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  1. Not every job should be required to pay enough to let you afford your own place.
    Actually it should. Especially if it is a 50h - 60h per week job.

    Find a roommate while you work on your skillset.
    In a single room, haha ... or sleeping in a SUV with a room mate?

    Most Uber drivers have another job that is their main income. 80% are part time drivers. 20% drive less than 10 hours per week.
    Why do you claim that? How many Uber drivers do you know in person?

  2. Re:Hey, halfway to matching the Model A Ford on Tesla Produced Over 80,000 Cars In Third Quarter, Beating Estimates (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Tesla makes more EV battery capacity than everyone else in the world combined.
    That is nonsense.

    Despite the success story of Tesla, European and Asian car manufactorers sell probably 10 times to 50 times more EVs or hybrids than Tesla does.

    Tesla is impressive, but it is only a single car manufactorer.

  3. Re:Interested to see the long-term quality on Tesla Produced Over 80,000 Cars In Third Quarter, Beating Estimates (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    Something falling on your roof, is not under warranty.

    Perhaps she should convince her insurance to pay for it.

    If an idiot came for an appointment for warranty repairs for stuff that clearly is not under warranty, he would be pretty low on my list of customers, too.

  4. Re:depending on your definition of working on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you spare a couple of grandparents?
    Double blind studies don't work like this.
    You also have to include middle aged, young aged, white, negros, asians, escimos, and toddlers!!

  5. Re:What's so batshit about it? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously, when you think about it, it should be.
    But many options of stuff that is quantisized, e.g. gravity, is not proven yet.

    The last thing I remember that was proven quantisized was the hall effect, which lead to the acceptance that magnetic fields are quantisized.

  6. Re:All theories were fringe theories at one point on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And how come there is no apparent parallax detected when looking at the stars? Unless the stars were "ridiculously" far away, why don't we notice certain stars seem closer/brighter at different times of the year?
    We actually do that. Closer/brighter not, for that the earth orbit is to small. Heck the traveling of the solar system through the galaxy is faster and makes differences an order of magnitude higher than the orbit of earth.

    Know what a parsec is? Look it up ...

  7. Re:All theories were fringe theories at one point on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    this also needs to explain observed gravitational lensing (and lack of it in certain cases), observed cosmic background radiation, and several other directions that have come to point to dark matter.
    No it has not.
    Why should it?

    It has nothing to do with it ...

    What is next? It should predict global warming? Nuclear decay?

    Which part of quantified inertia did yo not get? What has inertia to do with cosmic background radiation? Hae? Or gravity lensing?

  8. Re:Isn't this how science works? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Speaking for the public, it is a huge waste of money to invest in testing papers like this, especially at this level of funding. I have seen hundreds of them, and none of them has ever turned out to be correct.
    Which part of "DARPA is investing 1.3 million" did you not get?

    First of all: DARPA has much more credibility than you.
    Secondly: 1.3 million is a lot of money for a lay man. It is peanuts if you consider that the fund 5 people for about 2 years to do the research.
    Thirdly: for funk sake, it is not YOUR money. You payed the taxes, yes. And now the money belongs to someone else. If you want to have influence on it, join DARPA, or any other research institute where you can decide where the money goes.

  9. Re:Isn't this how science works? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    (Curvature of space-time, not a force),
    It is nevertheless still a force, transmitted by (hypothetical) gravitons.

  10. Re:Isn't this how science works? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow ... and how the funk do one decide which research project is more likely to succeede?

    Did you actually look at the costs? That research costs peanuts. I rather fund 100 projects for a million each, and 50% or even 90% are bollocks than funding 2 projects 50 million each, and one or both are bollocks.

    Your idea how science works or research is done might differ ...

  11. Re:Patents on The Story of Starlite, the 'Blast Proof' Material (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    RPG as in rocket propelled grenade, that is usually not an anti tank weapon. So why are you faking your surprise?

  12. Yes ...
    one of those internet myths.

    How exactly would they have a shadow profile of you? With your name, birthdate etc. and how would they link it to your usage of the web?

