actually I would like to do some work with Swift, too. But I have no idea about a program I could write. Except my idea of a kind of HyperCard clone :D but I guess I make that for Android first, and not iOS.

  4. Re:That's fun to say. Lose money 10 years straight on Facebook Relents, Switches React, Flow, Immuable.js and Jest To MIT License (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    that is expected to remain unprofitable in future will not have a successful IPO
    Obviously.
    So they find a way to make it look profitable, e.g. look at FB.

  5. Re: Tariff a subsidized thing? Huh? on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. I was not aware that china switched from being one of the biggest exporters (it is still rank 11) to _the_ biggest importer.

    http://www.worldstopexports.co...

    Anyway, your nuclear rant is as pointless as always :D

  6. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    but just because you think there aren't bugs doesn't mean that there aren't
    I never said that.

    Go spit your vitriol elsewhere.

    You're embarassing yourself with your profound ignorance of the topic
    As I said before, I'm a computer scientist. You however are just a vitriol spitting idiot.

    No idea what you know about computing. Except for attempts to quote me wrong you have not said much. And most certainly nothing that is remotely correct.

  7. Re:Put away the foil hat on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the "gastritis conspiracy"?
    For decades the MIC tried to suppress the finding that gastritis is caused by "Helicobacter pylori", selling billions of worthless medicals that only "calmed down" the lining of the stomach, but curing nothing.

  8. Re: #MAGA = kill solar to support clean coal on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, coal plants work the exact same way.
    Perhaps you should visit one once and learn how they work?

  9. Re: #MAGA = kill solar to support clean coal on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all: define expensive.
    German coal mines are probably the most expensive in the world.
    Only kept active by more subsidies than all workers employed in them earn!

    Then again, regardless how cheap you try to make coal, right now solar is simply cheaper, but not useable for everything (e.g. for night power you need storage, and enough day time peak power production to fill the storage)

  10. Re:Can't compete? Get out of the business. on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The typical american thinks that slave workers walking half naked in some brine with a paper mouth cover are painting with poisonous 'paints' layer by layer.
    Then they carry them by hand to ovens where they get baked with coal powered fire, rare earth elements get added, for good measure, more energy and CO2 is produced that way, and a dangerous shortage for lithium is created, hence the new iPhone costs over $1200.
    To be allowed to work in such a factory, the workers have to sign contracts that their children down to the third generation have to work for the company, too.
    And so on ...

    In reality solar panels in China are produced in the same way like Intel produces its chips in the USA, a Silicon based PV cell is basically the same thing like a wafer before they put a mask on it and expose it.

  11. Re:You don't pay $60k for a pickup truck on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We have no factory workers :)
    We have robots :P

    (sure we have workers left ... but not to the extend like 30 years ago)

  12. Re:This is great news for solar in the USA on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That might be true in the USA, but when you travel through Asia you basically see pickup trucks of all Asian brands (mostly jap. ofc.), of course nearly no american brands (don't remember any).

  13. Re: Tariff a subsidized thing? Huh? on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Still posting nonsense?

    Why not start reading a book?

    If the USA would finish a nuclear power plant each month, what wouod they di with the power? Where is the demand for it?

    China is not importing coal. China is the worlds biggest coal exporter.

    I spare me my usual greeting (it is 'Idiot', in case you forgot)

  14. Re:Let's just make solar illegal to import! on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Most asian countries demand that.
    And honestly: it can't be so hard to figure why.

  15. Re:That's fun to say. Lose money 10 years straight on Facebook Relents, Switches React, Flow, Immuable.js and Jest To MIT License (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Investors usuallybmake money via an IPO, not via the earnings the company makes they invested in.

  16. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, come on phantomfive!
    You are smarter than that.
    Just because Swift 4 is out, it makes Swift 3 not dead. And as both compile down to ordinary *.o/*.lib/*.so files, they can interlink each other.
    No need to rewrite Swift 3 code to Swift 4 ... just transform old code into libs and use the new Swift for new projects.
    If the old code can't be a lib, just keep it as Swift 3 and use the old compilers for it, problem solved.

  17. Re:AIDS is bad on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have an illness like this, fly to Europe and exploit the european system.
    You get treatment and they sue the american health insurance to get the money back (if they don't comply voluntarily).

  18. Re:Evolution on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An antibody is not a vaccine, unless you call a passive vaccination "with antibodies" a vaccine.

  19. Re:Evolution on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Idiot very much?

    You are infected by HIV.

    An antibody is "killing" 99% of the virus, and you think: therefore it will be useless, you seem to be a bit retarded.

    every few times it copies itself. Hint:no virus is copying itself.

    Perhaps you want to read the article again to grasp that the antibodies attack "fixed structures" in the virus?

  20. Re:The Russians. on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Does not tell us anything ...
    How high was the wind speed, for how long?

    The storms I mentioned would have blown a steam locomotive from the track, too. Depending on position and track :D

    Actually our parent was likely wrong anyway and meant the 1926 "great Miami storm". For 1920, there are not many google results.

    And that storm was noting in comparison to the 3 storms that just had hit the US. Next 2 are on they way, btw. So fasten your seat belts and be safe. Don't find the links from this morning ... one is half way over the ocean, one is 1/3rd west of Africa and the third one is brewing in front of the coast of Nigeria right now.

  21. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You only need access to my customers Jira :D
    E.g. ask http://enbw.com/ or https://www.tipico.de/ or http://www.postbank.de/
    I'm pretty sure they give a random idiot access to the Jira and the source code repository to browse if he can find a bug that can be attributed to angel'o'sphere or the team he is part of. Good luck.

    Provide me access to the software please to verify, or stop lying. Can't have it both ways.
    Ah, just because you can not verify it it is a lie?

    Just because you can not find a bug in a piece of software, you know there is a bug, hidden somewhere?

    Please stop showing to the internet that you are a complete idiot.

  22. Re:That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In Germany?
    Yes.

    In the US?
    I don't think so.

  23. Re:That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless the workers involved earn so low wages, that plenty need a second job.

  24. Re:Tomato juice pro tip! on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Never heared that some nuts are considered Obst ... (I'm German).
    But a good explanation to distinguish Obst from Frucht/Fruit :)

  25. Economics of scale does not reduce the cost of a single item (magically?) to zero.
    Considering that the article said, they make billions, and a bottle probably costs a dollar, they probbaly sell a few nillions of bottles.
    Considering 10 bottles cost a single cent in production, we still look at millions of cost for the bottles ...
    Wow that was easy again ...