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  1. Re:Sucked out of an airplane? Not likely on Laptop Ban on Planes Came After Plot To Put Explosives in iPad (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Mythbusters is not very reliable regarding busting myths.

    http://www.ripleys.com/weird-n...

    http://www.historyandheadlines...

    I guess if you modify the search a bit, you find plenty of more incidents.

  2. Re:deploy this, and you arent a state anymore. on Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Nice trolling.

  3. Re:Apache Spark on Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say (datanami.com) · · Score: 1

    Are we talking about the same : http://spark.apache.org/ ??
    Why so angry?

  4. Your examples make no sense.
    Americans are to poor to fly overseas to get healthcare they can not afford in their own country.

    As I said before, only 'super rich' fly to the USA for treatments. And to be super rich or does not really matter how poor the country is you come from.

    The rest of your post makes no sense either. In europe everything is centered around 'health care'. Foreigners flying to europe have by definition no 'health care' but need a private contract with the hospital or doctor they want to seek. Same as if they visit the USA. Why would one fly to Denmark for dental aid? Hu, every country on the world has good affordable dentists, facepalm! I fly to Thailand to fix my teeth, or I could fly to Greece or Tunesia. To combine a vacation with treatment for the same price it would cost me in germany. However: I have a private health insurrance. If
    I had a tooth problem, they pay up to $4000 per year. As I take care of my teeth, they never have to pay anything.

    The parents of an american friend of mine actually live close to Paris, they are from Camerun. They both get Hepatitis and cancer treatment ... so yes: rich people do fly to Erope to get treatments.
    The story is quite funny, as she was with her parents she needed a routine operation. As she is from Camerun and her family has 'residentship status' she would be operated 'for free'. But as she was a director of an american mutual-funds bank, her health insurance insisted she flys back to the states. They refused to pay any followup treatments if anything would go wrong in the hospital in Paris.
    So she got a first class flight and an operation in Washington that costed far over $10,000 ... would have costed less than $1000 in Paris (plus stay and food etc. ofc. in both cases)

    The USA might have a few specialized institutions that are above European level (in terms of quallity of service), but most certainly not in numbers that are in any way relevant.

    The first heart transplant was not done in the US ... you are watching to much Dr. House. Do you know where most US soldiers are treated that get severly wounded somewhere on the world?

    Hint: not in the USA ....
    Answer: In my country ... should be not be hard to figure which it is.

  5. I guess they even pay for it ;)

  6. No, there is no flaw.
    Perhaps you might check the dictionary what a flaw is.

    In case of autonomous cars, e.g. you could do it like a human does, drive slower. Surprisingly, that is exactly what an autonomous car is doing.

    So, with better visuals, it would drive slightluy faster than it does without. The limit is likely the slippery of the road and not the vision. So, there is not much to improve ... and there is ni flaw.

    The flaw are humans that don't slow down in bad weather conditions.

  7. Re:Apache Spark on Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say (datanami.com) · · Score: 1

    If you actually would work with Spark, you would know it is based on Hadoop, just saying.

  8. Re:A little clueless.... on Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say (datanami.com) · · Score: 1

    Was about to say the same, hehe ...

  9. Re:Does anyone care any more? on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should it?

  10. Re:MapReduce is great on Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say (datanami.com) · · Score: 1

    I have heard plenty of stories like this.
    And I have to say, while the questions google is asking in an interview are relevant for their business, they are rather simple.
    I guess I would fail an interview, too.
    On the other hand, I work freelance, so big companies are rarely interesting.

  11. Why you are such an idiot is beyond me.
    Some rich people fly to the USA for treatment, because they are rich and come from second or third world countries.
    No one from Europe would fly to the USA for treatment, unless he is an rich idiot.
    Why should I apply for citizenship in Denmark or France is beyond me. I'm european. I can freely live in any country in the EU I want. In Denmark, Norway etc. healthcare is free and payed by tax money. Facepalm.

    the problem with our Health system
    You would be better off if you accepted: you have no health system, facepalm.

  12. Re:This will be denied by all the idiots on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That would only be 'true' if O2 would magically be converted into CO2.
    Which it is not.

  13. If aomated cars are programmed to avoid accidents at all costs, how did the Tesla run into the trailer?
    The Tesla was not an autonomous car. It was on autopilote, which basically means: stay in the lane and keep the speed, avoid running into a car in front of you (on the same lane), it is not able to react on crossing traffic.

    How did a google car turn into a bus because there was a sand bag in it's lane.
    I don't know about that accident.

