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  1. No one is forcing the Uber drivers to drive, but on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This has been said before, but from talking to Uber drivers, so far all of them find it harder and harder to actually make a living from Uber. Originally there was a lot of excitement because drivers use Ubering as a way to make extra cash, but now drivers have realized that their car is depreciating faster, that they get tired of it and that they don't put nearly enough money for retirement for this line of work to be worth it in the long run.

  2. Re:sorry, it's not that simple on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    To be honest breeder reactors work, but there are safety issues. All fast breeders with reasonable ratio use liquid metal as coolant, typically Sodium. They are expensive and difficult to maintain, see here. A small leak could produce a Sodium fire with dire consequences. Also there are weapon proliferation risks since producing fissible Plutonium from a breeding reactor is very easy. This is basically how they work...

    Essentially breeders are a very dirty and dangerous business.

  3. Re: Trump is love on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Greed may foster short-term prosperity. Long term? not so sure.

  4. Re: Trump is love on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to think that the voters are those who are delusional. I'm not saying which ones, mind you, probably all :-)

  5. Re:ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, ooooh my :) on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    At some point MS seemed to like the Korn shell, right until a pretty famous encounter. After that they really had to invent the most incompatible-with-anything shell imaginable, so it would never happen again.

  6. Are they? A question of familiarity I believe. Unless things have changed recently, debugging memory errors in C was far easier under Linux than Windows.

  7. Look up cuckquean. Actual word.

  8. Re:Still not ready for cities on Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Too optimistic. The accident rate for trucks is very low, about 0.15 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled (source: here). We will need a lot of trucks and a lot of time on that 35 mile stretch. Quick calculations, at 1000 trucks per day, 24/7, this will take 100 years.

  9. Fun read :-)

  10. For the whole company? didn't think so.

  11. What is the relationship between your taxes and you employing sysadmins in Shanghai ?

  12. Try without reinstalling Ubuntu on Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Budgie is a desktop environment. Can be tried for 16:04 without reinstalling.

  13. Re:too little, too late on Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Beautiful plumage, though.

  14. Re:Neutrino wind on New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Feynman talks about this model in his book "six easy pieces" and says that this would not work because Galilean motion would be slowed down by this wind, which is not what we are observing.

  15. Re:Invent fuel from CO2 in air or we are doomed on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Too bad... on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In this instance Trump can basically do as he please given the composition of both the senate and the house.

  17. Re:actually, go ahead. This will not matter on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, but then there is no point in dropping the Paris agreement. A smart strategy would be to keep it since the USA will meet its requirements, while forcing China to do the same.

  18. Re:And the hits keep on coming ... on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How can this comment be insightful? That's the problem with science, right? there is not always a simple way to explain it, so simple-looking objections may sound convincing.

    Have you read the article on the NASA site?

    The ratio of these two isotopes tells us about past temperatures. When the carbonate solidifies to form a shell, the isotopic ratio in the oxygen varies slightly depending on the temperature of the surrounding water. The change is only a tiny 0.2 parts per million decrease for each degree of temperature increase. Nevertheless, this is sufficient for us to be able to estimate the temperature of the water in which the forams lived millions of years ago.

  19. Re:It's that other 2% that is the problem... on Tesla Tells Germany that 98% of Drivers Don't Find the Term 'Autopilot' Misleading (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, Kamikaze.

  20. I was not aware that Tesla owner had given expressed or implied permission to Tesla to spy on their driving, to upload the data to Tesla's servers and to use this data for Tesla's profit without any compensation of any kind.

    I also thought that Tesla was not until recently developing their own autopilot. I thought they had subcontracted Mobileye for this. Now Mobileye and Tesla have parted ways, to whom does this data belong ?

  21. Re:Funny on Ireland Will Bring the Fight Over Apple Taxes To the EU Court (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The EU is a commonwealth among nations. One deal is that members refrain from competing unfairly against each other. The EU actually enforces these deals. Who would have thought.

  22. Re:Of course they would say that on NASA: We're Not Racing SpaceX To Mars (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    That does sound like a stretch goal.

  23. Re:Macbook Air on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Cheap Linux-Friendly Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Good luck finding one in usable condition for $200

  24. It's true but for any individual driver, the risk of being involved in a fatal car accident is still fairly low. 1 death per 200 million km approximately in the USA and Europe. Most people drive for far less than 1% of that distance in their entire lifetime. The risk of death by road accident is way down the list of causes of death in the western world.

  25. Re:Why Level 5 autonomy is a joke on All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, very skeptical here too, however this time we have a deadline for this impossible software. We'll see soon enough.