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  1. Re:And ... if they hadn't? on Tesla Meets Self-Imposed Deadline For Model 3, Rolls Out 7,000 Cars In a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what the financials are. You can't short against a hype and stupidity if it lasts long enough.

  2. Re:Simple: Sunset all internal combustion engines on We Still Have No Idea How To Eliminate More Than a Quarter of Energy Emissions (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I don't know that ICEs are inefficient. Why would you say that? Which technology is more efficient?
    Running electric cars on electricity from coal power plants produces more CO2 than cars with ICEs, not to mention all the environmental damage from mining the elements for battery production. Therefore we should get rid of coal power plants first. As long as electricity is generated from coal it would help more to reduce electricity consumption and to shut down these power plants.

  3. Kaspersky discovered this? on The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn't Over Yet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Whose great idea was it again to declare these as Russian spies in USA and EU without proof, and to stop working with them?

  4. Re: Protectionism is fine on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and what I also don't get is, why does he start a trade war with everyone at once? Maybe the US would have had a chance if it started a trade war just with China. Probably or could have pulled others on its side on some aspects. But now it starts a trade war with everyone.
    Everyone will just keep trading with each other, losing only a fraction of their total trade, allowing them to continue like before. The US on the other hand will lose trade with everyone, and will have to go through huge economic changes to compensate the lost trade, resulting in enormous costs.

  5. Re:Protectionism is fine on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well. I am not really a Trump supporter, but his point is: A trade war will reduce both import and export. But since The USA is importing more than it is exporting, he thinks the country will win more than it loses in the long run.
    This is why China can't keep raising tariffs matching the US. But the US makes a lot of money by investments, which is partly compensating the trade deficit with China, and more than compensating the one with Europe. Also China was the biggest buyer of American state bonds. And a lot of trade in the world is done in dollars, which forces people to accumulate dollars and is part of what allows the huge American deficit.
    So the retaliations on Trump's trade war will soon have to target the financial sector.
    I don't know if this will be good or bad for the US in the long run. It could shift the US economy away from making income through investments, which only goes to a few people, back to making income through production, which can benefit more people. It could also put the world into chaos, just making everyone lose. It could also be just a threat, trying to force others to make concessions. But I think both Europe and China don't respond too well to such threats. They would never give in, because it would mean that the US could enforce other things afterwards, without a limit.

  6. Re: I smell a recession coming on. on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it ridiculous to split politics in only two world views, having only two parties?

  7. I guess it is excreted with the urine, and this is how it ends up in rivers. Sewage treatment plants probably don't remove that.

  8. Re: Securities fraud is what on Bitcoin's Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you just don't know how stocks work.

  9. What exactly is the problem here? They bought bitcoins when they were cheaper. This seems totally normal to me. Even if it was with the intent to push the prices up, isn't that also done with everything? Three central banks do that for sure. And if rising prices animate others to buy something without intrinsic value then it's their fault I would say.

  10. That's the short squeeze on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All risky investments went down this week, before the G7 summit. Investors are pulling their money out.
    I would bet that outis the short sellers who are pulling out, and pushing the stock up thereby.

  11. Re:How are they "3D printed"? on Netherlands Will Welcome Its First Community of 3D-Printed Homes (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    One of those advantages is that the concrete printer has the ability to lay concrete only where it is needed constructively. Traditionally poured concrete is solid, and contains much more concrete than is needed constructively. More is being used, which is bad for CO2 emissions, because with producing cement a lot of this greenhouse gas is released.

    I doubt it could beat foamed concrete blocks.

  12. Re: So is it... on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But maybe the years were different. Did someone manage to check this out?

  13. Re: Isn't Android doing this since years? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok I don't know how Android is doing this and how much it gets involved. On an Atmel AVR an USB demo is just 3500 bytes of Code with LUFA, so it could be kept compact and simple.

  14. Re: Isn't Android doing this since years? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, there is a bit of communication when an Android device is connected to usb. Though it is not much and quite simple. It should only give a very small attack surface, and I would hope that these few routines responsible for that are checked carefully enough to make them safe.
    So am Apple device does not even do that?
    Otherwise I would say that Android is blocking much more strictly. It does not connect to any usb device unless it is told to do so, while as I understand this the iPhone connects to malicious chargers while it is unlocked.

  15. Isn't Android doing this since years? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds pretty much like it works in Android

  16. I doubt they will go for the same lawsuits. Let's see.
    Also I don't get why their crops should only grow with their products? Roundup is just Glyhosate, which you can buy from many manufacturers since the patent ran out.

  17. Re: German on Are Tech Conferences Overrated? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How about simply "labern"? The English word for that is babbling

  18. Though they have 5 times as many people who work for lower wages.

  19. I finally checked out what Reddit it, and it looks like a boring version of 9gag for more normal people.

  20. Re: Quintupling your population is not sustainable on Coastal Megacity Karachi Is Running Out of Water (earther.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    And let's make clear the relation to the numbers in the summary: Karachi still has about as much water per resident as Berlin is consuming. They don't have a lack of water, they have bad management of it and are wasting it.

  21. Re:White people. on Judge Backs Parents, Saying Their 30-Year-Old Son Must Move Out (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In Germany you lose any right for support from your parents at age 27. Until then they have to finance your student life if some conditions are given. If the parents don't have enough money the state supports the students. Although in the past that definition of "not enough money" was so low sometimes that student support was basically non-existent, but since several years it is fine.

  22. Altering the course of the meteor? It doesn't need much change of its course if it is detected early enough.

  23. Re: It's a philosophy problem on Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So they seem to put reliability over everything, from the beginning. Musk seems to have a better way.
    But maybe I am just too biased against this attitude as a researcher.

  24. It's a philosophy problem on Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I once looked at jobs at the European Space Agency. And it became clear that their working philosophy is to do only things that are completely proven. There seems to be no room to try something new and revolutionary. I bet the philosophy is the same in the whole space industry.

  25. Re:I second this. on Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    As Solandri already stated Germany was beaten by sheer manpower, but also a lack of resources.
    Germany was always low on fuel. They produced fuel and plastics out of coal in more expensive processes. The Ardennes ambush was only possible because they conquered fuel depots of the Americans to supply their tanks.
    The Me262 engine had to be replaced every week because Germany did not have access to the metals needed for heat-resistant alloys.
    The Russians just built much more tanks and planes (the planes were powered by American enignes). And the Americans were just producing more ships than the Germans could sink with their subs. Oh, the Russian T34 tank was also superior to anything else when it arrived, the Germans had to construct stronger tanks to keep up with that.