    Automated cars can only be programmed to avoid accidents at all costs if the people programming them can preconceive all accidents.
    This is nonsense.
    I suggest to take a course about software development aka "programming"

  14. They see properly at night.
    Just not the american fake news autonomous cars ... the article btw is about "seeing better" not about "not seeing properly."

  15. Re:Not all wrecks can be avoided on Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Tests in Arizona After Friday Night Collision (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A newcomer like Uber can not do it.
    Why newcomers get allowance to test their bullshit on real roads when Audi, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes etc. have self driving cars since a decades is beyond me.

  16. Don't you think that living in a country that has the most expensive "treatment industry", and before Obama basically no "health care" as in the sense of "making it possible for everyone to actually consult a medical" is rather ridiculous?
    What is so complicated in simply looking how other countries doe it, e.g. France, Denmark or god forbid China? And copy the good parts?
    How one can be against healthcare and claim to live in a first world country is beyond me.

  17. If humans where good in avoiding accidents we had not so many accidents in the first place.
    And "avoiding an accident" implies: there is an accident about to happen, and only by luck/precaution/whatever the other involved party can avoid it. When all cars are autonomous accidents are only thinkable in the most obscure situations, I can not even imagine one right now (obviously software/hardware failure is an option).

  18. Firstly an autonomous car is not driven by a (strong) AI, barely half of the algorithms count as weak AI.
    Secondly, it is of course programmed to avoid crashes/collisions at all cost.

    What else? Why do people believe otherwise is beyond me. Even if no one is injured, the hassle with the insurances to get the damage to the cars sorted is something no one wants to have.

  19. Re:Not all wrecks can be avoided on Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Tests in Arizona After Friday Night Collision (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Its the kind of thing that is very hard to program in to an automated system.
    It is absolutely not hard to program into an automated system, facepalm.
    Avoid collisions, easy.

  20. Re:Lots of links to articles, phfft on O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    As I mentioned before:
    If you can give each step a meaningful name, I would prefer to have it in its own function, instead of a comment on top of it.
    If such names are not easy to find a long function is probably simpler.

  21. Re:Sea ice extent in Medieval Warm Period? on Sea Ice Extent Sinks To Record Lows At Both Poles (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    The northern hemisphere os half of the globe

    We don't know much about the south during those times because the christians destroyed to much of the written history, or areas like Australia/Newsealand had no written language at those times, which makes gathering of data a bit difficult.

    Wikipedia is unfortunately about ten years of research information outdated, so I suggest you take your own advice and read a bit about the topic?

    And, frankly, the idea that large scale phenomena like a warming of a whole continent could be a local phenomena, is pretty idiotic, don't you agree?

  22. Re:20,000 years ago on Sea Ice Extent Sinks To Record Lows At Both Poles (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    The parent talked about _cooling_ not heating.
    Yes, the heating up went relatively quick, but right now we are heating up the atmosphere 100-1000 times quicker.

  23. Re:Sea ice extent in Medieval Warm Period? on Sea Ice Extent Sinks To Record Lows At Both Poles (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    That is wrong.
    The conclusion is as I said before. It was at least on the northern hemisphere a global happening.
    And I really doubt that you can measure happenings of such short life span with tree rings. Trees usually don't survive long enough in quantity to be assigned to a period that is just 10 - 30 years long.
    Regarding China and Japan, we have written evidence in chronicles that it was unusually warm. (Albeit only discovered during the last ten years).

  24. Re:Does anyone care any more? on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    In all those cities the likelihood to be killed by another human is extremely low, nothing compared to Sudan, Somalia etc. and for exceptions like the shooting at the Bacatlam in Paris, 99% of all murderings are done by 'random' citizens, whatever religion they might have.
    In the cities you mention it is more likely to die in a pub brawl or get killed by a jealous mate of the girl you look on than by a 'muslime'.
    If you really are concerned that you could die to a 'terrorist' ... you should consider mental help.

  25. Re:Does anyone care any more? on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you not include falling off the roof installing a solar panel as a death counted against solar power?
    Because people falling from the roof have nothing to do with what they are actually trying to achieve on the roof. May it putting up shingles, solar panels or cleaning the chimney.
    And: only people that grossly neglect safety regulations actually *can fall* from the roof. If you have more people falling from roofs to install solar power than you have people dying in accidents related to nuclear power (stumbling from a staircase, dying in a car accident) then your 'roof workers' have an IQ problem. This is not an issue of solar power.

    Did not read the rest of your comment, you unfortunately usually only write nonsense, and I'm not in the mood for that today.