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  1. Re:Yet Another Credit Card... on Apple Debuts Apple Card To Transform the Credit Card Experience (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:social relativism tofu burger, hold the physics on Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    You just agreed with him though: he listed a lack of training samples as a cause for his inability. i.e. not enough encounters with darker skinned people

  3. True, some of you like frost bite.

  4. Or is wearing dark clothing. On an unlit road near here, nearly smeared a group of teens (white kids - teen idiocy is colour-blind) while going around a corner, because they were middle of the lane, wearing all black clothing, on a moonless night.

  5. Would this count as a Mass Shooting?

    #BanAssaultProbes

  6. Re:Many theories are out there on Scientists Dressed Horses Like Zebras To Figure Out Why They Have Stripes (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  7. Re:They will revert and block him eventually on Meet the Man Behind a Third of What's On Wikipedia (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pakistan does/did. Was news back in early '00s.
    India doesn't have the information ON the passport but it is/was required in the forms when getting them.

  8. Going by HuffPo's userbase, it helps *ahem* engender sympathy.

  9. Re:Which is really stuuupid on South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Ah, my bad, was using relative references. "If you want a polar orbit, you want to launch closer to the poles, so as to not have as much rotational velocity to negate. For those types of launches, south australia (c.40 degrees south) wins. If you want equatorial orbits, the most northern parts of australia (c. 13degress south) is far superior since you that extra speed."
    I'd rule out Tasmania as you'd need to include a sea crossing, unless you had built the rockets there.

  10. Re:Which is really stuuupid on South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency (abc.net.au) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For equatorial orbits, sure.If you want polar, then south wins. Maybe they want to capitalise on a niche. Or it could just be that the HQ is in one spot, and they launch from elsewhere...since the story is about who won the HQ. Article even points to it being political

  11. Simply broadcast the show at less than maximum volume, so your set is cranked up...and then the commercial at maximum volume, so everyone in the house can hear it. Used to happen all the time, especially with late night commercials. They denied doing it, everyone knew they were doing it, and eventually laws were passed on it.

  12. Re:Another report from the U.N. on Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Considering world population went from 5.3B to to 7.6B (+43%), an increase of deaths of only +23% sounds like a drop in mortality rate.

    Disclaimer: not against reducing pollution, just the stats as displayed seem to be leaving out a key factor

  13. *blink* Africa still has slavery. But do go on spreading that narrative how the USA is ebil. Wakanda 4vr, amirite?

  14. Re:Where are all the pictures on Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Despite the common public image of islands of floating rubbish, its low density (4 particles per cubic meter) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area. It consists primarily of an increase in suspended, often microscopic, particles in the upper water column.

  15. Re: Wow DDT couldn't manage it on 'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    DDT is still used. Some countries banned it. China and India currently using it by the kilotonne. You can also still find it used non-commercially in north america from legacy products.

  16. Re:Put disk 2/2 in drive and ... on Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1

    Could have each disk as an image file, and the emulator just has you change which image is 'in the drive'.

  17. Re:Lab demonstrations leave a lot to be desired on Scientists Formulate New Method To Create Low-Cost High Efficiency Solar Cells (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Well, going by his.. other team? (Dr. Liu), these types of cells apparently don't even make two years. So either they have to be dirt cheap and easily replaced, or they'll have to work on extending the life. Personally though, more interested if the materials involved aren't as... well.. 'Chinese Lakes of Toxic Sludge'. I'd count that as a win, regardless the rest.

  18. Re:Measurements fail on Alphabet's Loon Balloons Just Beamed the Internet Across 620 Miles (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Luckily, the editor foresaw your comment, and had used it as a measurement of the length of the diameter...knowing some overeager pendant would leap on it. Good bait.

    Your school did teach you about the squareness of pies and finding the area, no?

  19. Re:No such thing as "hate speech" on AI Still Useless at Catching Hate Speech, Research Finds (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:I don't see what the rush is. on VP Pence Talks Moon Return and Mars Mission at NASA · · Score: 2

    That part makes perfect sense though. A day is one rotation of the earth. If the earth hadn't been created yet, obviously it couldn't have completed a rotation yet, and therefore it's still the same day. Q.E.D.

  21. Re:Zuckerbook == China? on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    4chan is probably more of an antisocial media

  22. Re:High carb shortens life too on Low-Carb Diets Could Shorten Life, Study Suggests (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and are they still recruiting?
    *asking for a friend

  23. Don't try to distract his point with your whataboutism! The topic is the RIGHT'S unsubstantiated claims and zealotry, not if Reaper does something 'kinda sorta similar'

  24. Re:Why am I an omnivore ? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I looked at it more like: 'if Gorillas are 'close to people'... then young gorillas eating things they shouldn't, and desperate/bored gorillas eating things they normally wouldn't... is to be expected."

  25. Re:Why am I an omnivore ? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful