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  1. Well, they stopped my flight for 20 minutes to replace a tire last time.

    And highest common denominator would mean you were paying $1,600 for tickets to fly.

  2. Also remember T,T,T,T,H,T,H,H,H,T,H,H,H,H,H is a perfectly plausible random toin coss result.

  3. Well, if it had been a scary looking semi-automatic rifle with a 30 round magazine, there would have logically been many more dead and she could have started fired effectively from up to 1800 feet away.

  4. Re:Eneloop is the way to go on Demand For Batteries Is Shrinking, Yet Prices Keep On Going and Going ... Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI, Ikea sells Eneloop rechargable batteries for much less with their own cover.

    There's a video on Youtube about it where he completely disassembles the batteries and also shows they are made at the same factory but just have different covers.

  5. Re:Not the money on Netflix CEO: Why Even $8 Billion Investment in Content Isn't Enough (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Saw Star Wars 24 times in theaters. Own it.

    TLJ saw once. Do not own it.

    Will not see Solo.

    Will not see 9.

    It's not female/male. I like Ahsoka and Jen.

    Kennedy is just toxic. As is Johnson.

    Star wars 7-9 should have finished the story instead of rebooting it and making 1-6 pointless.

  6. What I've noticed is, since the yes/no change from 5 stars, is that the A.I. seems *very* shallow.

    You watch one thing in a new category and like it and it seems to forget everything you liked before. I have to watch something in my history to fix it.

    I didn't used to be this forgetful.

    My interface doesn't play a preview. Sounds annoying tho.

  7. There is more content than I can consume on Netflix CEO: Why Even $8 Billion Investment in Content Isn't Enough (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in my specific preferred Genre's.

    I'm years behind. I fall more hours behind every week.

    I've been retired six years.

    I don't see how this glut is sustainable at high price levels.

    I long ago shifted most of my consumption down the price curve since I was behind anyway.

    I could not consume the available categories of entertainment I like if I started when I woke up and watched all day every day (and good lord I did a lot of that when I first retired).

    And there are many categories I don't even have an interest to consume.

  8. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    What is it with pro nuclear folks downvoting stuff.

    Sheesh

    You are an irrational nuclear booster.

    Despite all the problems we've had with nuclear.

    Despite the surcharges current utility customers and tax payers are paying to cover for nuclear cleanup costs an order or magnitude higher than projected (and that completely ignores additional millions per year to *guard* nuclear waste because it's a weapon in it's own right so it can't just be discarded- it must be protected as well).

    For the rest of your issues, there is a comparable problem with nuclear.

    There will be a distributed mixture of solar, wind, and other alternative energy generation systems mixed with home use and battery systems. Already battery systems are allow fossil plants to avoid spinning up and down as often (so they can run more efficiently).

    The answer isn't all or nothing. The answer is a blend of sources, of which solar and wind will be a very large component. A small amount of natural gas plants provide the balance. There is no need for nuclear or coal in a 25-50 year window.

    Both solar and batteries are dropping in price about 5% per year and increasing in capability about 5% per year.

    The panels might wear out in 50 years but they won't "wear out" in 25 years. We already have a 25 year track record and most should produce 80% at 25 years and over 40% at 50 years barring mechanical failures (such as leads breaking due to thermal wear.).

    The fact is china and germany already have high and successful commitments to alternative energy. It works.

    If you turn down the histronics 85% , you have a good point about waste disposal.

    Solar energy manufacturers are no more moral or ethical than fossil and nuclear energy manufacturers.
    They *will* take the money and run and externalize their costs and pollution onto the rest of society.

    So we must ensure that the cost of solar panels reflects their total cost including disposal.
    --
    She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.

  9. Re:It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    or akido fans could gravitate to one social network for organizing events.
    But use other social networks for family events.

    And we could also have laws allowing us the right to see what data they have on us, to have that data be deleted (right to be forgotten) with stiff penalties for holding data which has deletion requested.

  10. Agile fails into waterfall on Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen it too many times.

    We are going to be agile.

    But we will have a fixed feature, fixed deadline, we will hold up builds for an important feature instead of producing a build on the scheduled date, we won't cut features.

    Agile is a good idea. But business managers and sales people abuse it. Their bonus structures are anti-agile.

  11. It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We should not have more than 10% of the population on any given social media platform.

    I haven't used facebook for almost a decade. I saw it was a bad actor from the beginning.

    But Google is just as bad but not as obvious as is any other social media.

    You are the product.

    But part of their power depends on having most people on their platform. If they can't get more than a fraction of people on their platform, then they cannot build comprehensive profiles.

  12. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    You are an irrational nuclear booster.

    Despite all the problems we've had with nuclear.

    Despite the surcharges current utility customers and tax payers are paying to cover for nuclear cleanup costs an order or magnitude higher than projected (and that completely ignores additional millions per year to *guard* nuclear waste because it's a weapon in it's own right so it can't just be discarded- it must be protected as well).

    For the rest of your issues, there is a comparable problem with nuclear.

    There will be a distributed mixture of solar, wind, and other alternative energy generation systems mixed with home use and battery systems. Already battery systems are allow fossil plants to avoid spinning up and down as often (so they can run more efficiently).