  13. No need for that, since I know that the software keyboard is using unicode quotes, I use the hardware keyboard when posting.

    But if you are so annoyed about iPad users with "smart quotes", perhaps you should contact the slashdot developers, no idea why you think the "help line" could help there ...

  14. Re:Because "64bit" is somehow inherently better? on Apple Watch Apps Instantly Went 64-Bit Thanks To Obscure Bitcode Option (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    SIMD (single instruction, multiple dispatch^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdata).
    FTFY.

  15. Re:I'm sure they needed it too on Apple Watch Apps Instantly Went 64-Bit Thanks To Obscure Bitcode Option (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. 64 bit binaries are more bulky than 32 bit.
    Idiot very much today?

    64bit binaries plus 32bit binaries are even more bulky than 64bit binaries alone! And that was the parents point.

    On the device you only have 32 bit binaries/libraries or 64 bit.
    Obviously you are not a software developer. Obviously you have both kinds of libraries, unless the binaries are statically linked and don't need libraries on the device.

  16. Re:Sounds like a good idea on Saudi Arabia Puts World's Biggest Solar Power Project On Hold (dw.com) · · Score: 2

    - They drop to 80% after 25 years, at which point they are meant to be replaced (25 =/= typical human span of 75-to-80)
    No, it is not meant to be replaced. That would only make sense if the efficiency had drastically improved, e.g. the new panels give 130% or more power than the original ones.

  17. I just looked into my task manager on my Mac.
    There is is no fruitly.exe running at the moment!

  18. When I was 14, hardly any floppy existed. A hard drive costed more than your car and CDs definitely did not even exist as a wet dream of a research lab assistant.

    But I get your point ... my stupid parents most surely have a naked pic of me when I was 7 or 8 or 10 playing at a Baggersee. Or god forbid: even younger!!!

  19. But if you're still interested in 14 year old girls after 18, there may be something wrong with you or you might be developmentally stunted in some way.
    Depends how mature the 14 year old is. I had my first "real girlfriend" with 15, and she was 14. If I had been 18 I had chosen her anyway, why would I not?

    And no, I never really was interested in "older woman" (I assume you mean around 20, for a 16 year old?) but my math teacher and one of my music teachers was "kinda hot" :D

    Young people like to bond together, also for sex. And a 4 years difference is not that uncommon, even if the people are young.

    And, outside of the US, it is completely legal that a 14 year old has sex with an 18 year old. And over 18, the other partner needs to be 16. An arbitrary gap ... yes.

  20. Well,
    I had no bad experience with Gopher as I was using it only on Macs inside of a campus with a quite fast internet connection to the USA, and one of the first fiber optic internet links in Europe connecting Karlsruhe, Strasbourg and two or three other "european" universities.

    With WAIS I never had any problems either ... but I did use it only for research purpose of a guy making his PhD ... so that was perhaps over a course of two years once or twice a month.

    But I have to admit, when HTTP/HTML came out, I thought to myself: who will ever need/use that?

  21. But mine do. Lenovo Yoga Book .
    So? What is your point?

  22. Re:NASA isn't planning to go to the moon on Moon is Stepping Stone, Not Alternative To Mars, NASA Chief Says (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The point was about starting from Earth or starting from the Moon,
    not about going to the Moon or going to Mars.

  23. Re:And this is why I am for public transportation. on Most Drivers Don't Understand Limitations of Car Safety Systems, AAA Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously not.

    But you obviously never took a train form Paris to Karlsruhe or Frankfurt or Stuttgart. Or opposite direction.

  24. but I don't think a Venus surface suit is against the laws of physics as such.
    Cough cough ...
    Active cooling is of course needed.
    You see, you are smart enough to figure it.

    Now if you find a way to have active cooling "in a suit" that can sustain the pressure on Venus with the temperatures there: you likely get a Nobel Prize.

    But you can backpedal and we can agree on a kind of "submarine" ...

  25. No it is not!
    Why the funk would it?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...