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  1. Haha,
    that is funny, insightful and awesome!

  2. I wouldn't say religion *knew* fasting. It used it for an entirely different purpose.
    Yeah, and you would be wrong.

    It is well known in the western world that fasting has many health benefits. However it is obviously time to find a new term to describe the US. You seem not to belong to the "western world" anymore with your retarded science.
    We have 2019, and now a science article like that pops up and immediately idiots with no education whatsoever pop up and say: that can't be true.

    Hint: in most religions fasting was done during periods were they had no food anyway. Wow, that was so easy.
    Islam is probably the first one (if you discard Christians, because they did not fast because of "oh Jesus died, we don't eat now' but because they actually lived mostly in north Europe where they actually indeed had no food) were fasting was artificially introduced, because they simply copied it from Christians. But they were smarter, as they had irrigation and food: they were allowed to eat after sunset. Hence: Ramadan is actually a big party.

  3. As I said before: this is just a "stupid" reiteration of "common knowledge", which is wrong.
    Just like the "common knowledge" that brain cells don't regrow or other neurons.

    That the later "fact" is wrong is quite often a topic on /.
    The former fact is quite often in news sites, too. Language learning is easy, there is no special skill yo have a s child that gets lost when you grow up. A no brainier actually. How and why would that evolutionary work? Or biologically work? Some dead switch switching off a primary skill of every intelligent species (yes, I count dogs, ravens etc.) at a random young age? What purpose would that have in evolution?

  4. Re:Also need to make it impossible to turn off GPS on New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes there is.
    It is triggered by radar e.g. on sailing ships which would not show up on radar otherwise.
    In other words your AIS antenna receives a radar pulse it sends out its data, via VHF, as you say.

  5. Re:Also need to make it impossible to turn off GPS on New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and those systems are not called GPS transponder. Regardless how hard you insist.

    In navigation on sea e.g. it is called AIS.

    And as you so kindly pointed out: a transponder usually "responds" (hence the wording) to a request. The article is about planes that "sent their position in regular intervals, based on GPS" ... that are not transponders.

    AIS btw. is a mixed system. It responds/transponds to incoming radar, but also sends to satellites, like an EPIRB beacon.

    It's solid nomenclature
    No it is not. It is layman nomenclature.

    to the point it's actually used in the trade as I linked.
    Yes, so that idiots like you can google for it and find it and buy it. rofl

  6. Re:Also need to make it impossible to turn off GPS on New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was more or less about to say the same, but then I thought it is wasted breath ... people see to much bad SiFi.

  7. Re:Where is the nuclear only crowd? on Tesla Proposes Microgrids With Solar and Batteries To Power Greek Islands (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    What has Poland to do with the islands of Greece?

    Why are you posting your bullshit here?

  8. Re:Does Greece have money again then? on Tesla Proposes Microgrids With Solar and Batteries To Power Greek Islands (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I'm not confused. This one of the cases why the EU and Germany refused to pump more money into Greece. However that was 15 years ago ... no idea about the current status.

  9. Yes, you reiterate the "common knowledge".
    That does not make it true.

    If you crash land in China, and get picked up by natives: three years later you speak chinese. There are thousands of documented cases of that. Albeit, always in medieval times, when language learning was so much easier :D

    In historic times it was common for travelers/traders to speak half a dozen languages. They picked them up traveling ...

  10. Re:Simple solution on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When I say "Europe" I mean EU.
    As most countries in Europe are members of the EU.

    Secondly, even the European Union, which is a large subset of Europe, doesn't have standardised employment law.
    Wrong. Most of labour law is EU standard. And all the rest is similar because we think similar.

    Regarding non compete clauses. They are only legal if you compensate the employee for the time he is supposed not to compete with more or less the full wage.

    Thirdly, none of the the three European countries I have worked in has worked that way for non-competes.
    Extremely unlikely. You most likely simply signed a contract because you did not know better. Your double fault. Not knowing better at that time and now being at fault again claiming it was the law.