    The answer isn't all or nothing. The answer is a blend of sources, of which solar and wind will be a very large component. A small amount of natural gas plants provide the balance. There is no need for nuclear or coal in a 25-50 year window.

    Both solar and batteries are dropping in price about 5% per year and increasing in capability about 5% per year.

    The panels might wear out in 50 years but they won't "wear out" in 25 years. We already have a 25 year track record and most should produce 80% at 25 years and over 40% at 50 years barring mechanical failures (such as leads breaking due to thermal wear.).

    The fact is china and germany already have high and successful commitments to alternative energy. It works.

    If you turn down the histronics 85% , you have a good point about waste disposal.

    Solar energy manufacturers are no more moral or ethical than fossil and nuclear energy manufacturers.
    They *will* take the money and run and externalize their costs and pollution onto the rest of society.

    So we must ensure that the cost of solar panels reflects their total cost including disposal.

  13. Re:Don't forget the $17 trillion we'd save on 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On top of that, public health care strongly encourages small job growth and frees even large companies to compete on costs with countries that already have public health care. Plus it removes a huge incentive to lay off employees over 50.

  14. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    In many poor areas, no.

    That's why they call them food deserts.

    Basically, land costs get too high to build a large supermarket that sells food to poor people. Expensive real estate is only affordable for supermarkets that sell premium food to rich people.

    So if you can afford to pay 15 a pound for premium meat, you are set. But if you are looking for $3 per pound bargain meat, then you are out of luck. Even more so for vegetables.

  15. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    No, you are wrong.

    Solar requires a tiny amount of land to power the entire globe. it's a trivial google. Sheesh.

    Nuclear power requires wires, switching stations, repair roads, etc...

  16. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    That's addressed in the article, as is about every objection below too.

    I don't know if it will work or not but please RTFA before posting a question addressed in the article.

    LED lighting has reached a price point where the company thinks it makes much better financial sense than only 5 years ago (when another company mentioned in the article tried it and failed).

    The farming uses about 1% of the water used for the best competing farm product (and water prices are going up).

    It uses nutrients- not compost, fertilizer, etc. So while they will need to be transported in, they are not as bulky.

    The reason for reduced transportation is allowing the plants to ripen more fully and to reduce nutrient loss during transportation that occurs currently by about 45%.

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    I would like to see some independent lab studies on the resulting produce. Is it lacking anything?

    The plants look healthy enough in the pictures.

  17. https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

    Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies across the provinces. This year, Canadians could expect to wait 3.7 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 11.1 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 4.0 weeks for an ultrasound.Nov 23, 2016

    https://globalnews.ca/news/308...

    https://www.fraserinstitute.or...

    However, Canadian's lifespans exceed that of both U.K. and the U.S. significantly at 82.14 years.

  18. Re:A hard fact. on 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    U.S. citizens die sooner than even U.K citizens.

    They are often bankrupted by medical expenses.

    And yet, they keep voting for these policies.

  19. Re:China has more HONORS students... on Trade War Or Not, China is Closing the Gap on US in Technology IP Race (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracy isn't the solution to everything.

    You need a commitment to the rule of law, social standards against corruption, and a few other things first.

  20. I hope he makes it, but he's in a race between burning capital and other automobile makers electric cars.

    Unlike most of the other auto makers, I actually like Musk a lot and I think he isn't a weasel (yet).

    I don't think he'll collect salary for 3 decades like executives at the major auto makers and then dump a mess on their home cities and gut their employees pensions.

    And so far, he hasn't been given tens of millions of federal dollars to stay in business.

    Three cheers for Elon Musk!

  21. Re:Think we're going to get a legal definition soo on Uber Drivers Are Independent Contractors, Not Employees, Judge Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    All kinds of odd things happened...

    but for most companies 29 hours was too disruptive.

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...

  22. Re:Ha! hah ah hahahahahhahahaha ha ha ha on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hashahahahhahha.

    Oh man, yer killing me.

    He turned down a tiny salary well under a million dollars and is directly transferring millions of dollars from the government to his own pockets every time he goes golfing. I think the total is over 20 million dollars now.

    Wait... I'll look up what he "turned down"...

    $400,000

    http://www.newsweek.com/trump-...

    in december it was already at least 6.6 million.

    plus he doubled cost of membership, raised the cost per night for rooms, and foreign countries have lined up to book lodging at his hotels.

  23. Ha! hah ah hahahahahhahahaha ha ha ha on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is why I don't worry about President Trump if the democrats recover the house (and in in the unlikely event they recover the senate too).

    He will immediately throw the republican party under the bus to join the winning side.

    He has no principles except, "Make money for Trump", "Avoid russia revealing whatever it is they have on Trump", and "Have affairs with women who look like Ivanka as long as I can get it up."

  24. Re:Netflix will just build its own Cannes on Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Also, the fact that a film wins an oscar is almost a negative indicator for me these days.
    So is "critical acclaim". They are either out of touch with reality or shills. I can't decide which. But I think the big studios can cut critics off and leave them without an income, arriving late compared to all the other critics who saw a film for free, a week early, and who get intided to special events.

  25. Re:Netflix will just build its own Cannes on Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. I mean- despite being retired, I see fewer movies in theaters every year.

    I have a decent theater which isn't incredibly expensive and has pleasant enough audiences.

    I'm not sure why I don't go.