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  1. This is why I keep my electrons in a box on Measurement Shows the Electron's Stubborn Roundness (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you can't tell if they're round, or if they're square, man.

    It's the Hufflepuff Electron Uncertainty Principle.

    Of course, they escape when you open the box, and it takes forever to catch them again.

  2. I only consume organic microplastics in salt on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    It keeps the salt vampires away, because the microplastics are lethal to them.

  3. But that's because the games make you click on Click Farms Are Gaming Apple's Top Podcasts List (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    "Stay on target"

    "Stay on target"

    "There's a Spam fighter coming in at twelve o'clock high!"

    "NOOOOO!!!!"

  4. What, too early?

    Just use mail-in paper ballots like real states do, and register everyone everyday whenever they apply for any license of any type at a county or state office.

  5. Re:Health insurance, retirement..... on When Your Day Job Isn't Enough (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want health insurance that you can afford, getting it through your employer is the only way.

    Not in Canada, or any other First World nation.

  6. It's called a hobby on When Your Day Job Isn't Enough (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not reinventing anything.

  7. Re:Oh, old people upset because nobody drives on Driverless Car Hype Gives Way To E-Scooter Mania Among Technorati (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am serious. Read. The. Fine. Article.

    Notice anything missing?

    Yup, fossil fuels.

    Here in the West, around 80-98 percent of our electricity is green, not from fossil fuels. By 2020 80 percent of all trucks and cars sold in BC and CA will be either 100 percent electric or 80/20 hybrids. Including most medium and long haul trucks. In fact, Mexico plans to run self-driving tractor trailer trucks north, along highways, in their own lanes, half way up the US.

    Any investor can see it coming.

    Adapt.

  8. Wait, you still use FB? on Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    man, you're old, no wonder you're depressed

  9. Oh, old people upset because nobody drives on Driverless Car Hype Gives Way To E-Scooter Mania Among Technorati (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Cry me a river.

    Fossil fuels are over.

  10. Remember, you can vote online if you're on Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    oh, wait, sorry, that was fake.

    meanwhile, real states allow you to register to vote in person even up to election day, and to vote in person if you didn't get a ballot yet, and use paper ballots and vote by mail.

  11. I think you mean you used R with the AI packages.

  12. FCC stands for Feldercarb Carp Collective on FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nobody trusts them, or their bankster fraudmeisters that run them nowadays.

  13. I thought they lived in the realm of Faerie ...

  14. Re:Another false binary choice on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying I could make a dish with only strips of chicken or beef but mostly vegetables, noodles, rice, nuts and fruit?

    But that would require ... moderation!

  15. moomins?

    They live in Norway.

  16. Space pirates love moon moons on Moons Can Have Their Own Moons and They Could Be Called Moonmoons (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    They say "Pie Arrrrrr Squared!" whenever they see a moon moon, because that's the custom.

    Orbit like a Pirate Day.

  17. Another false binary choice on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look, the world is not binary. It's not 100 percent this way or 0 percent this way.

    It's a scale.

    The probability is that less than 10 percent of current meat eaters of beef will become vegetarian, and most of those due to heart attacks.

    A more likely scenario is if 90 percent of current beef consumers replace beef for all but one to two meals a week, and increase the amount of vegetables, fruits, and nuts gradually over time. It's fairly easy to change your diet slowly, experimenting with different choices, and ignoring all those ads on TV that try to get you to eat beef as manly, when actually any of us who grew up in the boonies know it's more manly to eat bison that grow up on scrub land, and learn how to eat a varied diet.

  18. Re:natural gas subsidies vs coal subsidies on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point. Let's look at one example, the proposed LNG shipping terminal in BC, which literally:

    1. pays zero carbon tax, while being the largest provincial GHG emitter.

    2. pays no impact fees, while other energy sources have to pay them.

    3. receives grants to hire workers in the north, an artificial subsidy for housing and pay that other energy sources don't get.

    So, you are correct that natural gas shipped to China and India would be subsidized, just like coal is.

  19. Easiest method is remove fossil fuel subsidies on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you just remove all the massive systemic subsidies, quotas, tax exemptions, tax depreciation, and subsidies for fossil fuels, coal becomes outrageously expensive, even without having coal plants pay for the pollution (negative externalities) and deaths (kids) it causes.

    Do that.

    Renewables are already cheaper. It's 2018, not 1978.

  20. The tool just automated what their people do on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Look, it's very simple.

    Hire women. Stop finding excuses.

    Here at the UW we have tons of STEM majors, in fact most of our AI people are women.

  21. More strange is the little hole has a protective lens inside of it.

    By the way, what's this pinout for CAM?

  22. May Hit US Children is what it should say on Fully Self-Driving Cars May Hit US Roads in Pilot Program: NHTSA (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This pilot program will end with the first lawsuit filed for the death of an American child by the hands of a foreign robot vehicle.

  23. We can locate you and ID via microphone on Google Announces 'Home Hub' Smart Display With 7-Inch Screen, No Camera (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    It's actually not that hard to identify the person by voice and walk, as well as typical patterns (time of day, route, breath), so the lack of a camera still permits everyone in the world to know exactly who was where and what they were doing.

    Don't ever keep it in a bedroom, unless it's for an older person who needs assistance and who agrees to it. Or a child with breathing problems.

  24. How many angels can dance on a nanowafer on IBM Pushes Beyond 7 Nanometers, Uses Graphene To Place Nanomaterials on Wafers (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    Inquiring minds want to know "How many angels can dance on a nanomaterial wafer, and if they get hungry, can they eat the wafer, or will they get angel food poisoning?"

    Also, it's less than 7 nanometers. Beyond, while it can be used for boundaries, implies further than, so it parses badly.

  25. It's a Daylight Savings Time feature.

    Stop using Daylight Savings Time.

    Problem solved.