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  1. Re:Looking in the wrong place for emissions cuts on Hyperloop One Technology Tested Successfully In Nevada Desert · · Score: 1

    So the vacuum is broken and the train slows down?

  2. Re:Ignorance of the law on The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    I would base the length of the time on how much support their was for the bill.

    Majority = 1 years.
    50% = 2 years

    etc
    etc

    (Majority meaning people abstained, 50% means in a 99 seat house, 50 passed the bill)

  3. Re:Renewable Energy isn't Renewable on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about their being no demand for Electricity. if so when you are spewing radioactive waste into the environment (coal power stations) you should stop producing as well.

    Or are you talking about their being no demand for solar panels and wind turbines? I think as shown across the world their is demand.

    I would also like sources for your birds being killed by wind turbines(wind mills are the ones on farms). I can almost guarantee that all the references will be able to be traced back to one California wind farm.

  4. Re:During a mild Sunday, I'd hope so. on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is extra. I think they just run the single one in reverse.

  5. Re:During a mild Sunday, I'd hope so. on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the latest (Australian) budget included money to set up storage of nuclear waste.

  6. Re:If it becomes a regular thing on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you get paid for taking the power and for selling the power.

  7. Re:Yes... Vwery interesting... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    To roughly quote a fanfiction.

    You should not be looking for rules that confirm your position. You should be looking for rules that disprove your position and then prove them wrong.

  8. Minecraft is larger then the computers it runs on.

    It also means that any universe that can run a simulation of ours would be bigger.

  9. How many video games are currently being played?

  10. Re: Let's just get the makers vs takers out of th on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    Which is another way of paying for it. Paying for it in reduced real estate taxes rather then paying it directly (It is up to every city which way they go, and hopefully the unsuccessful models are replaced by the successful models)

  11. Re: Let's just get the makers vs takers out of th on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    I think I would use something like what I believe the NDIS is in Australia. You get money for your medical and other bills related to your disability.

    Mental illness like high-function Autism might be enough for a couple of sessions are week to help you socially.
    Someone who loses their legs might be a wheelchair and car modifications.

  12. Re: Let's just get the makers vs takers out of th on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    If Manhattan wants to keep those people then Manhattan would have to pay for it.

  13. Re:Show Government Ineptitude on N. Carolina Senator Drafting Bill To Criminalize Apple's Refusal To Aid Decryption (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or more likely the government did not purchase the iPhone or hire the terrorist.

    It is just a likely as the federal government being behind 9/11.

  14. Re:Survival of the bribiest. on How a DIY Network Plans To Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is without regulation, the small cats will not have a chance either.

    Fat cat company will heavily discount in the area where small cat is, small cat goes bankrupt. Fat cat buys the assets cheaply.

  15. I was talking about the policies in combination and not the people.

  16. Even if the are motivated to increase their share of the votes I am not sure I could call them racist.

    However the policies in combination are racist.

  17. When you look at which groups have that problem(ID places being shut) you find it is mostly one race and not the other that has it.

  18. When you look at what it takes to get an ID you find that for one group of people it will take them nearly all day because they have no transport of their own and the local place to get ids has been shut down.

  19. Re:cricket & baseball on Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model (arvideonews.com) · · Score: 1

    Indoor cricket is cricket without the complicated rules? Indoor cricket has a whole bunch more rules that are not in the real game.

    Backyard cricket is cricket without the complicated rules.

    I think from a baseball point of view the main differences are:

    You are out when your wickets are hit. (until it hits a fielder in which case the wickets are like fielders on base)
    You score a run when both of you make it to the other base.
    Their are no strikes.
    Balls give your team a run automatically. (And sometimes prevent certain types of outs)
    When the ball hits the boundary, you get 4 or 6 depending on if it bounced.
    You stay in the field of play until you get out.

    And the simple rules of cricket on a tea towel
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-In...

  20. Re:Idiot on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    On energy destiny: Electric engines are a lot more efficient then petrol engines. You do not need as much stored power to get the same amount of work done.

    Tracking systems are expensive. Use a few more panels (with the money coming form the savings of not having a tracker) and you get the same amount of power.

  21. Re:So when's "gun control" going to stop guys with on Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Along with the phrase "Well regulated"

  22. Re:100% BULLSHIT on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    From what I gather that coal power is coming from existing power stations and not new ones.

    http://energytransition.de/201...

  23. Re:100% BULLSHIT on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    Because it takes so long to plan for coal plants the ones that are being built are from 2010 and the like. Their has been no recent plans to build a new power station.

  24. Re: Reason why it's cheaper on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    "When they are too small, power generation isn't even possible"

    Someone needs to tell NASA their satellites and probes are running on optimism, then.

    From the post you quoted "There is a reason it's used in those space craft, not in local power plants."

  25. Re:Not the total cost! on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    Apparently a coal train can carry 11,000 tons. (used as weight reference only)

    For every 100m that train rises you will store 2.7 MWh. (And you need 2km of rail above +100m and another 2km of rail below +0m)

    For their claim of 16GWh you will need 12,000km of rail line for storage (although if you double the hill you half the amount)