  11. Re: Simple solution on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it means that, and it means many more: you have *all* kind of freedom of movement. School, finances, living, not only work.

  12. Re:Robots and humans on Hubble Space Telescope Will Last Through the Mid-2020s, Report Says (space.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no reason why Apollo Saturn technology couldn't have produced a Hubble-like observatory, at overall considerably less systems cost.
    Yes there is a reason.
    Perhaps you want to read up why and how the software industry got hooked up to "source code control" or "version control".
    The Saturns had no proper version control of their build plans (the first ones had none at all).
    Basically every new one was build from scratch with primitive plans and the rest of the knowledge in the minds of the engineers/workers.

  13. Re:Where is the nuclear only crowd? on Tesla Proposes Microgrids With Solar and Batteries To Power Greek Islands (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    We are talking about the islands, idiot.
    They are not connected to any mainland or international grid, idiot.

  14. Re:Where is the nuclear only crowd? on Tesla Proposes Microgrids With Solar and Batteries To Power Greek Islands (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Second, conversion to and from molten salts is about 45% each way.
    No it is not, idiot!

    Heat transfers nearly 100% ... making heat into electricity via a turbine is your 45% (actually less as molten salt is not that warm).

    WTF, stop talking about energy, power, electricity or storage ... you have no clue at all!

  15. Re:Where is the nuclear only crowd? on Tesla Proposes Microgrids With Solar and Batteries To Power Greek Islands (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    You understand very little about power apparently.
    And you have no clue at all.

    Pumping water uphill is at best about a 30% energy conversion.
    No it is 99% for floating down effective and something like 95% for pumping up, so we are at roughly 94% efficiency. Idiot ...

  16. Re:Does Greece have money again then? on Tesla Proposes Microgrids With Solar and Batteries To Power Greek Islands (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    In theory yes. In practice no.

    The last project was something like a 200 MW wind park on an island.
    They pocketed the money, build the wind park but never connected it to the grid. They claimed: the money was for the wind park, not to actually make it operational.

    They are for many tricking very far down on the queue for receiving any payments. Don't let me talk about the island with 10,000 inhabitants from which 6,000 unfortunately were blind ....

  17. A pulse of light a bit bigger than one photon makes perfectly sense ...

  18. Re: They are not trapped, just stupid on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides, the general idea is that poor negotiators and rule followers in other words passive people, get and deserve less in life.
    I fully agree. The same is true for small, fat, black, mexican, women. Merit.

  19. Re:Simple solution on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is actually how it is done in Europe ...

  20. Re:Its So Much Quicker To Steal EV Tech... on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The other parties were about a dozen.

    And obviously parties need to be approved, or they would not be able to run in elections. Or how do you actually do it?

  21. Re:It's a Trap! on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The Trumpet suffers from free speech, too!! In other words: he is free to utter any stupidity he wants ...

  22. The "quality" of graphics is completely irrelevant for most "gamers".
    With gamers I mean people who play the game to play the game.

    Graphics is only relevant for people who consider the game as an ersatz cinema experience.

    Flight simulators with more FPS but less details are much more enjoyable than one where you can see a naked girl at a lake. There is a reason why WoW never went for photo realistic scenary or models.

  23. Which part of: it is a game.
    Did you not get?

    Which part of: that heavy water making facility did no even exist in the first place, do you not get?

    In Germany at that time an atomic bomb was just a mind game, there is no single facillity, there never was any researcher/engineer actually ever working on it.

    And you are pissed about a GAME where a female heroine plays a role?

    WTF, I hope you never play WoW or EvE.

  24. So you want to tell us, there is an american conspiracy amoung the computer games industry "pushing feminist propaganda"?

    Oki, I got it.

  25. Re:DICE is the real problem on Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In ancient history between roughly 600 and 1000, samurai in Japan went to war as couples, as husband and wife.